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Earthrise Clinic Director Craig Johnston, Advisory Council Chair Dave Pearson, and ten other runners will hit 26.2 miles of Boston on April 21 with a goal of raising $26.2 thousand for our work! Visit our website at the link below to learn more and to donate.
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Lewis & Clark’s Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program is now accepting applications from Lewis & Clark JD students for one to two LL.M-GEI Energy Fellow positions to begin in the fall of 2014. The fellowships provide a tuition-free LL.M. degree offered pursuant to Lewis & Clark’s joint J.D./LL.M. degree program.
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If there was a Mr. Congeniality award at school, Will would have it. Three times, one for each year. Will can talk to anyone and even get curmudgeons to smile. He is well spoken, intelligent, kind, and generous. As an attorney, I have no doubt Will would work hard and do great work.
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Nick Fromherz, spoke with Law 360 regarding the recent U.S. District court ruling in Chevron Corp v. Steven Donziger et al, barring the enforcement in the U.S. of a $9.5 billion dollar judgment from an Ecuadorian court regarding an oil spill on grounds of fraud.
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3/4/14 - The winter edition of Rising Issues: CRC, VGP, Dan Mensher, and more!
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Get to know current Lewis & Clark Law Students through J.D. Candidate Halah Ilias’s blog posts on her classmates.
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An increasing number of law school students and alumni are looking to Alaska for career opportunities in a tight legal market.
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Associate Professor Melissa Powers was elected to the 2014 Governing Board of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, an international body of academics and environmental lawyers, as the 2014 regional representative for North America and the Caribbean.
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Lewis & Clark’s International Environmental Law Project (IELP) legal analysis has led the U.S. government to certify that Iceland’s whaling and whale meat trade are diminishing the effectiveness of international environmental treaties.
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The International Environmental Law Project at Lewis & Clark has issued a new report (authored by Professor Chris Wold and students Hannah McCausland and Karen Swift): The World Heritage Convention and Polar Bear Conservation: Creating a Transboundary Polar Bear World Heritage Reserve. The report describes how the World Heritage Convention can be used to build resilience for polar bear conservation by designating important polar bear denning and other habitat as World Heritage.
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Lewis & Clark Law LLM student, Moe Honjo, recently won first prize in the 9th “Shuppan Koshien” contest held in Tokyo, Japan. “Shuppan Koshien” is a national competition, in which students from all over Japan present their plans for books they wish to publish.
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Dan Rohlf is kicking off his sabbatical by teaching Comparative Environmental Law at Kangwon National University Law School in Chuncheon, South Korea.
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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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Lewis & Clark Law School is happy to announce the launch of the Green Energy Institute and the Green Energy Fellows program.
