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Environmental Law
Lawyers and policy professionals play key roles in solving some of the world’s most complex environmental challenges. Today, practitioners must solve pollution problems, protect natural resources, and develop clean energy sources against the backdrop of a changing climate and efforts to promote environmental justice.
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Spotlight
2024 Wyss Scholar: Ian Connolly to Focus on Collaborative Solutions to Complex Issues
Read the storyIan Connolly JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. Funded by the Wyss Foundation, a private, charitable foundation dedicated to land conservation, the Wyss Scholars Program seeks to identify and support a new generation of leaders focused on land conservation issues. Ian plans to to leverage his education on behalf of wild places and communities across the west.
2024 Wyss Scholar: Hayden Wyatt to Focus on Forest Conservation
Read the storyHayden Wyatt JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. Funded by the Wyss Foundation, a private, charitable foundation dedicated to land conservation, the Wyss Scholars Program seeks to identify and support a new generation of leaders focused on land conservation issues. This summer Hayden will work for Cascadia Wildlands, his internship focused on forest conservation.
Professor Michele Okoh’s Forgotten Waters is Top 20 Article of the Year
Read the storyProfessor Michele Okoh’s article, entitled Forgotten Watersand published in the Georgetown Law Journal, has been selected as one of the top twenty articles of 2023 by the Environmental Law Reporter.
Lewis & Clark Law School Announces Summer 2024 Course Lineup
Read the storyLewis & Clark Law School’s Summer 2024 courses offer a comprehensive mix of online and in-person options, welcoming law students from all institutions to enrich their legal education and advance their career pathways.
Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
MSC: 51
email elaw@lclark.edu
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Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
Portland OR 97219