Environmental Law Review - Law School - Lewis & Clark

Date/Time: Friday October 7, 2011, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Lewis & Clark Law School, Classroom 7

8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m.
Welcome: Dean Robert Klonoff

8:50 a.m.
Introduction: Michael Blumm: The Water Law Scholarship of Professors Huffman and Neuman

9:15 a.m.
Keynote: Emeritus Professor James Huffman and Professor Janet Neuman

10:15 a.m.
Session I: Water Law in the 21st Century: Adjusting Diversions

• A. Dan Tarlock: Shodde v. Twin Falls Water Co: Adapting the Old Doctrine of Reasonable Means of Diversion to the New Era of Water Scarcity
• Robert Abrams: The Convergence of Eastern and Western Water Law

11:15 a.m.
Morning Break

11:30 a.m.
Session II: Water Rights and Environmental Protection

• Jonathan Adler: Water Rights and Changing Ecological Conditions
• Robin Kundis Craig: Taking Claims & Riparian Rights: Can We Define Property Rights to Include Environmental Protection?

12:30 p.m.
Lunch

2:00 p.m.
Session III: Water Rights and Watershed Management

• Keith H. Hirokawa: Driving Local Governments to Watershed Governance
• Barton H. Thompson: Creating a Coastal Zone Management Act for Watershed Management
• Barbara Cosens: Resilience & Law as a Theoretical Backdrop for Natural Resources Management in the Columbia River Basin

3:30 p.m.
Afternoon Break

3:45 p.m.
Session IV: Water Rights, Climate Change, and the Public Trust

• Reed Benson: Public Funding Programs for Environmental Water Acquisitions
• Sandra B. Zellmer: Climate Change, Water, & Wilderness
• Michael Blumm: Oregon’s Public Trust Doctrine: Public Rights in Waterways, Beaches, and Wildlife