Law School News Briefs

Oregon Bar Exam Hospitality Room

Lewis & Clark Law School plans to make life more relaxing for alumni who take the state bar exam in July. As it does every February and July, the law school will rent a banquet room at Portland’s airport Holiday Inn—the site of the exam—and will provide free food, beverages and massages to ease test-taking tension.

Gantenbein Society

Actress Alfre Woodard, winner of an Emmy award and former nominee for Academy and Golden Globe awards, was the featured speaker at the Gantenbein Society dinner in March. The society consists of supporters who contribute $5,000 or more annually to the law school.

PILP Auction

Law school students netted a record $50,000 at the 11th annual Public Interest Law Project auction in February. Proceeds fund the Summer Stipend Program, which allows law students to work for public interest or public service organizations.

Intellectual Property Conference

The law school held its fourth annual Intellectual Property Conference at the Oregon Convention Center in February. Judge Paul R. Michel, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit since 1988, spoke on "Why Don’t Advocates Write and Argue as Judges Would?"

Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor

John D. Leshy, distinguished visiting professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law and former solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior, was the law school’s Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor in February. He lectured on "The Babbitt Legacy at the Department of the Interior: A Preliminary View." Jeffrey C. Fereday ’80 and Peter Conrad Monson ’82 received the Distinguished Environmental Law Graduate Awards for 2000.

Higgins Distinguished Visitor

Vincent Blasi, the law school’s 18th Higgins Distinguished Visitor in March, spoke on "The Marketplace of Ideas." Blasi is the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties at Columbia University School of Law, and he is the David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and the Hunton and Williams Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

National Moot Court Competition

The Native American Legal Students Association of Lewis & Clark Law School hosted the ninth annual National Moot Court Competition in March.

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