This historic event brings together numerous judges, scholars, and practitioners from around the country. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (pictured) and current Justice Anthony Kennedy will be keynote speakers. Other featured speakers will include Judge Barbara Rothstein, the current director of the Federal Judicial Center, and three former directors, Judges William Schwarzer, Rya Zobel, and Fern Smith. Learn more.

The American Academy of Appellate Lawyers discusses the Supreme Court’s recent decision on Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. The event is co-sponsored by Lewis & Clark Law School. The lawyers who argued the case, Walter Dellinger and Jeffrey Fisher, will address the experience of handling a high-profile case before the Supreme Court. Don Ayer will serve as moderator.

The law review will publish two exciting symposia about cases from the Supreme Court’s 2007 Term. The first collection consider the status of international law and presidential foreign affairs power after Medellin v. Texas. Contributors include Janet Levit (Tulsa), Paul Stephan (Virginia), Melissa Waters (Washington University), and Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt). The second collection addresses the pathbreaking Second Amendment decision, District of Columbia v. Heller. Contributors include Dan Kahan (Yale), Nelson Lund (George Mason), Sandy Levinson (Texas), and Mark Tushnet (Harvard).

Roberta Romano, is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. Her research has focused on state competition for corporate charters, the political economy of takeover regulation, shareholder litigation, institutional investor activism in corporate governance, and the regulation of financial instruments and securities markets.

Prior Higgins Distinguished Visitors have included Sam Issacharoff, Cynthia Estlund, Alan Watson, Gerald Torres, George Priest, Carol M. Rose, Vincent A. Blasi, James E. Krier, Lawrence M. Friedman, Mary E. Becker, Jack B. Weinstein, Douglas H. Ginsburg, Gerald Gunther, Lea Brilmayer, Patrick S. Atiyah, M. Carr Ferguson, Robert S. Summers, Neil MacCormick, Herma H. Kay, Harry W. Jones, Clyde W. Summers, Martin H. Redish, Boris I. Bittker, and Sanford H. Kadish.

One Earth: Globalism & Animal Law

Speakers include Dr. Paul Waldau, director of the Center for Public Policy and Animals at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University; Steven Wise, founder/director of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights; David Farve, professor of law, Michigan State University; Peter Sankoff, professor of law, University of Aukland, New Zealand; Amanda Whitfort, professor of law, University of Hong Kong; Paul Littlefair, senior manager, international programmes, RSPCA; Rebecca Huss, professor of law, Valparaiso University School of Law.

At Duke Law School Christopher H. Schroeder is Charles S. Murphy professor of law and professor of public policy studies, and director of the program in public law. His areas of research and scholarship include environmental and administrative law, democratic theory, legislative institutions and separation of powers. He will spend three days on the Lewis & Clark Law School campus teaching classes and meeting students. His visit will culminate in a lecture September 25.

Lewis & Clark Law School has emerged as a premier institution of legal education. Our Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program has been repeatedly ranked the best in the country by U.S. News and World Report’s annual survey. Additionally, we offer leading programs in business, intellectual property, crime victims' rights, Indian, and animal law. Our professors have written leading and innovative textbooks and articles.

Through our nationally recognized clinics, we provide our students with strong and varied practical skills training. Among these clinics are the International Environmental Law Project, National Crime Victim Law Institute, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, civil practice clinic, and Small Business Legal Clinic. We provide intensive legal writing and analysis instruction, and our students regularly win writing competitions.

We are also recognized for our consistent moot court victories. For instance, our Jessup International Moot Court team won the 2007 national championship, and our students also won the 2007 National Animal Law Moot Court Competition. In addition, our law library, which houses a Patent and Trademark Depository, is the largest in Oregon and one of the largest in the West.

Our law school’s history is one of exceptional growth and achievement. We regularly invite renowned legal scholars and jurists to gather on our campus and join in our endeavors. For example, each fall we host federal judges for a three-day seminar on environmental and natural resources law. Exciting things are happening here.