Law Faculty
Highlights
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Publication
“Housing Preference Policies under the Fair Housing Act” (Article), Lewis & Clark Law Review, Portland, OR, March 1, 2021.
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“Bankruptcy Tourism and the European Union’s Corporate Restructuring Quandary: The Cathedral in Another Light”. University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, vol 42. December 1, 2020.
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“Oregon’s Amphibious Public Trust Doctrine: The Oswego Lake Decision”, 50 Environmental Law 4, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, with Ryan J. Roberts, November 30, 2020.
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“The Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental and Natural Resources Law” (3rd edition), Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, with Mary Wood, November 30, 2020.
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“Copyright Jumps the Shark: The Music Modernization Act”, Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook, Thomas Reuters (West), September 1, 2020.
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Publication“In the Court of Koppelman: Motion for Reconsideration”, 2020 BYU Law Review , Provo, UT, (forthcoming 2020).
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“The ‘Mere Civility’ of Equality Law and Compelled-Speech Quandaries”, 9 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (2020).
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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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“Review of Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy”, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, July 27, 2020.
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“Adding Confusion to the Muddy Waters of the Oswego Lake Decision: A Response to Dean Huffman”, Environmental Law On-Line, vol. 50, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, with Ryan J. Roberts, July 24, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for “Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf Tweeted Unauthorized Photographs of Federal Courthouse in Oregon”. The Oregonian. July 20, 2020.
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Presentation
“U.S. Multidistrict and Class Action Litigation: The Volkswagen Clean Diesel Controversy” (Lecture). Institute for Globalization of Rule of Law Transnational Law Program, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey (Remote), July 15, 2020.
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“Putting Us at Risk of Another Pandemic: The USDA’s Epic Failure”. New York Daily News. New York, NY. July 5, 2020.
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“Why are U.S. Factory Farms Feeding Animals a Drug Banned in Most Countries?”, Million Dollar Vegan. March 10, 2020
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“Class Action Objectors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, 89 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2020) (forthcoming).
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“Future of U.S. Aggregate Litigation” (Chapter) International Handbook on Class Actions, Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming 2020).
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Antonio Fernandez for “Being Vegan, Vegan Being: Delcianna Winders- We All Have Room to Grow.” Inspiration Souls, July 7, 2020.
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Publication
“Modern Legal Scholarship: A Guide to Producing and Publishing Scholarly and Professional Writing”. Carolina Academic Press. North Carolina. With Christine Coughlin, Matthew Houston, Liz McCurry Johnson. July 1, 2020.
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“Protecting Animals and Workers Amidst COVID-19 Outbreaks at Slaughterhouses” (Lecture). Lewis & Clark Lunch & Learn Series. Remote (Portland, OR). June 30, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Blog “The real ‘Tiger King’ is in our own backyard” for The Pitch, June 30, 2020.
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Presentation
“Protecting Pigs in an Era of De-Regulation” (Lecture). Hot Topics 2020. With Dr. Heather Rally, Vermont Law School & PETA Foundation. Vermont Law School. Virtual. June 21, 2020.
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Media Appearance
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.
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Presentation
Speaker for Federal Civil Rules Committee/MDL Subcommittee, Emory University School of Law, Remote, June 19, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Leah Litman & Melissa Murray for Strict Scrutiny on “Blood Stained Bunny Costume”, June 15, 2020.
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Publication
“Foreword: Class Actions, Mass Torts, and MDLs: The First 50 Years”, 24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 359. Portland, OR. June 4, 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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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Daniel F. Le Ray for “The Fight for Farmed Animals”, Lewis & Clark Chronicle Magazine, June 2, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Natasha Daly for National Geographic on “Court Orders ‘Tiger King’ Zoo to Be Surrendered, but Its Animals Remain in Limbo”. June 2, 2020.
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Publication
“Twists in the Use of Warren Court Fourth Amendment Rhetoric“ 51 University of the Pacific Law Review 789. Sacramento, CA. June 1, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Hollie McKay for “The Desperate Struggle to Stop the Mass Slaughter and Waste of Farm Animals as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On”, Fox News, May 28, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Louie B. Free for “Louie b. Free Radio Show”, WFMJ, May 20, 2020.
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Awards and Honors
Awarded the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR. May 16, 2020.
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Presentation
“Promoting Economic Justice During a Pandemic” (Lecture), International Conference on Clinical Legal Education & Legal Aid, with Julieanna Elegant, Executive Director of SBLC. Remote (India). May 2, 2020.
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Appointments and Service
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.
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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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Media Appearance
Quoted in “Hundreds of Thousands of Healthy Pigs are Being Killed as Coronavirus Closes Pork Production Plants”. New York Daily News, May 1, 2020.
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Publication
”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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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Mariann Sullivan for “The Case of the Downed and Desperate Pigs”, Animal Law Podcast, April 29, 2020.
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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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Presentation
“Basic LLC Formation” (CLE Lecture). Remote (Portland, OR). April 23, 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
Editorial for The Oregonian on “No longer An Outlier, Oregon Makes it Unanimous”, April 22, 2020.
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Media Appearance
Interviewed by Carney Anne Nasser for “Blood on their Hands: How the United States Department of Agriculture is Complicit in Tiger Abuse”, Tiger Talk, April 21, 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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Publication
“Easter Ham During a Pandemic: Rethinking Tradition”, Medium. April 11, 2020.
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“Renegotiating Your Business Lease: Information and Tips for Challenging Times” (Live Webinar). Portland, OR. April 3, 2020.
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“Slaughter of Farmed Animals” (Lecture). Lewis & Clark Animals in Agriculture Class. Lewis & Clark College. Virtual. April 2, 2020.
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“Renegotiating Your Business Lease: Information and Tips for Challenging Times” (Live Webinar). Portland, OR. April 2, 2020.
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“Protecting Pigs Under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and Federal Meat Inspection Act” (Lecture). Food Law Course. Lewis & Clark College. Virtual. March 19, 2020.
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“The Animal Welfare Act” (Lecture). Animal Law, NYU School of Law, New York, NY, March 4, 2020.
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“Securities and Consumer Litigation: Pathways and Hurdles” (Lecture), co-sponsored by the Institute for Law & Economic Policy and the Fordham Law Review, New York, NY, Feb. 28, 2020.
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“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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“Criminal Justice Sabbath” (Lecture) at First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, February 23, 2020.
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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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“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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“Protecting Animals in an Era of De-Regulation” (Lecture). Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, February 19, 2020.
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Appointments and Service
Volunteer Student Scholarship Selection Committee Member for Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Convention on January 29, 2020 until November 1, 2020.
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Appointments and Service
Elected Executive Committee Member for AALS Section on Agricultural & Food Law on January 5, 2020 to serve a one-year term.
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Appointments and Service
Elected Executive Committee Member for AALS Section on Animal Law on January 5, 2020, to serve a one-year term.
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Presentation
“Development of Lesson Plans and Teaching Demonstrations” (Workshop) at Training of Trainers, Global Alliance for Justice Education Worldwide Conference with Andrés Gascón Cuenca, University of Valencia. Bandung, Indonesia. December 9, 2019.
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Appointments and Service
Volunteer Planning Committee Member for Animal Law Conference on December 3, 2019, until November 1, 2020.
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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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Awards and Honors
Co-Director of Border Criminologies, Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology.
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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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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 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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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.
