Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law
Welcome! Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon is an amazing place to study environmental law, natural resources law, and energy law. Our environmental law program and center is considered one of the top environmental law programs in the country by the U.S. News & World Report. Check out our JD degree with certificate programs, the LLM in Environmental Law on campus, our 100% online LLM program, our Master of Studies in Environmental Law (MSL) on campus (or non-lawyers), our 100% online MSL program (for non-lawyers), and the “GreenFlash” below, and you will see that our faculty, students, alums, and programs are extraordinary. Please contact us at elaw@lclark.edu if you have any questions. We hope to hear from you!
GreenFlash: Updates from the Environmental Law Program
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Lewis & Clark Law School is pleased to announce that Matthew Campa ’22 is the fourth Wyss Scholar to be selected from the law school. The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable organization dedicated to western public lands issues, and its Scholars Program supports graduate-level education for the next generation of leaders in western land conservation. Matthew Campa Named Wyss Scholar -
U.S. News ranks Lewis & Clark Law’s environmental law program number one in the nation for 2021. #1 in Environmental Law - Again -
Three alums at Trustees for Alaska are involved in a battle to protect the Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska. Alumni Work to Protect Pristine Alaskan Watershed -
Four Lewis & Clark Law alums are engaged in legal battles related to food safety - for humans, animals, and the environment - through their work at the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a nationwide nonprofit whose mission is to empower people, support farmers, and protect the earth from the harmful impacts of industrial agriculture. CFS has won several important cases recently, thanks to the hard work of these alums.
LC Law alums, George Kimbrell and others, fighting for food safety and the environment. -
LC Law alum, John Hairston, caps 30 years of hard work and experience at Bonneville Power Administration and becomes first black CEO. Law alum, John Hairston, new CEO at Bonneville Power Administration. -
Professor Lisa Benjamin is participating in a series of webinars the ABA section on Civil Rights and Social Justice is doing during the month of February in honor of Black History Month. Professor Benjamin Discusses Climate Effect on Communities of Color at ABA Webinars -
Combining its nationally recognized expertise in environmental law and animal law, Lewis & Clark Law School announced the creation of the Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (the “Alliance”). The Alliance is a champion for wild animals and wild spaces across the globe, working to protect animals and the environment through the development, implementation, and enforcement of international law. Law students (JD and LLM) actively participate in the work through two clinics within the Alliance. Global Law Alliance Champions Wild Animals, Wild Spaces at Lewis & Clark Law School -
Several Lewis & Clark Law alums, Ryan Talbott, Derek Teaney, and Ben Luckett, played important roles in a recent D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals case, Allegheny Defense Project v Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), overturning 50 years of precedent. Ellen Gilmer, is the journalist who wrote a Bloomberg article analyzing the court’s decision. Lewis & Clark alums instrumental in historic gas pipeline case
Environmental, Natural Resources, & Energy Law News
