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1/7/14 - This year Earthrise Law Center is offering an early decision option for applications to the 2014-2015 Clinic. Learn more and download the application form.
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12/12/13 - The application period for Earthrise Law Center’s 2014 Summer Externship program is now open: deadline January 17!
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Prof Blumm argues in op-ed that Oregon’s AG should defend, rather than disclaim, Oregon’s Public Trust Doctrine.
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Professor Bill Funk, our resident Administrative Law guru, weighs in regarding USDA’s recent revocation of their long-standing policy requiring “notice and comment” for rulemaking proceedings that involve “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts….”. Will other agencies soon follow?
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International Environmental Law Project students are sharing their impressions from the Climate Negotiations in Warsaw, Poland.
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Professor Erica Lyman is in Warsaw assisting as a delegate with the Palau Climate Change Team. She sent a brief update this morning. “It is an honor to work with Palau’s UN Ambassador and officials from Palau – the stark reality of climate change was witnessed in Palau when Typhoon Haiyan struck before landing in the Philippines. Philippines took the floor here at the opening of the meeting, and in solidarity with his fellow citizens and to impress on us all the need for ambitious action, the Lead Negotiator declared that he would fast until we arrive at meaningful agreement here in Warsaw.”
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Lewis & Clark helped present the Realizing the Goal of Water for Life: Lessons from Around the World conference at the National Law University of Delhi last May. Hear speakers from India, the U.K., Brazil, South Africa and the United States share lessons learned regarding access to clean water and transboundary issues.
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10/29/13 - Earthrise’s 2013-2014 Clinic is our largest cohort of students to date.
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Deschutes river photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives
Fish played a prominent role in the Lewis & Clark Animal Law Journal’s recent symposium, which celebrated the Endangered Species Act’s 40th anniversary. Only 5 years after the ESA’s passage in 1973, a young law professor’s love of flyfishing helped convince him to use the statute in an effort to save one of the last free-flowing streams in the southeastern United States from an ill-advised dam development scheme concocted by the powerful Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Lewis & Clark Law School is happy to announce the launch of the Green Energy Institute and the Green Energy Fellows program.
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Professor Chris Wold, Director of LC’s International Environmental Law Project, wrote an op-ed piece for the Oregonian newspaper on the need to stop bingeing on carbon and other greenhouse gases and live within our “carbon budget”.
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Professor Erica Lyman, of Lewis & Clark’s International Environmental Law Project, recently returned from Yerevan, Armenia where she took part in a State Department-sponsored Professional Fellows exchange. Lewis and Clark hosted a rising environmental scholar, Gor Movsisyan, from Yerevan State University earlier in the year, and Lyman travelled to Armenia to complete the exchange and provide insight into LC’s environmental clinics.
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Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Law program welcomed Professor Jim Salzman as its 2013 Distinguished Visitor. Professor Salzman holds joint appointments at Duke University as the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor at the law school, and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy.
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On October 3rd, three environmental law alumni were recognized for their work with a Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate award.
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Ryan Shannon, LC Law student, recently shared his summer experience working for Trustees of Alaska in Anchorage. He credits the environmental law program, NEDC and PILP for an amazing opportunity:
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Professor Michael Blumm has called for a greater focus on ecological concerns in future Columbia River Treaty negotiations in comments offered to the United States government.
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7/24/13 - In an opinion released Monday, a federal judge in Portland ruled in favor of the defendants in a case that had all the earmarks of a classic SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation).
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7/8/13 -
The Jackson Foundation has awarded Earthrise Law Center a $2,000 grant for the Oregon Waters initiative.
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Read the spring 2013 issue of our newsletter, featuring our alumni who protect the environment in the governmental sector!
