Earthjustice

Contact:  D. Kapua Sproat, Attorney

Telephone:  (808) 599-2436, ext. 16

Location: 223 South King Street, Suite 400, Honolulu, HI 96813-4501

Website:  http://www.earthjustice.org

Volunteers Needed

Individuals who are law students, especially second and third year students, are preferred.  A background in natural and cultural resource management is also very helpful.

Additional Information

Earthjustice is a nonprofit, 501(c)3, public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of the Earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. Earthjustice brings about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations and communities.

Founded as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in 1971, Earthjustice established key environmental rights in a landmark case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Since that time, Earthjustice has provided free legal services to hundreds of grassroots environmental and community organizations-as well as to local, national, and international organizations. From eight regional offices across the country, Earthjustice works with these organizations to bring strategic litigation and to enforce laws that safeguard our natural and cultural resources, wildlife, and public health. Earthjustice established an office in Honolulu in 1988 to protect Public Trust resources throughout Hawai`i and the mid-Pacific. Earthjustice's Honolulu office is working with environmental, Native Hawaiian, and community groups in a series of cases that will protect fragile island ecosystems and restore the resources, especially water, necessary to empower Native Hawaiian communities and perpetuate their culture.

back to volunteer homepage