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’s Environmental Law Program ranked #1 by US News and World Report for 2022 LC’s Enviro Law Program Ranked #1 again by US News -
Lewis & Clark Law students, Meg Price (’22) and Chris Bolte (’21), advanced to the semi-finals of the National Energy & Sustainability Moot Court (Energy Law Moot Court) competition in spring 2021. LC Law students, Price and Bolte, surge to the semi-finals of the National Energy Law Moot Court competition -
Lewis & Clark’s Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (GLA) is engaged in a two-year project – in partnership with the ABA Rule of Law Initiative – to combat wildlife trafficking in Peru. As part of this effort, Senior Attorney Nick Fromherz conducted a comprehensive review of Peru’s current laws and policies relating to wildlife trafficking, generating a series of legal and policy reform recommendations.Global Law Alliance/Nick Fromherz: fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru -
The Environment, Energy and Natural Resources (EENR) Center at the University of Houston Law Center’s next webinar will feature Professor Lisa Benjamin, PhD., Lewis & Clark Law School, discussing “Evolving corporate climate liability - perspectives from the US and Europe.” Professor Benjamin will discuss climate liability emerging for companies, with a focus on oil and gas companies. She will look at corporate/climate legislation examples from the UK, and litigation in the US and the Netherlands, including the most recent case involving Shell.
June 17, 2021 at 10am (Central)1 hour of CLE credit pending.The registration link is here:Prof. Benjamin to discuss evolving corporate climate liability -
Alum Susan Jane Brown ’00 is the 2020 recipient of the Oregon State Bar’s (OSB) Environmental and Natural Resources Section’s Annual Award for her leadership, service, and contributions in the areas of environmental and natural resources law. Susan Jane Brown, Alum and Adjunct Prof., Receives Prestigious OSB Environmental Award -
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. -
Clinical Professor Erica Lyman, Director of the Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment at Lewis & Clark Law School, was quoted as a legal expert in a May 21, 2021 National Geographic article regarding an oil and gas project that threatens endangered animals and the environment in Africa. Professor Erica Lyman quoted in National Geographic re: oil and gas project that threatens endangered animals and the environment in Africa. -
Law student Jessie Gittemeier ’22 was appointed to serve a two-year term as Portland’s Planning and Sustainability Commission’s Youth Commissioner. Jessie Gittemeier ’22 is New Youth Commissioner for Portland Planning & Sustainability Commission -
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 -
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
