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August 27
Professor Hessler quoted in animal rights story,“We have this disconnect between how people handle their animals and how the law is handling their animals. They’re the only sentient beings that fall into the property category.”
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August 242017 has seen an assault on the role science plays in shaping public policy. In the trenches of that battle is Law Professor Dan Rohlf. -
March 16Professor and former Dean Bob Klonoff recently provided written testimony as an expert witness in a class action settlement in the BP oil spill litigation. -
March 15Constitutional law scholar and professor Jim Oleske talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting. -
March 10In an article in International Business Times, Professor Stumpf discusses her concerns about the Trump administration’s attempts to make the public believe immigrant crime rates are high, and the reality that they are in fact, much lower than native crime rates.
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March 8Professor and Former Dean Bob Klonoff was recently selected as a Pound Civil Justice Institute Academic Fellow. -
October 31Media Outlets Turn to Professors Tung Yin and Mike Blumm to Help Explain Events of Oregon Militia Standoff Trial -
February 4Portland publication Street Roots takes us behind the scenes at the Oregon Innocence Project in an interview with co-founder and Lewis & Clark Law Professor Aliza Kaplan. -
January 14In an opinion piece published by the Oregonian, Professor Mike Blumm answers questions about federal land ownership and management related to the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, OR. -
January 8Professor, Bob Klonoff, an expert in class action lawsuits appeared on NBC’s Today Show to discuss a lawsuit brought against the popular exercise gadget Fitbit. -
January 6The media are turning to professor Tung Yin for guidance on legal issues surrounding the militia takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge happening in Burns, Oregon. -
January 5Prof. Dan Rohlf is quoted extensively in a recent Newsweek article related to enforcement under the Endangered Species Act: “I think that clearly some, or perhaps the majority of the decline [in jeopardy findings] we’ve seen over the years stems from federal agencies and government taking more creative interpretations of the Endangered Species Act that diminish protections of endangered species,” -
December 30In a new analysis, Empty Promises and Missed Opportunities: An Assessment of the Environmental Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Professor Chris Wold, Director of Lewis & Clark Law School’s International Environmental Law Project, concludes that the TPP’s environmental provisions are weak and unlikely to address the problems of illegal wildlife trade, overfishing, and other environmental concerns. Rep. Paul Tonko (NY-20) distributed his analysis to members of Congress, calling it a “thorough and thoughtful report”. -
December 16Professor Melissa Powers speaks with Oregon Public Broadcasting’s program “Think Out Loud” about the report which says Oregon is not prepared to meet its climate policy goals. -
November 17Professor Mike Blumm, an expert on environmental law, comments on a story reported in freenewspos.com about a lawsuit filed against the federal government by Our Children’s Trust, a group of children and young adults.
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November 16Lewis & Clark law professor Tung Yin discusses the legal issues involved with the OR DOJ’s surveillance of #blacklivesmatter hashtag users. -
October 22NYT publishes Anna Laakmann’s opinion on data sharing of genomic information -
October 5Professor Ozan Varol was elected to chair a committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. -
April 7On April 3, 2015, Professor Foster was elected as Co-Chair of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group within the American Society of International Law. This Interest Group is comprised of more than 200 academics, practitioners and jurists from all over the world, and is dedicated to examining and promoting the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, as well as facilitating transnational information-sharing and cooperation on this vital topic through periodic meetings, conferences, webinars, and an Interest Group newsletter. -
March 23In a guest column for The Oregonian, Professor Oleske discusses the civil rights law that is at the heart of the Oregon “wedding cake” case. Although some commentators have argued that laws like Oregon’s cover too many businesses, Oleske explains how “the broad equal-service laws enacted in the civil rights era are a well-established part of the American legal fabric.” -
January 29The American Law Institute announced the election of 26 new members this month. Lewis & Clark’s Lydia Loren, the Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics, is among them.
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January 18Professor Hessler comments in The Guardian on legal efforts to establish legal personhood for chimpanzees. -
January 17Professor Juliet Stumpf chimes in on federal immigration enforcement. -
December 9Professor Yin discusses the potential consequences of an expected guilty plea by an Oregon law enforcement officer. -
November 10Professor Mandiberg taught an intensive class for 45 students on how we in the U.S. enforce our environmental protection laws. The class covered all types of enforcement (administrative, civil judicial, citizen suits, and criminal), and included a basic introduction into our federalist system. The course went for 12 hours (6 each day), and Professor Mandiberg taught it entirely in Spanish. One of Lewis & Clark’s a LLM alums, Verónica Muriel Carrioni, is now employed at that university as the Director of the Environmental Law Department, and tasked with creating a cutting-edge environmental law program.
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November 10Professor Varol presented a talk on stealth authoritarian practices in Turkey at a conference on Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey and the Middle East, hosted at Cornell Law School.. He argued that the Turkish government has been relying on a set of stealth mechanisms of authoritarian control, which are more difficult to detect and eliminate than traditional mechanisms of authoritarianism. Among his co-panelists was the Hon. Sezgin Tanrikulu, a member of the Turkish Parliament. The event brought together scholars and practitioners from all over the world, including the President of the International Criminal Court, Sang-Hyun Song, who delivered the keynote address.
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October 27The latest on KATU in the Cylvia Hayes scandal involved Professor Tung Yin commenting on GOP Gubernatorial candidate Richardson’s letter to the US Attorney, asking for an investigation into whether the First Lady and the Governor violated federal criminal laws related to bribery, mail fraud/self dealing, and others. -
October 20Professor Parry was quoted in The Oregonian about the Supreme Court denying review of several cases relating to same-sex marriage. His comments are about the impact of that ruling on similar litigation in Oregon, where the district court had struck down Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage. -
October 13Professor Varol Gave a Video Interview on Trends in Modern Authoritarianism
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October 3“For years, the FBI has filed animal abuse under the label “other” along with a variety of lesser crimes, making cruelty hard to find, hard to count and hard to track. The bureau announced this month that it would make animal cruelty a Group A felony with its own category — the same way crimes like homicide, arson and assault are listed.”
Read the comments from Natasha Dolezal, director of the animal law program, in this Washington Post article on animal abuse.