The Office of Equity and Inclusion plans to discuss York, and how his journey still impacts our lives and our L&C community.
Join SALSA (South Asian Law Student Association), BLSA (Black Law Student Association), LLS (Latinx Law Society), APALSA (Asian Pacific American Law Student Association), MLSA (Minority Law Student Association), OAILSA (Oregon Arab Iranian Law Student Association), and NALSA (Native American Law Students Association) for a Multi-Cultural Fair with food, art, and performances to showcase the different cultures represented at our campus! RSVP here.
Join Professor Steverson and Benjamin as they talk about their personal experiences in the law as women and women of color. This is a safe space to ask questions, share experiences, concerns and find community. All are welcome!
Join NALSA for our annual Celebrating Celilo Falls event. Hear creation stories from Ed Edmo an elder and storyteller from the Shoshone Bannock Tribe. Learn about Ed’s experience growing up in Celilo Falls– a sacred tribal fishing and trading ground– before the Falls were destroyed by the Dalles Dam.
Come have a discussion with Ashley Needham and Chloe Clay, two alums, talk about their experiences working in public defense. As public defenders they are serving marginalized and often BIPOC communities. Although zealous advocacy is aspirational, being a White savior is not and neither is BIPOC fatigue. So how do we avoid it? Come join the discussion. All are welcome!
Join a small, racially diverse group of CAS students to participate in a pilot 2-dialogue series to explore Race, Identity and Community at LC.
Join the NLG for this Week of Abolition event, a panel with Ashlee Albies, Maya Rinta, and Venetia Mayhew on defending protesters, political prisoners, and oversentencing. Snacks served. Email nlg@lclark.edu to join our mailing list.
Join a small, racially diverse group of LC staff and faculty to participate in a pilot 3-dialogue series to explore Race, Identity and Community at LC.
The Nielson Social Change Innovation Grant program is facilitated by the Center for Social Change and Community Involvement. The grant supports Lewis & Clark College undergraduate student-initiated projects and is designed to:
Join the NLG for this Week of Abolition event, a panel with Rian Peck (Visible Law) and Alex Meggitt (formerly OJRC) for a discussion on defending the accused and continuing to defend the incarcerated. Snacks served. Email nlg@lclark.edu to join our mailing list.
While intellectual property (IP) law is an established legal framework present in the U.S. and many Western countries, its contributions in balancing among competing policies often falls short of expectations. An Islamic theory of IP law sheds new light on the debate and tension of private property and economic justice. While it is important to understand the implementation of the Islamic theory of IP law in Muslim countries, it should also be noted that its principles can help provide new considerations to shape or reform to Western IP legal systems.
Please join us for a webinar titled Connections Are Everything: Fostering Campus Cultures of Learning, Belonging, and Thriving on Wednesday, February 28, from 11 a.m. – noon. Registrants will also receive a recording to watch at a later time.
IME presents: Self-care for Social Justice Advocates
Tuesday, February 27th from 5:30-6:30pm
IME Suite (3rd floor of Fowler Student Center, by the spiral staircase)
Join the Ethnic Studies program in welcoming Professor Matt Guterl (Brown University) to talk about his memoir, Skinfolk, a haunting, poignant story of growing up in a multiracial family.
In honor of Black History Month, the Black Student Union and the Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement Office are excited to introduce On the Hill: Black Marketplace, an opportunity on-campus for Black-identifying students, staff, faculty, and external vendors to sell their crafts/goods to our L&C community.
Ben Crump, renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney and one of the nation’s foremost lawyers and advocates for social justice, will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture on February 20 at the Agnes Flanagan Chapel on the campus of Lewis & Clark College.
Mr. Crump will be joined by Lewis & Clark Law Professor Robert Klonoff for a Q/A format. Professor Klonoff has worked closely with Ben Crump as co-counsel in ongoing litigation on behalf of the family of Henrietta Lacks against companies that profited by the use of Henrietta’s “immortal cell line.”
This is a hybrid event.
To attend remotely via Zoom, please RSVP here.
There is still space at the lecture in-person, please let us know you are coming: RSVP here
Attendance at the event qualifies for 1.0 MCLE “Access to Justice” credit. (RSVP and advance request for CLE required.)
The Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture Series
Each year Lewis & Clark Law School hosts an endowed lecture honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made possible by a generous grant from alums Jacqueline Alexander ’07 and Lee Matthews ’73. The mission is to bring internationally recognized legal scholars, practitioners, jurists and civil rights leaders to Lewis & Clark to present a lecture to our law school community on issues of diversity, race relations, tolerance, and equal rights.
The Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) and Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) are excited to continue our monthly Faculty & Staff: Inclusive Practice Strategies this spring.
IME and BSU are excited to invite you to take part in our Black History Month Dinner: Being Black - Beyond the Academy.
We are excited to announce Professor Kenneth Andrews will visit Lewis & Clark College as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar. During his visit, Dr. Andrews will give a public lecture open to all on Thursday, February 15th from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in Gregg Pavilion. His talk is entitled Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Freedom Struggle.
The Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) office presents the Social Justice Tour.