Faculty Highlights
- Presentations
Presentations
“Clemency in Oregon” (CLE) (on zoom) for the Alumni Board April 12, 2022.
“The Role of Implicit Bias in the Presumption of Guilt/The Role of Racial Bias in Faulty Forensics Testimony” (Lecture) at the Forensic Science Training, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy on January 24, 2022.
“Oregon Clemency and SB 819” (Panel) at the OCDLA Winter Conference on December 3, 2021 in Portland OR.
“Ramos Retroactivity Informational Hearing” (Testimony) before the SENATE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND BALLOT MEASURE 110 IMPLEMENTATION HEARING, (Zoom) on November 15, 2021.
Panelist for “Executive Clemency in Oregon” at the Transformative Justice Initiative at Willamette College, on November 12, 2021.
“Sharpen Your Pencils: Engagement, Inclusion, and Scaffolding in Law Classes” for the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference with Professor Robin Boyle Laisure and Professor Chrstine Coughlin, on June 16, 2021.
“Animal Law and Policy Course” at the University of Melbourne, Australia, with Professor Christine Parker, on April 27, 2021.
“Free Speech in the Age of Art and Animal Advocacy” at the Canadian Animal Law Conference with Dr. Rajesh Reddy, on September 13, 2020.
“DOC Update: Clemency and Senate Bill 819” (Lecture) at the Department of Corrections, on July 21, 2021.
“Supreme Court Administrative and Environmental Cases in October Term, 2020” (Panelist) at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, on July 27, 2021.
“Religious Exemptions During COVID” (Panelist) at Texas Law School Federalist Society, Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2021.
“Class Actions and Multidistrict Litigation” at South Ural State University Institute of Law, Chelyabinsk, Russia, on April 8, 2021.
“Coming Together with our Asian American Pacific Islander Community: Learning and Listening”(Panelist) at the Bonneville Power Administration, along with other Asian American Pacific Islander panelists, on April 16, 2021.
“Equality and Inequality from the Past to the Present-The Deep Connections of Asian American and Pacific Islanders to Oregon” (Panelist) for the Oregon Department of Justice CLE, on May 5, 2021.
“Joe Sax’s Public Trust Doctrine 50 Years Later” (Presentation), George Washington annual Shapiro Symposium, April 9, 2021.
“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.
Panelist for “Supreme Court Update – Administrative and Environmental Law”, Southeastern Ass’n of Law Schools Annual Conference, Online, July 31, 2020.
Speaker for Federal Civil Rules Committee/MDL Subcommittee, Emory University School of Law, Remote, June 19, 2020.
“Justifying Family Separation” (Panelist), Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 2020.
“Watching the Terror Watchlist” (Podcast), Co-presented with Joe Whitley & Adam Pearlman, April 17, 2020.
“Renegotiating Your Business Lease: Information and Tips for Challenging Times” (Live Webinar). Portland, OR. April 2, 2020.
“Criminal Justice Sabbath” (Lecture) at First Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR, February 23, 2020.
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
“Surveillance, Law Enforcement, and Immigration: Trends in the Age of Big Data” (Panelist) at PICUM: Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights, November 14, 2019.
Panelist for “Chernaik v. Brown and the Atmospheric Trust Litigation” at Chernaik v. Brown and the Atmospheric Trust Litigation, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2019.
“The Role of Implicit Racial Bias in Forensics” (Lecture) at the 74th Annual AAFS Scientific Conference in Seattle, WA on February 25, 2022.
“Testimony in Support of SB 1511” (Testimony) at Oregon State Capitol, on February 02, 2022.
“Oregon ACS Chapter: Annual SCOTUS Review/Preview” (Panel) on Zoom, on November 19, 2021.
Lecture on “Releasing our Clients: Efforts to expand opportunities for release or to increase releases through existing mechanisms” for FAMM, Second Chances Working Group on November 9, 2021. (Zoom)
“20 Years After 9/11: Lessons Learned” (Lecture) at the Univeristy of Arizona, on September 13, 2021.
“Entry Ticket Attendance: Who’s Here and What’s Up” (Workshop) for Legal Writing Institute’s One Day Workshop at DePaul Univeristy, Chicago, IL, on December 3, 2020.
“28th Annual Animal Law Conference” with Stephen Wells, ED of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, on October 23, 2020.
“MBA CLE: Understanding the Fallout of Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v. Vannoy on the Criminal Justice System in Oregon” with Ramos Project attorneys, Michaela Gore and Laney Ellisor, on July 22, 2021.
“Recent Developments in Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers Law” (Panelist) at the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Annual Administrative Law Conference, on November 20, 2020.
“Continuity, Change, and the Free Exercise Clause” (Moderator) at the AALS Annual Meeting, Joint Program of the Constitutional Law and Law & Religion Section, on January 7, 2021.
“Second Amendment Controversies: Past, Present, and Future” (Lecture) at the PCC Senior Studies Institute, on April 20, 2021.
“Complex Litigation Seminar” at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, on March 31, 2021
“Extremism in the Military Panel” (Panelist) at Military and Veterans Law Society at Lewis & Clark Law School with Professor Tung Yin, on March 17, 2021.
“Still in Prison Virtual Town Hall” (Panelist) at Still in Prison Virtual Town Hall with ACLU of Oregon, We Out Here Magazine, Brown Hope, and Color Of Change, on April 22, 2021.
“The Death Penalty in Oregon” (Webinar) for What is All of Beaverton Read the Same Book? at Beaverton Library on January 14, 2021.
“Self-Evident and Sacred Truths: COVID19, Race and Prisoners” (CLE Lecture), Solomon’s Legacy, September 9, 2020.
“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.
“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.
“Basic LLC Formation” (CLE Lecture). Remote (Portland, OR). April 23, 2020.
“Renegotiating Your Business Lease: Information and Tips for Challenging Times” (Live Webinar). Portland, OR. April 3, 2020.
“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.
“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.
“Legal Issues for the Entrepreneur: Tools to Manage Risk and Liability” (Lecture). Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation Class. Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR. November 21, 2019.
Panelist for “Who Owns Your Ink?”, Intellectual Property Student Organization and the Federal Bar Association, Portland, OR, November 14, 2019.
“Immigration and the Workplace: I-9 Audits, No Match Letters & Raids” (CLE Lecture). Oregon Labor and Employment Relations Conference. With Liani Reeves of Bullard Law & Jordan Cunnings of Innovation Law Lab. Portland, OR. November 6, 2019
- Media
Media Appearances
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for OPB on “Oregon Democrats agree to nonunanimous jury bill changes after crime victims testify” on February 22, 2022.
Op-ed for the Oregonian on “Opinion: SB 1511 offers a commonsense fix for unjust verdicts” on February 16, 2022.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for Oregonian on “Aggravated murder convictions of former Gladstone cop accused of killing wife overturned by Oregon Court of Appeals” on February 9, 2022.
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for OPB on “Proposal to address older nonunanimous jury convictions in Oregon angers crime victims” on February 4, 2022.
Interviewed by Garrett Andrews for OPB on “Woman, 25, hopes new law can expunge record New law in Oregon will allow former defendants to appeal sentences ‘in the interest of justice’” on December 2, 2021.
Interviewed by Kyle Iboshi for KGW on “Where charges stand for the 8 suspects from Oregon, SW Washington arrested in connection to the Jan. 6 insurrection” on January 6, 2022.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for Oregon Live on “Zoom calls with Gov. Kate Brown: Prisoners meet in one-on-one sessions amid commutation push” on November 5, 2021.
Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for the Oregonian on “Retired Hood River County DA accused of issuing criminal citation at hospital due to alleged ‘personal agenda‘” on October 12, 2021.
Interviewed by Eva Herscowitz for The Crime Report on “Forensic Testimony Distorted by ‘Implicit’ Racial Bias: Paper” on September 2, 2021.
Interviewed by Simon Gutierrez for KPTV News on “Legal challenges likely after Biden issues vaccine mandates” on September 13, 2021.
Interviewed by the Associated Press for US News & World Report on “District Attorney Creates Unit to Review Past Convictions” on September 2, 2021.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for the Oregonian on “Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt hires criminal defense lawyer to review past convictions, sentences” on September 1, 2021.Interviewed by Wright Gazaway for KATU on “Lawyer fights for new trial for hundreds of Oregon people convicted by non-unanimous jury” on August 4, 2021.
Interviewed by Jonathan Randles for Wall Street Journal on “How Bankruptcy Could Help Johnson & Johnson Corral Vast Talc Litigation” on July 20, 2021.
Interviewed by Maggie Vespa for KGW on “Fed up with protests and politicians, Portland police union president pushes for new state laws” on October 1, 2020.
Interviewed by Tyler Broker for Above the Law on “The Modern Free Exercise Doctrine is Inconsistent and Dishonest” on March 29, 2021.
Interviewed by Mark Joseph Stern for Slate on “The Supreme Court broke its own rules to radically redefine religious liberty” on April 12, 2021.
Interviewed by Brendan Pierce for Reuters on “How COVID and Shadow Docket Exploded SCOTUS’ Scope of Religious Freedom” on June 17, 2021.
Interviewed by Andrew Strickler for Law360 on “The Sharpest Dissents from the Supreme Court term” on July 6, 2021.
Interviewed by Julian Heissler for WirtschaftsWoche on “Trophies from the Laboratory” on April 6, 2021.
Interviewed by Clair Linzey for the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics on “Animal Ethics and Law: Creating Positive Change for Animals” on May 11, 2021.
Interviewed by Louise van der Merwe for Animal Voice Magazine on “Aquatic Animal Law - the New Frontier in Animal Law”, March 1, 2021.
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for Oregon Public Broadcasting on “Court fight to protect racial justice protesters could benefit US Capitol attackers”, May 6, 2021.
Interviewed by Jaimie Ding for The Oregonian on “Nonunanimous juries — recently ruled unconstitutional — convicted hundreds sitting in Oregon prisons. Now, they want a fair trial”, March 22, 2021.
Interviewed by Blair Stenvick for Portland Mercury on “Non-Unanimous Jury Convictions Are Over. But What Happens to the People Oregon Already Wronged?”, March 10, 2021.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for Oregonian on “Gov. Kate Brown’s clemency authority is absolute, state attorneys say in asking judge to dismiss challenge” on February 17, 2022.
Interviewed by Connor Radnovich for Statesman Journal on “Proposal to retry hundred of Oregon inmates advances with some changes” on February 15, 2022.
Interviewed by Dave Miller for OPB on “Oregon bill may give those convicted by non-unanimous juries a chance to have cases reexamined” on February 11, 2022.
Interviewed by AP for AP News on “Lawsuit: Governor unlawfully commuting prison sentences” on January 20, 2022.
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for OPB Radio on “Where Jan. 6 cases stand against NW defendants a year later” on January 6, 2022.
Interviewed by Sarah Hurwitz for KPTV on “OSHA suspends enforcement of federal vaccine mandate for large companies” on November 18, 2021.
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for OPB on “Oregon governor grants review hearing for some of state’s longest serving juvenile offenders” on October 21, 2021.
Interviewed by the Andrew Selsky for US News & World Report on “District Attorney Creates Unit to Review Past Convictions” on September 2, 2021.
Interviewed by Max Egener for Beaverton Valley Times on “WashCo DA Kevin Barton weighs in on non-unanimous juries” on September 2, 2021.
Interviewed for The Crime Report on “Forensic Testimony Distorted By “Implicit” Racial Bias: Paper” on September 8, 2021.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for the Oregonian on “Oregon State Police troopers, firefighters sue Gov. Kate Brown over COVID-19 vaccine mandate” on September 3, 2021.
Interviewed by Christine Speidel for Procedurally Taxing on “Updates for ITIN Holders” on August 9, 2021.
Interviewed by Ariane de Vogue for CNN on “Religious groups eye legal challenges to Delta variant restrictions and vaccine mandates” on August 2, 2021.
Interviewed by Lashay Wesley for KATU on “Law enforcement group’s 2022 initiative could limit public gatherings” on September 20, 2020.
Interviewed by the Associated Press on “2 Supreme Court justices slam court’s 2015 decision in gay marriage case” on October 6, 2020.
Interviewed by Marcia Coyle for National Law Journal on “Conservative justices, using unsigned order, expand pro-religious stance, scholars say” on April 11, 2021.
Interviewed by Liliana Frankel for Malheur Enterprise on “Ontario City Council removes Justus from meeting for holding signs” on May 21, 2021.
Interviewed by J. Craig Williams for Legal Talk Network, Lawyer to Lawyer Podcast on “SCOTUS & Religious Freedom” on June 25, 2021.
Interviewed by Dave Miller for OPB on “Pardons and Commutations Rising in Oregon” on July 7, 2021.
Interviewed by Kate Taylor for the Oregon State Bar Bulletin on “Animal’s Best Friends” on November 1, 2019.
Interviewed by Mary Schwager for Dogster (magazine) on “Does your Dog Need a Lawyer?”, February 3, 2021.
Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for The Oregonian for “Bill allowing DAs and prisoners to ask the court to review sentence, conviction heads to governor’s desk”, June 8, 2021.
Interviewed by Tom Casciato with PBS for “Convictions by non-unanimous juries were banned in 2020. What happens to those imprisoned by them?”, March 28, 2021.
Interviewed by Virginia Barreda for Statesman Journal on “Salem Man Gets New Trial, Lesser Sentence”, March 14, 2021.
Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for OPB on “Oregon Supreme Court upholds sentencing laws for juveniles convicted of murder”, March 4, 2021.
- Publications
Publications
Salmon and the Clean Water Act: An Unfinished Agenda, 51 Env’t. L. Rep. (forthcoming 2022) (with Michael Benjamin Smith).
Designing the 4ºC Electricity System to Achieve a 2ºC Future, Env. Law Prof Blog
Becoming a Legal Writer: A Workbook with Explanations to Develop Objective Legal Analysis and Writing Skills, (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2021) (with Robin Boyle and Christine Coughlin).
Using Entry Ticket Attendance: Moving Beyond “Pass the Sign-In Sheet” to Engage With Each Student, Every Day, The Second Draft (Legal Writing Institute, 2021).
Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials (Semphamore Press, 2021).
Understanding the Intersection of Taxation and Immigration, Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (2021) (with Anthony Dohring and Anna Tavis).
Examining Anti-Cruelty Enhancements - Historical Context and Policy Advancements, Carceral Logic (Oxford University Press, 2019) (with Justin Marceau and Lori Gruen).
Environmental Law, Disrupted by Covid-19, 51 Env’t. L. Rep. (2021).
Arguing About Antisemitism: Why We Disagree About Antisemitism, and What We Can Do About It, Ethnic & Racial Studies (forthcoming 2021) (with Dov Waxman and Adam Hosein).
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation: The Virtues of Unfettered Discretion, 89 UMKC L. Rev. (2021).
The Future of U.S. Aggregate Litigation, International Handbook on Class Actions (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Sadomasochistic Judging, 35 Const. Comm. 437 (2020).
Undamming the Pacific Northwest: An Update, Env’t. L. Online (2021).
The Participation Principle and the Dialectic of Sovereignty-Sharing, 44 Seattle U. L. Rev. (2021).
Opinion, SB 819 Aims to Get Prisoners Back in Court, Statesman J. (Apr. 23, 2021).
Housing Preference Policies under the Fair Housing Act, Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (Mar. 1, 2021).
Article 15: Compliance, A Commentary on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021) (with Bryce Rudyck and Rueanna Haynes).
Corporations, CSR, and Carbon Majors, Research Handbook on Loss and Damage (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021).
Companies and Climate Change: Theory and Law in the United Kingdom (Cambridge U. Press, 2021).
Aquatic Animal Law (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2022) (with Kelly Levenda, Rebecca Jenkins, Amy P. Wilson, and Sonia Waisman).
Renewable Energy and Trade: Meeting the Paris Agreement’s Goals Through Strategic Compliance, 22 Minn. J. Sci., L. & Tech. (2021).
Intellectual Property, Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford U. Press, 2020).
Environmental Law Disrupted by COVID-19, in Env’t. L. Disrupted. (Env’t. L. Rep., 2020).
The Traditional Burdens for Final Injunctions in Patent Cases c.1789 and Some Modern Implications, 71 Case W. Res. L. Rev. (2020) (with Sean Bottomley).Climate Change Law in the Commonwealth – Policy Blockages and Judicial Innovations, The Round Table: Commonwealth J. of Int’l Aff. (2020).
Right-Sizing the Supreme Court: A History of Congressional Changes, 72 Case W. Res. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (with Kate Flanagan & Annamarie White).
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondent, Gateway City Church, et al., v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al., _ _ _ U.S. _ _ _ (2021) (No. 21-15189) (with Caroline Mala Corbin, et al.).
The Mistake on the Snake: The Lower Snake River Dams, 57 Idaho L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021).
The TCJA and the Gutting of the ‘Country Contiguous’ Language, 100 Taxnotes States (Apr. 5, 2021).
Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. Supp. 2021).
Industrial Animal Agriculture Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2022) (with Bruce Myers and Sonia Waisman).
Animal Law in a Nutshell (West Academic, 3d ed., 2020) (with Sonia Waisman and Kathy Hessler).
Companies and Climate Change Theory and Law in the United Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Fulton quiets Tandon’s thunder: A free exercise puzzle, SCOTUSblog (2021).
Introduction to the Study of U.S. Law: Cases and Materials (West Academic, 2d ed., 2021).
Natural Gas Lock-in, 69 Kan. L. Rev. (2021).
The Protection of Nature and a New Constitution for Chile: Lessons from the Public Trust Doctrine, A Report to the Chilean Constitutional Drafters (Chile California Conservation Exchange, May 2021) (with Carl Bauer, et. al.).
Aquatic Animal Law in a Nutshell, West Academic, (3d ed., 2021) (with Sonia Waisman and Pamela Frasch).
The Public Trust Doctrine Fifty Years after Sax and Some Thoughts on its Future, 44 Pub. Lands & Res. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (with Zach Schwartz).
Opinion, A Way to End Litigation Around Salmon and Dams, Portland Bus. J. (March 19, 2021).
Learning from the Jeffrey Epstein Mess: It’s Time to Add a Cause of Action for Damages to the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 69 Kan. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021).
Compliance in Trade and Environmental Law, Encyclopedia on Trade & Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021).
Climate Risk Disclosure and Fiduciary Duties, Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2021).
Contracts, Examples and Explanations (Wolters Kluwer, 8th ed., 2021).
The Protean Concept of Materiality in Contract Law, 3 Mich. L. Rev. (2020).
The Rights and Responsibilities of Corporations: New Directions in Environmental Litigation, Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020).
Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation: State, Federal, and International Perspectives (Semaphore Press, 3d ed., 2020).
The Disruptive Potential of Juliana v. United States on Future Federal Climate Litigation, Environmental Law, Disrupted by COVID-19, Env’t. L. Rep. (2021) (with Juliane Fry).
Group Companies and Climate Change: Re-Interpreting Corporate Doctrines in the Global North for Climate Equity in the Global South?, Current Legal Probs. (2020).
Building Climate Jurisprudence in the Global South: India’s Critical Role, Indian L. Rev. (2020) (with Akriti Bhargava).
- Appointments and Service
Appointments and Service
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.
Voting member of the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee. Appointed to second term May 2014.
Theresa Wright
Member of the Oregon State Bar’s Judicial Administration Committee.
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.
Cofounder of the Oregon Innocence Project (OIP), which launched in April 2014 and began accepting cases in June 2014.
Organizer for the National Innocence Network Conference. Portland, Oregon. April 2014.
Theresa Wright
Member of the Oregon State Bar’s House of Delegates.
- Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
