Reflections on GW’s Environmental and Energy Law LL.M Program: An Interview with Tim Nau (LL.M. ’23)

Q: What is your current position?

A: Currently, I am pursuing a legal clerkship in Frankfurt, Germany, preparing for the Second State Exam – the bar exam.

Q: What did you study in your Energy and Environmental Law LL.M. and what made this program so special to you?

A: At GW, I was able to delve deep into the intricacies of regulated industries, energy markets, and different fields of U.S. environmental and energy law. Working with professors in and out of class was always enriching. While GW has an impressive faculty of highly qualified law professors and staff, there are also many highly qualified environmental and energy law practitioners in the program’s part-time faculty who add further value by providing first-hand insights into the “real world”. They work for the most prestigious environmental and energy law employers in the government, the private sector, and the public interest community in Washington, D.C. This is a clear advantage that GW has over other law schools in the US and a reason why I chose to come to GW in the first place.

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Introducing Professor Caroline Cecot as Visiting Associate Professor on Environmental Law.

The Environmental & Energy Law program is delighted to welcome Caroline Cecot as a Visiting Associate Professor in our program for 2024-2025 academic year! We recently caught up with Professor Cecot to learn more about her background in environmental law and related fields and hear about her plans and goals in this new role.

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Fast Fashion: Polluting our Water Millions of Clothing Items at a Time

Clothing piles

By Vanessa Turk

What is fast fashion and why is it a problem? 

“Fast fashion” refers to the business model of mass-producing replicas of the latest clothing trends and designs at a low cost and selling them rapidly in stores while the demand is at its highest. This objective of helping consumers acquire the latest in fashion trends comes at a huge environmental price, however. Overconsumption of water and water pollution are two of the most concerning forms of environmental harm that fast fashion imposes on the environment. These impacts from fast fashion need to be addressed effectively and quickly through new accountability mechanisms and possible systemic changes in the fast fashion industry.

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