Includes selections received from August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2025. Read all the latest news from faculty and find more details about these listings as well as media appearances.
Taylor Nchako and Lisa Benjamin, ESG Backlash in the United States – Investor Concerns or ‘Red Scare’? 5(2) 268, JLPE (2025).
Racial capitalism and climate change: colonialism and climate law and policy in the Commonwealth, 41. 577, Wisconsin International Law Review (2024).
Co-author, chapter 12, Legal and State Efforts to Address Climate Obstruction, in the Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment. (Timmons Roberts, Carlos Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, and Christian Downie, eds., Oxford University Press, 2025).
Sara Seck and Lisa Benjamin, Evolving business responsibilities for climate-related harms under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and OECD MNE Guidelines in Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change (Elbert de Jong ed., Edward Elgard, 2024).
Cymie Payne and Lisa Benjamin, ITLOS Submission, in The Ocean Yearbook 39 (Scott Coffen-Smout, Patrícia Galvão Ferreira, Moira L. McConnell, and Sara L. Seck eds., 2025).
Lisa Benjamin and Sara Seck, Causation in Cambridge Handbook on Climate Liability (Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Sarah Mead eds., Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Brian Blum
Publications
Contracts Examples & Explanations (9th ed. 2025).
Brian A. Blum, Amy C. Bushaw, and Kevin V. Tu, Contracts, Cases, Discussion and Problems (6th ed. forthcoming 2026).
Michael Blumm
Publications
A Legal Guardian For Oregon’s Public Trust Doctrine, 54 Environmental Law 173 (with Allie Schauer ’23) (2024).
A Half-Century of Pacific Salmon Saving Efforts: A Primer on Law, Policy, and Biology (with Dan Rohlf and Adam Eno ’24), 64 Natural Resources Journal 137 (2024).
Treaty Justice: Charles Wilkinson’s Homage to the Boldt Decision, 48 Public Land & Resources Law Review 172 (2025).
Teachers Manual for Native American Natural Resources Law, (Carolina Academic Press, 5th ed., 2024) (277 pages).
Law Profs Amicus Brief in Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment v. Dept. of Natural Resources, No. 230906637 (D.Ct. Utah, Mar. 27, 2025), alleging that the state of Utah violated the public trust doctrine by approving water diversions that have jeopardized the ecological and physical integrity of the Great Salt Lake.
Law Profs Amicus Brief in Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia Supreme Court, No. 240694 arguing that the public trust doctrine, inherent in the state’s police power, was violated by the state’s failure to control fossil fuel emissions to provide for climate stability. (Va. Feb. 25, 2025).
Jack Bogdanski
Publications
Federal Tax Valuation (Thomas Reuters/ Tax &Accounting, 2025 Updates).
Jack A. Bogdanski, James S. Eustice, and Joel D. Kuntz, Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations (Thomas Reuters/Tax & Accounting, 5th ed., 2025 Releases).
Jack A. Bogdanski, Joel D. Kuntz, and Robert J. Peroni, U.S. International Taxation (Thomas Reuters/Tax & Accounting, 025 Supplements).
Bill Chin
Publications
Reparations and Higher Education: How Public Universities May Offer Reparation Scholarships to Black Students in the Post-Affirmative Action Era After Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 14 Tenn. J. Race, Gender & Soc. Just. 1 (2024).
Burying Weapons Under the White Pine Tree: Reducing Nuclear Weapons and Using the Monetary Savings to Compensate Native Peoples Injured by the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Cardozo J. Equal Rights & Soc. Just. (forthcoming).
Presentations
“DEI Backlash and the Erosion of the Rule of Law: What’s so ‘Controversial’ About Being Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive?” online CLE co-presenter with Judges Banfield, Cornell, and Cruser organized by the Clark County Bar Association on July 23, 2025.
“No need to log in to Lexis or Westlaw?: What general-purpose generative AI tools can do now for anyone including student legal researchers and legal CREAC writers,” online co-presenter with Director Rob Truman hosted by the Legal Writing Institute and the University of Wisconsin Law School on June 3, 2025.
“Cognitive Bias in Evaluations of Faculty,” co-presenter with Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter at Lewis & Clark Law School on Mar. 13, 2025.
“Navigating the Legal Career Field as an Asian American,” co-presenter with Prof. Tung Yin at Lewis & Clark Law School on Oct. 21, 2024.
“Co-Intelligence,” online book discussion co-leader hosted by the GenAI & Legal Writing Group on June 27, 2024.
“Sharing Lessons Learned from Assigning Students to Use Generative AI in their Legal Writing Assignments,” online co-presenter with Prof. Charlie Martel hosted by the GenAI & Legal Writing Group on May 14, 2024.
Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
Publications
Comment on Proposed Comprehensive Amendments to Agricultural Labor Housing and Related Facilities (2024).
External Note Reviewer, Stan. L. Rev. (2025).
Boxed Out: Race, Crimes, and College Admissions, 94 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). This article has appeared on the following “Top Download” SSRN lists:
Employee Social Responsibility & HR Practices eJournal and Juvenile Justice eJournal
EduRN: Educational Policy (Topic).
Presentations
“Have You Committed a Crime? Banning the Box in College Admissions, Law & Society Ass’n” on May 22, 2025.
“Cognitive Bias in Evaluations of Faculty, ” Opt-in Series, Lewis & Clark Law School on Mar. 13, 2025.
“Boxed Out: Race, Crimes, and College Admissions,” Faculty Colloquium, Lewis & Clark Law School on Mar. 4, 2025.
Moderator, “Responsible Contracts—Using the ABA Model Contract Clauses to Protect Workers in International Supply Chains and Comply with New EU Legislation,” Fall Forum, Lewis & Clark Law School on Oct. 24, 2024.
Student Evaluations and Unconscious Bias, Faculty Colloquium, Lewis & Clark Law School on Oct. 22, 2024.
“Retail Mergers and the ‘Labor-Antitrust’” Question, Business Law Society, Lewis & Clark Law School on Oct. 15, 2024.
Tabrez Y. Ebrahim
Publications
Bioethics of Patents and Licensing, 26 North Carolina Journal of Law & Tech nology 297 (symposium) (2025).
Corpus Linguistics at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 50 BYU Law Review 49 (symposium) (2024).
Comparative Intellectual Property & Religion, 14 IP Theory 1 (Indiana Univ. Maurer School of Law) (solicited) (2024).
Justice Tech, 102 Denver Law Review Forum (2024).
Data in Business & Society, 28 Lewis & Clark Law Review 245 (symposium) (2024).
Islamic Intellectual Property, 54 Seton Hall Law Review 991 (2024).
Against Corporate Oversight, Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming 2025) (University of Iowa College of Law).
Computational Legal Analysis, in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of AI and the Law (Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
Chatbots for Legal Services, in Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of AI and the Law (Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
“Bioethics of Patent and Licensing” (speaker) at Genomic Ethics course, Research Ethics Program in Jordan: Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) at Jordan Univ. of Science & Tech nology, Irbid, Jordan in Apr. 2025.
“Unnecessary Necessity in Property Law” (speaker) at AALS Annual Meeting: Section on Scholarship Incubator Roundtable, San Francisco, CA in Jan. 2025.
“Teaching Artificial Intelligence in Legal Education from a STEM Perspective” (panelist) at AALS Annual Meeting: P Law, Legal Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA in Jan. 2025.
“Accomplishing Diversity Among Professors & Students” (speaker) in Legal Education at AALS Annual Meeting: Section on the Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, San Francisco, CA in Jan. 2025.
“Artificial Intelligence in Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning” (speaker) at AALS Annual Meeting: Trusts & Estates, New Developments in Trust & Estate Fiduciary Law, San Francisco, CA in Jan. 2025.
“Intellectual Property Strategy for Saudi Aramco in Islamic Legal Systems” (presenter) at Saudi Aramco Legal Department, Corporate Headquarters, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in Dec. 2024).
“Comparative Intellectual Property & Religion” (speaker) at The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL)–Innovation and Sustainability: Comparative Law for a Better World, Texas A&M Univ. School of Law in Oct. 2024.
“Artificial Intelligence in Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning” (speaker) at Inheritance Inequality Conference, Drexel Univ. Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, PA in Sept. 2024.
“Islamic Vision of Patent Law & Bioethics” (speaker) at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics: Learning from Bioethics Education in the Arab Region Through Interdisciplinary International Collaboration, Doha, Qatar in June 2024.
Susan Felstiner
Presentations
“Herramientas de Gestión de Riesgos Legales para Empresas” virtual presentation, in Spanish sponsored by Prosper Portland, recorded and posted online on May 28, 2025.
“Employer Know Your Rights” virtual presentation sponsored by the Oregon Hispanic Bar Association, co-presented with Liani Reeves, Partner, Miller Nash on May 7, 2025.
“Lewis & Clark Law Student Work with Small and Micro Businesses” virtual presentation at Universitas Pasundan, Bandung, Indonesia on Feb. 13, 2025.
“A Discussion with Klarquist Sparkman LLP on Increasing Access to Justice - CLE” presentation at Klarquist Sparkman LLP, Portland, OR on Dec. 10, 2024.
“Legal Tools: Business Entities” presentation at Westside Small Business and Workforce Open House, Hillsboro, OR on Nov. 6, 2024.
“Legal Tools: Protecting Your Brand” presentation at Westside Small Business and Workforce Open House, Hillsboro, OR on Nov. 6, 2024.
“Engaging Rural Communities and Remote Clients in Clinic” co-presentation at Northwest Clinical Conference, Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA on Nov. 2, 2024.
“Panel on Cultural Competency” panel presentation at Northwest Clinical Conference, Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA on Nov. 2, 2024.
“Creating Knowledge Through Global Collaboration” co-presentation at 10th European Network for Clinical Education/21st International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands on July 23, 2024.
George Foster
Publications
Rethinking Sovereign Veil-Piercing, 66 William & Mary L. Rev. 609 (2025).
Foreign States, Private Proxies, and Discretionary” Torts on U.S. Soil, 101 Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2026).
A Local Remedies Pitfall Avoided — for Now: Key Takeaways from Honduras Próspera Inc. v. Honduras, Kluwer Arb. Blog (Apr. 21, 2025).
Presentations
“Are Class Actions the Only Way to Effectively Protect Indigenous Rights? A Global Perspective” (panel discussion) at the International Bar Association Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico on Sept. 19, 2024.
Pamela Frasch
Publications
Pamela Frasch and Birgitta Wahlberg, Animal Law Unveiled: Defining A New Era Of Legal Advocacy, in Research Handbook on Animal Law and Animal Rights (Tomasz Pietrzykowski & Birgitta Wahlberg, eds., forthcoming 2025).
Compassion and Justice: The Global Imperative of Animal Law Education, Note, in The Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, Saskia Stucki, eds., forthcoming 2025).
Sonia Waisman, Bruce Wagman, Pamela Frasch, and Ann Linder, Animal Law, Cases and Materials, (7th edition forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
“The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence” (Speaker and Panel Moderator) at Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (DVCC) Animal Abuse and Human Violence Symposium, Newark, DE on Apr. 7, 2025.
“The Uncomfortable Future of Animal Law (even if everything goes ‘right’)” (Keynote Speaker for the Annual Lecture in Animal Rights Law & Policy), University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Victoria, Canada on Mar. 14, 2025.
“Animals and Art” (Guest Lecture) at Columbia Law School, New York, NY on Nov. 18, 2024.
“Anticipating Animal Law’s Intersectional Future” (Speaker and Panel Moderator) at The 32nd Annual Animal Law Conference, Portland, OR on Oct. 20, 2024 Master of Ceremonies, Animal Law Education Summit, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR on Oct. 18, 2024.
“A Cruel Canvas: Exploring Agency and the Ethical Implications of Animal Exploitation in the Arts” (Keynote Speaker), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland on June 18, 2024.
“Animal Law and Administrative Control” (Taped discussion with Professor Birgitta Wahlberg for school-wide distribution) at Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland on May 14, 2024.
“Animal Law at Lewis & Clark Law School” (Taped Keynote speech for school-wide distribution) at Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland on May 14, 2024.
“Animal Law Pedagogy” (Taped Keynote speech for distribution to the law faculty) at Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland on May 13, 2024).
Meg Garvin
Publications
Douglas E. Beloof, Paul G. Cassell, Meg Garvin, Steven J. Twist, Bill Montgomery, and Mariam El-menshawi, Victims in Criminal Procedure, 5th Edition (2024).
Presentations
“Crime Victims’ Rights in Corporate Criminal Proceedings” panel presentation at American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Institute, Miami, FL on Mar. 6, 2025.
“Counsel for Crime Victims: From Intermediate Impossible to Core Democratic Check” symposium presentation at the McGeorge School of Law’s Pacific Law Review Symposium, Sacramento, CA on Feb. 21, 2025.
“The CVRA: A Brief History and a Celebration” remote presentation at University at Buffalo School of Law’s CLE on Nov. 8, 2024.
Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
Publications
Universal Injunctions and Attorney General v. Vernon (Ch. 1684-1685/6) (2005).
Presentations
“English Legal History: Understanding it, Researching it, and Exploring its Implications for Modern-Day Patent Litigation,” Dallas, TX on Dec. 6, 2024.
Hira Jaleel
Publications
The Judicial Recognition of Animal Sentience: Developments in Pakistan and India, in The Legal Recognition of Animal Sentience: Principles, Approaches and Applications 135-154 (Jane Kotzmann & M.B. Rodriguez Ferrere eds., 2024).
Overview of Pakistani Animal Law, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (Joan Schaffner, ed., 2025).
Presentations
“Letting the (Big) Cat(s) out of the Bag: a Case for Federal Prohibition of Exotic Big Cat Ownership in Pakistan,” virtual presentation at the Comparative Animal Law Postgraduate Workshop, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR on Apr. 8, 2025.
“Letting the (Big) Cat(s) out of the Bag: a Case for Federal Prohibition of Exotic Big Cat Ownership in Pakistan,” virtual panel presentation at the Pakistan International Animal & Environmental Rights Conference, Lahore, Pakistan on Jan. 18, 2025.
“The Mother of Animal Law: Exploring Joyce Tischler’s Enduring Legacy,” lecture at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School, Oxford, United Kingdom on Aug. 7, 2024.
Aliza Kaplan
Publications
A New Approach Revisited: Why can’t we get rid of the Lozada bar complaint requirement? 7 Aila L.J. 9 (Apr. 2025).
Governor Kate Brown of Oregon’s Historic Use of Clemency: Using Clemency Exactly As it Was Intended, 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 521 (with Mark Cebert ’22) (Fall 2024).
Presentations
“Lozada Panel/Academic Symposium” presenter AILA 2025 Spring Conference Joh n on Apr. 4, 2025.
“Navigating the tech nology, law, and politics of prison communication” presenter at California Clinical Conference at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA on Feb. 7, 2025.
“Engaging with Parole Boards and Governors’ Offices” presenter Second Chance Working Group on Zoom on Dec. 6, 2024.
“Policy Briefing on State Clemency” presentator FAMM on Zoom on Nov. 13, 2024.
“Restorative Justice Dialogues in Second Chances Contexts” presenter Second Chances Working Group on Zoom on Sept. 30, 2024.
“Realizing Release: Parole Advocacy and the Fight for Decarceration” presenter MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL on Sept. 14, 2024.
Bob Klonoff
Publications
Wright & Miller treatise 2025 updates.
Klonoff, “Objections to Class Action Settlements: Ethical Considerations,” chapter in Class Actions and Other Complex Litigation: Ethics (Lexis Nexis 2025) (on line version published; hard copy forthcoming).
Klonoff, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f): Reflections After a Quarter Century, 75 Syracuse L. Rev. 185 (2025).
Presentations
“Complex Litigation” Virtual presentation at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law on Apr. 7, 2025.
“McGovern Symposium on Civil Litigation” speaker at Duke Law School, Durham, NC on Dec. 11, 2024.
“MDL Judicial Summit” speaker at Texas Tech School of Law in Aspen, CO on June 3, 2024.
The Path to Tracking Down a Missing Refund, Procedurally Taxing (Feb. 20, 2025).
The Intersection of Taxation and Immigration, in Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (Chapter 28) (ABA 9th ed., forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
“Access to Justice in Oregon: Serving Oregon’s Low-Income and Vulnerable Communities” (CLE presentation) at the Portland Lunch Series, Portland, OR in Apr. 2025.
“Tax Issues for Immigrants” (lecture) at the Migrant Parent Educational Event, Salem, OR in Nov. 2024.
Lydia Loren
Publications
Restatement of Copyright Law Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials (co-authored with Joseph S. Miller) (8th Edition Semaphore Press 2023)
Copyright in a Global Information Economy (6th Edition). Co-authors Julie E. Cohen, Ruth L. Okediji and Maureen A. O’Rourke, (Aspen Publishers 2023).
Presentations
“Restatement of the Law, Copyright, American Law” Institute Annual Meeting, presentation and voting by membership on May 21, 2025.
“Restatement of the Law, Copyright, American Law” Institute meeting with ALI Council on Feb. 28, 2025 (Associate Reporter presentation).
“The First Restatement of Copyright: A Peek Behind the Curtain” keynote address at Intellectual Property Review – Updates and Changes from 2024, Oregon State Bar, Intellectual Property Section Annual Conference, Portland, OR on Feb. 21, 2025.
“Restatement of the Law, Copyright, American Law” Institute meeting with ALI Council on Jan. 24, 2025 (Associate Reporter presentation).
“Restatement of the Law, Copyright, American Law” Institute meeting with ALI Project Advisors and Members Consultative Group on Oct. 31, 2024 (Associate Reporter presentation).
Erica Lyman
Publications
Erica Lyman, Noni Austin, & Martin Wagner, The World Heritage Convention & Climate Change: a broad remit and a call to act in defence of the convention, in Rsch. Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity 184-202 (Phillipa McCormick & Richard Caddell, eds., 2024).
Erica Lyman & Nick Fromherz, Wildlife Crime, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law 425-428 (Joan Schaffner, ed., 2025).
Erica Lyman & Nick Fromherz, Examining Ecocide as Wildlife Crime, in Handbook on Wildlife Crime (Frances Masse et al, eds.) (forthcoming). Blogs
Ally Grimaldi and Erica Lyman, Sharks Need Our Help: The Grim Reality of International Shark Finning, Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (July 14, 2025) (continues on page 37)
Ally Grimaldi and Erica Lyman, “Despite International Protections, Threats to Rays Persist,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Apr. 29, 2025).
Ally Grimaldi, Moo Deng “Highlight the Plight of Pygmy Hippos,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Mar.11, 2025).
Ally Grimaldi and Erica Lyman, “Global Law Alliance Joins Letter Objecting to Catastrophic Kenyan Mining Operation,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Dec. 19, 2024).
“Illegal Trade Threatens the Cheetah’s Future,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Dec. 4, 2024).
“Training Wild Animal Advocates,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Sept. 27, 2024).
“Protecting Elephants from Poaching and Trophy Hunting,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (Aug. 12, 2024).
“Protecting Wetlands from Animal Agriculture,” Lewis & Clark L. Sch. Ctr. for Animal L. Stud. (June 27, 2024).
Presentations
“Transnational and International Environmental Clinics: Non-litigation Advocacy” (speaker) at International Law Clinic Conference, University of Maryland on Sept. 4–7, 2025.
“Draft Legislative Guidance for Maintaining, Improving, and Restoring Ecological Connectivity” (invited speaker and facilitator) at Convention on Migratory Species National Legislation Workshop, Bonn, Germany on June 3–5 2025.
“Article III.5 Exceptions” (invited speaker and facilitator) at Convention on Migratory Species National Legislation Workshop, Bonn, Germany on June 3–5, 2025.
“Illegally Sourced, Legally Traded: The Case for Stronger Wildlife Legislation” (panel speaker) at UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria on May 22, 2025.
“What Really is Compliance? The Need for a Functional Approach under CITES” (speaker) at International Wildlife Law Conference, Stetson School of Law on Apr. 9, 2025.
Charlie Martel
Publications
Power for the People: Recognizing the Constitutional Right to Vote for President, 46 Cardozo Law Review 1788 (Fall 2024).
Presentations
“The Right to Vote for President Under the U.S. Constitution,” panelist at Global Summit on Constitutionalism, University of Texas School of Law on Mar. 20, 2025.
“Teaching Law in a Time of Trump: Taking a Stand for the Law, Academic Freedom, and Our Community,” moderator and participant at Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Conference (panelists were Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Dean Anthony Varona), San Francisco on Jan. 11, 2025.
“Disrupting Elitist, Establishmentarian Echo Chambers: Arguing for a Constitutional Right to Vote for President,” panelist at Society of American Law Teachers Conference, Boston University School of Law on Sept. 21, 2024.
Russ Mead
Publications
Professional Ethics for Animal Lawyers, in Elgar’s Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (Joan E. Schaffner ed. 2025) Michele Okoh
Publications
Everywhere But Here: How the U.S. Ignores Climate Migration, in Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene (Keith H. Hirokawa and Jessica Owley, eds. 2025). (forthcoming 2025)
Forgotten Waters, in Land Use and Environment Law Review (republication in anthology of most insightful thinking on land use and development issues from America’s top professors and practitioners) (Nadia B. Ahmad and Patricia E. Salkin, eds. 2024–25).
America Erased, in Adapting to High-Level Warming: Law, Governance, and Equity (Katrina F. Kuh and Shannon M. Roesler, eds. 2025).
Environmental Impacts on Maternal Health, in Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health, Dorothy Cilenti et al. (Oxford University Press, Feb. 2024).
Jim Oleske
Presentations
“Underinclusive Rules and Religious Liberty: A Comparative Analysis,” presenter at Nootbaar Fellows Conference in Vevey, Switzerland on June 11, 2025.
John Parry
Publications
Civil Procedure Below the Radar: A Comment on Joh n Coyle’s “Contractually Valid” Forum Selection Clauses, 109 Iowa Law Review Online 171 (2024).
The annual updated edition of Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice (with Martin Redish and the late Edward Brunet) (2024).
Presentations
“Scenes of Interrogation: Billy Budd, Bram v. United States, and Abu Ghraib,” presenter at Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, on May 23, 2025.
Jo Perini-Abbott
Publications
Jo Perini-Abbott & Tyler Francis, That Strenuous Objection Should Have Been a Motion in Limine, NITA Collective Wisdom: The Evidence Rules as Litigators Tools in Apr. 2025.
Presentations
“Ethical Considerations for Law Firms Targeted by the Trump Executive Orders,” roundtable discussion, Women in White Collar Criminal Defense West Coast Chapters on Mar. 21, 2025.
“Storytelling in Litigation,” CLE presentation, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR on Jan. 10, 2025.
“Advocacy Teachers’ Role In Light of Licensure Reform,” panel presentation, Educating Advocacy Teachers (EATS) Conference, Stetson Law School, Tampa, FL on June 11, 2024.
Melissa Powers
Publications
Rhetoric Versus Reality After Winter Storm Uri, in Adapting to High-Level Warming: Law, Governance, and Equity (Katrina F. Kuh and Shannon M. Roesler, eds.) (2025).
Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, 54 Envtl. L. Reptr. 10857 (multiple authors) (2024). (continues on page 39)
Presentations
“Reviving Climate Federalism Through Climate Superfund Laws,” Lewis & Clark Environmental Symposium, Portland, OR in Apr. 2025)
“Electrifying Everything, Pan-Pacific Sustainability Scholars Workshop,” University of Utah Law School, Salt Lake City, UT in Jan. 2025)
“The Implications of Loper Bright on the Energy System,” Energy in the West Seminar, Seattle, WA in Jan. 2025.
“Annual SCOTUS Review/Preview,” American Constitution Society CLE in Oct. 2024.
“The Future of Deference in Environmental Law Post-Chevron, Oregon State Bar Environmental & Natural Resources Section Annual CLE in Oct. 2024.
“Recent Supreme Court Rulings and the Future of Environmentalism, Voices for the West Series, Advocates for the West in Sept. 2024.
Raj Reddy
Publications
Shutting the Gate on Insect-Based Agriculture, 54 Env’l L. Rev. 573 (2024).
The Convention on Animal Protection: A Cathartic Resolution to a Global Pandemic Story, in One Health and Law: Existing Frameworks, Intersections, and Future Pathways, 196 (Jane Kotzmann & Katie Woolaston, eds., 2025).
Rights of Nature, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 209 (Joan Schaffner, ed., 2025).
Insect Law, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 376 (Joan Schaffner, ed., 2025).
Presentations
“Exploring the Promise of AI to Transform Animals into Legal Persons,” presenter at Animals & AI Conference, University of California, Berkeley, on Mar. 1, 2025.
“Measuring the Greatness of a Nation: The Politics of Meat, Milk, and Moral Progress in Modern India,” presenter at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, on Nov. 19, 2024.
“Gaming the System and Our Students: A Pedagogical Approach to Animal Law Education,” presenter at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR, on Oct. 18, 2024.
Dan Rohlf
Presentations
“History of Salmon Recovery in the Columbia River Basin,” presentation at the Wyss Scholar Symposium, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR on Mar. 14, 2025.
“FEMA’s Failure to Implement the National Flood Insurance Program in Oregon in Accordance with the Endangered Species Act,” panel presentation at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon Law School, Eugene, OR on Mar. 1, 2025.
“Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee,” invited testimony for an oversight hearing on implementation of the Endangered Species Act, Washington, D.C. on Feb. 26, 2025.
David Schraub
Publications
Deliberation, Dismissal, and Democracy (Oxford University Press forthcoming 2025).
The Baggage of Whiteness by Marla Brettsch neider, ed. 7 Oct. 2023 II: Perspectives (Mellen Press 2024).
They Managed a Protest: Prohibitory, Ethical, and Prudential Policing of Academic Speech, 50 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 619 (2025).
The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Entitlement, 34 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. (forthcoming 2025).
Microaggressions as Negligence, 56 J. Soc. Phil. 282 (2025).
Forget Being anti-Zionists. Let’s Be anti-Kahanists, Haaretz (June 10, 2024).
A Campus Guide To Identifying Antisemitism In A Time Of Perplexity, Nexus Project (contributor) (Fall 2024).
Presentations
“Power, Vulnerability, and Impunity,” presentation at the University of Texas/Oxford University Transatlantic Conference on “Religion, Freedom, Vulnerability,” Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, on June 10, 2025.
“Free Speech Threats from Above and Below,” presentation at the University of St. Thomas Law School Symposium on “The First Amendment and Socio-Political Polarization,” University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN, on Mar. 21, 2025.
“Understanding and Addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR (with Hussein Ibish) on Dec. 3, 2024.
“The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Entitlement,” presentation at the Loyola/Florida State University Constitutional Law Colloquium, Tallahassee, FL on Nov. 16, 2024.
“Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty,” presentation for the “How To Think About Antisemitism” speaker series, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA on Oct. 23, 2024.
“The Baggage of Whiteness,” presentation at the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA on Sept. 5, 2024.
“Understanding and Addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” panel presentation at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (with Hussein Ibish) on May 22–23, 2024.
Janet Steverson
Publications
Oregon’s History of Using the Law to “Stack the Deck” in Favor of White Males, 29 Lewis & Clark Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
“Oregon’s History on Race: Exclusion, Strength, and Resilience,” talk given as a part of the National Lawyer’s Guild’s Race Matters Series at Lewis & Clark Law School on Oct. 11, 2024.
Joyce Tischler
Publications
Foreword, Careers in Animal Law by Yolanda Eisenstein, (forthcoming 2025).
The Animal Law Movement, essay in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (July 17, 2025)
Joyce Tischler and Suzannah Smith, A Comparative Analysis of Farmed Animal Protection Laws in the European Union and the United States, 12 Global J. An. L. 28 (2024).
Presentations
“Understanding the CAFO Food Production System” (lecture) at NYU Law School, New York, NY on Feb. 19, 2025.
“Recent Victories in International Animal Protection” (active moderator) at the Annual Animal Law Conference, Portland, OR on Oct. 19, 2024.
“CAFO Harms and Building a Sustainable Food System” (opening remarks; discussion leader, Community Advocacy and Worker Justice Panel) at Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA on Oct. 11, 2024.
“The Early Animal Rights Philosophical Arguments Offered by Roslind Godlovitch” (presentation) at The Ninth Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School, Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England on Aug. 7, 2024.
Chris Wold
Publications
CMS article, The Convention on Migratory Species at 45: A “Sleeping” Treaty Awakes, N.Y. Envtl. L. J. (accepted and forthcoming Jan. 2026).
Japan Expands Its Whale Hunt to Include Fin Whales and Violates Its Duty to Cooperate, EJIL: Talk! (June 26, 2024) Presentation
“Slavery at Sea: Next Steps for Ensuring Labor Standards for Fishing Crew, Forum on Maritime Crimes Related to IUU Fishing and Fishermen’s Human Rights,” Oceans Conference, Busan Korea on Apr. 28–30, 2025.
Tung Yin
Publications
National Security Lies (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025).
A (Gen X Pop Music) Criminal Procedure Playlist, 2 Nw. L.J. desRefuses 69 (2025).
Presentations
“National Security Lies Book Launch” (moderated discussion with Professor Joh n Parry) at Lewis & Clark Law School on Apr. 14, 2025.
“ACS SCOTUS Review/Preview” (panel presentation) at Perkins Coie, Portland, OR on Oct. 3, 2024.
Speaking with students is one of my favorite parts of being dean. At Lewis & Clark Law School, I’ve discovered a rare and powerful combination: students who pair fierce dedication to their mission with deep collaboration and a genuine commitment to each other’s success.
Professors Chris Wold and Erica Lyman facilitated a workshop with CMS Parties to discuss the legal contours of some of the treaty’s most important provisions.
Most graduates of law school go on to practice law, working in law firms or providing legal counsel to organizations and businesses. Yet, for some, the lessons of law apply more broadly, and the outcome of their law school education has been a surprising and successful career outside of law. Here are just a few of our alums who followed an alternative route.