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Zach Pavlik & Akriti Bhargava

2022 Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Competition Winners Announced

The International Law Committee announced the winners of the 2022 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP International Law Writing Awards this month.
Kristin Eaton and Hannah Eaton

Alum, Student Recognized with Harpole Awards

Kristin W. Eaton ’95 and Jose Garcia-Fuerte ’23 are the recipients of this year’s Harpole Attorney Award and Harpole Scholarship, respectively
Professor Robert Klonoff

Professor Co-Authors Prestigious Legal Text

Professor Robert Klonoff has been named a co-author of the frequently cited legal treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure.

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Professors Cited in Ecuador’s Landmark Decision

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court recently issued a landmark decision extending the rights of nature to wild animals. In reaching its decision, the Court cited an opinion piece by Professors Lyman and Fromherz of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment.

Managing Debt as a Public Interest Law Student

Lewis & Clark Law has a wide variety of resources to help public interest-minded students

Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy Jeffrey D. Jones passed away on December 25, 2020.

2022 Jeff Jones “Nicely Done” Awarded to Two Students

Aime Lee Ohlmann and Zach Pavlik given award honoring late professor
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Faculty On Point

Aliza Kaplan

Aliza Kaplan

Convictions by non-unanimous juries were banned in 2020. What happens to those imprisoned by them?

A PBS News Hour segment featured the work of professor Aliza Kaplan and the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic which she directs, advocating for those convicted by a non-unanimous jury in Oregon.

Professor Dan Rohlf

Dan Rohlf

The future of American conservation lies in restoration, not just protection

Professor Dan Rohlf is quoted extensively in this Popular Science article reviewing two new federal funds and whether they could share billions of dollars with local wildlife agencies to help save biodiversity.

Professor Erica Lyman

Erica Lyman

Canadian oil company illegally bulldozes protected land in Africa

National Geographic story quotes Professor Erica Lyman, director of the Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment, about the recent activities and violations of an oil company exploring in a vital part of the watershed of the world famous Okavango Delta in Namibia.

Jim Oleske

Jim Oleske

The Supreme Court broke its own rules to radically redefine religious liberty

Slate interviews constitutional law professor Jim Oleske on the April 2021 Supreme Court decision in Tandon v. Newsom, which blocked California’s COVID-related ban on religious gatherings in private homes.

Lisa Benjamin

Lisa Benjamin

So What the Heck Is Net Zero, Anyway?

Sierra Club magazine story quotes professor Lisa Benjamin and her work on the latest in corporate greenwashing.

The Shared Earth Foundation Visiting Professor Russ Mead

Russ Mead

In a first, state bill would require nearly perfect welfare record for research dog and cat suppliers

Science magazine quotes Professor Russ Mead in a story about a new Virginia Law that would make Virginia the first state able to punish research animal breeders for violations of the AWA, a federal law enforced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

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