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Lewis & Clark Law School Announces Summer 2024 Course Lineup
Lewis & 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.
ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) Writing Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Air Water & Land, global environmentWhy Wild Animals Need a Global Plastics Treaty
This Earth Day, Clinical Professor Erica Lyman explains why it will take global action to protect wild animals from the harmful effects of plastics.
Celebrating Earth Day
For Lewis & Clark Law School, Earth Day isn’t a once-a-year event—it’s a daily mission. Explore the ongoing environmental endeavors of our faculty and students:
climate change, greenflashAnimal Agriculture’s Role in Climate Change at the Environmental Law Symposium
Lewis & Clark Law School’s 9th annual Environmental Law Spring Symposium, “Animal Agriculture and Climate Change — The Really Big Cow In The Room,” convened experts to discuss the urgent need to address the adverse impacts of industrial animal agriculture on climate change. Nicholas Kristof, of NY Times, gave the keynote address.
climate change, global environment, greenflashProf. Benjamin Advocates to Establish State Obligations re: Climate Change
Professor Lisa Benjamin co-authored briefs to the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to establish state obligations around climate change as part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Clinic students supported the effort.
Celebrate Earth Month Throughout April with These Activities!
Please join us to celebrate Earth Day every day in April.
GEI and Sierra Club File Amicus Briefs Arguing for Appealability of PUC Orders
GEI and Sierra Club join together to file two separate amicus briefs arguing that processes overseen by the Public Utility Commission end in final orders that are subject to appeal.
ecosystems, greenflash2024 Wyss Scholar: Ian Connolly ’25 Focuses on Environmental Justice
Ian Connolly JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. The Wyss Foundation is a dedicated to land conservation. Ian plans to to leverage his education on behalf of wild places and communities across the west.
ecosystems, greenflash2024 Wyss Scholar: Hayden Wyatt to Focus on Forest Conservation
Hayden Wyatt JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable foundation dedicated to land conservation. This summer Hayden will work for Cascadia Wildlands, with an internship focused on forest conservation.
Earthrise Filed Motion for Summary Judgment in Ozarks Logging Case
Earthrise’s team filed its Motion for Summary Judgment on behalf of its client, the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance (BRWA) to halt the Robert’s Gap Project, a large logging project, in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests of Arkansas.
LLM Alum advocates for forest policy in Pakistan
Environmental, Natural Resources, & Energy Law LLM alum Ayman Irfan’s ’23, one of the first women environmental lawyers from Pakistan, wrote an article advocating for forest policy in Pakistan that was published on the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources website.
GEI Publishes Explanation of Public Utility Commission Order on HB 2021
Read a helpful explanation of the Public Utility Commission’s order concluding Oregon’s electricity decarbonization law does not require the retirement of renewable energy certificates.
GEI Enters 2024 Ready to Work
Read about GEI’s work on HB 2021, wildfire liability, and post-California Restaurant Ass’n v. Berkeley pathways.
greenflashProfessor Michele Okoh’s Forgotten Waters is Top 20 Article of the Year
Professor 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.
- EVENTS
Past Events
April 11, 2024Environmental Curriculum Info Session
Are you a 1L* and do you have questions about the environmental curriculum? Are you curious to learn more about the environmental or energy certificates? Join Associate Dean, Janice Weis, and Associate Director, Tess Jacobsen, for an overview of the environmental curriculum before you register for classes later this semester! *All students are welcome
April 5, 2024Environmental Law Spring Symposium with Keynote Speaker Nicholas Kristof
Friday April 5, 2024 Symposium
Thank you to those who were able to attend the 2024 Environmental Law Symposium, Animal Agriculture And Climate Change: The Really Big Cow In The Room. If you were unable to attend the full conference in-person, you may access each panel’s recording below.March 6, 20242024 Huffman Lecture: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen on Free Speech Issues
The Huffman Lecture presents New York Law School Professor Emerita and former president of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen, who is a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties. She will participate in a Q/A on free speech issues with Kerry Tymchuk of the Oregon Historical Society.The 2024 James L. Huffman Lecture In Honor of the Western Resources Legal Center will be held on the law school campus. A reception for all attendees following the lecture will be held in the Upper Student Lounge of the Legal Research Center (LRC).
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