Faculty Highlights
- Presentations
Presentations
“Two Sides, One Goal: Administering Justice Together” (CLE) at 2022 Winter Conference, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Portland, OR on December 3, 2022.
“Federalism Briefing” (lecture) at International Visitor Leadership Program: Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation, Portland, OR on March 13, 2023.
“A Drop in the Bucket: Presentation on Well Water Contamination” (conference) at The Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity 2023: Past Present, Future: Achieving Environmental Equity in North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. With Claire Mullaney.
“Oregon’s Criminal Legal System” (Lecture) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design on October 28th, 2022.
“Taxigration: What you Always Wanted to Know about the Intersection between Tax Law and Immigration Law” (CLE Webinar) Virtual Event on October 9th, 2022. With Charina Garcia, Wafa Hoballah, Sam Rock, and Sakinah Tillman.
“National Security Lies” (Presenter) at University of Oregon law school on September 19th, 2022. With Jane Cramer.
“All Hands on (Pear) Deck” (Presentation) for the National Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference in July 2022. With Hadley Van Vactor.
“The Crimmigrators” (Presenter) for CINETS/Border Criminologies Global Borderlands Conference in September 2021 (virtual).
“Mass Torts Evolve” (Organizer) for the Fordham Law Review Symposium on February 25th, 2021.
“Problems in Fisheries and the Fisheries Trade” for the Center for Animal Law Studies Animal Law CLE Series on December 10, 2021. (virtual).
“Tax Issues for Immigrants” for Oregon Migrant Education Program in November 2021.
“Class Action Lawsuits Relating to COVID” (Panelist) for Mass Torts/Bankruptcy Conference at Fordham University School of Law on February 25th, 2022.
“Mass-Tort MDL: Practical Problems” (Moderator) for Mass-Tort MDL Bench-Bar Conference on June 10th, 2021. (virtual).
“Breakfast for Champions: Critical Race Theory” (Panelist) for Partners in Diversity’s Breakfast for Champions discussion on critical race theory on August 24, 2021.
“Neutrality: Needless or Necessary” (Moderator) for Lewis & Clark’s 60th International Affairs Symposium in April 2022.
“Annual SCOTUS Review/Preview” (Presenter) for Oregon ACS Chapter in November 2021. With Jim Oleske, Caroline Davidson, and Liz Sepper. (virtual).
“Transhipment and Human Rights for Crew: Current Issues at the WCPFC” (Panelist) on March 30th, 2022.
“Slavery at Sea: Forced Labor, Human Rights Abuses” (Lecture) for Citizens’ Institute for Environmental Studies, Korea on September 16th, 2021. (virtual).
“The Crimmigrators” (Presenter) for Criminal Justice Forum speaker series at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in February 2022.
“Roundtable on Zionism, Antisemitism and Free Speech on Campus: Challenges for US Academia” (Roundtable) for the Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting on June 8th, 2021.
“White Jews: An Intersectional Approach” (Presenter) for the Jonathan Netanyahu Symposium on Antisemitism for Michigan State University on October 8, 2021.
“Admitting Discrimination” (Presenter) for Loyola University Constitutional Law Colloquium on November 12th, 2021.
“Epistemic Antisemitism” (Presenter) for the Law vs. Antisemitism Inaugural Conference at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law on March 14-15th, 2022
“White Jews: An Intersectional Approach” (Presenter) for Amherst Hillel, Amherst College on May 10th, 2022.
“El papel de las clínicas jurídicas en los procesos judiciales ambientales” (Panelist) for the Environmental Law Institute in October, 2021.
“Health & Reproductive Privacy Panel” (panel) at Lewis & Clark Law School 4th Annual Data Privacy Forum, Portland, OR on March 10, 2023. With Jess Daly and Christina Glabas.
“America Erased” (panel) at Adapting to a Warming World Panel Series, Iowa City, IA on April 14, 2023. With Cinnamon P. Carlarne.
“The Texas Two Step: Interaction of Bankruptcy and Mass Tort” (panel) at Northwestern Complex Litigation Conference, Chicago, IL on March 8th, 2023.
“Criminal Juries in Oregon Past, Present & Future” (CLE) at Pioneer Courthouse Historical Society Annual Meeting and CLE Program on October 26th 2022. With Ben Gutman and Laura Appleman
“The First Step” (Film screening and panel) at Portland Art Museum on October 6th, 2022. With N. Jauiss, S. Fowler, M. Marcose, DA Schmidt, and DA Auxier.
“Recent Developments in Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers” (Conference) for Recent Developments in Administrative Law, Washington, DC, in November 2021.
“Values-driven, Data-supported: Managing through the backlash” (panel) for the National Association of Sentencing Commissions 2022 Annual Conference in Portland, OR on August 8, 2022.
“New Definitions of Antisemitism” (Presenter) for Democrats for Peace in the Middle East on September 23rd, 2021. (virtual).
“Oregon Supreme Court Review/Preview” for The American Constitution Society on November 19th, 2021. (virtual).
“Just Passing Through? How U.S. Law Treats Wildlife in Transit to Foreign Destinations” for the Center for Animal Law Studies Law CLE Series on June 2, 2021. (virtual)
“The Role of Tax Clinics and Taxpayer Ombuds/Advocates in Protecting Taxpayer Rights in Collection Matters” (Panelist) for the International Conference of Taxpayer Rights on May 16, 2022.
“Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg” (Speaker) for Temple Beth Sholom Synagogue on June 27th, 2021. (virtual).
“Recent Developments in Class Action Law” (Speaker) for Oregon Association of Defense Counsel on May 20, 2021. (virtual).
Small Group Leader for the Critiquing Workshop in July 2022 at the Legal Writing Institutes Biennial Conference in Washington, D.C.
“Title IX Sex Discrimination Hearings at the Institutional Level: Adjudicators Perspectives” (Presenter) for Lewis & Clark Law School in April 2022. With Susan Mandiberg. (virtual).
“Reforming Prosecutorial Immunity: Lessons from the Jeffrey Epstein Mess” (Presenter) for the 2021 Crime Victim Law Conference in Portland, OR in November 2021.
“ Nueva Instancia de Participation Ambiental Sector Minero Y Energetico” (Presenter) for the Universidad Externo de Colombia on June 3rd, 2021 (virtual).
“UNCLOS and Pollution: The Case of Fukushima” (Lecture) for the Citizen’s Institute for Environmental Studies, Korea on August 25, 2021. (virtual).
“Immigration Law as Domestic Law Enforcement” (Presenter) for the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law, panel on Theoretical & Conceptual Frameworks/Issues in the Interdisciplinary Study of Comparative Immigration Law in April 2022 (virtual).
“Jews, Antisemitism, and the Law: The Project of a New Casebook” (Presenter) for Lewis & Clark Faculty Colloquium on October 1st, 202. With Diane Klein.
“Jewishness and Intersectionality” (Presenter) for the Alliance Against Antisemitism on November 2, 2021. Alliance against Antisemitism (Cologne, Germany).
“White Jews: An Intersectional Approach” (Presenter) for the Law vs. Antisemitism Inaugural Conference at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law on March 14-15th, 2022
“(The Limits of) Judicial Resegregation” (Presenter) for University of Chicago Law School Constitutional Law Institute’s Conference on the Reconstruction Amendments on April 22, 2022.
“Clean Water Act at 50” (Panelist) for Lewis & Clark Law School in March 2022.
“The Legal Writing Field’s Most Successful Collaborations” (Panelist) at the 2022 Legal Writing Institute Conference.
- Media
Media Appearances
Interviewed by Jason Breslow for “The Supreme Court Outlawed Split Juries, but Hundreds Remain in Prison Anyway,” NPR, May 14, 2023.
Interviewed by Jeff Manning for “Aequitas Executives’ Splintered Defense on Display Before Their Case Goes to Jury” Oregonian, May 11, 2023.
Interviewed for “Longtime Multnomah County Prosecutor Considering Challenging Mike Schmidt for DA,” Oregonian, March 10, 2023.
Interviewed by Zane Sparling for “Oregon woman who should meth gets to keep her house in landmark decision on civil forfeiture,” Oregonian, March 8th, 2023.
Bloomberg Law “Waters Lawsuits Will Roll on Even as High Court Weighs in” quotes Professor Craig Johnston about likelihood that the Biden administration’s WOTUS 2023 rule will be overturned.
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Interviewed by Jami Seymour for “Gun Rights Advocates Respond to Overturned 2nd Amendment Sanctuaries,” KOIN, Feb. 15th, 2023.
Interview by Noelle Crombie for “Criminal Investigation Opened into Oregon Bourbon Scandal,” Oregonian, Feb. 10th, 2023.
Interview by Cara Salvatore for “Gorsuch Dissent Signals Justices May Revisit Jury Size Issue,” Law360, November 23rd 2022.
Interviewed by DW Gibson for “E-Verify has been the cornerstone of immigration reform negotiations for a quarter-century. But does it work?” Ideaspace, November 7th, 2022.
Interviewed by Amanda Waldroupe for “The story of one US governors historic use of clemency: We are a nation of second chances,” The Guardian, September 28th, 2022.
Quoted in “Commutations granted to 1,000 felons by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown were lawful, appeals court says” Oregonian, August 8, 2022.
Interviewed by Sarah Hurwitz discussing suspension of OSHA’s vaccine mandate, KPTV, November 18th, 2021.
Quoted in “The Future of American Conservation Lies in Restoration, Not Just Protection” Popular Science, April 27, 2022.
Quoted in “Religious groups eye legal challenges to Delta variant restrictions and vaccine mandates” CNN, August 2, 2021.
Quoted in “Little consensus among hospitals, schools, state agencies on handling vaccine exemptions” OregonLive, October 17th, 2021.
Interviewed by Geoff Norcross for “Oregonians react to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion“ OPB, June 27th, 2022.
Quoted in “New, damning evidence suggests Canada-based oil and gas company ReconAfrica illegally drilled in Namibian wildlife conservancy, leaving wake of destruction,” Re:wild, December 14, 2021.
Quoted in “National Geographic: Oil exploration company in Okavango wilderness misled investors, complaint to SEC says,” Laurel Neme, May 21, 2021.
Interviewed by Amanda Arden for “Q&A: Law professor talks leaked SCOTUS abortion opinion.” KOIN, My 4th, 2022.
Quoted in “Where the charges stand for the 8 suspects from Oregon, SW Washington arrested in connection to the Jan. 6th insurrection.” KGW, January 6th, 2022.
Quoted in “Police Search of Rape Victims’ DNA Tests Meaning of Consent” Bloomberg Law, March 16th, 2022.
Interviewed by Louis Krauss for “Junction City officer indicted for hitting suspect with motorcycle pleads not guilty.” Register-Guard, January 27th, 2022.
Quoted in “Defense bill signals changes to military justice system, shift of focus to Pacific threats.” Courthouse News Service, December 8th, 2021.
Interviewed by Linda Dayan for “How California’s Jewish Community Won the Battle Over the State’s Ethnic Studies Program,” Haaretz, February 25th, 2021.
Interviewed by Michael Starr for “War of the words: The conflict between definitions of antisemitism,” The Jerusalem Post, April 22, 2021.
Interviewed by Elizabeth Anne Brown for “Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts are Worried,” New York Times, May 15, 2023.
Interviewed by Max Zahn for “’Mayhem Inside’: Texas Shooting Shows Challenge of Protecting Malls,” ABC News, May 8, 2023.
Interviewed by Elizabeth Hayes for “Parsing the Playbook of the Aequitas Defense Attorneys,” Portland Business Journal, May 23, 2023.
Interviewed for “‘Instigator’ of Redmond 5 wants life sentence reduced,” Koin, March 1st, 2023.
Interviewed by Megan Allison for “City of Portland and Portland Police Association Reach Stalemate on Body Camera Use,” KATU, Feb. 17th, 2023.
Interviewed by Tim Gordon for “Measure 114 Remains Blocked After Oregon Supreme Court Denies Petition,” KGW, Feb. 9th, 2023.
Interview by Lauren Drake for “Outgoing Oregon Governor Commuts Death Row Sentences, Orders Execution Chamber Dismantled,” Oregon Public Broadcasting, Dec. 12th, 2022.
Interview by Zane Sparling for “Torture attack sent Portland teen to jail; Oregon criminal justice reform got him and others out,” the Oregonian, Nov. 17th, 2022.
Interviewed by Rob Davis for “The modern impact of The Oregonian’s racist history,” The Oregonian, October 24th, 2022.
Quoted in “Cuban Asylum Seekers in Greece ‘forcibly expelled’ to Turkey.“ Aljazeera, January 10th, 2022.
Quoted in “Why Bridgerton Fans Turned Against the Bridgerton Musical” Slate, August 8, 2022.
Interviewed by Simon Gutierrez discussing President Biden’s vaccine mandate, KPTVNews, September 14th, 2021.
Quoted in “Profitable companies enlist bankruptcy courts to sidestep cancer trials.” Wall Street Journal, February 8th, 2022.
Interviewed by Dave Miller for “How do religious exemptions to vaccine mandates actually work” OPB on September 21, 2021.
Quoted in “As PeaceHealth faces lawsuits over vaccine requirement, expert says standard ‘pretty forgiving’“ The Register-Guard, April 1, 2022.
Quoted in “Climate Graphic of the week: US’s climate legal cases boom, but not its laws.” Financial Times, June 3, 2022.
Quoted in “National Geographic: Oil Company Accused of Drilling in African Wildlife Reserve, Offering Jobs for Silence,” Laurel Neme, December 13, 2021.
Quoted in “National Geographic: Canadian Oil Company Illegally Bulldozes Protected Land in Africa,” Laurel Neme, February 13, 2021.
Quoted in “Leaked SCOTUS abortion opinion prompts Oregon reactions.” KOIN, May 2nd, 2022.
Quoted in “Accused gunman in Normandale Park shooting transferred to jail on 9-count indictment.” Oregon Live, March 23, 2022.
Interviewed by Rose Wagner for “Biden to sanction Putin, locking the Russian leader out of financial assets in the US” Courthouse News Service, February 25th, 2022.
Quoted in “Where Jan. 6th cases stand against NW defendants a year later.” OPB, January 5th, 2022
Quoted in ”Redmond man pleads not guilty in Barry Washington Jr. murder case.“ OPB, December 7th, 2021.
Interviewed by Ron Kampeas for “A liberal definition of antisemitism allows for Israel criticism,” The Jerusalem Post, March 17, 2021.
Interviewed for ”UM law school vice dean resigns in protest over dean firing,“ Miami Herald, May 27th, 2021.
- Publications
Publications
Emerging Best Practices in International Atmospheric Trust Case Law, Utah Law Review, Vol. 2022, No. 5, 2022 (with Rachel Pemberton ’22)
Child and Family Law: Vol. II: Intimate Adult Relationships (2022)
An Advocate Persuades , (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed., forthcoming 2022)(with Joan Rocklin, Bob Rocklin, and Christine Coughlin).
Liminal Immigration Law, 108 Iowa L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2023)
“Cancel Culture” vs. Ban the Box 13 Alabama Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 2 (forthcoming 2022).
Leveraged Loans as Securities, 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (with Katherine Waldock).
“Re-thinking the Rights of Nature to Encompass New Protections for Wild Animals.” Center for Animal Law Studies, March 20, 2021.
Weaponized Anonymity: The Continuing Marginalization of Communities of Color through Racially-Biased Anonymous Processes in U.S. Society, 22 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (2022).
What High Court Got Wrong in Wash. Nuclear Workers Ruling, Law360, June 30, 2022.
Slavery at Sea: Forced Labor, Human Rights Abuses, and the Need for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission to Establish Labor Standards for Fishing Crew, 39 Wisc. Int’t. L.J. __ (2022).
“Opinion: Portland Police Should Not Be Exempt from Vaccine Mandate.” The Oregonian, Sept. 12th, 2021.
“An Open Letter on Discourse, Inquiry and Generosity of Spirit.” The Jewish Daily Forward, June 29, 2021. With Tema Smith.
“What’s Left of the Fight Against Antisemitism?” (Chapter) in Fault Lines: Exploring the Complicated Place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism, (2021).
The Epistemic Dimension of Antisemitism, 15 Journal of Jewish Identities 153 (2022) (peer-reviewed).
Mainstreaming the Ambition, Coherence, and Comprehensiveness on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework into Policy, Front. Conserv. Sci., (June 2022) (with Carlos Carroll and Yaffa Epstein).
“The Third Pillar of International Climate Change Policy: On ‘Loss and Damage’ after the Paris Agreement,” Book Review, 10 Trans. Envtl. L. (2021).
Adapting to a 4° CWorld, 52 Envt’l L. Rep 10211 (2022) (with Karrigan Bork et. al).
Natural Gas Lock-in, 69 U. Kan. L. Rev. 889 (2021).
Summary Judgement: Federal Law and Practice, (West, 2021) (with Edward Brunet and Martin Redish).
Due Process Alignment in Mass Restructurings, 91 Fordham L. Rev. 53 (Forthcoming 2022).
“Commentary: Think Before you Act: Improving the Conservation Outcomes of CITES Listing Decisions,” Commentary, Frontiers (April 25th, 2022).
Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials, (Semaphore Press, 7th ed., 2021) (with Joseph Miller).
Introduction to the Study of U.S. Law - 2021 Supplement. West Academic, 2nd ed., (2021).
Francis McGovern: The Consummate Facilitator, Teacher, and Scholar, 84 Law & Contemporary Problems 1 (2021) (with Elizabeth Cabraser).
Giving Meaning to the Apostrophe in Victim[‘]s Rights, 87 Brook. L. Rev. 4 (2022).
Brief of Public Accomodations Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (US Supreme Court, filed Aug. 2022) (coauthor)
Perpetuating the Presumption of Guilt: the Role of Implicit Racial Bias in Forensic Testimony, 58 Vol 3 Crim. Law Bull. 317 (2022) (with Janis Puracal).
The Legitimacy of Crimmigration Law, 65 Arizona L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2023)
“A Place Outside the Law: Voices from Guantánamo,” Book Review, Beacon Press (March 2022).
Restoring the Emergency Room: How to fix Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act, __ Environmental Law (forthcoming 2022) (with Colin Reynolds ’22).
Financial Disequilibrium, 171 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2023).
Tax Issues for Immigrants: A Practical Guide to Understanding Tax Law for Immigrant Taxpayers, (American Bar Association, 2022) (with Robert Nassau and Sam Rock).
Racism and Bigotry as Grounds for Impeachment,45 N.Y.U.. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 2 (2022).
Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy - Update. West Academic, 9th ed., (2020). With Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff, David Martin, Hiroshi Motomura, Maryellen Fullerton, and Pratheepan Gulasekaram.
Incentivizing Change to Beneficial Ownership and Open Registers – Holding Flag States Responsible for their Fleets and Costs of Illegal Fishing, Fish & Fisheries (2022) (with Jessica Ford, Duncan Curry, Chris Wilcox).
“A New Definition of Antisemitism is out and the Antisemites Love It.” Haaretz, April 7, 2021.
“Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?” Book Review, Oxford University Press (2021).
“An attempt to take child protection to a new level in Scotland,”Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism Blog, August 24, 2021.
(The Limits of) Judicial Resegregation, __ Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).
“Parting from Plastics: Lessons from the US Energy Transition” (Chapter) Plastics Research Handbook (forthcoming 2022).
“Electricity at 4 degrees C.” Environmental Law Professors Blog (2021).
“Juliana v. United States and the Risk of ‘Legally Disruptive’ Federal Climate Litigation” (Chapter) Environmental Law, Disrupted, Environmental Law Institute, (2021). With Juliane Fry.
“Research Handbook on Torture: Legal and Medical Perspectives on Prohibition and Prevention,“ Review, Edward Elgar (2022).
Scarlet-Lettered Bankruptcy: A Public Benefit Proposal for Mass Tort Villains, 117 NW. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).
Mass Exploitation, 170 U. Pa. L. Rev. 53 (2021).
Copyright in a Global Information Economy, (Aspen Publishing, 5th ed., 2019) (with Julie Cohen, Ruth Okediji, and Maureen O’Rourke).
COVID-19 Aggregate Litigation: The Search for the Upstream Wrongdoer, Fordham L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2022).
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation: The Virtues of Unfettered Discretion, 89 UMKC L. Rev. 1003 (2021).
“Perpetuating the Presumption of Guilt: The Role of Implicit Racial Bias in Forensic Testimony.” Criminal Law Bulletin, vol. 58, forthcoming 2022. With Janis Puracal.
Contracts, Cases, Discussion, and Problems, (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed., 2022) (with Brian Blum).
- Appointments and Service
Appointments and Service
Committee Member for Local Screening Committee for Recruitment of Federal Public Defender from August 2nd to November 30th 2022.
Elected as Vice Chair of the UNFCCC Compliance Committee (Facilitative Branch) in 2022.
Appointed to the Advisory Board on Cohabitation by the Scottish Law Commission in 2021.
Principal U.S. drafter of a report on the potential adoption of the public trust doctrine in the new Chilean Constitution, which will be voted on by the Chilean public in 2022. The report will be published in both Spanish and English under the auspices of Universidad Diego Portales and the Chile California Conservation Exchange. for Chile California Council. From July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2022.
Delcianna Winders
Volunteer Student Scholarship Selection Committee Member for Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Convention on January 29, 2020 until November 1, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Elected Executive Committee Member for AALS Section on Agricultural & Food Law on January 5, 2020 to serve a one-year term.
Appointed to serve two three-year terms (max. period) as the academic member of the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee.
Delcianna Winders
Appointed Advisory Board Member of Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance on Jun 19, 2019.
Drafted and circulated an amicus brief, in which 69 law professors signed, urging the Oregon Supreme Court to accept review of Chernaik v. Oregon, which alleged that the state of Oregon breached its public trust duties by failing to attempt to control greenhouse gas emissions. March 22, 2019.
Legal Hackathon (Participant). Multnomah Bar Association. Portland, OR. May 17, 2018.
Appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019.
Organizer of the Lewis & Clark Law Review’s 2017 Paper Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America.
Drafter of and coordinator for law professors’ comments to the Secretary of the Interior on the proclamation of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. June 1, 2017–June 12, 2017.
Provider of comments to Crook County Court on a proposed natural resources management plan that would have attempted to put in place provisions against the federal government. August 29, 2016.
Member of the Practitioners’ Reading Group for the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary evaluation of the professional qualifications of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland. 2016.
Judge for the final rounds of the Classroom Law Project’s We the People competition. Portland, Oregon. January 16, 2016.
Cochair of the National Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference Site Committee. Portland, Oregon. July 1, 2014-July 16, 2016.
Organizer for the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Implementation Project Colloquium: Doing the “Best” for Children and Young People? Best Interests, Welfare, and Well-Being. Edinburgh, Scotland. June 9-10, 2015
Jim Huffman
Appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a six-year term on the board of trustees for the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. Tucson, Arizona. February 1, 2015.
Member of the committee for editing and revising the American Society of International Law’s Benchbook on International Law. Chicago, Illinois. November 7-8, 2014.
Ozan Varol
Vice-chair of the younger comparativists committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law. October 2014.
Newsletter editor for the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group. September 2, 2014, through May 31, 2015.
Erin Ryan
Faculty peer reviewer of federalism scholarship proposed for Yale Law Journal. August 2014.
Member of the 2015 Transactional Clinical Conference Planning Committee. June 1, 2014, through April 24, 2015.
Appointed as a member of the Expert Peer Review Group on the Race to Zero in 2022.
Appointed to the National Committee of the The Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces on April 21, 2022.
Appointed to serve a two-year term as Co-Chair for the Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee of the ABA Tax Sectio (July 2020-July 2022).
Volunteer member of Ad Hoc group for the Chilean Constitutional Vote. Drafted white paper introducing the public trust doctrine to Chilean lawyers and academics. Participating in ongoing deliberations that hopefully will result in constitutional language that the Chilean electorate will adopt. May 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021.
Delcianna Winders
Elected Executive Committee Member for AALS Section on Animal Law on January 5, 2020, to serve a one-year term.
Delcianna Winders
Volunteer Planning Committee Member for Animal Law Conference on December 3, 2019, until November 1, 2020.
Oregon Supreme Court amicus brief in Chernaik v. Brown (Principal Author). In support of plaintiffs’ claim that the state of Oregon breached its public trust obligations by not developing a scientifically defensible plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions that are destabilizing the climate. Signed by 102 law teachers. July 31, 2019.
Volunteer advisor on HB 2835, Oregon Waterway Access Bill. Made several comments on the contents of a waterway access bill, designed to improve public access from state lands to floatable (navigable) waters. 2019.
Appointed to the Facilitative Branch of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Compliance Committee on March 1, 2019 to serve a 3-year term.
Signer of comments on the U.S. Department of the Interior proposed rule that would scuttle regulations preventing the waste of methane gas from leases on federal lands. April 23, 2018.
Coordinator and editor for an amicus brief supporting a review of North Carolina v. Alcoa in the U.S. Supreme Court. November 6, 2017–December 8, 2017.
Drafter of the amicus brief for 35 law professors and several waterkeeper organizations in support of a request for review by the Oregon Supreme Court of a Court of Appeals decision that denied public access to a public lake from public parklands. June 1, 2017–June 20, 2017.
Moderator for Business of Food panel at the 2017 Food Law Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School, March 2017.
Elected treasurer of the board of directors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. August 24, 2016.
Drafter of and coordinator for law professors’ comments on proposed U.S. Bureau of Land Management land planning rules, particularly those related to treatment of “areas of critical environmental concern.” June 5, 2015–May 24, 2016.
Member of the Federal Sentencing Commission’s Victim Advisory Group, which is charged with making recommendations regarding federal sentencing guidelines. Appointed August 18, 2014.
Cochair of the National Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference Site Committee. Portland, Oregon. July 1, 2014-July 16, 2016.
Cochair of the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group. April 8, 2015-April 5, 2017.
Member of the planning team and speaker at the unveiling ceremony for the Oregon State Bar’s Diversity and Inclusion Story Wall. Oregon State Bar, Tigard, Oregon. November 2014.
Organizer for the 2015 Lewis & Clark Law School Forum: Secrets, Poaching, Loyalty, and Liberty. Lewis & Clark Law School. November 1, 2014, through September 12, 2015.
Member of the Oregon Law Commission’s Standing Modernization Work Group charged with making a recommendation on whether to propose legislation enabling judicial review of a citizen initiative in state and federal courts in instances when the Attorney General refuses to defend the initiative. Salem, Oregon. October 1, 2014, through March 11, 2015.
Erin Ryan
Cochair of the faculty mentoring committee of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. Fall 2014.
Consultant to deans, administration, faculty, and community members starting a small business legal clinic. La Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, sede Bucaramanga (The Law School of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia in Bucarramanga, Colombia). August 2014.
Erin Ryan
Faculty peer reviewer of federalism scholarship proposed for Harvard Law Review. August 2014.
Organizer for the conference Bringing Outside In: Social Justice Collaborations in the Legal Writing Curriculum. Drexel University School of Law. June 2014.
- Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Awarded the Huffman Award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship in 2021.
Elected to Membership in the American Law Institute, December 2021
Awarded the 2022 Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) President’s Award in recognition for work encouraging the passage of SB1511. June 24, 2022.
Awarded the Huffman Scholarship Award for best scholarship published by a Lewis & Clark Law School professor in 2019. July 8, 2020.
Awarded the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR. May 16, 2020.
Requested by Bloomberg Law to create and populate an Innovation Board comprised of leading bankruptcy attorneys from law firms, academia, and the judiciary who will help guide the evolution of the Bloomberg Law Bankruptcy Treatise. October 2019.
Awarded the Doctoral Inaugural Lecture, which honors the best PhDs in the humanities at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. June 14, 2019.
Promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg Law’s Bankruptcy Treatise - one of the foremost publications used by financial restructuring practitioners and researchers - by Bloomberg Law, July 2, 2018.
Recipient of a Fulbright-Schuman Grant from the Fulbright Commission in recognition of his innovative scholarship on municipal restructuring. In Spring 2019, he will be studying EU insolvency policy at various institutions throughout Europe and will be a visiting professor at Oxford University, March 7, 2018.
Cited multiple times by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana federal judge presiding over the British Petroleum Oil Spill case. February 15, 2017.
Cited as “a leading administrative law expert” by U.S. Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia in his speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to HR 3438. C-SPAN, September 21, 2016.
Recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Service Award from the U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society. November 3, 2016.
Recipient of the Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) International Animal Law Award for work in animal law education, scholarship, conferences, competition, legal development, and student mentoring. March 15, 2015. With Natasha Dolezal, director of the Animal Law LLM Degree Program; Pamela Frasch, assistant dean of the Animal Law Program and executive director of the Center for Animal Law Studies; and Kathy Hessler, clinical professor of law and director of the Animal Law Clinic.
Recipient of the Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) International Animal Law Award for work in animal law education, scholarship, conferences, competition, legal development, and student mentoring. March 15, 2015. With Pamela Frasch, assistant dean of the Animal Law Program and executive director of the Center for Animal Law Studies; Kathy Hessler, clinical professor of law and director of the Animal Law Clinic; and Lindsay Kadish, director of operations for the Center for Animal Law Studies.
Recipient of the inaugural AALS Animal Law Section Award for Excellence in Animal Law: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service. January 9, 2016.
Recipient of the John W. Gillis Leadership Award, presented by the national organization Parents of Murdered Children. August 1, 2015.
Ozan Varol
Elected to membership in the Executive Committee for the American Society of Comparative Law. October 3, 2015.
Cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. September 14, 2015.
Selected to participate in the George Mason Law & Economics Center’s Workshop for Law Professors on the Economics of Public Pension Reform. Palo Alto, California. May 27, 2015.
Elected to the American Law Institute. January 2015.
Named to the International Association of Procedural Law, an organization of the world’s leading civil procedure scholars. October 2014.
Awarded the 2022 Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching on May 31, 2022.
Awarded the First Annual Juneteenth Freedom Award from the Uhura Sassa Culture Group at the Oregon State Penitentiary in recognition for work done with CJRC. June 25, 2022.
Award of Merit (10/28/21) Oregon State Bar.
Awarded the National Crime Victim Law Institute Award in recognition for outstanding work on behalf of victims and dedication to the protection of society’s most vulnerable beings. September 23, 2020.
Named 2020 Outstanding Faculty by the Lewis & Clark College Student Leadership and Service board.
Co-Director of Border Criminologies, Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology.
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Invited to be a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University. October, 2018.
Named a 2018–2019 Fulbright scholar.
Named 2017 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
Selected as a Pound Institute Academic Fellow. October 17, 2016.
Named 2016 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
Recipient of the Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) International Animal Law Award for work in animal law education, scholarship, conferences, competition, legal development, and student mentoring. March 15, 2015. With Natasha Dolezal, director of the Animal Law LLM Degree Program; Kathy Hessler, clinical professor of law and director of the Animal Law Clinic; and Lindsay Kadish, director of operations for the Center for Animal Law Studies.
Recipient of the Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) International Animal Law Award for work in animal law education, scholarship, conferences, competition, legal development, and student mentoring. March 15, 2015. With Natasha Dolezal, director of the Animal Law LLM Degree Program; Pamela Frasch, assistant dean of the Animal Law Program and executive director of the Center for Animal Law Studies; and Lindsay Kadish, director of operations for the Center for Animal Law Studies.
Ozan Varol
Winner of the Federalist Society’s Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition for his paper “Structural Rights.” January 7, 2016.
Winner of the American Society for Legal History’s 2015 Sutherland Prize for his article “Copyright at Common Law in 1774,” 47 Connecticut Law Review (2014). November 1, 2015.
Ozan Varol
Elected chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. October 3, 2015.
Named 2015 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School. May 2015.
Erin Ryan
Featured in an alumna spotlight by the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program newsletter. March 9, 2015.
Winner of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2015 Call for Papers for “A New Fulcrum Point for City Survival.” January 2015.
Named 2014 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
