October 28th, 2011

• 2011 Fall Immigration Forum

  3:15pm - 5:00pm Lewis & Clark Law School welcomes Professor Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.  Professor Motomura is a leading scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law and the author of Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States.   Motomura will be a central speaker on the immigration panel of the ACLU Northwest Civil Liberties Conference.  On the same day, the law school  will host a interdisciplinary forum with leading migration scholars in diverse fields to discuss the ideas and themes of Motomura’s forthcoming book on immigration outside of the law.  The forum will focus on legalization of noncitizens unlawfully present in the United States.

October 6th, 2011

• 2011 Distinguished IP Visitor: Judge William C. Bryson

  6:00pm “A Panel Discussion with Judge Bryson”
  Lewis & Clark Law School’s Intellectual Property program welcomes their 13th annual Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor Judge William C. Bryson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

October 4th, 2011

• Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  10:00am

September 30th, 2011

• 16th Annual Business Law Fall Forum

  8:00am - 5:00pm This forum will examine issues that place U.S. antidiscrimination law in the broader context of American culture and society.

September 22nd, 2011

• Looking Back and Moving Forward: Copyright’s Biggest Issues

  12:00pm - 1:30pm

April 28th, 2011

• 16th Annual Business Law Spring Luncheon honoring Distinguished Business Law Graduate, Jordan D. Schnitzer ‘76

  12:00pm This year, the Law School is pleased to bestow this honor upon Jordan D. Schnitzer, who graduated from University of Oregon in 1973 and from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1976.

• 16th Annual Business Law Spring Luncheon and 2011 Distinguished Business Law Graduate Award

  12:00pm

  This year, we were pleased to have Jordan D. Schnitzer ‘76 as our 2011 Distinguished Business Law Graduate.

March 15th, 2011

• 2011 Higgins Distinguished Visitor: Akhil Reed Amar

  7:00pm Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, will lecture on “America’s Unwritten Constitution.”

March 10th, 2011

• IP in the Trees: Rebecca Tushnet

  12:00pm Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law center, will be our third speaker in our series of lectures.

March 4th, 2011

• 2011 Roundtable Topic: The Volatile Real Estate Market

  3:30pm

March 1st, 2011

• 2011 Distinguished IP Visitor: Judge Timothy B. Dyk

  6:00pm Lewis & Clark Law School’s Intellectual Property program welcomes their 12th annual Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

February 21st, 2011

• Perspectives on the Practice of Business Law

  5:00pm - 6:00pm Come get free food and hear about the actual practice of business law from three attorneys with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

February 3rd, 2011

• IP in the Trees: Harry Surden

  12:00pm “Interpretation as Constraint Satisfaction: A Theoretical Framework for Patent Claim Construction”

February 1st, 2011

• Networking Reception & Roundtable with Chilean Law Professors

  5:00pm - 6:30pm Join attorneys from the International Law Section of the Oregon State Bar, and visiting professors from Chile’s top law school.

October 8th, 2010

• 15th Annual Business Law Fall Forum: Taxation and the Environment

  8:00am - 5:00pm

  The symposium will provide scholarly perspectives on many aspects of the interaction of taxes with the environment. Topics will include the effects of current and proposed taxation regimes, and specific provisions of tax law, on the environment in the United States and across national borders.

October 4th, 2010

• Backpack to Briefcase series: Marketing and Business Development Basics

  12:00pm - 1:00pm Learn about how to market your services as an attorney, to potential clients as well as other attorneys.

April 23rd, 2010

• 2010 Spring Luncheon honoring Michael T. Winslow ‘80 as our 2010 Distinguished Business Law Graduate

  12:00pm

• Michael T. Winslow ’80

  12:00pm This year, the Law School is pleased to bestow this honor upon Michael T. Winslow, who graduated from Indiana University and from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1980. Mike is a member of the American Bar Association and the Oregon State Bar Association.

March 16th, 2010

• Thomas W. Merrill

  7:00pm Lewis & Clark Law presented a public lecture by Professor Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and our 2010 Higgins Distinguished Visitor. The lecture, titled “Three Modes of Interpretation: Analysis and a Plea for Synthesis” took place on March 16, 2010 at Lewis & Clark Law School.

February 15th, 2010

• 2010 Distinguished IP Visitor

  All Day Public Lecture: February 16, 2010  6pm, Lewis & Clark Law School, Room 7
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October 2nd, 2009

• 14th Annual Business Law Fall Forum: IP Remedies

  8:00am - 4:00pm

April 29th, 2009

• Trudy Allen ’82

  12:00pm The Distinguished Business Law Graduate Award is awarded annually to a graduate of the Law School who has demonstrated exemplary leadership, has made a positive mark on the legal or business profession and whose accomplishments have brought honor and distinction to the Law School. This year, the Law School is pleased to bestow this honor upon Trudy Allen, who graduated magna cum laude from Pennsylvania State University, and from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1982.

March 12th, 2009

• Professor Roberta Romano

  6:30pm Lewis & Clark Law presented a public lecture by Professor Roberta Romano is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, and our 2009 Higgins Distinguished Visitor. The lecture, titled “The Uncertain Future of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act” took place on March 12, 2009 at Lewis & Clark Law School.

April 18th, 2008

• Jeff B. Curtis ’86

  12:00pm This year, the Law School is pleased to bestow this honor upon Jeff B. Curtis, who  graduated magna cum laude in 1986 from the Law School

May 1st, 2007

• Ron (Rongwei) Cai ’90

  12:00pm

  A 1990 honors graduate of the Law School, Ron (Rongwei) Cai is a partner in Davis Wright Tremaine’s Shanghai Office. Ron, who received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and an LL.B. with honors from Xiamen University School of Law, is also fluent in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese. 

April 7th, 2006

• Sen. Betsy Johnson

  12:00pm Betsy received her undergraduate degree in History from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) and her Law degree from the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College. A licensed commercial pilot of both fixed and rotor-wing aircraft, she founded Transwestern Helicopters, Inc., in 1978. 

April 22nd, 2005

• Wayne Perry ’75

  12:00pm We are very excited to announce the inauguration of what will become an annual honor, the Distinguished Business Law Graduate. This year, we will honor Wayne Perry (‘75), Chief Executive Officer of Edge Wireless LLC as our first Distinguished Business Law Graduate. Prior to his position at Edge Wireless, Mr. Perry served as Vice-Chairman of AT&T Wireless Services, and has been a leader in the wireless telecommunications industry.