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Environmental Law
Lawyers and policy professionals play key roles in solving some of the world’s most complex environmental challenges. Today, practitioners must solve pollution problems, protect natural resources, and develop clean energy sources against the backdrop of a changing climate and efforts to promote environmental justice.
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Climate Resilience & Energy
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Spotlight
Prof. Benjamin Advocates to Establish State Obligations re: Climate Change
Read the storyProfessor Lisa Benjamin co-authored briefs to the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to establish state obligations around climate change as part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Clinic students supported the effort.
2024 Wyss Scholar: Ian Connolly ’25 Focuses on Environmental Justice
Read the storyIan Connolly JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. The Wyss Foundation is a dedicated to land conservation. Ian plans to to leverage his education on behalf of wild places and communities across the west.
2024 Wyss Scholar: Hayden Wyatt to Focus on Forest Conservation
Read the storyHayden Wyatt JD ’25 is one of two Wyss Scholars selected from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024. The Wyss Foundation is a private, charitable foundation dedicated to land conservation. This summer Hayden will work for Cascadia Wildlands, with an internship focused on forest conservation.
Animal Agriculture’s Role in Climate Change at the Environmental Law Symposium
Read the storyLewis & Clark Law School’s 9th annual Environmental Law Spring Symposium, “Animal Agriculture and Climate Change — The Really Big Cow In The Room,” convened experts to discuss the urgent need to address the adverse impacts of industrial animal agriculture on climate change. Nicholas Kristof, of NY Times, gave the keynote address.
Professor Michele Okoh’s Forgotten Waters is Top 20 Article of the Year
Read the storyProfessor Michele Okoh’s article, entitled Forgotten Watersand published in the Georgetown Law Journal, has been selected as one of the top twenty articles of 2023 by the Environmental Law Reporter.
Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law is located in Wood Hall on the Law Campus.
MSC: 51
email elaw@lclark.edu
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Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
10101 S. Terwilliger Boulevard MSC 51
Portland OR 97219