Professor Susan Felstiner participates in a groundbreaking US-Ukrainian Clinicians Workshop Series, fostering collaboration and skill-building to empower legal education in Ukraine.
Vanessa Gischkow Garbini (Animal Law LLM ’22, Brazil) reflects on her recent experience attending CITES CoP19 and why it gave her hope for addressing the loss of wild animals’ lives and stopping the extinction crisis.
The 2nd annual event in March 2023 discusses how the law has been used to both perpetrate and combat antisemitism. The deadline for papers is October 1, 2022.
Lewis & Clark Law Visiting Professor attended a hearing at the International Criminal Court as a member of her legal team invited to present views to the Judges on a Ugandan warlord’s appeal of his convictions for forced marriage of girls and women and other crimes against humanity.
Lewis & Clark Law visiting professor highlights the need for better legal advocacy prosecuting and convicting international crimes against girls—as children and as women—to promote equality in rights and reparations.
The International Law Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Akriti Bhargava, 3L, as International Law Research Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year.
Established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, the International Law Writing Award program provides a $2,500 stipend for the best research paper written in the past year by a Lewis & Clark JD student on any topic in private or public international law, and a $1,000 stipend for the second best paper.
The International Law Committee is pleased to announce the selection of Amreen Bhasin, 3L, as International Law Research Fellow for the 2020-21 academic year.
The 2020 Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT) International Law Writing Awards winners are Adriana Gomez and Brittaney Bones. Established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, the Lewis & Clark Law School award program provides a $2,500 stipend for the best research paper written in the past year by a Lewis & Clark JD student on any topic in international or comparative law, and a $1,000 stipend for the second best paper.
ProfessorChris Woldhas played a vital role as a legal advisor to the Convention on Migratory Species’ (CMS) since 2014, advising on voting and other procedures as well as drafting resolutions designed to protect migratory animals. This February, Wold was in India as an advisor to CMS at the Thirteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP).
On March 9, 2020, Lewis & Clark’sInternational Law Programhosted Professor Elizabeth Kirk to give the International Distinguished Visitor’s Lecture. Professor Kirk isGlobal Chair of Global Governance and Ecological Justiceat the University of Lincoln. Professor Kirk’s talkwas on ‘The Case for a Plastics Treaty’.
On March 10, Nick Fromherz, staff attorney and adjunct professor for Lewis & Clark’s International Environmental Law Project, spoke with approximately 100 environmental prosecutors in Lima, Peru. Fromherz was the lead speaker in a session focused on illegal fishing and fisheries crime.
On March 6, 2020, Lewis & Clark’s International Law Program and Center for Business Law & Innovation (CBLI) hosted a conference on Importing and Exporting Amid a Trade War: Tariffs, Export Control, and Sanctions
Lewis & Clark Celebrates 50 years of Environmental Law, 1970 - 2020
Lewis and Clark Law School was one of the first law schools to create an environmental law program. Today, celebrating a 50-year milestone, it is one of the most robust programs in the nation and has consistently been ranked by U.S. News as the Number 1 or 2 environmental law program in the nation.
Lewis & Clark Law School and the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) are hosting the first webinar in the GNHRE webinar series onFebruary 10, 2020 at 11:00a.m. ESTon “The Outcomes of COP25-Implications for the Climate Vulnerable.”
Lewis & Clark offers a plethora of externship opportunities, including those that provide academic credits and a carefully supervised, well-crafted work experience. They are part of many law students’ practical training and can be done internationally.
The Davis Wright Tremaine International Law Writing Award Competition at Lewis & Clark Law School began over 32 years ago from the vision of noted attorney Ron Ragen. On March 10, 2019, Lewis & Clark Law School presented a plaque to Ronald K. Ragen, former partner of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT), in recognition of exemplary service that Ragen has provided the law school and its students over many years.
The 2019 DWT International Law Writing Awards winners are Alison Roth ’19 and Katelyn Kindberg ’19. Established through the generosity of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, the Lewis & Clark Law School award program provides a $2,500 stipend for the best research paper written in the past year by a Lewis & Clark JD student on any topic in private or public international law, and a $1,000 stipend for the second best paper.
On Friday, May 3, attorney Jun Jin from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of the General Counsel gave a talk at Lewis & Clark Law School.
Professor Bob Klonoff delivered some 240 pounds of law books to the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - all donated by the Lewis & Clark law faculty.He also assists law students with externships in Cambodia.
A rich tradition at DWT continues and gets a boost, as the 2019 International Law Writing Competition awards are increased. April 18 is the deadline for submission of papers.
On March 6, 2019, a leading authority on the law governing investment, trade and the environment—Professor Emeritus Donald M. McRae of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law—delivered the 2018-19 International Law Distinguished Visitor Lecture.
Tshering Dolkar, a 2018 graduate of the Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law LLM program at Lewis & Clark, will help design, teach, and coordinate the environmental law curriculum at the Kingdom of Bhutan’s first, and only law school.
Reports from four Lewis & Clark Law School alums who hold legal positions in Pacific Island nations that give them responsibility over environmental, natural resource, fishery and tourism management.
GEI Director and Professor Melissa Powers spent two weeks in July teaching climate and energy law to students at Kangwon National University in South Korea. While there, she participated in a workshop on Korea’s efforts to reduce its use of coal-fired electricity.
A recent LLM graduate and an incoming LLM student from the Lewis & Clark Center for Animal Law Studies were instrumental in the successful prosecution of four poachers from a December 2017 incident involving Moga, a protected rhino.
Lewis & Clark Law professors Samir Parikh, Jim Oleske, and Ozan Varol were awarded highly prestigious Fulbright grants for international research during the 2018-19 academic year.
Lewis & Clark Law School is pleased to announce that the 2017-18 International Law Distinguished Visitor will be Mila Versteeg, Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law.
The International Environmental Law Project (IELP) at Lewis & Clark Law School prepared a legal opinion that helped trigger an international investigation to determine whether Japan is illegally trading in the meat of sei whales. Based on IELP’s legal opinion and other information, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) took an important step toward ending Japan’s domestic sale of sei whale meat by agreeing to investigate Japan’s trade in sei whales.
Professor George K. Foster presented his latest paper at a conference on “The Law and Politics of Indigenous-Industry Agreements,” held at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law on October 13 & 14, 2017. This multi-disciplinary conference brought together scholars and practitioners from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Africa to engage the growing phenomenon of private agreements between commercial project developers and indigenous communities affected by development activities.
On November 10, 2017, Lewis & Clark Law School hosted a scholarly workshop of the American Society of International Law’s Dispute Resolution Interest Group (DRIG). Scholars from around the country presented academic works-in-progress on a wide range of issues involving international dispute resolution, and received input from designated discussants and other workshop participants.
Prof. John H. Knox of Wake Forest University School of Law spoke on the intersection of human rights and climate change at Lewis & Clark Law School in January 2017. Climate change has been called the greatest threat to human rights in the twenty-first century. The rapidly warming climate is already contributing to floods in India, droughts in southern Africa, and typhoons in the Philippines, and is threatening to displace communities from the Arctic to the South Pacific. How can a human rights perspective help to combat its worst effects? The title of his talk, “The Implications of Human Rights Law for Addressing Climate Change”, addressed these issues.
Professor Erica Lyman, Staff Attorney for the International Environmental Law Project, continued to support the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) as a legal advisor to the Maldives, which currently serves as the Chair of AOSIS, at the climate change meeting held recently in Marrakech, Morocco.
Lewis & Clark Law School’s International Environmental Law Project (IELP) is in South Africa for negotiations relating to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Professors Chris Wold and Erica Lyman, along with 4 students, are advising governments and non-governmental organizations on strategies for protecting African elephants, white rhinos, tigers, and sharks.
The Lewis & Clark Jessup International Law Moot Court Team finished 2nd in the South Regional this year and advanced to the International Rounds held the first week of April in Washington D.C.
Professor George K. Foster presented as part of a panel on “Sleeper” Foreign Officials and Other Counter-Intuitive Theories of Liability under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at the 2016 Lewis & Clark International Law Symposium: Managing Corruption Risks in International Business.
Philip Berkowitz ’78, a shareholder in Littler’s New York office and U.S. co-chair of the firm’s International Employment Law Practice Group, has been named vice chair of the Discrimination and Equality Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). A leading authority in labor and employment law globally, Berkowitz will serve as the committee’s vice chair through Dec. 31, 2017.
Lewis & Clark Law School had a significant presence at the climate change negotiations in Paris (UNFCCC 21st Conference of the Parties aka “COP 21”) in December. Erica Lyman, Clinical Professor and Staff Attorney for the International Environmental Law Project (IELP), and a group of four LC law students, along with numerous alumni, were actively involved in the proceedings in various roles.
Nawneet Vibhaw (LLM ’10) has continued to pursue his passion of addressing environmental issues since returning to India after receiving his degree at Lewis & Clark Law School.
The Law School’s International Environmental Law Project (IELP) recently returned from Geneva where it participated in negotiations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) from January 11-15.