Empowerment of Environmental Citizenship: A Case of Law Clinics

This article seeks to answer the question of how legal education can contribute to the creation and strengthening of environmental citizenship. In this context, it first examines the concept of environmental citizenship. It then focuses on establishing a system of environmental rights and duties that not only enables citizens to play important roles in environmental issues but also, as a further step, requires the reevaluation of non-human entities within a community of all inhabitants of the Earth. Finally, it investigates street law programs to understand their possible effects (including their potential benefits and challenges) on the creation and promotion of environmental citizenship, considering that legal education through street law programs can play an important role in this foundation.