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  • 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

  • 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).

    • 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

      Recipient of the 2016 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. May 17, 2016.

    • 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

      Recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Service Award from the U.S. District Court of Oregon Historical Society. November 3, 2016.

    • 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.