The Center for Animal Law Studies inspired Mark Hawthorne, animal welfare advocate and author, with its recent conference to connect animal law to other disciplines. Read his blog.

The 2009 Center for Animal Law Studies conference inspired this Oregonian article on links between animal abuse and domestic violence.

In an op-ed in The Oregonian, environmental law professor Michael Blumm urges the Obama administration to take bigger steps toward protecting the Northwest’s wild salmon.

The International Environmental Law Project tackles some of today’s most challenging global legal issues.

In this C-Span interview, law professor Robert Miller discusses the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of indigenous peoples.

Just one week into the month-long Bike Commute Challenge, Lewis & Clark community members have already logged more than 1000 miles. Read more.

Summer environmental law classes at Lewis & Clark

In keeping with Lewis & Clark’s national reputation for environmental and natural resources law, the 2009 national environmental moot court team again won the competition for the second year in a row.

On Earth Day 2009, Northwest Environmental Defense Center, a student group and nonprofit organization based at Lewis & Clark Law School, once again grabbed headlines for a creative, proactive settlement with a large industrial polluter. Schnitzer Steel agreed to improve its facility’s system for preventing polluted stormwater runoff into the Willamette River.