Our team is made up of passionate individuals committed to defending the environment through the law. If you’d like to put your skills to work for our mission and make a real impact, explore our career opportunities. Internships in our Legal Clinic are also available to students of environmental law.
Would you like to get involved in an organization committed to environmental issues through the law?
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Law clinic
This activity is for university law students.
Each year, the CQDE offers a structured and supervised law clinic to university students wishing to complete a credited internship in environmental law. In summary, it is eight hours per week during a semester or two in exchange of three to six credits and an invaluable experience in environmental law.
The CQDE is proud to collaborate with the law faculties of the University of Sherbrooke, the University of Montréal, the University of Laval, the University of McGill and the University of Ottawa.
What activities are on offer at the clinic?
When joining our team, you will have the opportunity and pleasure to inform the citizens about the legal possibilities at their disposal to protect the environment, to participate in governmental consultations on legal reforms and to contribute to the development of a progressive jurisprudence – and even more!

For example, in the Énergie Est case, after the decision of the BAPE to suspend its inquiry, the work of the students allowed the CQDE to identify more than 800 citizen questions in around one hundred analysis. This mandate allowed the citizens to have their voices heard and to ensure that the questions concerning the pipeline were not left unanswered.
You want to be involved?
Do not hesitate to ask about us to your respective faculties.
“Integrating the CQDE's exceptional team of legal experts has motivated me to continue in this area of law, and their support has been invaluable for the rest of my career.”
“The internship at the CQDE's Law clinic gave me a solid foundation on which to build my career. It's a very rewarding internship. The beauty of being part of the legal clinic is that you make progress with each new internship day, and this learning will serve me well throughout my legal career.”
“The team is welcoming, the work is fascinating, and the tasks are clear. I'm learning a lot at CQDE and the variety of tasks this semester has been greatly appreciated.”
“The CQDE has been an ideal learning environment for me, where I've felt myself gaining in autonomy as the weeks have gone by. My thinking and curiosity have always been valued, and the skills I have developed there have taken on their full meaning as they have been put to concrete use in the service of citizens and the promotion of the right to a healthy environment. I have great respect for the commitment with which the team members carry out their mission. I've come away with a renewed desire to contribute to the defence of the public interest with the same optimism and rigour.”
Discover the interns of the last 5 cohorts:
Our interns for the 2024-2025 year
Winter 2025
Henri Cant
Juliette Vermes-Monty
Loric Fortier
Mariya Teodosieva
Milane Coppens
Our interns for the 2023-2024 year
Autumn 2024
Alexandra Chartier
Chloé Blanchet
Henri Cant
Mariya Teodosieva
Milane Coppens
Autumn 2023 & Winter 2024
Nina Fu Tomas-Thériault
Alicia Howse
Winter 2024
Jade d’Anjou
Èva Lachance-Adamus
Autumn 2023
Azure Dumas Pilon
Hosanna Galea
Our interns for the 2022-2023 year
Winter 2023
Alicia Gafanhoto-Ménard
Autumn 2022 & Winter 2023
Juliette Bourdeau de Fontenay
Gabrielle Hébert
Rébecca Tremblay
Marianne Chamberland-Fontaine
Élodie St André
Jenna Del Paggio
Inès Bagaoui-Fradette
Elizabeth Viau
Jennifer Spiegel
Annabelle Couture-Guillet
Spencer Williams
Anaïs Bouchard
Our interns for the 2021-2022 year
Étienne Carey
Myriam Chapdelaine
Meggie Chaput
Emma Classen-Howes
Alixe de Varennes
Noémie Lachance
Frédéric Lafond
Hugo Lefebvre
Marie-Michelle Prévost
Stéphanie Salagan
Laurence Bernard
Ariel Holmwood-Bramwell
Summer 2022
Allison Lalla
Florine Massou
Alumni network
This networking space enables you to keep in touch with the CQDE, as well as other interns from different cohorts.
By organizingnetworking and training events, as well as exclusive 5 à 7s for members, CQDE offers a privileged networking space for continuing to evolve in environmental law, whatever your professional practice.
You’ll also receive our latest news and job offers relevant to you.