Law Faculty
Highlights
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Presentation
Panelist for “Supreme Court Update – Administrative and Environmental Law”, Southeastern Ass’n of Law Schools Annual Conference, Online, July 31, 2020.
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Publication
“Copyright Jumps the Shark: The Music Modernization Act”, Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook, Thomas Reuters (West), 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Cristin Severance for “Is it legal for Portland police to mark protesters’ cars with spray paint?”, KGW News, June 3, 2020.
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Publication
“Courts Finally Warm to Tax Affecting”, Estate Planning vol. 47, Thomas Reuters, New York, NY, May 2020.
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”A Dozen Landmark Nuisance Cases and Their Environmental Significance.” Arizona Law Review vol. 62, issue 2, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ. April 30, 2020.
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Awards and Honors
Named 2020 Outstanding Faculty by the Lewis & Clark College Student Leadership and Service board.
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Publication
Editorial Opinion, “Slaughtering Animals is Not Essential: Don’t Use the Coronavirus as an Excuse to Loosen Meat-Processing Rules”, New York Daily News, April 28, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Emma Cueto for Law360 on “After Win, Those Fighting Divided Verdicts Eye Next Chapter”, April 27, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for The Oregonian on “Coronavirus Precautions in Oregon Prisons have Unintended Consequence for Inmates in Treatment”, April 24, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Blog and television post on “Coronavirus Pandemic: Delcianna Winders, Clinical Professor of Law”, TRT World, April 23, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Editorial for The Oregonian on “No longer An Outlier, Oregon Makes it Unanimous”, April 22, 2020.
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Media Appearance
interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for The Oregonian on “Oregon’s Nonunanimous Jury System Struck Down by U.S. Supreme Court; Could Invalidate 100s of Convictions”, April 22, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Andrew Selsky for the Associated Press on “US Supreme Court Bans Nonunanimous Jury Verdicts in Oregon”, April 20, 2020.
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Presentation
“Watching the Terror Watchlist” (Podcast), Co-presented with Joe Whitley & Adam Pearlman, April 17, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for Oregon Public Broadcast on “Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Won’t Release Prisoners Over COVID Risks”, April 14, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for The Oregonian on “Gov. Kate Brown signals she won’t approve large-scale early release of inmates over coronavirus”, April 10, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for Oregon Public Broadcast on “Inmates Brace For Virus Outbreak, While Oregon Considers Early Release”, April 7, 2020.
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Publication
Editorial Opinion, “As Facilities Close for Covid-19, Stranded Animals Could Suffer”, Undark, April 4, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Opinion in the Oregonian, “Governor’s Coronavirus Response Should Include Early Release of Eligible Prisoners”, March 19, 2020.
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Presentation
“The Animal Welfare Act” (Lecture). Animal Law, NYU School of Law, New York, NY, March 4, 2020.
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Presentation
“Ending Animal Agriculture” (Lecture). Post-Animal Agriculture? The Meaning and Value of Meat in the 21st Century, New York University, New York, NY, February 24, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Timothy Williams for the NY Times on “In One State, a Holdout Juror Can’t Block a Conviction. That May Not Last.” February 24, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for the Oregonian on “Oregon man sentenced at 16 to consecutive life terms for 2 killings to get release hearing”, February 24, 2020.
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Presentation
“Criminal Justice Sabbath” (Lecture) at First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, February 23, 2020.
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Presentation
Panelist on “Animal Law Clinical Offerings at NYU” for Animal Advocacy, Animal Law, & Animal Studies at New York University, New York, NY, February 22, 2020.
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Presentation
“Using the Endangered Species Act to Protect Animals in Captivity” (Lecture). Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, February 19, 2020.
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Presentation
“Protecting Animals in an Era of De-Regulation” (Lecture). Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, February 19, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Mariann Sullivan on “The Case of the Speedy Slaughterhouse”, Animal Law Podcast, January 29, 2020.
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Media Appearance“The dramatic dismissal of a landmark youth climate lawsuit might not close the book on that case,” Environmental Law Professor Blog, The Oregonian, January 23, 2020.
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Publication
“Environmental Law at 50: A Cutting-Edge Journal Examining the Central Issues of Our Time.” Environmental Law, Vol. 50, No. 1. January 1, 2020.
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Publication
“The Belloni Decision and Its Legacy: United States v. Oregon and Its Far-Reaching Effects After a Half-Century.” Environmental Law, vol. 49 ed. 4, Portland, OR. December 31, 2019. With Cari Baermann.
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Publication
“A Qualified Defense of the Obama Administration’s Record on Torture,” Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford. With Editors: Steven J. Barela, Mark Fallon, Gloria Gaggioli & Jens David Ohlin. December 1, 2019.
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Presentation
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance and the Constitution (Lecture) at Meeting of the Columbia River Chapter of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Beaverton, OR, October 29, 2019
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Presentation
Panelist for “Who Owns Your Ink?”, Intellectual Property Student Organization and the Federal Bar Association, Portland, OR, November 14, 2019.
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Media Appearance
“Arguments Over Our Future”, Opinion, The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR, November 12, 2019.
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Presentation
Panelist for “Chernaik v. Brown and the Atmospheric Trust Litigation” at Chernaik v. Brown and the Atmospheric Trust Litigation, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2019.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by staff for “Trials and Tribulations in the ITIN Unit.” Procedurally Taxing. November 6, 2019.
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Presentation
Presented “What’s Up with Music Copyrights?” to Oregon State Bar, Intellectual Property Section CLE, Portland, OR, November 6, 2019.
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Presentation
Oregon’s New Death Penalty Legislation (Lecture) for Women in Criminal Law: Oregon’s New Death Penalty Legislation, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, October 30, 2019.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Kira Lerner for ARIZONA PROSECUTOR COMMISSIONS REPORT THAT ARGUES AGAINST LENIENCY FOR TEENS WHO COMMIT CRIMES, The Appeal, November 1, 2019.
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Publication
“Military Involvement in the Shaping of the Constitutional Order: Turkey.” Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, UK. (2019)
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Publication
“Copyright in a Global Information Economy” with Julie Cohen (Georgetown Law School), Ruth Okediji (Harvard Law School), and Maureen O’Rourke (Boston University), 5th Ed. WoltersKluwer, forthcoming 2019.
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Publication
“Investor-Community Conflicts in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Rethinking “Reasonable Expectations” and Expecting More from Investors”, 69 American University Law Review 105, Washington D.C., November 1, 2019.
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Publication
“Captive Wildlife Under the Endangered Species Act” in Endangered Species Act, Ed. 2. American Bar Association. With Heather Rally and Jared Goodman. October 30, 2019.
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Presentation
Panelist for “Transforming Animals’ Status through Civil Litigation” at the Animal Law Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 26, 2019.
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Presentation
“The Belloni Decision: Context and Legacy” at Symposium on U.S. v. Oregon After 50 Years, Portland, OR.
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Publication
“Is the Environmental Appeals Board Unconstitutional or Unlawful?” Environmental Law, Portland OR. October 14, 2019.
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Presentation
Animal Law, Regulation and Policy Involving Animal Research (Lecture). Animals in Research Breakfast, Chicago, IL. October 13, 2018.
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Presentation
Panelist for “Big Immigration Law”, Rocky Mountain Fall Conference with Professor Robin Walker Sterling, DU Law, Senator Julie Gonzalez, Colorado Senate at Denver University Law School, Denver, Colorado.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Blair Stenvick for Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Oregon’s Problematic Spilt-Jury Rule, Portland Mercury, October 7, 2019.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for SCOTUS Takes Up Case That Could End Non-Unanimous Juries In Oregon, OPB Radio, October 6, 2019.
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Presentation
“Liminal Immigration Law: Dreamers, Detainers, and Law that Just Won’t Quit”, Border Speaker: Juliet Stumpf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
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Presentation
Federal and State Collection Alternatives (CLE Presentation) for Broadbrush Taxation: Tax Law for the Non-Tax Lawyer, Oregon State Bar, Tigard, OR. October 3, 2019.
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Speaker “Justifying Family Separation: of Criminal Aliens and Alien Mothers” at Borders Speaker: Juliet Stumpf, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
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Publication
“Alien Citizens: Kurds and Citizenship in the Turkish Constitution.” Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 57, pp. 769. University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA. October 1, 2018
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Publication
“Revisiting Background Principles in Takings Law.” Florida Law Review Vol. 71 No. 5, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL. October 1, 2019. With Rachel Wolfard ’19
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Awards and Honors
Co-Director of Border Criminologies, Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology.
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Publication
“The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Overlooked Watershed Protection.” Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law, vol. 9, issue 1. University of Michigan (Forthcoming). With Max Yoklic.
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Publication
“Climate Litigation in the Global South: Constraints and Innovations.” Transnational Environmental Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, UK. With Joana Setzer. August 31, 2019.
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Publication
“The Future of Progressive Regulatory Reform – A Review and Critique of Two Proposals.” Chicago-Kent Law Review, Chicago-Kent Law School, Chicago, IL. August 16, 2019.
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Publication
“Free Exercise (Dis)honesty.” Wisconsin Law Review. 2019.
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PublicationAuthor, Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation: State, Federal, and International Perspectives, Semaphore Press, Forthcoming 2019.
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Appointments and Service
Appointed to serve two three-year terms (max. period) as the academic member of the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
Appointed Advisory Board Member of Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance on Jun 19, 2019.
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Awards and Honors
Awarded the Doctoral Inaugural Lecture, which honors the best PhDs in the humanities at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. June 14, 2019.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Awards and Honors
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Invited to be a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University. October, 2018.
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Appointments and Service
Legal Hackathon (Participant). Multnomah Bar Association. Portland, OR. May 17, 2018.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Awards and Honors
Named a 2018–2019 Fulbright scholar.
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Appointments and Service
Appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
Organizer of the Lewis & Clark Law Review’s 2017 Paper Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America.
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Awards and Honors
Named 2017 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
Moderator for Business of Food panel at the 2017 Food Law Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School, March 2017.
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Awards and Honors
Selected as a Pound Institute Academic Fellow. October 17, 2016.
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Appointments and Service
Elected treasurer of the board of directors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. August 24, 2016.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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Awards and Honors
Named 2016 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
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Awards and Honors
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Awards and Honors
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Awards and Honors
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 LL.M. 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.
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Awards and Honors
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 LL.M. 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.
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Awards and Honors
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 LL.M. 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.
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Awards and Honors
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.
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Appointments and Service
Judge for the final rounds of the Classroom Law Project’s We the People competition. Portland, Oregon. January 16, 2016.
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Awards and Honors
Recipient of the inaugural AALS Animal Law Section Award for Excellence in Animal Law: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service. January 9, 2016.
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Appointments and Service
Member of the Federal Sentencing Commission’s Victim Advisory Group, which is charged with making recommendations regarding federal sentencing guidelines. Appointed August 18, 2014.
