Professors Chris Wold and Erica Lyman of Lewis & Clark Law School’s International Environmental Law Project (IELP) are on the road again. After traveling to Doha for the climate change negotiations where IELP provided legal assistance to Pacific island countries, they are now in Bangkok with seven IELP students to help 178 governments make decisions to protect species from overutilization due to international trade. They are participating in the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) from March 3-14, 2013.

Faculty and students from Kangwon National University will visit and attend environmental law classes on January 28 – February 1, 2013.

Three 1Ls ventured to Delhi to live and learn for the summer.

A student-led reading group takes a hands-on approach to international legal research.

The Law School Dean met with Madame Lee Hee-Ho, a world-renowned champion for peace, at her residence in Seoul.

This November, President Barry Glassner is visiting China, Korea, and Japan, to deepen ties with alumni and build new relationships with local leaders.

Faculty and students engage in collaborative research year-round 

After 40 years at Lewis & Clark, Professor of Education Zaher Wahab is “retiring” to work full time in his home country of Afghanistan.

by Pattie Pace
Rebecca Moran B.A. ’99 finds adventure as a pilot in Tanzania.

by Genevieve J. Long
Legal Education Goes Global

For the first time, U.S. News & World Report has recognized Lewis & Clark’s Overseas and Off-campus program as one of the best in the nation. 

Global engagement is an integral part of the Lewis & Clark experience. From our long-standing tradition of overseas programs to alternative breaks, students have many opportunities to learn and serve abroad.

Lewis & Clark is a school known for sending our students abroad, with nearly two-thirds of our undergraduates participating in our overseas programs. But what happens when these students return to campus is just as important as what they experience around the globe, a topic that President Barry Glassner explores in a recent editorial for the Huffington Post.

Aubrey Baldwin, clinical professor of law and staff attorney at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC), spent three weeks in Korea this summer teaching Comparative Environmental Law at Kangwon National University School of Law in the city of Chuncheon (about an hour from Seoul).

Jane Hunter, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of history, has been selected as a 2012-13 Fulbright scholar for the Distinguished Chairs Program.  The award will allow Hunter to spend her upcoming sabbatical teaching history at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China.

Our overseas study program celebrates its 50th year.

This summer, three undergraduate students and two alumni will research alongside Associate Professor of Biology Greta Binford in the Dominican Republic. 

by Ellisa Valo
The Lewis & Clark overseas study program celebrates its 50th year.

Tadhg Fendt ’14 has become the first student from Lewis & Clark’s Russian Program to receive a Boren Scholarship. The award will support Fendt’s language study abroad.

Just a few months ago, Lewis & Clark professor of education Zaher Wahab was asked to take on a nearly impossible assignment—come to Kabul immediately and work with the deputy minister of education to revise Afghanistan’s literacy plan.

Dawn Odell, assistant professor of art history, has been selected as a Fulbright alumni ambassador.

Our students are at home in the world.

A recent Lewis & Clark graduate received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals fellowship. Through the cultural exchange program, Chris MacLeod ’11 will spend a full year working and studying in Germany.

Nine Lewis & Clark seniors will spend the next year teaching around the world after receiving prestigious awards from the Fulbright Program.

Jason Friedman ’95 charts new paths in the international hospitality industry.

Students talk about how Lewis & Clark fulfilled their passion for international experiences.

For the second consecutive year, Lewis & Clark ranks in the top five on the Peace Corps Top Colleges list—the only school in Portland to receive this honor.

Last year, for the first time ever, two Lewis & Clark student groups earned competitive grants from 100 Projects for Peace, an initiative funded by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis. Now in its fifth year, the program encourages undergraduates to design grassroots projects to be undertaken around the world with the help of $10,000 grants. Lewis & Clark students have earned the coveted grants each year since the program’s inception.

by Jeffrey Lott
In the luxury hotel business, a little adventure isn’t such a bad thing. 

Lewis & Clark expands its robust overseas study program to North Africa.

Activist Debi Goenka of the Conservation Action Trust visits Lewis & Clark Law School.

Professor Michael Scharf

U.S. News & World Report praises the opportunities for exploration, at home and abroad, at Lewis & Clark.

Dr. Makoto Uchiyama B.A. ’04

Professor Doug Beloof, who specializes in Criminal Law and Victims’ Rights, has taken his sabbatical to travel the world lecturing and researching victims’ rights issues on a global scale. His travel plan includes cities in Turkey, Australia, Japan, India and more.

Multimedia: Professor’ s Afghanistan war exhibition draws media attention

Dagmar Butte ‘91 elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Law Students Association.

When Molly Hetz ’11 first volunteered in the rural village of Guarjila in northern El Salvador as a high school student, she immediately connected with the people and knew she needed to return.

This spring, Lewis & Clark students are claiming a bounty of national awards and honors in recognition of their academic excellence and commitment to global service.

The Lewis & Clark Environmental Studies Program has earned its third grant in 11 years from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to expand the program, taking more students and faculty to locations around the world for research, and sharing its unique environmental studies model with peer institutions.

Students challenge popular environmental assumptions with unique research model

Shelby Davis made a major impact when he launched the Davis UWC Scholars Program in 2000. To date, he’s invested more than $200 million in the program, making him one of the nation’s largest donors to international education.

International and American students create ties that transcend national identity
through the Davis United World College Scholars Program.
by Romel Hernandez

Professor Zaher Wahab travels to war-torn Afghanistan to help rebuild higher education.