Emeritus Professor of Law

• Evidence,
• Torts I and II

B.A. 1954 Valparaiso University
J.D. cum laude 1960 Willamette University College of Law
Founding editor in chief, Willamette Law Review

Professor Lansing was clerk in 1960-61 to Chief Justice William McAllister of the Oregon Supreme Court. He has been chair of the Torts Section of the Association of American Law Schools, faculty member of the American Academy of Judicial Education, vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Law School Faculty Liaison, and a member of the Portland City Club’s Research Board. In private practice from 1961 to 1967, he was the first executive director of the Oregon State Commission on Judicial Fitness and served on the Oregon Legislature’s Law Improvement Committee. Lansing edited a two-volume, multiauthor publication on damages, was a member of the executive board of the Oregon American Civil Liberties Union, and served as a pro tem trial judge. He is the author of a novel on law school, Skylarks and Lecterns, as well as coeditor of a volume on evidence for the Oregon State Bar. He has written the book Juggernaut—The Whitman Massacre Trial, published by the Ninth Circuit Historical Society, a book about the 1850 murder trial of five Cayuse Indians. His most recent book, entitled Nimrod -- Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier, published by the Washington State University Press, is a book about Oregon’s first reported murderer. Lansing is a member of the Oregon State Bar.