TIME Magazine’s TIME 100 Talks, a video series highlighting influential people, has included alumna and disability-rights advocate Haben Girma BA ’10 in its line-up. Girma, a recipient of Lewis & Clark’s 2016 Outstanding Young Alumna Award, is the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School. In her talk, Girma expands upon the article she wrote for TechCrunch, “The Robots Occupying Our Sidewalks.”
The Office of Equity and Inclusion is reviving the Intergroup Dialogue Series (started by Student Life in 2014). This series is open to all staff and faculty.
TheCriminal Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC)atLewis & Clark Law Schoolrecently filed a joint amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in support of an Oregon Law Center lawsuit. The Metropolitan Public Defender’s (MPD) Community Law Division, which partners with CJRC on the Barrier Reduction Project, joined CJRC in submitting the brief.
First-year law students helped the Diversity Section of the Oregon State Bar honor seven judges -- five of them affiliated with the law school in some way -- for bringing diversity to the bench.
Fellow students, professors and mentors celebrated 1L law student Diego Gutiérrez in a citizenship ceremony with alum Senior U.S. District Judge Anna Brown ’80.