Feb. 1, 2008 – Kyu-ah Kang ’09 has won a Minority Fellowship in Environmental Law from the New York State Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. The fellowship is designed to encourage disadvantaged or traditionally under-represented law students to study and pursue careers in environmental law.

Kang was one of only three individuals chosen for the fellowship in New York State. She will receive a $6,000 stipend to work for 8-10 weeks in a summer internship focusing on legal matters in either a government agency or public interest organization in the field of environmental, energy or resources law. She will also receive an invitation to the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section, participate in monthly dinner meetings of the Environmental Law Committee of the New York City Bar, and be matched with an attorney mentor who practices environmental law.

A member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Kang is currently working on a paper titled, “Greener on the Other Side? Global Climate Change Post-Kyoto.” She was inspired to write the paper while studying environmental law this summer in Scotland. “What I heard this summer was in stark contrast to the current social and political mood that predominates in the United States, which seems to regard environmental concerns as peripheral at best,” says Kang. “It is my firm belief that the tide is changing in the United States, and the popular trend of environmental awareness will begin to saturate the political and legal fields sooner rather than later.”