A group of law students want to see “fossil fuel lawyers” prevented from “serving in law school governance” or teaching classes.
Law Students for Climate Accountability laid out its demands in a report that ranked law schools based on how many “fossil fuel lawyers” they produced.
The group also urged schools to curtail their “academic opportunities focused on fossil fuels” to dissuade students from that career path. It is funded by the Earth Island Institute.
The College Fix reached out to the law student group and asked what steps universities should take to separate professors from the oil and gas industry, if it wanted universities to fire current professors who worked for these companies, and if individuals who formerly worked at oil corporations should also lose their jobs.
Neither the group nor its current director Haley Czarnek responded to multiple emailed requests for comment in the past several weeks. Czarnek graduated from the University of Alabama’s law school in 2022.
