The Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE) was established in 2008 and is housed and supported by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at ÌÒñ«ÉçÇø – a proud member of the Brazil-American Chamber of Commerce. Through BAILE, Haub Law offers a unique combination of classroom and field training. The Law School has extensive relationships with many Brazilian law schools and universities, allowing us to engage our students in research and exchanges with our partner schools in Brazil. Each year, students travel to Brazil to experience the environmental issues they have studied in the classroom firsthand. Students visit one of the many unique environmental regions of Brazil and attend legal meetings in Rio de Janeiro and other parts of the nation.
Partner Universities in Brazil
- Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law in Rio de Janerio, Brazil
- Fundacao Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
- Universidade Anhanguera - UNIDERP in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
- Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Universidade Vale do Rio Doce (UNIVALE) in ItajaÃ, Brazil
Our Mission
BAILE’s mission is to work for the improvement of environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. It aims to foster more effective environmental laws, business practices and economic incentives as instruments of environmental policy through research, education, advocacy and consultancy.
Our Work and Goals
The Institute encourages international cooperation to stimulate and refine progressive environmental law and policy in both countries. We bring people together to learn how to make their organizations and the world more environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. By sustainable, we mean being able to generate, protect and regenerate the natural, social, and economic resources required for short and long-term prosperity that meets the needs not only of the present, but also of future generations.
Policy and Advocacy
We develop comparative law and policy programs for Brazilian and American jurists, attorneys, judges, public prosecutors, corporations, NGOs and regulators. The goal is to facilitate the development and implementation of environmentally sound laws and policies and to contribute to the creation of a more predictable and ecologically viable environment for commerce between and within the two countries.