Highlights
- Presentations
Presentations
Delcianna Winders
“Spotlight on the Animal Law Litigation Clinic” (Panelist) for Animal Law Review Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School on November 13, 2020 (with Hira Jaleel, Cristina Kladis, Irene Au-Young, Ellie Nicoletta, Brittany Rowe, all current and former Lewis & Clark ALLC students; Dani Replogle, Earthrise Fellow).
Delcianna Winders
“Animal Law at Lewis & Clark” (Panelist) at ENVS Student to Law Professional for Lewis & Clark College ENVS program on December 1, 2020 (with Karen Russell, Lucy Brehm, Andrea Hibbard, Lewis & Clark).
Delcianna Winders
“What the US Election Results Mean for Animals” (Panelist) for Effective Animal Advocacy on November 14, 2020 (with Nancy Perry, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Jabari Brisport: Senator-Elect, New York State; Lewis Bollard: Farm Animal Welfare, Open Philanthropy Project; Scott Weathers: Senior Policy Specialist, Good Food Institute).
Delcianna Winders
“The Federal Program to Deregulate Slaughterhouses and Its Effects on Animals, Workers, & Consumers” (CLE Lecture) at The Federal Program to Deregulate Slaughterhouses and Its Effects on Animals, Workers, & Consumers for the American Bar Association on October 26, 2020 (with Ingrid Seggerman, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).
Delcianna Winders
“Animal Law, Environmental Law, and Beyond” (CLE Lecture) at Animal Law, Environmental Law, and Beyond for Arizona State Bar Association on October 22, 2020 (with Randall S. Abate, Monmouth University).
Delcianna Winders
“COVID-19 and the Slaughterhouse Industry” (Panelist), COVID-19 and the Slaughterhouse Industry, Duke Law School on October 5, 2020 (with Diana R.H. Winters, Assistant Director, Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy, UCLA; Hannah Connor, Senior Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity; David Muraskin, Senior Attorney, Public Justice).
Delcianna Winders
“Beyond the Law? Interrogating the Scope of Common Farming Exemptions” (Paper Presentation), Canadian Animal Law Conference, September 13, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Beyond the Law? Interrogating the Scope of Common Farming Exemptions” (Academic Workshop) at Emerging Scholars Workshop in Law, Animals, & Society for Animals & Society Research Initiative, University of Victoria, Canada, on December 9, 2020 (with Jodi Lazare, Schulich School of Law - Dalhousie University).
Delcianna Winders
“Practicing Animal Law” (Lecture) at Animal Law & Policy seminar for NYU on November 30, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Creating an Independent Animal Protection Agency” (Presentation) at Animal Law Fundamentals for Lewis & Clark Law School on November 4, 2020 (with Joyce Tischler, Lewis & Clark Law School).
Catherine O’Neill
“Water Quality Standards Update: Implications for Tribes” (Lecture), Pacific Northwest Tribal Nonpoint Training, Squaxin Island Tribe on October 26,2020.
Aliza Kaplan
“Walking the Talk: Working with Youth Impacted by the Juvenile Justice System” (Panelist), Walking the Talk: Working with Youth Impacted by the Juvenile Justice System, October 21, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“The Animal Welfare Act and Litigating for Animals Used for Exhibition” (Lecture), Animal Law Course, Sturm College of Law, September 29, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Not Above the Law: Challenging Industry Standard Cruelty” (Panelist), Canadian Animal Law Conference, September 12, 2020, (with Peter Sankoff, University of Alberta; Danielle Duffield, Joseph Hage Aaronson, LLP).
Delcianna Winders
“Elephants in Tennessee: A First-Hand Account of the Fight for Nosey’s Freedom and Legal & Ethical Issues Relating to Elephants in Captivity” (CLE Lecture) for the Tennessee Bar Association on December 7, 2020 (with Rachel Mathews, PETA Foundation; Callie Waldrep, Lawrence County, Alabama, Assistant District Attorney).
Delcianna Winders
“Challenging the De-Regulation of Slaughter” (Lecture) at Columbia Law School on November 17, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Captive Wildlife Under the Endangered Species Act” (Lecture) at Animal Law & Policy Clinic seminar fro Harvard Law School on October 28, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Animals in a Changing Climate: Science, Ethics, and Policy” (Moderator) at Animal Law Conference: Animals in a Changing Climate on October 23, 2020 (with Lisa Benjamin, Lewis & Clark Law School; Jeff Sebo, NYU; Rod Bennison, Minding Animals International, Inc.).
Delcianna Winders
“Animal Law, the Animal Welfare Act, and the Animal Law Litigation Clinic” (Lecture), Animal Law at GW Law School on October 8, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
“Overview of State Animal Cruelty Statutes & Successful Prosecutions” (Panelist), U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General, Animal Welfare Investigations Workshop and Training, September 14, 2020 (with David Favre, MSU Law School; Jorge Carmona, Miami-Dade Police Department).
- Media
Media Appearances
Aliza Kaplan
Interviewed by Erin Donaghue and Graham Kates for CBS News on “Supreme Court to mull challenge to convictions under “racist Jim Crow” jury laws”. December 1, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Kellee Azar, KATU News, for Oregon law protects reproductive rights if Roe v. Wade overturned, October 27, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Katherine Kisiel, KATU News, for Trump Threatens to Defund Lawless Cities Like Portland, September 2, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Carl Segerstrom, High Country News, for Federal boots on city streets, August 26, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Allison Mechanic for KATU News on “President Trump tweets Oregon leaders should bring National Guard to Portland”, August 8, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Blog “The real ‘Tiger King’ is in our own backyard” for The Pitch, June 30, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Cristin Severance for “Is it legal for Portland police to mark protesters’ cars with spray paint?”, KGW News, June 3, 2020.
Aliza Kaplan
Interviewed by Rachel Saslow for Williamette Week on “Oregonians Sent a Frightened 17-Year-Old Boy to Prison. My Family Helped”, November 11, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Jonathan Levinson & Rebecca Ellis, OPB, for Portland pulls officers from federal deputations, but legal questions swirl, October 5, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian, for ‘I’m a Brown man … and you’re white’; Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor’s arrest, rough jail treatment spur condemnation, lawsuit, calls for review, August 29, 2020.
Aliza Kaplan
Interviewed by Richard Oppel Jr., New York Times, for In Portland, a Prosecutor Must Decide: Which Protesters Should Go to Jail?, August 23, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for “Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf Tweeted Unauthorized Photographs of Federal Courthouse in Oregon”. The Oregonian. July 20, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Interviewed by Anne Kniggendorf for “This Big Cat Sanctuary In Kansas Wants You To Know It’s Nothing Like ‘Tiger King”. KCUR, June 20, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Interviewed by Daniel F. Le Ray for “The Fight for Farmed Animals”, Lewis & Clark Chronicle Magazine, June 2, 2020.
Aliza Kaplan
Interviewed by Rachel Saslow for Williamette Week on “Why Is Measure 11 Still the Law in Oregon?”, November 11, 2020.
Aliza Kaplan
Interviewed by Faiz Siddiqui, Fenit Nirappil and Mark Berman, Washington Post, for After summer of chaos and confrontation, Portland braces again for more unrest, September 3, 2020.
Tung Yin
Interviewed by Harper Neidig, The Hill, for Appeals court rules due process rights don’t apply to Guantanamo detainees, August 28, 2020.
Aliza Kaplan
Guest Column, Attorney General Rosenblum must vacate all non-unanimous verdicts, Bend Bulletin, August 18, 2020 (with Nicholas McGuffin).
Delcianna Winders
Interviewed by Antonio Fernandez for “Being Vegan, Vegan Being: Delcianna Winders- We All Have Room to Grow.” Inspiration Souls, July 7, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Interviewed by Leah Litman & Melissa Murray for Strict Scrutiny on “Blood Stained Bunny Costume”, June 15, 2020.
- Publications
Publications
Delcianna Winders
“Treating Humans Worse Than Animals? Exposing a False Solitary Confinement Narrative” in Against Cages and Carceral Logics (Cambridge U. Press, 2021).
Michael Blumm
Salmon and the Clean Water Act: An Unfinished Agenda, 51 Environmental Law Reporter (2021) (with Michael Benjamin Smith ’21).
Lisa Benjamin
Compliance in Trade and Environmental Law, in Encyclopedia on Trade & Environmental Law (forthcoming 2021).
Lisa Benjamin
Companies and Climate Change: Theory and Law in the United Kingdom
(Cambridge U. Press, forthcoming 2021).Brian Blum
The Protean Concept of Materiality in Contract Law, Michigan State Law Review (forthcoming 2020-2021).
Lisa Benjamin
Intellectual Property, in Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
(Jacqueline Peel & Lavanya Rajamani, eds., OUP, forthcoming 2020).Melissa Powers
The Disruptive Potential of Juliana v. United States on Future Federal Climate Litigation, in Environmental Law. Disrupted (Jessica Owley & Keith Hirokawa, eds. forthcoming 2020) (with Juliane Fry).
Michael Blumm
The Public Trust Doctrine Fifty Years after Sax and Some Thoughts on its Future, 44 Public Lands & Resources L. Review 1, (forthcoming 2021) (with Zach Schwartz).
Tung Yin
Learning from the Jeffrey Epstein Mess: It’s Time to Add a Cause of Action for Damages to the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 69 Kansas L. Review 63, (forthcoming 2021)
Lisa Benjamin
Corporations, CSR, and Carbon Majors, in Research Handbook on Loss and Damage
(Sara Seck & Meinhard Doelle, eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021).Brian Blum
Contracts, Examples and Explanations
(Wolters Kluwer, 8th ed. forthcoming 2021).Lisa Benjamin
Renewable Energy and Trade: Meeting the Paris Agreement’s Goals Through Strategic Compliance, Minnesota J. of Science, L. & Technology (forthcoming 2021).
John Parry
Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation: State, Federal, and International Perspectives
(Semaphore Press, 3d ed. forthcoming 2020)Tomas Gomez-Arostegui
The Traditional Burdens for Final Injunctions in Patent Cases c.1789 and Some Modern Implications, 71 Case W. Res. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020) (with Sean Bottomley).
Jeffrey Jones
“Housing Preference Policies under the Fair Housing Act” (Article), Lewis & Clark Law Review, Portland, OR, March 1, 2021.
Lisa Benjamin
Article 15: Compliance, in A Commentary on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
(Leonie Reins & Geert Van Calster, eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021) (with Bryce Rudyck and Rueanna Haynes).Lisa Benjamin
Climate Risk Disclosure and Fiduciary Duties, in Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law
(Michael Mehling & Harro van Asselt, eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021).Kathy Hessler
Aquatic Animal Law
(Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2021) (with Kelly Levenda, Rebecca Jenkins, Amy P. Wilson, & Sonia Waisman).Lisa Benjamin
The Rights and Responsibilities of Corporations: New Directions in Environmental Litigation, in Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law.
(Veerle Heyvaert & Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, eds., Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2020).Melissa Powers
Environmental Law Disrupted by COVID-19, in Environmental Law. Disrupted (Jessica Owley & Keith Hirokawa, eds., forthcoming 2020).
- Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Robert Klonoff
Awarded the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR. May 16, 2020.
Juliet Stumpf
Co-Director of Border Criminologies, Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology.
Samir Parikh
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.
Amy Bushaw
Named 2017 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
William Funk
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.
Barbara Safriet
Natasha Dolezal
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.
Aliza Kaplan
Named 2020 Outstanding Faculty by the Lewis & Clark College Student Leadership and Service board.
Lisa Benjamin
Awarded the Doctoral Inaugural Lecture, which honors the best PhDs in the humanities at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. June 14, 2019.
Jim Oleske
Named a 2018–2019 Fulbright scholar.
Robert Klonoff
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.
Juliet Stumpf
Named 2016 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.
Lindsay Kadish
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.
Kathy Hessler
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.
Samir Parikh
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.
Samir Parikh
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Invited to be a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University. October, 2018.
Samir Parikh
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.
Robert Klonoff
Selected as a Pound Institute Academic Fellow. October 17, 2016.
Ronald Lansing
Pamela Frasch
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.
- Appointments and Service
Appointments and Service
Michael Blumm
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
Elected Executive Committee Member for AALS Section on Animal Law on January 5, 2020, to serve a one-year term.
Robert Klonoff
Appointed to serve two three-year terms (max. period) as the academic member of the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee.
Michael Blumm
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.
Susan Felstiner
Legal Hackathon (Participant). Multnomah Bar Association. Portland, OR. May 17, 2018.
Michael Blumm
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.
Michael Blumm
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.
Michael Blumm
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 Agricultural & Food Law on January 5, 2020 to serve a one-year term.
Michael Blumm
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.
Michael Blumm
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.
Michael Blumm
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.
Jim Oleske
Organizer of the Lewis & Clark Law Review’s 2017 Paper Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America.
Susan Felstiner
Moderator for Business of Food panel at the 2017 Food Law Symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School, March 2017.
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
Volunteer Planning Committee Member for Animal Law Conference on December 3, 2019, until November 1, 2020.
Delcianna Winders
Appointed Advisory Board Member of Big Cat Sanctuary Alliance on Jun 19, 2019.
Lisa Benjamin
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.
Sarah Lora
Appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Pro Bono and Tax Clinics Committee from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019.
Michael Blumm
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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