Land Use Clinic — Student Information
Professor Michelle Bryan Mudd, Director
406.243.6753
michelle.bryanmudd@umontana.edu
Academic Year only - Maximum of 4 students
Satisfies Environmental and Natural Resource Law
Certificate Requirement
Prerequisite: Introduction to Environmental Law, effective Fall 2012
Special Land Use Clinic Requirements:
Grading: The credit/no credit option for
grading is not available for the Land Use Clinic.
Course Requisites: All Land Use Clinic
students must have completed the Land Use Planning Law courses.
The Land Use Clinic is an in-house clinic located in the new Clinic Wing of
the Law School (Room 119). As an intern in this Clinic, you will
directly represent Montana local governments on land use matters significant
to your community.
The Land Use Clinic’s projects vary from year to year, but recent projects
have included: analyzing wind farm development, assisting with wildland-urban
interface regulations, creating a public brochure on nonconforming use laws,
and drafting zoning regulations that protect significant viewsheds and habitat
areas. Each project provides the opportunity to not only draft written
documents, but to orally present work to planners, scientists, local government
officials, and the public.
The Land Use Clinic provides you with an opportunity to synthesize the various
lawyering skills you have been developing in your law school courses. You
will run meetings, draft memoranda, ordinances, and other legal documents,
and present your work at client meetings and public hearings. At each
stage of your work you will receive faculty mentoring and feedback, with the
goal of providing you with a strong skill set to begin the practice of law.
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