Archive of 2007-08 Events

In the Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program

Lewis & Clark College is the home of the exciting nationwide climate change education and action initiative, Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America. As one part of the Law School's year-long Degrees Project, on January 31 the Law School joined over 1,750 institutions and organizations across the country in providing a day of learning activities focusing on climate change. Selected podcasts of Lewis & Clark events

20th Annual Distinguished Visitor Lecture and Distinguished Graduate Awards

NRLI's 2007 Distinguished Visitor, Professor Lisa Heinzerling of Georgetown Law School, gave an entertaining and instructive lecture about her experiences as petitioner's attorney in the 2007 Supreme Court case of Massachusetts v. EPA. Her October 3 talk, Climate Change and the Supreme Court, will be available soon on podcast.

Also on October 3, our environmental faculty presented Distinguished Environmental Graduate Awards to Chuck Barlow, LLM ‘95, Robin Kundis Craig, JD ‘96, and Jim Martin, JD ‘81, as well as the Environmental Law Alumni Association Williamson Award to Jamie Saul '07. Chuck, Robin and Jim are profiled on our Distinguished Graduate page.

Symposium on Ocean Energy Law and Policy

As prequel to an important October 2 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission workshop on licensing pilot ocean energy projects, Lewis & Clark cosponsored an exciting symposium focusing on the legal and policy aspects of this new energy source. FERC Commissioner Phil Moeller provided the keynote.

15th Annual Animal Law Conference

Building Bridges: Strengthening the Animal Advocacy Movement

Noah Greenwald and Kristina Haddad opened this year's Animal Law conference on September 28 with a sobering session on the Impacts of Global Warming on Wildlife. The conference, sold out for the second straight year, continued throughout the weekend. Highlights of the conference will soon be available on podcast.

Law students from all over the country enjoyed beautiful summer weather in Oregon while attending Lewis & Clark Law School's summer environmental and natural resources law courses. Each year, classes are designed to fit just about every schedule, including five-week evening classes for students who work during the day.

Lewis & Clark's International Environmental Law Project students traveled to The Hague, Netherlands in June 2007 to participate in the annual meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). On their to-do list: protecting endangered elephants and developing a formal compliance scheme for CITES. Read their daily reports from behind the scenes.

In September, the Environmental Law Caucus welcomed Bob Stacy, attorney and Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, to talk about Measure 49 and land use in Oregon. Measure 49 seeks to limit some of the adverse impacts of Oregon's Measure 37, which was advertised as an effort to protect individual property rights for the "little guy" but allows corporations to bypass laws intended to keep Oregon beautiful, allowing development of large scale housing subdivisions, mines, strip malls, and big box stores.