Autographed beams celebrate landmark 'green' project

It’s one thing to autograph a yearbook. It’s quite another thing to autograph steel beams.

"When we began construction last summer, we decided to forego the traditional ground breaking," explains James Huffman, dean of the law school. "Instead, law school alumni, faculty, staff and students took out their silver-paint pens and autographed two steel I-beams. Those autographed beams, now a permanent part of the new building, symbolize our past and our future."

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Law school puts its environmental values to work

Recognized as the best in the nation for environmental and natural resources law, the law school is putting its environmental values to work as it remodels and expands Paul L. Boley Law Library.

"One of our design goals was to create a building that interacts with nature," says Jon Wiener, the library’s principal architect at Soderstrom Architects. "We thought this building was an opportunity to show how nature and the built environment are intertwined.

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Sen. Gordon Smith to speak at commencement

U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith will address the 230 graduates of the Lewis & Clark Law School on Saturday, May 19, at 11 a.m., in Griswold Stadium.

Smith is particularly interested in education, health care and natural resources and worked to raise the contribution limits for education savings accounts.

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