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  • Presentation

    Lecture, “Animal Law Education,” Animal Grantmakers’ Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon

  • Presentation

    Lecture, “Anti-Cruelty Laws and the AWA,” The Law and Ethics of Animal Testing, Portland Oregon

  • Media Appearance

    “Oregon eyes own changes to split-verdict law: ‘Do we really want to be like Louisiana?’”, The Advocate, Louisiana; Interviewed by Jim Mustian

  • Publication

    Author/contributor, “Gaps in U.S. Animal Welfare Laws for Lab Animals” 2017 INSTITUTE FOR LABORATORY ANIMAL RESEARCH JOURNAL

  • Publication

    Author/contributor, “Implementing Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities,” 2017, Vol. 20 JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

  • Presentation

    Lecture, “Beyond the Law: Non-traditional Approaches to Increasing Animal Protection,” III Global Animal Law Conference, Hong Kong China 

  • Presentation

    Lecture and panelist on “Non-unanimous Juries In Oregon” for the Willamette Valley American Inn of Court at Chemetka Community College 04/19/2018. Panelists in the mock oral argument included Judge Bronson James, Judge David Leith, Benjamin Gutman, and Ernie Lannet.

  • Presentation

    Lecture and panelist, “Non-unanimous Juries In Oregon,” Willamette Valley American Inn of Court, Chemetka Community College

  • Presentation

    Panelist, “Massive Collaborative Representation as Resistance,” Beyond Critique: Celebrating 5 Years of Border Criminologies, Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, 

  • Publication

    Examples & Explanations (Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor) with Brain Blum and Samir Parikh, Wolters Kluwer, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Noelle Crombie for “National push to find reform-minded DAs comes to Oregon” for Oregonian, March 18, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ilana Kowarski for “How to Gauge the Strength of Law School Clinics”, US News, April 12, 2018

  • Presentation

    Panelist for “Trump’s Plunder of Public Lands”

    Panelist, The Trump Administration and Environmental Law, Portland, OR

  • Presentation

    “Proprietary and Sovereign Public Trust Duties”, Panelist for The Public Trust Doctrine in the 21st Century in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2018.

  • Presentation

    Panelist, Proprietary and Sovereign Public Trust Duties, The Public Trust Doctrine the 21st Century, Washington, D.C.

  • Publication

    “Community Participation in Development.” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 51, 39 (January 30, 2018).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “Gov. Kate Brown Pardons Former Portland Gang Member Turned Mentor.” Oregonian, February 13, 2018.

  • Publication

    “Cruelty to Human and Nonhuman Animals in the Wild Caught Fishing Industry.” Sustainable Development Law and Policy Brief, vol. 18, no. 1, 30-38, American University (December 29, 2017). With Rebecca Jenkins and Kelly Levenda.

  • Publication

    Animal Law–New Perspectives on Teaching Traditional Law. Carolina Academic Press (2017). With Joyce Tischler, Pamela Hart, and Sonia Waisman.

  • Presentation

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “Oregon District Attorneys Abandon Plan to Repeal Unusual Non-Unanimous Jury System.” Oregonian, January 31, 2018.

  • Presentation

    Interviewed by Brian Wood for “Prosecutors Drop Ballot Initiative to Require Unanimous Juries.” KATU, February 1, 2018.

  • Presentation

    “Aquatic Animals and U.S. Law” (panel). Minding Animals 4, Mexico City, Mexico. January 22, 2018. With Jonathan Balcombe, Camila Cassio, and Rebecca Jenkins.

  • Presentation

    “Animals in Research: Science, Ethics, Public Policy, and the Law.” Minding Animals 4, Mexico City, Mexico. January 23, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Katie Shepard for “Oregon District Attorneys Drop Plan to Scrap Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts.” Willamette Week, January 31, 2018.

  • Presentation

    Interviewed by Shannon Gormley for “Portland Is Home to the World’s First Animal Law Professor. We Asked Her About the Biggest Legal Issues With Pets.” Willamette Week, January 30, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shannon Gormley for ”Portland is Home to the World’s First Animal Law Professor. We Asked Her about the Biggest Legal Issues with Pets.”, Williamette Week January 30, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Alice Popovici for “A Path Toward Criminal Justice Reform.” Respect, vol. 17, no. 2, New Jersey State Bar Foundation (Winter 2018).

  • Publication

    “Non-Unanimous Jury Law in Oregon.” Oregon Encyclopedia (January 20, 2018).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bob Heye for “DOJ Explores Possible Charges for Elected Officials in Sanctuary Cities, States.” KATU, January 19, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ericka Cruz Guevarra for “Advocates Skeptical of Campaign to Upend Oregon’s Jury Law.” OPB Radio, January 19, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Amanda Reilly for “Could ‘Sue-and-Settle’ Ban Backfire for the Trump Team?” Greenwire, January 16, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Lilian Schrock for “Benton County DA, Defense Attorneys Agree Nonunanimous Juries Should Be Abolished.” Corvallis Gazette Times, January 15, 2018.

  • Publication

    “What Did I Just Buy?” (review of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz). Issues in Science and Technology, p. 91 (Winter 2018).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Katie Shepard for “To Scrap Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts, District Attorneys May Want Something in Return.” Willamette Week, January 12, 2018.

  • Publication

    “The Trump Administration Is Redefining ‘the Public’ in Public Lands” (op-ed). Los Angeles Times (January 12, 2018).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for “Oregon DAs to Back Campaign Against Nonunanimous Juries.” OPB Radio, January 10, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Leah Sottile for “Judge Dismisses Federal Charges Against Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy, Who Calls Himself ‘a Political Prisoner.’” Washington Post, January 8, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “Campaign to Repeal Oregon’s Unusual Nonunanimous Jury System Begins.” Oregonian, January 10, 2018.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Katie Shepard for “Oregon District Attorneys Accidentally Reveal a Surprisingly Progressive Stance on Unanimous Jury Decisions.” Willamette Week, January 10, 2018.

  • Appointments and Service

    Principal drafter and coordinator for an amicus brief concerning access to Oswego Lake in a case before the Oregon Supreme Court. October 1, 2017–December 12, 2017.

  • Publication

    Federal Appellate Practice in a Nutshell. Second edition. West (2017). With Greg Castanias.

  • Publication

    Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation: Cases and Materials. Fourth edition. West (2017).

  • Publication

    “The Remedy for Election Fraud Is a New Election.” Law360 (July 20, 2017).

  • Publication

    Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation in a Nutshell. Fifth edition. West (2017).

  • Publication

    “Class Actions Part II: A Respite From the Decline.” New York University Law Review, vol. 92, no. 6, 971 (2017).

  • Publication

    “Class Actions in the Year 2025: A Prognosis.” Emory Law Journal, vol. 65, issue 6, 1569 (2016).

  • 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.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Supreme Court Hears Wedding Cake Case.” KOIN 6 News, December 6, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Stephen Hamway for “After Resource Plan, What’s Next for Crook County?” Bend Bulletin, November 18, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Oregon’s Nonunanimous Jury Rule: A Relic of Our Discriminatory Past.” Overview of Nonunanimous Juries, Oregon House and Senate Judiciary Committee. November 15, 2017.

  • Publication

    “From Russia, With ‘Boot’: Tseytin.” Corporate Taxation, vol. 45, issue 1, Thomson Reuters, New York (forthcoming January 2018).

  • Publication

    “Internet Sales Bolster Market-Based Valuation.” Estate Planning, vol. 44, issue 12, Thomson Reuters, New York (forthcoming December 2017).

  • Presentation

    “Nonunanimous Juries in Oregon.” Eastside Democratic Club Monthly Meeting, Portland, Oregon. November 7, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Comments on the Crook Country Natural Resources Plan.” Crook County Court Hearing, Prineville, Oregon. November 7, 2017. With James Frasier JD ’17.

  • Presentation

    “’No Ordinary Lawsuit’: Discussing the Juliana Decision.” University of Oregon Works in Progress workshop, Portland, Oregon. October 27, 2017. With Mary Wood.

  • Presentation

    “Recent Public Trust Cases Concerning the Atmosphere and Lake Access” (CLE). Portland, Oregon. November 2, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Beware of the Art: Property Owner Obligations Under the Visual Artists Rights Act.” Oregon State Bar Real Estate and Land Use Section Fall Luncheon, Portland, Oregon. November 1, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bob Heye for “Local Law Professor Talks Manafort, Gates Indictments: ‘Which Way Does That Turn?’” KATU News, October 30, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Recent Developments in Constitutional Law.” Administrative Law Conference, Washington, D.C. October 10, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “The Attack on the Administrative State.” 2017 Oregon Judicial Conference, Sunriver, Oregon. October 26, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Why Is an Author Able to Terminate a Transfer of Copyright?” Authors Alliance, Berkeley, California (October 17, 2017).

  • Presentation

    Keynote presentation, “25 Years of Animal Law,” 25th Annual Animal Law Conference, Portland, Oregon

  • Presentation

    “Essential Preconditions for a Legitimate Indigenous-Industry Agreement.” Law and Politics of Indigenous-Industry Agreements, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Saskatoon, Canada. October 14, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Andrew Selsky for “Oregon Murder Case Shows Obstacles to DNA Testing.” U.S. News (and others through Associated Press), October 17, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. KOIN, January 31, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding President Trump’s Travel Order. KOIN, February 7, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power (debate). Lewis & Clark Chapter of the Federalist Society. November 10, 2016. With Josh Blackman.

  • Presentation

    “Same-Sex Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the Legal Landscape After Obergefell v. Hodges.” Washington State Courts Annual Conference. September 12, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law and Free Exercise Rights.” Animal Law Conference, New York City, New York. October 2016.

  • Presentation

    Gun Safety: Responsible Use, Responsible Policy (panel). League of Women Voters of Portland. March 14, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding Justice’s Gorsuch and state laws permitting physician-assisted suicide. Oregon Public Broadcasting, February 1, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Sanctuary” Jurisdictions in the Trump Era (panel). Oregon Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society. March 17, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Effort to Rewrite Smith and Its Progeny.” Take Care (September 21, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding the Supreme Court’s 2017–18 term. Think Out Loud, Oregon Public Broadcasting, October 3, 2017.

  • Publication

    Amicus brief in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (coauthor). Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court (2017).

  • Appointments and Service

    Organizer of the Lewis & Clark Law Review’s 2017 Paper Symposium, Law and Religion in an Increasingly Polarized America.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding state civil rights protections. Think Out Loud, Oregon Public Broadcasting, March 5, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Anti-Catholic Animus, Blaine Amendments, and the Trump Travel Ban.” Take Care (June 15, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding First Amendment implications of Portland Mayor Wheeler’s efforts to cancel protest events. KATU, May 30, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed regarding free speech implications of city rules governing disruptions at council meetings. Portland Tribune, March 14, 2017.

  • Publication

    “A Regrettable Invitation to ‘Constitutional Resistance,’ Renewed Confusion Over Religious Exemptions, and the Future of Free Exercise.” Lewis & Clark Law Review, vol. 20 (2017).

  • Publication

    Review of Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens by Cynthis Banham. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers School of Law (July 30, 2017).

  • Publication

    Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice 2017. West (December 30, 2016). With Professor Emeritus Edward Brunet and Martin Redish.

  • Publication

    “Treaties in Constitutional Time.” Symposium: The Death of Treaty Supremacy—An Invisible Constitutional Change, Opinio Juris (February 15, 2017).

  • Publication

    “The Trump Revolution in Public Land Law: Redefining ‘the Public’ in Public Land Law.” Environmental Law, vol. 48, no. 2 (forthcoming 2018). With Olivier Jamin JD ’17.

  • Presentation

    Copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret issues (roundtable). Seventh Annual IP Scholars’ Roundtable, Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property University of New Hampshire School of Law. October 6, 2017.

  • Presentation

    National Security and Privacy (panel). 2017 Oregon District Court Conference, Portland, Oregon. October 6, 2017. With Jennifer Granick and Todd Hinnen.

  • Presentation

    “Conlawfare.” Conlawfare, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colorado. October 4, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “Supreme Court Rejects Case to Test Oregon’s Unusual Nonunanimous Jury System.” Oregonian, October 2, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Commercial Discrimination in Art Law.” Pacific Intellectual Property Scholars (PIPS) Conference IV, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. September 30, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Cruelty to Human and Nonhuman Animals in the Wild Caught Fishing Industry.” Sustainable Development Law and Policy, American University (August 2017). With Kelly Levenda and Rebecca Jenkins.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “Case to Test Oregon’s Unusual Jury System Sill Before U.S. Supreme Court.” Oregonian, September 28, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Animal Law in a Changing (and Challenging) Political Climate: One Professor’s Musings After 100 Days of the Trump Administration.” Animal Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (August 25, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Aubrey Wieber for “U.S. Supreme Court May Review Nonunanimous Jury Verdicts.” Bend Bulletin, September 17, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Shane Kavanaugh for “‘Dirty Secret’ of Oregon Jury System Could Go Before U.S. Supreme Court.” Oregonian, September 19, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jake Bullinger for “Trump Will Have a Hard Time Shrinking the Monuments.” Outside Magazine, September 8, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Paris Achen for “Oregon’s Non-unanimous Jury Law Under Scrutiny.” Portland Tribune, September 5, 2017.

  • Publication

    Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials. Fifth edition/Version 5.0. Semaphore Press (July 1, 2017). With Joseph Scott Miller.

  • Presentation

    Copyright Basics for Creatives (workshop). Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Monday Workshop Series, IPRC, Portland, Oregon. September 11, 2017.

  • Presentation

    The ALI Restatement of Copyright Law—How Is It Being Made (CLE). Oregon State Bar Intellectual Property Section Luncheon, Portland, Oregon. September 6, 2017.

  • Awards and Honors

    Named 2017 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.

  • Presentation

    “Animals in Agriculture.” Master Veg Series, Portland, Oregon. April 26, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rick Rojas for “Abused Dogs and Cats Now Have a (Human) Voice in Connecticut Courts.” New York Times, August 27, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dave Miller on the fate of a Portland zoning provision that would have blocked construction of new petroleum tank farms. Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, August 28, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Aquatic Animals in Testing.” The Law and Ethics of Animal Testing, Portland, Oregon. July 18, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Why Fish Aren’t Real ‘Alternatives’.” Breaking Through Scientific and Cultural Barriers to Expand Nonanimal Research, 10th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use, Seattle, Washington. August 20, 2017.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers.” Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2017, ABA Press (August 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Lars Larson for “First Amendment Rights of Government Employees.” Lars Larson Show, August 23, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Larry Neumeister for “Lawmakers Facing Corruption Charges See Hope in Court Ruling.” Associated Press, August 12, 2017.

  • Presentation

    National Monuments: The Case Against Presidential Revocation (panel). A Monumental Task: Will the Trump Administration Scale Back National Monuments?, American Constitution Society CLE, Portland, Oregon. August 2, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Justice Scalia as Neither Friend nor Foe to Criminal Defendants.” Akron Law Review, vol. 50, issue 2 (July 1, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tina Vasquez for “Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policy Suffers Big Legal Blow.” Rewire, July 25, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Anthony Macuk for “Fight for Lake Access Continues.” Lake Oswego Review, July 13, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Joe Douglass for “Cylvia Hayes Gives First Interview Since Feds Cleared Her of Criminal Wrongdoing.” KATU News, July 10, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “State Hiding Communication Plan in FamilyCare Battle.” Portland Tribune, July 3, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Claire Withycombe, Paris Achen, and Nick Budnick for “No Charges Against Kitzhaber, Hayes.” Portland Tribune, June 23, 2017.

  • 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.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Aimee Green for “End of Criminal Investigation Into Kitzhaber, Hayes Comes As No Surprise to Experts.” Oregonian, June 17, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Is It Terrorism or Mass Murder? That Depends on Our Biases.” Washington Post (June 16, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Martin Cizmer for “Meet the Heroes Suing to Free Oswego Lake, the Portland Area’s Forbidden Paradise.” Willamette Week, June 14, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ellen M. Gilmer for “Advocates Go to Court as Trump Unwinds Climate Policy.” Energywire, June 13, 2017.

  • 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.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Becker for “Wyden at the Table as Comey in Spotlight.” KOIN News, June 8, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jennifer Yachnin for “Zinke’s Menu of Bears Ears Options Comes With Heartburn.” Greenwire, June 5, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Response to Secretary of the Interior’s request for comments on the propriety of the proclamation of Bears Ears National Monument. Washington, D.C. May 25, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “A Short History of Public Land Law.” Oregon Natural Desert Association Action Night, Portland, Oregon. May 25, 2017. With Ken Rait.

  • Publication

    “Nonqualified Preferred Stock and the Participation Paradox.” Corporate Taxation, vol. 4. Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting (forthcoming September 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jefferson Smith for “The Women in Prison Project.” XRAY in the Morning, XRAY.FM, June 1, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Andrew Selsky (Associated Press) for “Lawsuit Filed Over Cruel, Unusual Punishment in Oregon Jail.” U.S. News & World Report, May 30, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Andrew Selsky (Associated Press) for “Federal Lawsuit Alleges Grim Conditions in Roseburg Jail.” The Register-Guard, May 30, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Oregon’s Monument Needs Protection From Logging.” High Country News (May 4, 2017).

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Slip Slidin’ Away: The Erosion of APA Adjudication.” Penn State Law Review, vol. 122 (forthcoming September 13, 2017).

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Requiring Formal Rulemaking Is a Thinly Veiled Attempt to Halt Regulation.” The Regulatory Review, University of Pennsylvania Law School (May 18, 2017).

  • Presentation

    Police Peace PDX: A Community Conversation (panel). The Center, Portland, Oregon. May 16, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Referenced by Tina Vasquez in “‘Crimmigration’ and the Need for Actual Sanctuary Cities.” Rewire, May 9, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Terry Boyd on the Court of Appeals decision regarding public access to Oswego Lake and prospects for review of the case by the Oregon Supreme Court. Terry Boyd’s World, KPAM-AM Radio, May 9, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Aubrey Wieber for “Deschutes County Gag Orders Trouble Legal Experts.” Bend Bulletin, April 30, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Legality of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion (testimony). Meeting of the Subcommittee on Public Lands Oversight of the House Natural Resources Committee, Washington, D.C. May 2, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Community Participation in Development.” 2017 Works-in-Progress Conference, American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group, Washington, D.C. April 13, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Pamela King for “‘Skinny Budget’ Plants a Big Flag for Energy Production.” Energywire, April 13, 2017.

  • Publication

    “‘No Ordinary Lawsuit:’ Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine.” American University Law Review, vol. 67, issue 1. American University (October 2017). With Mary C. Wood.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for “30 Years Later, Oregon’s ‘Sanctuary State’ Law Serves as a Model for Others.” OPB, April 17, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kyle Iboshi for “Terri Horman’s Ex-Boyfriend Alleges Murder-for-Hire Plot in 1990.” KGW News, April 18, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Julia Preston for “The Immigration Policy That Ate the Justice Department.” The Marshall Project, April 16, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Valuation Penalties and Collections of Assets.” Estate Planning, Vol. 44, issue 6. Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting (June 1, 2017).

  • Presentation

    “Immigration Detention in the Age of Migration Control.” University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, California. April 7, 2017. With Michael Flynn and Stephen Manning.

  • Publication

    “A Misguided Attack on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.” The Oregonian/Oregon Live, April 4, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Marc Brown for a two-part series about nonunanimous juries in Oregon. Appellate Perspective Podcast, OCDLA: Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, April 15, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Chris Liedle for “Immigration Lawyer Shortage Nearing Crisis.” KATU-2, April 2, 2017.

  • Publication

    “The Death Penalty Is Getting More and More Expensive. Is It Worth It?” The Conversation, March 30, 2017. With Peter Collins.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Legal Issues in a Changing Political Climate.” Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. April 13, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Caught in the Net: Labor in the U.S. Fishing Industry (panel). Just Food? Forum on Labor Across the Food System, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 1, 2017. With JJ Bartlett and Rebecca Jenkins.

  • Presentation

    Slip, Slidin’ Away—The Erosion of APA Adjudication (roundtable). Rethinking Due Process, Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. January 27, 2017.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Factoids, Alternative Facts, and the Truth.” Jotwell.com (forthcoming April 27, 2017). 

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Final Agency Action After Hawkes.” NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, vol. 11, issue 1 (forthcoming May 15, 2017).

  • Presentation

    Final Agency Action After Hawkes (panel). Evolving Justiciability: Discretionary Standing and Practical Finality?, Washington, D.C. December 8, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Recent Developments in Constitutional Law (panel). Recent Developments in Administrative Law, Washington, D.C. December 9, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Slip, Slidin’ Away—The Erosion of APA Adjudication.” Rethinking Due Process, Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. April 21, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Pamela King for “‘Skinny Budget’ Plants a Large Flag for Energy Development.” Energywire, March 17, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Connections Between Animal and Human Abuse (panel). The Link Between Animal and Human Abuse, Portland, Oregon. March 13, 2017. With Executive Director of the National Crime Victims Law Institute Meg Garvin and David Rosengard JD ’15.

  • Publication

    “The Nation’s First Forester-In-Chief: The Overlooked Role of FDR and the Environment.” 33 Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, Florida State University (forthcoming 2017).

  • Presentation

    “Current State of Class Actions.” Rule 23@50, New York University, New York. December 2, 2016.

  • Awards and Honors

    Selected as a Pound Institute Academic Fellow. October 17, 2016.

  • Presentation

    U.S. Class Actions (course). Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. January 4, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Pat Dooris for “Suspect in Vancouver Police Shooting Was Wanted for Parole Violation.” KGW TV, February 27, 2017.

  • Presentation

    Executive Re-Ordering (panel). The Future of Labor and Employment Law: Power, Policies, and Politics, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas. February 23, 2017.

  • 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.

  • Presentation

    “Comparison of U.S. and Israeli Class Actions.” 50th Anniversary of U.S. Class Actions, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. January 4, 2017. With Alon Klement.

  • Publication

    “‘Coordinating’ With the Federal Government: Assessing County Efforts to Control Decisionmaking on Public Lands.” Public Lands and Resources Law Review Vol. 38 (2017). With James A. Fraser JD ’17.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jake Thomas for “Local Animal Law Required Release of a Pit Bull That Killed a Chihuahua.”The Columbian, February 19, 2017.

  • Presentation

    “Aquatic Animals in Testing.” Animal Experimentation: Current Welfare Policy, Socio-Legal Implications, and Avenues for Reform, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. February 17, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rob Davis for “After Malheur, Democratic Senator Allows Debate on Oregon Control of Federal Lands.” Oregonian, February 17, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jeff Manning for “2 Years Into Federal Investigation, John Kitzhaber Makes an Unlikely Comeback.” Oregonian, February 12, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for a news segment on the 9th Circuit’s decision to stay President Trump’s travel ban. KGW, February 9, 2017.

  • Publication

    “The STARS (Cases) Are Back in Alignment.” Corporate Taxation,vol. 44, issue 2 (March/April 2017).

  • Presentation

    “Seeking Asylum Under the Trump Administration.” Multnomah County Courthouse, Portland, Oregon. January 27, 2017. With Amy Adams, Steve Goldberg, Favio Perez, and Jamie Trinkle.

  • Publication

    “Constitutional Performance in Transitions From Military to Civilian Rule.” Assessing Constitutional Performance, Cambridge University Press (2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kevin Harden for “Law Professors Opposing Sessions’ AG Nomination See Trouble Ahead for Rights, Environment.” Portland Tribune, January 9, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Karin Brulliard for “In a First, Alaska Divorce Courts Will Now Treat Pets More Like Children.” Washington Post, January 24, 2017.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kushagra Dixit for “What’s Wrong With Indian Government, Ask Animal Lovers.” Times of India, June 19, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Carol McAlice for “Bill Would Protect Animals in Domestic Violence Situations.” Statesman Journal, May 29, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Aquatic Animals and the AWA (panel). The Animal Welfare Act at 50, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 2, 2016. With Sue Leary and Michael McFadden.

  • Presentation

    “Aquatic Animals, Using the Law to See and Protect Them.” Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. October 18, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Legal Challenges and Strategies: Protecting Animals and Activists.” Portland VegFest 2016, Portland, Oregon. October 23, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law Overview.” Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. October 13, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law Post Election.” Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. November 16, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rashah McChesney for “Bill Would Protect Animals in Domestic Violence Situations.” AP/Washington Post, February 1, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Aditi Roy for “What’s at Stake in Trump’s Immigration Battle With Sanctuary Cities.” CNBC Evening News, January 25, 2017.

  • Publication

    “Obama’s National Monument Designations Were Lawful, Not Land Grabs” (op-ed). Los Angeles Times (January 23, 2017). With Hillary Hoffman.

  • Publication

    “Earth on the Docket: Why Obama Can’t Ignore This Climate Suit by America’s Youth.” The Conversation (December 15, 2016). With Mary C. Wood and Charles W. Woodward.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Conrad Wilson for “Even When Juries Can’t Agree, Convictions Are Still Possible in Oregon.” All Things Considered, OPB, December 12, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Beth Slovin for “One Strike, You’re Out: Portland Man’s Immigration Case Illustrates Pitfalls Pre-Trump.” Willamette Week, December 7, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ted Sickinger and Jeff Manning for “Did Secret Phone Call Jeopardize Solar Fraud Prosecution?“ Oregonian, December 4, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Overturning Apodaca v. Oregon Should Be Easy.” Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Winter Conference, Portland, Oregon. December 2, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Christen McCurdy for “ACLU, OJRC Fight for Unanimous Felony Convictions.” The Skanner, December 1, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Christopher Soloman for “What’s the Worst That Can Happen to the Environment Under Trump?” Outside Magazine, November 28, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Chris Brown for “Life Behind Bars…or the Death Penalty. Which Costs More? The Death Penalty May Be a Deterrent for Crime…but at What Cost? KXL Radio, November 17, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jeremy Jacobs for “Trump Could Tamp Down on the Bundys.” GreenWire, November 10, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tony Hernandez for “How Much Does the Death Penalty Cost? New Study Examines 100s of Cases.” Oregonian, November 16, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Oregon’s Death Penalty: A Cost Analysis.” Lewis & Clark Law School/Seattle University (November 16, 2016). With Peter A. Collins and Venetia Mayhew JD ’17.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Robin Bravender for “Even Lame Ducks Have Wings.” GreenWire, November 8, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    “New Study Finds Oregon Death Sentences Are Significantly More Costly Than Life Sentences.” Death Penalty Information Center, November 16, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Brittany Patterson for “Final Methane Rule Expected Soon.” ClimateWire, November 14, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kristian Fodin-Vencil for “Study: In Oregon, Death Sentence Quadruples Cost of Case.” OPB, November 16, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Quoted by Eric Holthaus for “The Kids Suing Government Are Our Best Hope Now.” Slate Magazine, November 14, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Class Actions (panel). New York University Law School Conference on Rule 23@50, New York, New York. December 2, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Class Actions (panel). Appellate Judges Education Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 11, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Duke University Law School Conference on Class Action Settlements (panel). San Diego California. October 6, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Class Actions (panel). American Bar Association Class Action Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada. October 20, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Class Actions.” National Legal Aid Defender Association National Farmworker Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. November 10, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Leah Sottile for “How Did the Malheur Occupiers Get Away Scot-Free?” Outside Magazine, October 28, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jeremy Jacobs for “Bundys Acquitted in ‘Huge Setback for Government.’” Greenwire, October 28, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Sam Levin and Julia Carrie Wong for “Oregon Militia Standoff Trial: Shock and Anger After Bundys Found Not Guilty.” The Guardian (UK), October 28, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Matt Pearce for “How the Government Lost Its Case Against the Oregon Occupiers.” Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Mak for “Oregon Verdict Gives Anti-Government Movement Hope.” The Daily Beast, October 29, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rebecca Wellington for “U.S. Marshals’ Tackling of Ammon Bundy’s Lawyer Creates Buzz in Legal Community.”OregonLive, October 28, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and the Environment: Affirming the Right to Habitat Protection and Restoration.” Washington Law Review, vol 92, no. 1, University of Washington (forthcoming March 2017).

  • 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.

  • Publication

    “The Public Trust as an Antimonopoly Doctrine.” BC Environmental Affairs Law Review, vol. 44, issue 1, Boston College (forthcoming March 2016). With Aurora Paulsen Moses JD ’12, LLM ’15.

  • Publication

    “Two Wrongs? Correcting Professor Lazarus’s Erroneous Interpretation of the Public Trust Doctrine.” Environmental Law, vol. 46, issue 2, 461, September 30, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Amanda Peacher for “Constitutional Basis of Malheur Occupants Defense in Bundy Trial.” This Land is Our Land, OBP Radio, September 30, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Federal Constitutional Authority to Manage Public Lands.” Civil Rights in an Election Year, Portland, Oregon. October 21, 2016. With Dean Emeritus Jim Huffman.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Greg Stohr and June Grasso for “Oregon Occupiers Trial Sheds Juror.” Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Radio, October 27, 2016.

  • Publication

    “The Property Clause and Its Discontents: Lessons From the Malheur Occupation.” Ecology Law Quarterly, vol. 34, issue 3, University of California at Berkeley, California (forthcoming March 2017). With Olivier Jamin JD ’17.

  • Publication

    Cases and Problems in Civil Rights Litigation: State, Federal, and International Materials. Semaphore Press (2016).

  • Publication

    “Proposed Valuation Regulations: Aggressive, Unclear, Questionable.” Estate Planning, vol. 43 (forthcoming December 2016). 

  • Presentation

    Aquatic Animal Law (panel). Animal Law Conference, New York, New York. October 8, 2016. With Dr. Lynne Sneddon. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Does Ammon Bundy’s 10-Hour Testimony Help or Hurt His Case in Oregon Standoff Trial?” OregonLive, October 8, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Inviting Wrath of Judge May Be Part of a Calculated Approach by Ammon Bundy’s Lawyer.” OregonLive, September 23, 2016.

  • Presentation

    The Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia (debate). Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. September 22, 2016. With Brian Fitzpatrick.

  • 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.

  • Presentation

    “Recent Developments in Federal Administrative Law.” National Association of Hearing Officers Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. September 13, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Alien Citizens: Kurds and Citizenship in the Turkish Constitution.” External Dimensions of Constitutions, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. September 16, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Alien Citizens: Kurds and Citizenship in the Turkish Constitution.” Virginia Journal of International Law (forthcoming May 1, 2017).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Elizabeth Hayes for “Was the $100M Cover Oregon [Settlement] a Win-Win for Both Sides? Legal Minds Weigh In.” Portland Business Journal, September 15, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Commercial Leases: Tenant 101.” Retail Business Builders (course), Portland Community College CLIMB Center. June 16, 2016. With Meghan Williams and Small Business Legal Clinic student interns Andrew Milholland, Michelle Stowers, and Jacob Wright.

  • Appointments and Service

    Elected treasurer of the board of directors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. August 24, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rebecca Wellington for “Sheriff’s Office Under Fire After Initially Ignoring Deputy’s ‘Middle East’ Remarks to Girl.” The Oregonian/Oregon Live, September 13, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Overturning Apodaca v. Oregon Should Be Easy: Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts in Criminal Cases Undermines the Credibility of the Justice System.” Oregon Law Review, vol. 95, issue 2 (forthcoming 2017). With Amy Saack.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (editor). Fifth edition. ABA Publications (2016). With Jeffrey Lubbers.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers.” Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2015. ABA Press (2016).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Katherine Cook for “Chief: ‘Tragic Event’ Avoided by Arresting Man Watching Police.” KGW News, August 9, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for BBC World Service Radio. BBC News, July 27, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Erdogan on Brink of Solidifying Political Strength.” Toronto Star, July 29, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Oregon Standoff: 9 Guilty Pleas Up Ante for Ammon Bundy, 16 Others.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, July 24, 2016.

  • Presentation

    On U.S. tort/employment law (course). East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China. June 29, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kristena Hansen for “Christmas Bomber Case Appeal Challenges NSA Surveillance.” Associated Press, July 6, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “McDonnell Supreme Court Ruling May Be ‘Good Day’ for Kitzhaber (Sort Of).” Portland Tribune, June 27, 2016.

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the Practitioners’ Reading Group for the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary evaluation of the professional qualifications of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland. 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Structural Rights.” International Society of Public Law Annual Conference. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. June 19, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Making a Murderer’s Dean Strang and Jerry Buting: A Conversation on Justice” (interview). Newmark Theater, Portland, Oregon. June 19, 2016.

  • Appointments and Service

    Drafter of and coordinator for law professors’ comments on proposed U.S. Bureau of Land Management land planning rules, particularly those related to treatment of “areas of critical environmental concern.” June 5, 2015–May 24, 2016.

  • Presentation

    History of Federal Lands and Purposes of Federal Land Management (panel). Federal Lands Management, Bend City Club, Bend, Oregon. May 19, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Becker for “House Committee: Cover Oregon Case ‘Criminal’.” KOIN News, May 23, 2016.

  • Awards and Honors

    Named 2016 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Hillary Lake for “Defense Attorneys for Wildlife Refuge Occupiers Want Federal Conspiracy Charge Tossed.” KATU News, May 23, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kristian Foden-Vencil for “Gary Haugen Has a New Execution Date, but Oregon’s Death Penalty Moratorium Remains.” OPB, May 23, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Pat Dooris for “Portland Police Chief Placed on Leave.” KGW News, May 24, 2016.

  • Awards and Honors

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

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dave Miller for “Death Penalty in Oregon.” Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, May 24, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nina Mehlhaf for “Alleged Abuse Case Highlights Law Loophole.” KGW News, May 23, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Starting a Business: Common Early-Stage Legal Issues and Risk Management.” Entrepreneurship (course), Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. May 18. 2016. With Rebecca Corcoran JD ’16 and Amber McCroan JD ’17.

  • Presentation

    “Temporary Constitutions.” Bogota, Colombia. May 12, 2016.

  • Awards and Honors

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

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Adam Lidgett for “Why Scalia Wouldn’t Like Merrick Garland: Supreme Court Nominee Considers Intent to Inform Legal Decisions.” International Business Times, March 18, 2016.

  • Publication

    Introduction to the Study of U.S. Law. West Academic Publishing (May 3, 2016). 736 pages.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Was NSA Surveillance Used on Refuge Occupiers Labeled as ‘Domestic Terrorists,’ Lawyer Asks.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, May 12, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Death of a Unique Oregon Lake” (op-ed). The Oregonian (May 2, 2016). With Viki Nadol.

  • Publication

    “Contemporary Perspectives on Wrongful Conviction: An Introduction to the 2015 Innocence Network Conference, Orlando, Florida.” 3 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 179 (Fall 2015). With Valena Beety and Robert Schehr.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “The Misunderstood Measure.” Grant Magazine, April 17, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Sue Zaloker for “Oregon Innocence Project’s Aliza Kaplan: Criminal Injustice ‘Every Single Day’.“ Street Roots, January 29, 2016. 

  • Publication

    “Who Can It Be Now? Challenging Reliability of First Time In-Court Identifications After State v. Henderson and State v. Lawson.” Northwestern’s Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (forthcoming May 31, 2016). With Janis Puracal.

  • Presentation

    Legal Issues for Startups (panel). Launch-in-9 capstone program, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. March 10, 2016. With Alexandra Bodnar and Michael Moore.

  • Presentation

    “Intellectual Property Protections and Business Risk Management.” Business Development Support Program Cohort Meeting, Portland State University Business Outreach Program, Portland, Oregon. April 11, 2016. With Sarah Carlin Ames JD ’16, Rebecca Corcoran JD ’16, Amelia Forsberg JD ’13, and Josh Volvovic JD ’16.

  • Presentation

    “Intellectual Property Protections and Selection of a Business Entity.” Methods and Applications of Entrepreneurship (course), Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. December 1, 2015. With Katrina Kindall JD ’16, Sofia Pasarow, and Jonathan Sikes JD ’16.

  • Presentation

    “Intellectual Property Protections, and Hiring Employees and Independent Contractors.” Small Business Legal Clinic @ Hatch, Hatch Innovation, Portland, Oregon. October 21, 2016. With Rosam Ruiz-Cortés JD ’16, Sarah-Ray Rundle JD ’16, and Sung Teck Youn JD ’16.

  • Presentation

    “Legal Tips for the Therapist Business Owner.” Center for Community Engagement, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, Portland, Oregon. December 5, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Commercial Leases: Tenant 101.” Retail business builders class, Portland Community College. February 29, 2016. With David Bryant JD ’16 and Morgan Reynolds JD ’16.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Michael Castner for “Youth Plaintiffs Win Atmosphere Trust Case.” KXL-FM, April 11, 2016.

  • Publication

    “(Ground)waters of the United States: Unlawfully Excluding Groundwater From Clean Water Act Jurisdiction.” 46 Environmental Law no. 2 (forthcoming 2016). With Steven M. Thiel JD ’15.

  • Presentation

    Groundwaters of the United States (panel). Waters of the United States—Environmental Law Symposium, Portland, Oregon. April 8, 2016.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Presentation

    Resources, Rights, and Revenue-Sharing: Redefining Standards for Consultations With Indigenous Peoples (panel). Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C. March 31, 2016. With Leonardo Crippa, Kirsty Gover, and Paul Wilson.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Amanda Peacher for “Counties Turn to Little-Known Policy to Boost Say in Federal Land Management.” Oregon Public Broadcasting, April 4, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Antimonopoly in American Public Land Law.” 28 Georgetown Environmental Law Review no. 2 (2016). With Kara Tebeau J.D. ’15. 

  • Publication

    “Federal Reserved Water Rights as a Rule of Law.” 52 Idaho Law Review no. 1, 369 (2016).

  • Presentation

    Introduction to U.S. Law (course). Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. December 21, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Cutting-Edge Class Action Issues (two panels). PILP CLE, Portland, Oregon. February 16, 2016.

  • Appointments and Service

    Judge for the final rounds of the Classroom Law Project’s We the People competition. Portland, Oregon. January 16, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Rules Committee: Possible Class Action Rule Changes (panel). Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York City, New York. January 8, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Make My Day! Dirty Harry and Final Agency Action.” Symposium on Waters of the United States, Portland, Oregon. April 8, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Warning Letters and Voluntary Compliance Programs—Is Sackett v. EPA a Game Changer? (panel). American Bar Association Administrative Law Institute, Washington, D.C. March 15, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Structural Rights.” Fifth Annual Younger Comparativists Committee Conference, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 18, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Fighting Back Against “Ag Gag” and Other Efforts to Silence Environmental Activists (panel). Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. March 6, 2016. With Josh Osher, Cristina Stella, and Sarah Swingle.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law Clinic and Aquatic Animal Legal Institute.” Animal Law in the 21st Century, University of Zurich, Switzerland. March 16, 2016. With Assistant Dean of the Animal Law Program and Executive Director of the Center for Animal Law Studies Pamela Frasch.

  • Presentation

    “Animals: Understanding, Using, and Protecting Them.” German Literature in Translation (course), Lewis & Clark College of Arts and Sciences, Portland, Oregon. March 7, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Structural Rights.” The Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming December 2016).

  • Publication

    “An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Transformation in Turkey.” American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming August 2016).

  • Presentation

    “Sleeper” Foreign Officials and Other Counter-Intuitive Theories of Liability Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (panel). Lewis & Clark International Law Symposium: Managing Corruption Risks in International Business, Portland, Oregon. March 4, 2016. With Janet Hoffman, Kathleen McGovern, and Amy Deen Westbrook.

  • Presentation

    Constitutional Protections of Animals: Universal Complexities, Israeli Perspectives (workshop). Workshop on Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 18, 2016. With Ariel L. Bendor and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Documents Oracle Doesn’t Want You to Read About Cover Oregon.” Portland Tribune, February 22, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Vetoing Wetland Permits Under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act: A History of Inter-Federal Agency Controversy and Reform.” 33 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy no. 2, 215–308 (2015). With Elisabeth Mering J.D. ’16.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Julie Turkewitz for “Cliven Bundy and Sons Charged in Case That Gave Rise to Oregon Standoff.” New York Times, February 19, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Horne v. Dept. of Agriculture: Expanding Per Se Takings While Endorsing State Sovereign Ownership.” 75 Maryland Law Review no. 3, 657–697 (2016). With John Echeverria.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bob Heye for “Many Users Don’t Want Apple to Give FBI Way to Hack iPhone.” KATU News, February 18, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Oregonian editorial board for “Transparency Bill a Reminder to State That We’re Oregonians Not ‘Opponents’: Editorial.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, February 19, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Juan Carlos Rodriguez for “Scalia Leaves Lasting Mark on Environmental Law.” Law360, February 17, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Peter D’Auria for “Q&A: Tung Yin: A Law Professor Examines the Case Against the Bundy Bunch.” Willamette Week, February 17, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Kitzhaber/Hayes Probe: At One-Year Mark, State Records Provide Insight.” Portland Tribune, February 16, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Eric Holthaus for “What Scalia’s Death Might Mean for Climate Change.” Slate Magazine, February 15, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ashley Korslien for “Local Leaders Discuss Supreme Court’s Future.” KGW TV, February 14, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Laura Gunderson for “Cliven Bundy Arrest 2 Years Later: Strategy or Serendipity?” The Oregonian/OregonLive, February 13, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Stealth Authoritarianism.” Conference on Democracy and Religious Pluralism, Columbia Law School, New York City. February 12, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Pat Dooris for “Cliven Bundy to Stay in Jail Until Next Week.” KGW News, February 11, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Malheur Militants Might Receive Only Light Sentences.” Portland Tribune, February 9, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Constitutional Stickiness.” U.C. Davis Law Review, vol. 49, 899 (February 8, 2016).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dylan J. Darling for “Social Media, Online News Key in Refuge Cases.” Bend Bulletin, February 6, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bryce Gray for “No, Federal Land Transfers Are Not in the Constitution.” High Country News, February 4, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Sue Zalokar for “Oregon Innocence Project’s Aliza Kaplan: Criminal Injustice ‘Every Single Day’.” Street Roots, January 29, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Gordon for “Why FBI Released Video of Finicum’s Death.” KGW TV, January 29, 2016.

  • Presentation

    Game of Drones: Defending Against Drone Terrorism (lecture and panel). Rutgers University Law School, Newark, New Jersey. January 20, 2016. With Brian Alexander and Adil Haque.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Oracle Tries to Kill Website Suit.” Portland Tribune, January 26, 2016.

  • Publication

    “The Constitutionality of Federal Public Land Ownership: A Memorandum to ‘Concerned Citizens of Harney County.’” Association of Oregon Counties (January 22, 2016).

  • Publication

    “The Oregon Public Trust Doctrine and Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Pollution: A Law Professors’ Amicus Brief.” Filed with the Oregon Court of Appeals (forthcoming February 2016). With Steven Thiel and Mary C. Wood.

  • Awards and Honors

    Recipient of the inaugural AALS Animal Law Section Award for Excellence in Animal Law: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service. January 9, 2016.

  • Publication
    Paula Abrams

    “The Bad Mother: Stigma, Abortion, and Surrogacy.” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, vol. 3, issue 2, 179-191 (November 4, 2015).

  • Publication

    “Judicial Disarray on Insurance Company Stock.” Corporate Taxation, vol. 43, Thomson Reuters (forthcoming March 2016).

  • Publication

    Shared Sovereignty: The Role of Expert Agencies in Environmental Law. 42 Ecology Law Quarterly 609, University of California at Berkeley (2015). With Andrea Lang JD ’15, LLM ’16.

  • Publication

    “Oregon Standoff: Answers to Questions About Federal Land Ownership and Management” (op-ed). The Oregonian/OregonLive (January 14, 2016).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed about federal land ownership and management in connection with the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. KXRY-FM, January 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Joe Rose for “Beyond ‘Making a Murderer’: 10 Real-Life Injustices in Oregon History.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, January 14, 2016.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Response to Choosing a Court to Review the Executive.” Administrative Law Review Accord, vol. 67, 88, American University Washington College of Law (January 14, 2016).

  • Presentation

    “Recent Developments in Federal Tax Valuation.” Willamette Valley Estate Planning Council, Salem, Oregon. January 12, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Structural Rights.” Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference, New York City, New York. January 8, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Structural Rights.” University of New South Wales Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable, Sydney, Australia. December 11, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    Winner of the Federalist Society’s Young Legal Scholars Paper Competition for his paper “Structural Rights.” January 7, 2016.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dylan Darling for “Resentencing at the Root of Refuge Occupation.” Bend Bulletin, January 6, 2016.

  • Presentation

    “Trigger Warnings: Lessons From Teaching an Animal Law Clinic.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, New York, New York. January 8, 2016. With Jennifer Brobst, Susan Brooks, and Kim Chanbonpin.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Eileen Park for “The Constitution and the Armed Protest in Malheur.” KOIN News, January 5, 2016.

  • Publication

    “Combating Bribery of Indigenous Leaders in International Business.” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 54, 59 (November 21, 2015).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Judge Sets Bail for Portland Man Accused of Killing Wife, Finding State Didn’t Prove Death Intentional.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, December 22, 2015.

  • Publication

    “The Child’s Right to Life, Survival, and Development: Evolution and Progress.” Stellenbosch Law Review, vol. 26, issue 2, 272-294 (2015).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nigel Jacquiss for “Somebody’s Watching You: Oregonians Cherish Freedom and Privacy. Turns Out We Don’t Have Much of Either.” Willamette Week, December 16, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Ending Family Detention: How Can We Establish Durable Barriers to Prevent the Mass Incarceration of Children and Asylum-Seekers? (roundtable). Fifth Annual Immigration Litigation Roundtable, Yale Law School. December 11, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Civil Rights and Religious Liberty (panel). Washington State Attorney General’s Attorney Conference, Lakewood, Washington. October 14, 2015. With Alan Copsey, David DeWolf, and Noah Purcell.

  • Presentation

    Recent Developments in Federal Tax Valuation (CLE). Oregon Law Institute, Portland, Oregon. December 11, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bryan Denson for “U.S. Response to Mohamed Mohamud’s Appeal Sets Up Surveillance Showdown.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, December 8, 2015.

  • Media Appearance
    Anna Laakmann

    Interviewed by Nic Terry and Frank Pasquale on the interplay between FDA regulation and IP law, and physician liability for clinical innovation. The Week in Health Law, episode 35, December 3, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kyle Iboshi for “New Photos Released in Tree Lighting Bomb Plot Case.” KGW TV, December 1, 2015.

  • Presentation

    ACS Oregon Lawyer Chapter: The Future of the Death Penalty (panel). University of Oregon School of Law, Portland, Oregon. December 8, 2015. With Carrie Leonetti and C. Renée Manes.

  • Publication

    “D(E)volving Discretion: Lessons From the Life and Times of Secure Communities.” American University Law Review, vol. 64, issue 5, 1259-1284 (forthcoming 2015).

  • Presentation

    D(E)volving Discretion (panel). Oregon American Immigration Lawyers Association Fall CLE, Portland, Oregon. October 22, 2015. With David Drasin, Elizabeth Godfrey, John Marandas, and Chanpone Sinlapasai.

  • Awards and Honors

    Recipient of the John W. Gillis Leadership Award, presented by the national organization Parents of Murdered Children. August 1, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Presidentialism in Turkey: Is It Already Here?” ConstitutionNet, November 27, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Crimmigration 2.0 (panel). Fall Symposium on Crimmigration: At the Border of Criminal Justice and Deportation, New England Law, Boston, Massachusetts. November 5, 2015.

  • Presentation

    The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Legislative and Other Solutions (panel). The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America, Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina. November 21, 2015.

  • Presentation

    International Law and Wildlife Well-Being: Moving From Theory to Action (workshop). American Society of International Law and American Association of Law Schools, Animal Law Section, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. November 14, 2015. With Paul Boudreaux, Sabine Brels, and Jeff Pierce.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Fight for Kitzhaber Emails Heats up With Federal Grand Jury, Oracle.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, November 19, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nigel Jaquiss for “Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum Took Her Time Addressing Allegations of Illegal Surveillance by Her Agency.” Willamette Week, November 18, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dave Miller on the legal issues involved in the DOJ’s surveillance of users of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, November 13, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    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.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Wanda Moore for “Special Report: OSP Crime Lab Scandal Already Spurs Change.” KTVZ Bend, November 2, 2015.

  • Publication

    Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations. Fifth Edition. Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting (forthcoming December 15, 2015). With James S. Eustice and Joel D. Kuntz.

  • Publication

    “‘Net, Net Gifts’ and the Enigmatic Section 7520.” Estate Planning, vol. 43, issue 1, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting (forthcoming January 2016).

  • Publication

    “Class Actions in the Year 2025: A Prognosis.” Emory Law Journal, vol. 65, issue 6 (forthcoming March 2016).

  • Presentation

    Narrow Bridges to Stability: Interim Constitutions and Transitional Provisions as Coordination Mechanisms (panel). Montpelier Roundtable on Comparative Constitutional Law, Montpelier, Virginia. October 10, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nigel Jaquiss for “A Lawyer Questioned Terry Bean in a Washington County Sex-Crime Case. Listen to Bean’s Response.” Willamette Week, October 4, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    Elected to membership in the Executive Committee for the American Society of Comparative Law. October 3, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    Elected chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. October 3, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rebecca Trager for “Forensic Crime Lab Malpractice Surfaces in Oregon.” Chemistry World, September 29, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Fixation as Notice.” Notice and Notice Failure in IP Law, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. September 26, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    Cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. September 14, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “The Democratic Coup d’État.” Berger International Lecture Series, Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York. September 25, 2015.

  • Publication

    Comparative Constitutional Law: A Global and Interdisciplinary Approach. Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2017). With Tom Ginsburg, David Landau, Will Partlett, and Mila Versteeg.

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the Federal Sentencing Commission’s Victim Advisory Group, which is charged with making recommendations regarding federal sentencing guidelines. Appointed August 18, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Rebecca McCray for “Crime Lab Tech Tampers With Evidence in Oregon—But It’s a Nationwide Problem.” TakePart, September 19, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Wanda Moore for “OSP Forensic Analyst Scandal Widens.” KTVZ Bend, September 18, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Claire Withycombe for “District Attorneys Reviewing Cases.” Bend Bulletin, September 17, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Melody Finnemore for “Hope Amid Despair: Oregon Attorneys, Law Students Help Immigrants in Need.” Oregon State Bar Bulletin, August/September 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by The Oregonian editorial board for “Time for Gov. Brown to Demand Transparency From Energy Department: Editorial.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, September 4, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Doug McVay for “Eyewitness Identification and Wrongful Convictions.” KBOO Radio, August 18, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Changes Would Improve Witness IDs.” Portland Tribune, August 11, 2015

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bryan Denson for “Mohamed Mohamud Appeal Is First to Challenge NSA Surveillance in Terrorism Conviction.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, August 11, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Joy Lukachick Smith for “What’s in a Name? The Absence of Terror Label After Attacks Sparks National Debate.” Chattanooga Free Press, August 2, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Hollywood’s Sexual-Abuse Double Standard.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, August 1, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Models of Judicial Review.” Constitutional Court of Georgia, Batumi, Republic of Georgia. July 29, 2015.

  • Publication

    The Democratic Coup d’État. Oxford University Press (forthcoming August 2016).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Alice Popovici for “Will ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Survive?” The Crime Report, July 23, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “As Kitzhaber Probe Continues, 17 State Workers Have Applied for Legal Fees.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, July 23, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Becker for “Prosecutors Oppose Terry Bean Civil Settlement.” KOIN TV, July 15, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Renewable Energy Policy in Denmark: Lessons for Europe and the United States.” Fulbright Annual Meeting, U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium. February 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Is That All There Is? The Surprising Value of Unenforceable Local Climate Action Plans.” Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. May 2015

  • Publication

    “Is That All There Is? The Surprising Value of Unenforceable Local Climate Action Plans.” Rethinking Sustainable Development to Meet the Climate Change Challenge. ELI Press (2015). With Keith Hirokawa and Jessica Owley.

  • Publication

    “Energy Insecurity in an Era of Fossil Fuel Abundance: The United States Experience With Hydraulic Fracturing for Unconventional Gas.” Oliver C. Ruppel and Bernd Althusmann, editors. Macmillan Education Namibia (forthcoming 2015).

  • Presentation

    “Understanding the U.S. Legal System.” Northwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. October 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by David Miller for “Supreme Court Mercury Ruling May Impact Climate Change Regs.” Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, July 2, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Lessons From U.S. Biofuels Policy: The Renewable Fuels Standard’s Rocky Ride.” The Law and Policy of Biofuels (forthcoming 2015).

  • Publication

    Wind Law. Lexis (forthcoming 2015).

  • Publication

    “The Risks of Opting Out of the Clean Power Plan for Western States.” Transmission and Transport of Energy in the Western U.S. and Canada: A Law and Policy Road Map, 52 Idaho L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2015).

  • Presentation

    “The Great Beyond: The ‘Beyond Coal’ Campaign and Transformation of the U.S. Electricity System.” Environmental Law Association, Johannesburg, South Africa. October 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The Transformation of the U.S. Electricity System.” University of Copenhagen, Denmark. October 2014.

  • Presentation

    Constitutional Stickiness (panel). International Society of Public Law Conference, New York University School of Law. July 2, 2015.

  • Presentation

    How Can I Get a Job Advocating for Animals? (panel). The 22nd Annual Animal Law Conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. October 18, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law in the United States.” Autonomous University of Barcelona Law School, Barcelona, Spain. March 19, 2015.

  • Publication

    Animal Law, Cases and Materials. Fifth Edition. Carolina Academic Press (2014). With Bruce A. Wagman and Sonia S. Waisman.

  • Presentation

    Animals in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities (panel). Eat, Pray, Law: A Food Forum, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. March 13, 2015.

  • Publication

    Animal Law in a Nutshell. Second edition. West Publishing (forthcoming 2016). With Clinical Professor Kathy Hessler and Sonia S. Waisman.

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    Supreme Court Review (panel). American Constitution Society Supreme Court Review/Preview, Portland, Oregon. October 10, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Implementing Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities.” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B (forthcoming September 2015). With Clinical Professor Kathy Hessler, Daniel Krewski, Bruce Meyers, Paul A. Locke, Joyce Tischler, and Margit Westphal.

  • Publication

    Animal Law in a Nutshell. Second edition. West Publishing (forthcoming 2016). With Assistant Dean Pamela D. Frasch and Sonia S. Waisman.

  • Presentation

    “Animal Law Education.” Global Animal Law Conference, Autonomous University of Barcelona Law School, Barcelona, Spain. July 12, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Animal Law—A Global Phenomenon.” Global Journal of Animal Law (December 1, 2014), Abo Akademi University Department of Law, Finland. With Clinical Professor Kathy Hessler and Director Natasha Dolezal.

  • Publication

    “Scotland: Win Some, Lose Some, But Never Give Up.” International Survey of Family Law. 2015 edition, Bill Atkin, editor. Jordans/Family Law (2015).

  • Publication

    “Listening to the Child’s Voice in the Family Setting: From Aspiration to Reality.” 26 (3) Child & Family Law Quarterly 152 (2014).

  • Publication

    Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years (editor). Edinburgh University Press (2014). With Fraser P. Davidson, Kay E. Goodall, and Gavin F.M. Little.

  • Publication

    Family Law. W. Green (2014).

  • Presentation

    “Article 3 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Challenges of Vagueness and Priorities.” Third Annual 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 2015.

  • Publication

    “It Is a Wise Child…: The Ongoing Debate About Fatherhood in Scotland.” Journal of the Law Society of Scotland online (June 16, 2014).

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “David and Goliath—Taking on OIRA.” 30 Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law (Fall 2014), Florida State University School of Law.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dave Miller for “U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage.” Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, June 26, 2015.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Standing” and “Agency Oversight by the Political Branches.” A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies. Second edition. ABA Press (June 2015).

  • Presentation

    School-to-Prison Pipeline—An Oregon Case Study (panel). Lassiter Conference, Freedom From Fear: On Black Childhood and Other Dangers, Lexington, Kentucky. November 21, 2014.

  • Presentation

    The School-to-Prison Pipeline (panel). Freedom From Fear: Black Childhood and Other Dangers II, Lewis & Clark Black Law Student Association symposium, Portland, Oregon. April 17, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Free to Use (panel). Mythos Challenge Workshop, Portland Art Museum. March 19, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Fair Use: An Affirmative Defense?” Campbell at 21, University of Washington Law School. April 17, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Restatement of the Law, Copyright (panel). American Law Institute Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. May 25, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “The Path Forward From Shelby County v. Holder.” The End of Voting Rights, Touro Law Center, Long Island, New York. March 20, 2014.

  • Publication

    “The Path Forward From Shelby County v. Holder.” 7 Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, Touro College Law Center, and 17 Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (June 1, 2014).

  • Publication

    “Fair Use: An Affirmative Defense?” 90 Washington Law Review 653 (June 30, 2015)

  • Publication

    “The Idea of the Casebook: Pedagogy, Prestige, and Trusty Platforms.” Washington Journal of Law, Technology, and the Arts (July 1, 2015). With Joseph Scott Miller.

  • Publication

    Copyright in a Global Information Economy. Fourth edition. Aspen (2015). With Julie Cohen, Ruth Okediji, and Maureen O’Rourke.

  • Publication

    Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials. Version 4.0. Semaphore Press (July 1 2015). With Joseph Scott Miller.

  • Presentation

    On class actions (panel). Seattle University Young Civil Procedure Scholar Workshop, Seattle, Washington. July 17, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Comparative Class Actions.” International Association of Procedural Law, Istanbul, Turkey. May 28, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Supreme Court Cases This Term.” Center for Inquiry, Portland, Oregon. June 12, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Models of Judicial Review (course). Constitutional Court for the Republic of Georgia, Batumi, Republic of Georgia. July 29, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Class Actions in the Year 2025.” Emory Law School Pound Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia. October 15, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On class action rulemaking (panel). Duke University Civil Procedure Conference, Washington, D.C. July 23, 2015.

  • Appointments and Service

    Cochair of the National Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference Site Committee. Portland, Oregon. July 1, 2014-July 16, 2016.

  • Presentation

    On class action possible rulemaking (panel). Class action symposium, Washington, D.C. July 24, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On class action rulemaking (panel). American Association for Justice, Montreal, Canada. July 12, 2015.

  • Publication

    “A New Fulcrum Point for City Survival.” 57 William & Mary Law Review __ (forthcoming November 2015).

  • Presentation

    Testimony on amending Post Conviction DNA Testing Law. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, Salem, Oregon. June 1, 2015.

  • Appointments and Service

    Cochair of the National Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference Site Committee. Portland, Oregon. July 1, 2014-July 16, 2016.

  • Publication

    An Advocate Persuades. Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming August 2015). With Joan Rocklin, Robert Rocklin, and Christine Nero Coughlin.

  • Presentation

    Emerging Trends in Academic Support and Bar Preparation for Students (panel). Northwest Regional Legal Writing and Leadership Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon. April 25, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Joe Douglass for “Study: No Difference in Kids Raised by Same-Sex Couples.” KATU News, June 18, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Dave Miller for “Bulk Data Collection Faces Multiple Legal Challenges.” Think Out Loud, OPB Radio, June 16, 2015.

  • Appointments and Service

    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

  • Publication

    “Facilitating the U.S. Renewable Transition: From Ad Hoc Integration to Comprehensive Reform.” IUCN Academy of Environmental Law eJournal, Issue 6, June 2015.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “Environmental Federalism’s Tug of War Within.” The Law and Policy of Environmental Federalism: A Comparative Analysis. Kalyani Robins, editor, Edward Elgar Press (forthcoming June 2015).

  • Awards and Honors

    Named 2015 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School. May 2015.

  • Presentation

    What News Isn’t Fit to Print? (panel). City Club of Portland, Portland, Oregon. May 29, 2015.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, and National Audubon Society: The Mono Lake Backstory.” Environmental Law, Lewis & Clark Law School (forthcoming May 2015).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nigel Jacquiss for “Kitzhaber’s Nephew Is a Prosecutor in the Office Handling Criminal Investigation Into Whistleblower Michael Rodgers.” Willamette Week, May 28, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “The Effects of Constitutional Stickiness: Interview With Ozan Varol.” Scholastica (blog), May 28, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors

    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.

  • Publication

    “Why Most Nations Do Not Have U.S.-Style Class Actions.” Bloomberg BNA Class Action Litigation Report, Vol. 16, No. 10, May 22, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Are There Democratic Coups?” BBC World (in Spanish), May 17, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jennifer Hoff for “Your Old Emails Are Fair Game for Federal Eyes.” KOIN News, May 14, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Katherine Kisiel on President Obama’s visit to Portland to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. KATU News, May 8, 2015.

  • Presentation

    The 2010 Reforms to the Turkish Constitutional Court: An Empirical Analysis (panel). Koc University Comparative Constitutional Law Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. May 7, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Class Action Subcommittee of the Civil Rules Advisory Committee (panel). American Law Institute annual meeting. May 2015.

  • Presentation

    On ethical issues in class actions (panel). American Law Institute annual meeting. May 2015.

  • Publication

    “Reflections on My Short Tenure as the Iowa Law Review Faculty Advisor.” Iowa Law Review, Iowa City, Iowa, vol. 100, May 1, 2015.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “Response to Heather Gerken’s ‘Federalism and Nationalism: Time for a Détente?’” St. Louis Law Journal, vol. 59 (April 30, 2015).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jude Joffe-Block for “Revelation That Sheriff Arpaio Hired Informant for CIA Investigation Raises New Legal Questions.” Phoenix Public Radio KJZZ, April 29, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Constitutional Performance in Transitions From Military Rule.” How Do Constitutions Succeed? Defining and Assessing Constitutional Performance, University of Chicago Law School. April 25, 2015.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “Environmental Federalism’s Tug of War Within.” The Law and Policy of Environmental Federalism: A Comparative Analysis, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. April 24, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jeff Guo for “This Swingers Sex Club Has Rebranded Itself as a Church. Can It Get Special Treatment Under the Law?” The Washington Post, April 23, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Molly Dischner for “Dog-loving Lawmakers’ Bill Addresses Pet Custody in Divorces.” Associated Press (picked up by San Antonio Express, Anchorage Daily Planet), April 23, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Alan Yuhas for “Chimpanzees Granted Petition to Hear ‘Legal Persons’ Status in Court.” The Guardian, April 22, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Lars Larson on the arguments in Horne v. Dept. of Agriculture, which raises a Takings Clause challenge to a federal program aimed at maintaining the price for raisins. Lars Larson Show, KXL Radio, April 22, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Elizabeth Jenkins for “HB 147 Would Give Pets Special Legal Considerations.” Alaska Public Radio KTOO, April 20, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Constitutional Stickiness (panel). Younger Comparativists Committee Fourth Annual Global Conference, Florida State University College of Law. April 17, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Clinics and Animal Law Perspective.” Maryland State Bar Association Animal Law Symposium, Westminster Hall, Baltimore, Maryland. April 17, 2015.

  • Publication

    “The Idea of the Casebook: Pedagogy, Prestige, and Trusty Platforms.” Washington Journal of Law, Technology, and the Arts, Vol. 12, forthcoming 2015. With Joe Miller.

  • Publication

    “Security Screening: Science or Sorcery?” JURIST, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, April 13, 2015.

  • Publication

    “The Viability of the $30 Casebook: Intellectual Property, Voluntary Payment, Open Distribution, and Author Incentives.” Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 22, fall 2014 and April 13, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by George Rede for “Lewis & Clark Scholar Dissects Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Law and Its Oregon Roots.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, April 12, 2015.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, and National Audubon Society: The Mono Lake Backstory.” Developments in the Public Trust, Lewis & Clark Law School. April 10, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Monique Balas for “Oregon Bill Could Help Endangered Animals in Africa.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, April 10, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “The Federal Public Trust Doctrine and Public Access to Oswego Lake: Two Law Professors’ Amicus Briefs.” Public Trust Doctrine Symposium, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. April 10, 2015. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Annie Ellison for “Kitzhaber Hayes Scandal Delivers Blow to Attorney-Client Privilege in Oregon.” GoLocalPDX, April 9, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Brent Weisberg for news segment on the right to record police officers in public. KOIN News, April 9, 2015.

  • Appointments and Service

    Cochair of the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group. April 8, 2015-April 5, 2017.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “Negotiating Federalism and the Structural Constitution: Navigating the Separation of Powers Both Vertically and Horizontally (A Response to Aziz Huq).” Columbia Law Review (April 3, 2015).

  • Presentation

    “Developments in ‘Ag-Gag’ and Constitutional Concerns.” Animal Law Review Symposium, Old McDonald’s Not-So-Little Farm: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Contemporary Animal Agriculture, Lewis & Clark Law School. April 3, 2015.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Michelle Rindels and Riley Snyder on Nevada’s AB 408, which would appropriate most federal land within the state for reallocation to private use. Associated Press, April 2, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On HB 147 relating to certain aspects of animals under the laws of Alaska (testimony). Alaska Legislature House Judiciary Committee (via telephone). April 1, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On class action topics. George Washington University, Washington, D.C. April 2015.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    Federalism and the Environment (panel). National Association of Attorneys Midwestern Region Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana. April 1, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Michael Castner for “Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law.” The Morning Show, KEX Radio, March 31, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Ben Senger for news segment “Feds Bust Local Prostitution Ring by Targeting ATMs.” KPTV News, March 30, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On class action issues in a major consumer class action involving Intel Corporation (testimony).

  • Presentation

    On class action issues in the National Football League concussion class action litigation (testimony). 

  • Presentation

    “Federal Environmental Concerns.” Factory Farming: Impacts on Animals, Humans, and the Environment, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. March 28, 2015. With Elisabeth Holmes of Blue River Law.

  • Presentation

    Testimony on amending Post Conviction DNA Testing Law. House Judiciary Committee Hearing, Salem, Oregon. March 25, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Misguided Attack on Oregon’s Equal-Service Law” (op-ed). The Oregonian/OregonLive, March 21, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Challenges to Arbitrators: Should the Challenge Process Be Overhauled?” Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law, Vol. 8, transcribed March 20, 2015. With Ian A. Laird, Frédéric G. Sourgens, et al.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Chelsea Kopta for “Cylvia Hayes Has Taxpayer-funded Attorneys Representing Her. KATU News, March 20, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Mark Hanrahan for “Cylvia Hayes Has Two Public Defenders.” KGW News, March 20, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nigel Jaquiss for “Fatal Attraction Fallout.” Willamette Week, March 18, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Tim Becker for news segment “No Crime, but Man Held 900 Days in Oregon Jail.” KOIN News, March 13, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “Hot Topics in Administrative Law.” Federal Judicial Center Workshop for Permanent Law Clerks, Pepperdine Law School, Malibu, California. March 12, 2015. With Chief Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

  • Presentation

    “Animals in Agriculture.” Master Vegetarian Series, Portland, Oregon. March 11, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on whether the Logan Act might apply to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton’s open letter to Iran, which was signed by 46 other Senate Republicans. The Michael Castner Show, KEX Radio, March 10, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on due process and free speech ramifications of the University of Oklahoma’s expulsion of two students for singing and recording a racist song. Lars Larson Show, KXL Radio, March 10, 2015.

  • Awards and Honors
    Erin Ryan

    Featured in an alumna spotlight by the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program newsletter. March 9, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Building a Culture of Dialogue (roundtable). Oregon Bar Press Broadcasters Council, Tigard, Oregon. March 7, 2015. With U.S. District Judge Michael Simon, Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill, and Metro Public Defender Lane Borg ’83, among others.

  • Publication

    “A Limited Case for Capital Punishment” (op-ed). The Oregonian/OregonLive, March 6, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Amelia Templeton for news segment “Bill Introduced to Overhaul Oregon’s Post-Conviction DNA Testing Law.” OPB Radio, March 6, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Animal Law at Lewis & Clark Law School (panel). Human Animal Studies Conference, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. March 6, 2015. With David Rosengard ’15 and Seneca Gray, registrar.

  • Publication

    “‘See No Evil’ Defense Has Its Limits.” 42 Corporate Taxation 24 (March/April 2015). 

  • Publication

    “Treating Foreign Students at U.S. Colleges as Residents” (letter to the editor). 146 Tax Notes 1159 (March 2, 2015).

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by David Stanway on the appointment of Tsinghua University President Chen Jining as China’s Minister of the Environment. Thomson-Reuters News Service, March 1, 2015.

  • Presentation

    “The Electricity Transition: What the United States and European Union Can Teach Each Other.” Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. March 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Joe Douglass for news segment “Cylvia Hayes Sues Newspaper to Block Email Release.” KATU, February 26, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Chelsea Kopta for news segment “Law Professor: Source of Leaked Former Gov. Kitzhaber Emails Could Be Protected by Whistleblower Laws.” KATU News, February 24, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Nick Budnick for “Top Official in Kate Brown Administration Launches Criminal Probe of Kitzhaber Email Leak.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, February 23, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by several reporters on the possibility of criminal charges for former governor John Kitzhaber and fiancée Cylvia Hayes. The Oregonian/OregonLive (2), Willamette Week, and Associated Press. February 15-20, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Embassy Bomber Faces Justice; What Do These Cases Say About Terrorism Prosecution?“ JURIST, February 20, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Federal Wildlands Policy in the Twenty-First Century: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been,” 25 Colo. Nat. Res., Energy, and Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2014). With Andrew Erickson ’13.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Brad Schmidt for “After 10-Year Hiatus, Portland OKs Cops for FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.” The Oregonian/OregonLive, February 19, 2015.

  • Presentation

    International Law Issues in Domestic Litigation (CLE). Multnomah Bar Association, Portland, Oregon. February 17, 2015. With Chris Helmer J.D. ’74 of Miller Nash Graham & Dunn.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Reggie Aqui for news segment “Kate Brown’s Former Spokesman Confident in Future Governor.” KGW News, February 13, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Michael Castner for “Judge Moore and Same-Sex Marriage in Alabama.” KEX Radio, February 13, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by several reporters on Governor Kitzhaber’s resignation and the events leading to it. KATU News, KPTV News, KGW News (2, 3), KPAM AM, KXL radio, and Willamette Week, February 10-13, 2015.

  • Publication

    “Constitutional Stickiness.” University of California at Davis Law Review (forthcoming February 2016).

  • Publication

    “The Public Trust Doctrine and Public Access to an Allegedly Private Navigable Lake: A Law Professors’ Amicus Brief.” Filed with the Oregon Court of Appeals July 1, 2014, published February 10, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On the Oregon Innocence Project. Washington County Public Affairs Forum, Aloha, Oregon. February 9, 2015. With Steve Wax, legal director of the Oregon Innocence Project.

  • Presentation

    “Why Didn’t the Grand Juries Indict in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner Homicides? Some Thoughts on the Ferguson and Staten Island Cases.” Reed College, Portland, Oregon. February 3, 2015.

  • Appointments and Service
    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.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Jeremy Jacobs on possible constitutional violations in the EPA’s enforcement of new ground-level ozone and greenhouse gas requirements under the Clean Air Act. Greenwire, January 30, 2015.

  • Publication

    “The Federal Public Trust Doctrine: Misinterpreting Justice Kennedy and Illinois Central.” 45 Envtl. L. Vol. 2 (January 23, 2015). With Lynn S. Schaffer LL.M. ’15.

  • Publication

    “The Born-Again Champion of Conscience: Robert George, Once a Skeptic of Religious-Exemption Rights, Now Demands Their Unprecedented Expansion.” Harvard Law Review Forum, January 22, 2015.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “Environmental Federalism’s Tug of War Within.” Energy and Climate Change Workshop, UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, California. January 22, 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Julia Preston for “Republicans Resist Obama’s Move to Dismantle Apparatus of Deportation.” The New York Times, January 15, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Congressional Dysfunction and Executive Lawmaking During the Obama Administration (panel). Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 5, 2015. Televised on C-SPAN.

  • Presentation

    Animals as Family (panel). Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 4, 2015.

  • Presentation

    Keeping It Current: Animal Law Examples Across the Curriculum (panel). Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. January 3, 2015.

  • Publication

    Natural Resources Law: Private Rights and the Public Interest. West Publishing (forthcoming 2015). With Eric T. Freyfogle and Blake Hudson.

  • Publication
    Anna Laakmann

    “When Should Physicians Be Liable for Innovation?” Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 36 (2015).

  • Awards and Honors

    Elected to the American Law Institute. January 2015.

  • Publication

    “The Struggle Over the Columbia River Gorge: Establishing and Governing the Nation’s Largest Scenic Area.” Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (2015, forthcoming). With Nathan J. Baker ’00.

  • Awards and Honors

    Winner of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2015 Call for Papers for “A New Fulcrum Point for City Survival.” January 2015.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Six Reasons the Death Penalty Is Becoming More Expensive.” The Marshall Project (blog), December 18, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Stealth Authoritarianism.” 100 Iowa Law Review __ (forthcoming 2015).

  • Presentation

    “Eyewitness Identification: What’s New in the Law.” Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Eugene, Oregon. December 14, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Guantanamo Transfer Leaves Harder Cases Remaining Amid Criticism.” Bloomberg Businessweek, December 7, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Wrongful Convictions: A Community Problem Needs a Community Solution.” Oregon District Attorney Association Winter Conference, Salishan, Oregon. December 4, 2014. With Steve Wax, legal director of the Oregon Innocence Project.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for news segment “Detective Charged With Forgery in White Supremacist Murder Spree Investigation.” KPTV News, December 3, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for news segment “OSP Detective Expected to Plead Guilty.” KGW News, December 3, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed for “EPA’s Uncertain FIP Power Drives Competing Lobbying on State ESPS Plans.” Climate Daily News (republished on the Lewis & Clark Law School website), December 1, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Wrongful Conviction: A Chance for Redemption.” PI Magazine (December 2014).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on executive orders in the context of President Obama’s anticipated order relating to immigration law. The Lars Larson Show, KXL FM 101, November 20, 2014.

  • Presentation

    The Fourth Zone of Presidential Power (debate). Federalist Society, Concordia University Law School, Boise, Idaho. November 20, 2014. With Professor Chad DeVeaux.

  • Presentation

    “Clinical Innovation.” Faculty Speaker Series, Texas A&M Law School, Fort Worth, Texas. November 20, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on executive orders in the context of President Obama’s anticipated order relating to immigration law. The Mark and Dave Show, KPAM AM 860, November 20, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Inviting the Unexpected: Thinking Creatively About Our Work.” California Caucus of College and University Ombuds 41st Annual Conference, Pacific Grove, California. November 17, 2014.

  • Presentation

    On the state of crime victims’ rights in the military in the context of sexual assault, and on how the military’s special victims’ council program is performing. Judicial Proceedings Panel on Sexual Assault in the Military, Washington, D.C. November 14, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The Coming Mega-Regional Trade and Investment Partnerships: Controversies and Implications.” Business Law Society Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon. November 13, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Digital Publishing in the Law School Casebook Market.” Concepts in Digital Publishing, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. November 10, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Salmon Are Flourishing Because of Judge’s Orders.” The Oregonian, November 8, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Alcohol- and Drug-Free Housing: A Key Strategy in Breaking the Cycle of Addiction and Recidivism.” The Long Overdue Reform of California’s Sentencing Practice and Policy, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California. November 7, 2014. With Richard L. Harris, MSW.

  • Appointments and Service

    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.

  • Presentation

    “The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property.”  Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana. November 7, 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    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.

  • Publication

    “The Federal Public Trust Doctrine: A Law Professors’ Amicus Brief.” November 6, 2014. With Lynn Schaffer LL.M. ’15.

  • Appointments and Service

    Associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Copyright Law. November 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    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.

  • Presentation

    “Constitutional Stickiness.” Symposium on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Design, Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts. October 31, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Walter Echo-Hawk Receives Human Rights Honor by International Organization.” Indian Country Today (October 27, 2014).

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Maxine Bernstein for “Multnomah County DA Assigns Veteran Prosecutor to Guard Against Wrongful Convictions.” The Oregonian, October 26, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    On Yale Law professor Heather Gerken’s “Federalism as the New Nationalism.” Childress Lecture and Symposium: Federalism as the New Nationalism. University of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. October 24, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Working With Nontraditional Business Clients, Uncovering Assumptions and Breaking Down Stereotypes (CLE). Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Fair and Awards Reception, Portland, Oregon. October 23, 2014. With Small Business Legal Clinic Assistant Director Julieanna Elegant.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Richarson Asks Federal Prosecutor to Investigate Kitzhaber, Hayes.” KATU News, October 23, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Possible Rule Changes to Class Actions (panel). American Bar Association Class Action Institute, Chicago, Illinois. October 23, 2014.

  • Publication

    “When Commercial Meets Sovereign: A New Paradigm for Applying the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in Crossover Cases.” 52 Houston Law Review 361, University of Houston Law Center (October 22, 2014).

  • Presentation

    “What Can We Do to Protect Animals Overseas?” Animal Law Conference: Animal Law in a Changing Environment: Finding Common Ground, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. October 19, 2014. With Clinical Professor of Law and Animal Law Clinic Director Kathy Hessler.

  • Presentation

    “What Can We Do to Protect Animals Overseas?” Animal Law Conference: Animal Law in a Changing Environment: Finding Common Ground, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. October 19, 2014. With Director of the Animal Law LL.M. Program at the Center for Animal Law Studies Natasha Dolezal.

  • Presentation

    Yosemite and the Law—150 Years Later (panel). California Bar Environmental Section Annual Yosemite Conference, Yosemite National Park, California. October 19, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Constitutional Stickiness.” Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable at Montpelier, Montpelier, Virginia. October 18, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Recent Developments in Constitutional Law.” American Bar Association Annual Administrative Law Conference, Washington, D.C. October 17, 2014.

  • Presentation

    El Acatamiento del Derecho Ambiental en los Estados Unidos (Enforcement of Environmental Law in the United States) (course). Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Bogotá, Colombia. October 17-18, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Game of Drones: Defending Against Drone Attacks (panel). New Technology and Old Law: Rethinking National Security Law Review Symposium, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas. October 17, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Recent Developments in Constitutional Law.” American Bar Association Annual Administrative Law Conference, Washington, D.C. October 17, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Intellectual and Regulatory Property.” Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Workshop, Michigan State University College of Law, Lansing, Michigan. October 17, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jonathan Frochtzwajg for “From Contracts to Copyrights, the Young Nonprofit Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Answers Artists’ Legal Questions.” The Oregonian, October 15, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “The Ethics Around Cylvia Hayes’ Official Role.” KOIN Local 6, October 15, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Documents Show Kitzhaber Staffers Rewrote Ethical Guidelines for Hayes.” KATU News, October 14, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Mike Wolfe on alternative publishing with Semaphore Press, a company she cofounded. Authors Alliance, November 11, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Kitzhaber Continues to Deny Fiancée Blurred Personal, Professional Lines.” KATU News, October 10, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Stealth Authoritarianism.” Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey and the Middle East, Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York. October 10-11, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Resistance: Not All Germs Are Created Equal (panel). Resistance (viewing), Portland, Oregon. October 9, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Lars Larson for live segment on whether the appointment of a special prosecutor was warranted following breaking news about Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s fiancée, Cylvia Hayes. The Lars Larson Show, KXL FM 101, October 9, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Alan Yuhas for “The Rise of the Planet of the Legal Persons Formerly Known as Apes.” The Guardian, October 8, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The New Genomic Semicommons.” Law and Biosciences Workshop, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California. October 7, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Jeff Mapes for “Oregon’s Gay Marriage Ruling Further Insulated From Reversal Following Supreme Court Action.” The Oregonian, October 6, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Spending Power and Environmental Law After Sebelius.” The 2014 Honorable James R. Browning Symposium—The Future of Federalism: What Is to Be Retained, and What Surrendered? University of Montana School of Law, Missoula, Montana. October 3, 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Vice-chair of the younger comparativists committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law. October 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    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.

  • Awards and Honors

    Named to the International Association of Procedural Law, an organization of the world’s leading civil procedure scholars. October 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for live segment on sentencing issues in the Mohamed Mohamud terrorism case. The Mark and Dave Show, KPAM AM 860, October 1, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Introduction to U.S. Law (course). China. October 2014. With Jun Ge ’95.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Helen Jung for “Mohamed Mohamud Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Tree-Lighting Bomb Plot.” The Oregonian, October 1, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed and provided photography for “Hunted to Extinction.” The Lewis & Clark Chronicle, fall 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for “Hunted to Extinction.” The Lewis & Clark Chronicle, fall 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Do Patents Still Make Sense? The Shifting IP Landscape for Medical Diagnostics.” Salishan Patent Law Conference, Gleneden Beach, Oregon. September 26, 2014.

  • Appointments and Service
    Erin Ryan

    Cochair of the faculty mentoring committee of the Association for Law, Property, and Society. Fall 2014.

  • Presentation

    Measure 88 Safe Roads (panel). Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, Warner Pacific College, Portland, Oregon. September 20, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The Future and Federal Administrative Law.” Oregon State Bar Northwest Administrative Law Institute, Vancouver, Washington. September 19, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The Future and Federal Administrative Law.” Oregon State Bar Northwest Administrative Law Institute, Vancouver, Washington. September 19, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Public Trust Doctrine, Water Allocation, and the Mono Lake Backstory.” Advanced Public Trust Doctrine Seminar, University of California at Davis School of Law, Davis, California. September 17, 2014.

  • Presentation

    Some Exclusionary Policies and Practices Pertaining to Asian Americans in Oregon’s History (CLE). Echoes of Inequality: A History of Oregon’s Exclusionary Laws, Oregon State Bar, Tigard, Oregon. September 12, 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Newsletter editor for the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group. September 2, 2014, through May 31, 2015.

  • Presentation

    On a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving gene patents (panel). The Meaning of Myriad, the University of California at Irvine School of Law. September 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Derechos de Empleados y Obligaciones de Empleadores abajo de La Ley de Americanos con Discapacidades (ADA)” (“Employee Rights and Employer Obligations Under the Americans With Disabilities Act”). Forum on legislation for disabled workers, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia. August 26, 2014. With Kelly Aristizábal of Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Santa Marta.

  • Presentation

    “Ayer Pequeños Negocios. Mañana, Grandes Empresas. El Rol de las Clínica Jurídica” (“Yesterday, Small Businesses. Tomorrow, Big Businesses. The Role of the Legal Clinic”). Celebración de los 20 Años de la Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia. August 25, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Legislación Federal para Trabajadores con Discapacidad” (“Federal Legislation for Disabled Workers”). Conference on the Rights of Disabled Workers, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia. August 21, 2014. With Jorge Luis Quintero.

  • Presentation

    “Ayer, Pequeños Negocios. Mañana, Grandes Empresas. El Rol de las Clínicas Jurídicas” (“Yesterday, Small Businesses. Tomorrow, Big Businesses. The Role of Legal Clinics”). Celebración de los 20 Años de la Facultad de Derecho (Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Law School), Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia. August 20, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Las Responsabilidades Éticas de Estudiantes de Leyes en una Clínica Jurídica” (“The Ethical Responsibilities of Law Students in a Legal Clinic”). Ética de los Estudiantes en un Consultorio Jurídico (Student Ethics in a Legal Office), Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia. August 19, 2014. With Dean Marien Yolanda Correa Corredor.

  • Appointments and Service

    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.

  • Publication

    “The Dual Narratives in the Landscape of Music Copyright.” Houston Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2014.

  • Appointments and Service
    Erin Ryan

    Faculty peer reviewer of federalism scholarship proposed for Yale Law Journal. August 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Intellectual and Regulatory Property.” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, California. August 2014.

  • Appointments and Service
    Erin Ryan

    Faculty peer reviewer of federalism scholarship proposed for Harvard Law Review. August 2014.

  • Presentation

    Working With Immigrant, Minority, and Women Entrepreneurs, Experiences of the Small Business Legal Clinic Pro Bono Project (CLE). Portland, Oregon. July 9, 2014. With Small Business Legal Clinic Assistant Director Julieanna Elegant.

  • Publication

    “Pay Up Now, Deduct Later (Maybe)–Ash Grove Cement Co.” 41 Corporate Taxation 27, (July/August 2014).

  • Presentation

    “The Public Trust Doctrine Abroad.” Vermont Law School. July 2014.

  • Presentation
    Theresa Wright

    On presenting evidence in Family Abuse Prevention Act and other protection order cases (CLE). Local legal aid volunteer attorneys. July 2014.

  • Publication

    “How to Avoid the Plague of Class/Representative Action Wage and Hour Suits.” 65 CCH Labor Law Journal, No. 2, (June 24, 2014).

  • Presentation

    “First-Year Collaborations.” Bringing Outside In: Social Justice Collaborations in the Legal Writing Curriculum, Drexel University School of Law. June 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The Impact of International Human Rights Law on Labor and Employment Law.” Transnational Perspectives on Equality Law, American Association of Law Schools, Washington, D.C. June 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Organizer for the conference Bringing Outside In: Social Justice Collaborations in the Legal Writing Curriculum. Drexel University School of Law. June 2014.

  • Presentation

    “State Inaction, Equal Protection, and Religious Resistance to LGBT Rights.” Fifth Annual Law and Religion Roundtable, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri. June 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Cofounder of the Oregon Innocence Project (OIP), which launched in April 2014 and began accepting cases in June 2014.

  • Presentation
    Theresa Wright

    On her experiences doing international legal work in Latvia, Croatia, and Turkey (panel). Oregon Women Lawyers. June 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the 2015 Transactional Clinical Conference Planning Committee. June 1, 2014, through April 24, 2015.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Noelle Crombie on jurisdictional conflicts between state and county governments over the siting of medical marijuana dispensaries. The Oregonian, May 20, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Katherine Cook for news segment on the changes in law and practice that will follow the federal judicial invalidation of Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban. KGW-NBC News, May 19, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Lars Larson for live segment on the federal district court’s invalidation of Oregon’s state constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. The Lars Larson Show, KXL FM 101, May 19, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Jessica Morkert for news segment on the procedural issues complicating National Organization for Marriage’s appeal in the Oregon same-sex marriage case. KOIN-CBS News, May 19, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Lisa Balick for news segment on when federal judicial decisions appropriately invalidate state ballot initiatives. KOIN-CBS News, May 19, 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Wayne Havrelly for news segment on a federal district court’s pending decision on whether Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban violates the U.S. Constitution. KGW-NBC News, May 18, 2014.

  • Awards and Honors

    Named 2014 recipient of the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class of Lewis & Clark Law School.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Donovan M. Smith for “Fighting for the Innocent.” The Portland Observer, May 7, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Snowden’s Defense Is a Legal Minefield.” Handelsblatt, May 6, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Elaborate Paper Tiger: Environmental Enforcement, Property, and the Rule of Law in China.” Association for Law, Property, and Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. May 3, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed for live radio news segment on the coal mining tragedy that occurred in Turkey. BBC Radio, May 2014.

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    At a national summit on reproductive health policy. Washington, D.C. May 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Targeted Killings, Drones, and Civil Rights.” Town Club, Portland, Oregon. May 2014.

  • Presentation

    “The New Age of New Media Music Licensing.” Leveraging Creativity: Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Intellectual Property Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. May 2014.

  • Presentation

    On class/representative waivers in mandatory arbitration agreements required as a condition of employment. Oregon Law Institute. May 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Voting member of the Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee. Appointed to second term May 2014.

  • Publication

    Review of Secrecy, National Security and the Vindication of Constitutional Law (David Cole, Federico Fabbrini, and Arianna Vedaschi, editors), Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (May 2014).

  • Presentation

    “The Shifting Landscape of Music Licensing.” ReCalibrating Copyright: Continuity, Contemporary Culture, and Change, University of Houston. May 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Public Policy Exception to Labor Arbitration Award Enforcement: Another Look at the Supreme Court’s Public Policy Trilogy.” Labor and Employment Relations Association. May 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Legal Tips for the Business Owner.” Governor’s Marketplace, Salem, Oregon. April 30, 2014. With Spencer Wilson ’15 and Laura Westmeyer ’15.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Paper Tiger Gets Teeth: Developments in Chinese Environmental Law.” The Huffington Post (April 30, 2014).

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Paper Tiger Gets Teeth: Developments in Chinese Environmental Law.” Law.com Network (April 28, 2014).

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by David Stanway on historic new amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law. Thomson-Reuters Beijing, April 23, 2014.

  • Publication

    “The Underappreciated Role of the NEPA in the Designation and Management of Wilderness Areas.” 44 Environmental Law, No. 2, (April 22, 2014). With Lorena Wisehart ’13.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Amelia Templeton for “Finding Evidence Could Challenge New Oregon Innocence Project.” Oregon Public Broadcasting, April 13, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Helen Silvis for “Oregon Innocence Project Offers Hope to the Wrongly Convicted.” The Skanner, April 11, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Carol McAlice Currie for “Effort May Clear Some Inmates.” The Statesmen Journal, April 9, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Karen Richards for “Oregon Prisoners Will Soon Have a Way to Fight Wrongful Convictions.” KLCC/NPR, April 8, 2014. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bryan Denson for “Lawyer Steven Wax Takes Giant Pay Cut to Join Oregon Innocence Project: Why?” The Oregonian, April 6, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Spending Power and Environmental Law After Sebelius.” Workshop for Heather Gerken’s Advanced Federalism Seminar, Yale University. April 4, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Stealth Authoritarianism.” Third Annual Younger Comparativists Committee Conference. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Revolutionary Humor.” Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    “Intersections in Reproductive Technology.” Yale University. April 2014.

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    “Roe at Risk.” American Constitution Society, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    “NEPA and Wilderness: A Symbiotic Relationship.” Wilderness conference, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Wrongful Convictions and the Oregon Innocence Project.” Multnomah Bar Association Partner Round Table, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Student Involvement in Innocence Projects.” Engaging in Resistance, Lewis & Clark, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    On the Hobby Lobby case. Oregon Lawyers Chapter of the American Constitution Society. 2014.

  • Appointments and Service

    Organizer for the National Innocence Network Conference. Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Presentation

    Music Industry Specific Reforms (panel). The Next Great Copyright Act, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California. April 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the refusal of Oregon sheriffs to accede to immigration hold requests. The Oregonian. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the refusal of Oregon sheriffs to accede to immigration hold requests. The New York Times. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the refusal of Oregon sheriffs to accede to immigration hold requests. KBOO Radio.

  • Presentation

    “Modern Militias: Fostering Stability or Sowing Strife?” Lewis & Clark 52nd Annual International Affairs Symposium, Portland, Oregon. April 2014.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by David Nogueras on Supreme Court arguments in a case concerning constitutionally prohibited viewpoint discrimination and public protests. Oregon Public Broadcasting, March 25, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Spending Power and Environmental Law After Sebelius.” Justin Pidot’s Advanced Environmental Law Seminar, University of Denver. March 24, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Understanding Small Business Legal Basics.” Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization. March 22, 2014.

  • Presentation
    Erin Ryan

    “The Spending Power and Environmental Law After Sebelius.” Workshop for Gillian Metzger and Jessica Bulman-Pozen’s Advanced Federalism Seminar, Columbia University. March 14, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the Oregon Innocence Project. News Radio KEX 1190, March 11, 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Bryan Denson for “Oregon Innocence Project Startup Will Join Coast-to-Coast Campaign to Free the Wrongly Imprisoned.” The Oregonian, March 11, 2014. 

  • Presentation

    On the Lewis & Clark Low Income Taxpayer Clinic and other low-income tax clinics. Oregon Congressional staff. March 2014. 

  • Presentation

    “Article 6 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Right to Life, Survival, and Development.” Second Annual CRC-IP Colloquium, Stellenbosch University Law Faculty, South Africa. March 2014.

  • Presentation

    “30 Years After Conviction and 10 Years After Exoneration.” Boston College Law School. March 2014.

  • Presentation

    On interest arbitration to the labor law class of William Gould (former chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board). Stanford Law School. March 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed by Kristian Foden-Vencil for “Oregon Innocence Project Forms To Exonerate Wrongfully Imprisoned.” Oregon Public Broadcasting, February 14, 2014.

  • Publication

    “Oversight Board May Lead to Surveillance Changes.” JURIST Forum, February 12, 2014.

  • Presentation

    “2014 Affirmative Action Update.” Oregon State Bar Government Lawyers Section Annual Seminar, Lincoln City, Oregon. February 2014. With Brandon Kline ’15 and Rudolph Jeffries ’15.

  • Presentation

    “Copyright Litigation Reform Through the Plausibility Standard for Pleadings.” Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property, Santa Clara University Law School. February 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Stealth Authoritarianism.” Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. February 2014.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on same-sex marriage litigation in Oregon. Think Out Loud, Oregon Public Broadcasting.  

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the refusal of Oregon sheriffs to accede to immigration hold requests. Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio.

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on the refusal of Oregon sheriffs to accede to immigration hold requests. Al Jazeera Television. 

  • Media Appearance

    Interviewed on same-sex marriage litigation in Oregon. Your Voice, Your Vote, KATU.  

  • Presentation

    “The Role of Lawyers and Law Students in Reversing Trends in Wildlife Trafficking.” Public Interest Environmental Litigation and Education for Creative Environmental Lawyers: From Practitioners’ Perspectives, Kangwon National University, South Korea.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Teachers Manual for Administrative Procedure and Practice. West Academic, fifth edition, (2014). With Sidney Shapiro and Russell Weaver.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Teachers Manual for American Constitutional Law. West Academic, (2014).

  • Presentation

    On constitution-making in Egypt and the Middle East (panel). Symposium on comparative constitutional change, Annual Meeting for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). 2014.

  • Publication

    “On Judicial Review Under the Clean Water Act in the Wake of Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center: What We Now Know and What We Have Yet to Find Out.” 43 Environmental Law 767 (2014). With Lia Comerford ’13.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Introduction to American Constitutional Law. West Academic, (2014).

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Administrative Procedure and Practice. West Academic, fifth edition, (2014). With Sidney Shapiro and Russell Weaver.

  • Publication
    Edward Brunet

    Summary Judgment—Federal Law and Practice 2014. Thomson Reuters (2014). With Professor John T. Parry and Martin H. Redish.

  • Publication

    “Invasions and Civilians: The Special Duty of the United States to Aid Civilian War Sufferers Produced by U.S. Military Intervention.” Human Rights & Globalization Law Review (forthcoming).

  • Publication

    “The Public Policy Exception to Labor Arbitration Award Enforcement: Another Look at the Supreme Court’s Public Policy Trilogy.”

  • Publication

    “When Commercial Meets Sovereign: A New Paradigm for Applying the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in Crossover Cases.” 52 Houston Law Review __ , (forthcoming 2014).

  • Publication

    “The Dual Narratives in the Landscape of Music Copyright.” 52 Houston L. Rev. (2014).

  • Publication

    “The Viability of the $30 Casebook: Intellectual Property, Voluntary Payment, Open Distribution, and Author Incentives.” 21 Journal of Intellectual Property Law __ (forthcoming 2014).

  • Publication

    “Conservation-Reliant Species: Toward a Biology-Based Definition.” 64 BioScience 601 (2014). With Carlos Carroll and Brett Hartl J.D. ’10.

  • Publication

    “The Endangered Species Act at 40: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” 20 Animal Law 251 (2014).

  • Publication

    “The Unfulfilled Promise of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.” 18 Lewis & Clark Law Review 155 (2014).

  • Publication

    “Civilizing Civil Detention.” JOTWELL, the Online Journal of Things We Like (Lots).

  • Publication

    “Connectivity Conservation and Endangered Species Recovery: A Study in the Challenges of Defining Conservation-Reliant Species.” Conservation Letters (forthcoming 2014). With Carlos Carroll and Brett Hartl J.D. ’10.

  • Publication

    “What Is the Grotian Tradition in International Law?” 35 Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 299-377 (2014).

  • Publication

    “Obamacare, RFRA, and the Perils of Legislative History.” 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 77 (2014).

  • Publication

    “The Public Meaning of RFRA Versus Legislators’ Understanding of RLPA: A Response to Professor Laycock.” 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 125 (2014).

  • Publication

    Review of Non-Legality in International Law: Unruly Law, Law & Society Review (forthcoming 2014).

  • Publication

    Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice. West (2014). With Professor Edward J. Brunet and Martin H. Redish.

  • Publication
    Edward Brunet

    “The Civil Rules Committee and Amending Rule 56.” 18 Lewis & Clark Law Review (forthcoming 2014).

  • Publication

    “Lands Council, Karuk Tribe, and the Great Environmental Divide in the Ninth Circuit.”  54 Nat. Res. J. 1 (2014). With Maggie Hall ’13.

  • Appointments and Service

    Coach for the Wood Middle School “We the People” Constitution Team, which placed second in the national middle school competition in Washington, D.C

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the board of directors for the Classroom Law Project.

  • Appointments and Service

    Editor of International Administrative Law (weekly e-journal), Social Sciences Research Network.

  • Appointments and Service

    Editor of Administrative Law (weekly e-journal), Social Sciences Research Network.

  • Appointments and Service

    Judicially appointed expert witness in a federal district court case in Ohio involving the City of Akron’s combined-sewer overflows.

  • Appointments and Service

    Provider of legal and technical support through the International Environmental Law Project to the Alliance of Small Island Developing States during the climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland. With seven students, whom he supervised.

  • Appointments and Service
    Theresa Wright

    Member of the Oregon State Bar’s Judicial Administration Committee. 

  • Appointments and Service
    Theresa Wright

    Member of the Oregon State Bar’s House of Delegates. 

  • Appointments and Service
    Theresa Wright

    Member of the Multnomah Bar Association (MBA) Professionalism Committee subcommittee charged with modifying the MBA’s Statement of Professionalism to include references to honoring diversity and inclusion.

  • Appointments and Service
    Theresa Wright

    Chair of an Oregon State Bar task force examining whether the state should provide for the limited licensing of legal technicians to provide certain defined legal services to the public. 

  • Appointments and Service

    Peer reviewer for Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, Oxford University Press.

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the Oregon State Bar House of Delegates.

  • Publication
    Paula Abrams

    “The Bad Mother: Stigma, Abortion, and Surrogacy.” Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, forthcoming 2014.

  • Publication

    Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor. Sixth edition. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (2014).

  • Publication

    Contracts: Examples and Explanations. Sixth edition. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (2014).

  • Publication

    “Endangered Species Act Listings and Climate Change: Avoiding the Elephant in the Room.” 20 Animal Law __  (forthcoming 2014). With Kya Marienfeld ’14. 

  • Publication
    Paula Abrams

    “Abortion Stigma: The Legacy of Casey.” Rutgers Women’s Rights Law Reporter, forthcoming 2014.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Elaborate Paper Tiger: Environmental Enforcement and the Rule of Law in China.” 24 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 184 (2014).

  • Appointments and Service

    Member of the board of directors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center.

  • Appointments and Service
    Paula Abrams

    Advisory member to the Oregon Law Commission Judicial Selection Work Group.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Spending Power and Environmental Law After Sebelius.” 85 University of Colorado Law Review 1003 (2014).

  • Publication

    “Crimmigration: Encountering the Leviathan.” The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Crime, Sharon Pickering, editor (forthcoming 2014).

  • Publication

    “Copyright at Common Law in 1774.” 47 Connecticut Law Review __ , (forthcoming 2014).

  • Presentation

    Flipping the Law School Classroom—The Transformative Immigration Law Seminar (panel). Connecting Students With Social Movements and Advocacy.

  • Presentation

    On qualified offers and attorney fees (panel). ABA Tax Section Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. January 2014.

  • Presentation

    On the Hobby Lobby case. The Center for Religion, Law, and Democracy at Willamette University. 2014. 

  • Presentation

    Challenges to Arbitrators: Should the Challenge Process Be Overhauled? (panel). Eighth Annual Juris Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Washington, D.C.

  • Presentation

    “Civil Detention and Other Oxymorons.” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

  • Presentation

    “Civil Detention and Other Oxymorons.” Immigration Law Teachers Workshop, University of California at Irvine Law School.

  • Presentation

    “Copyright at Common Law in 1774.” Intellectual property colloquium, Stanford Law School.

  • Presentation

    “1000 Words: Images as Legal Reasoning.” Clinical Theory Workshop, New York Law School. 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Art-iculating the Analysis: Using Visuals in Legal Reasoning.” Biennial International Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2014.

  • Presentation

    Wildlife Law (course). Colloquium on conservation-reliant species. University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaii.

  • Publication

    “Cohabitation.” The Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy. John Eekelaar and Rob George, editors, Routledge (2014).

  • Presentation

    At a conference on the Federal Rules Advisory Committee’s work. Portland, Oregon.

  • Presentation

    “Turkey’s Challenges.” World Affairs Council of Oregon, Great Decisions Lecture Series. January 2014.

  • Presentation

    “Temporary Constitutions.” Annual Meeting for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). January 2014.

  • Presentation

    The Nation State Under Threat: Reaffirming Boundaries Through Migration Control (panel).

  • Presentation

    On criminal history discrimination. Post-Deportation Human Rights Project’s conference on the draft, International Convention on the Rights of Forcibly Expelled Persons, Dover, Massachusetts.

  • Presentation

    “The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at 40.” University of California at Davis.

  • Presentation

    On trends in international wildlife trafficking. Endangered Species Act at 40: Examining Its Past and Exploring Its Future conference.

  • Presentation

    “Achieving Coherence in Climate Finance.” Korean Ministry of Environment, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Presentation

    “Loss and Damage: Distinguishing the Loss and Damage and Adaptation Workplans.” Korean Ministry of Environment, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Presentation

    Recent U.S. and International Efforts to Combat Illicit Wildlife Trafficking symposium, American Bar Association and Environmental Law Institute.

  • Presentation

    “Copyright at Common Law Before 1710.” Legal history workshop, the faculties of law and history, University of Cambridge.

  • Presentation

    A talk on conflicts between renewable energy development and biodiversity conservation. Energy law conference, Kanwon National Law School, Chuncheon, South Korea.

  • Publication

    “Living Within Our Carbon Budget” (op-ed). The Oregonian.

  • Publication

    “Addressing the Underreporting of Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production and Thawing Permafrost.” 23 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (2014). With Victoria Johnston ’15 and Benjamin Saver ’14.

  • Presentation

    A paper on financial remedies in intellectual property cases. University of Cambridge conference. 

  • Publication
    William Funk

    Column on recent articles of interest, Administrative and Regulatory Law News (quarterly). American Bar Association.

  • Publication
    William Funk

    On Kathryn Kovacs’ article “Superstatute Theory and Administrative Common Law.” Jotwell’s Administrative Law blog.

  • Publication

    “Increasing Mitigation Ambition: Establishing ‘Mitigation Reference Points’ to Trigger Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reductions.” 44 Environmental Law 225 (2014). With Amelia Schlusser J.D. ’13, LL.M. ’14.

  • Publication

    “Climate Change, International Trade, and Response Measures: Options for Mitigating Climate Change Without Harming Developing Country Economies.” 46 George Washington International Law Review (2014). With Don Gourlie ’14 and Amelia Schlusser J.D. ’13, LL.M. ’14.

  • Publication

    “Revolutionary Humor.” 23 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal (2014).

  • Publication

    “Temporary Constitutions.” 102 California Law Review 409 (2014).

  • Publication

    Climate Change and the Law. Second edition. With Professor Melissa Powers ’01.

  • Publication

    “Addressing Climate Change Through Nonclimate International Instruments” (coauthor). Global Climate Change and U.S. Law. Second edition. Michael B. Gerrard, editor (2014).

  • Publication

    Law professors’ brief in a major case in the Third Circuit involving the legality of EPA’s total maximum daily load (TMDL) program under the Clean Water Act. With Clinical Professor Allison LaPlante.

  • Publication

    Update to “International Human Rights and Its Impact on Labor and Employment Law.” International Labor and Employment Law, fourth edition, Keller and Darby. 2014.

  • Publication
    Anna Laakmann

    “The Hatch-Waxman Act’s Side Effects: Precautions for Biosimilars.” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Volume 47, Number 4 (2014) Symposium: Health Care Law.

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    “Roe at 41.” Lewis & Clark and Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon. January 2014.

  • Presentation

    Comparative Environmental Law (course). Kangwon National University Law School, Chuncheon, South Korea. Spring 2014.

  • Publication

    “Salmon Hatcheries as Fish Factories: Forgetting the Lessons of Leopold,” 4 Seattle J. Envtl. L. 409 (2014).

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Jordana Gustafson on Oregon same-sex marriage advocates’ twin ballot initiative and litigation strategies to change state law. Oregon Public Broadcasting, December 27, 2013.

  • Media Appearance
    Erin Ryan

    Interviewed by Jordana Gustafson on the implications of a Utah federal court decision upholding same-sex marriage rights under federal law. Oregon Public Broadcasting, December 23, 2013.

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Great American Gun Violence Lottery.” The Huffington Post (December 20, 2013).

  • Publication
    Erin Ryan

    “The Great American Gun Violence Lottery.” American Constitution Society Blog (December 17, 2013).

  • Presentation

    “Race in the Gun Debate.” Northeastern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Puerto Rico. December 2013.

  • Presentation

    “The Religious Freedom, Establishment, Regulation, Tolerance, and Accommodation: Meeting the New Challenges of Religion.” Education Law Association. November 2013. With Paula Barran.

  • Presentation

    “Virtual Whistleblowing: These Class Clowns Aren’t That Funny.” Barran Liebman Annual Labor and Employment Law Seminar, Portland, Oregon. September 2013.

  • Presentation

    “David and Goliath—Taking on OIRA.” Environmental Law Without Congress conference, Florida State University. February 2013.

  • Publication

    “From Consultation to Consent: Community Approval as a Prerequisite to Environmentally Significant Projects.” 116 W. VA. L. Rev. 109, (2013).

  • Publication
    William Funk

    “Drones, Due Process, and the Fourth Amendment.” 22 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 311, (2013).

  • Publication

    “Law and Order and White Power: White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement and the Need to Eliminate Racism in the Ranks.” 6 J. L & Soc. Deviance (2013).

  • Publication

    “What History Teaches Us About U.S. Copyright Law and Statutory Damages.” 5 WIPO Journal 76, (2013).

  • Publication

    “The Public Trust in Wildlife” (includes an appendix with all state claims of wildlife ownership and trust statutes). 2013 Utah L. Rev. 1437. With Aurora Paulsen ’12.

  • Publication

    “Domestic Counterinsurgency: How Counterinsurgency Tactics Combined With Laws Were Deployed Against Blacks Throughout U.S. History.” 3 U. Miami Race Social Justice L. Rev. 31 (2013).

  • Publication

    “Listening to the Voice of the Child: The Evolution of Participation Rights.” 26 New Zealand Law Review 335 (2013).

  • Publication

    “Citizen Suits in U.S. Environmental Law: An Overview and Assessment.” 11 Envt’l L. & Pol’y 125 (Korean translation) (2013).

  • Publication

    Climate Change and the Law. Matthew Bender and Company, second edition (2013). With Professor Chris Wold ’90 and David Hunter.

  • Publication

    A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis. Carolina Academic Press, second edition (2013). With Christine Nero Coughlin and Joan Rocklin.

  • Publication

    “Sustainable Energy Subsidies.” 43 Environmental Law 211 (2013).

  • Publication

    “Martyrs to Circumstance: Longworth v Yelverton.” Pronounced for Doom: Early Scots Law Tales. Avizandum Publishing (2013).

  • Presentation
    Paula Abrams

    “The General Welfare Clause of the Constitution.” League of Woman Voters, Portland, Oregon. 2013.

  • Publication

    “The Decline of Class Actions.” Washington University Law Review, Vol. 9, Iss. 3, 2013.

  • Publication

    Pronounced for Doom: Early Scots Law Tales (edited). Avizandum Publishing (2013). With Professor John P. Grant.

  • Publication

    Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies. LexisNexis, third edition (2013). With David Crump, Neil P. Cohen, and Penelope Pether.

  • Publication

    The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America (edited). Cambridge University Press (2013). With L. Song Richardson.

  • Publication

    “The Legal Framework of Animal Testing: Challenges and Opportunities.” 54 S. Tex. L. Rev. 587, (2013).

  • Publication

    Pronounced for Doom: Early Scots Law Tales (editor). Avizandum (2013). With Elaine E. Sutherland.

  • Publication

    “The Lockerbie Trial: Was It Independent, Dignified, and Scrupulously Fair?” 20 (4) Juridica 257, (2013).

  • Publication

    “The Role of the Animal Law Clinic.” 61 Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal (Portuguese translation), Vol 8, Número 14 (2013).

  • Publication

    “Off-Campus Harassment: Identifying the Geographical Reach of Title IX Compliance.” URMIA Journal, (2013). With Paula Barran.

  • Publication

    “Modern Forum Shopping in Bankruptcy.” 46 Conn. L. Rev. 159 (2013).

  • Publication

    “Lukumi at 20: A Legacy of Uncertainty for Religious Liberty and Animal Welfare Laws.” 19 Animal Law 295 (2013).

  • Publication

    “The Proactive Approach to Title IX Retaliation Claims.” Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Newsletter, (2013).

  • Publication

    “Deacon William Brodie.” Pronounced for Doom: Early Scots Law Tales, Avizandum, (2013).