Environmental Law Service (ELS)

www.eps.cz

The Environmental Law Service (ELS) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization of lawyers who use law to further the public interest. Our aim is to eliminate cases of unlawful and improper decision-making by state offices in matters of the environment and human rights, to help people gain access to the courts, to build the knowledge and skills of non-profit organization staffs, to expand the ranks of public-interest lawyers, and to help bring about a high-quality legal code. This way of using the tools of law to protect and support important societal values is "public interest law" and thus ELS is a public interest law organization.