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Upcoming Events and Fairs
TO: Officers of all student groups
FROM: SBA Student Services Committee
RE: “What the Hell Am I Doing Here?” Forum
SBA is sponsoring the “What the Hell Am I Doing Here?” Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the student lounge. Pizza, snacks, and sodas will be provided for all.
WHAT IS IT?
The forum is intended to be a community-building event that will connect people with activities and information. The forum will provide first-year students with answers to their questions about all aspects of law school: classes, grades, activism, student groups, job searching, externships, study abroad, stress relief, future plans, etc. It will also serve as a recruitment opportunity for student groups and thereby build a more connected and vibrant NWSL community. It will, of course, benefit and interest 2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-years, too. SBA hopes to make this a major event and energy booster for the school.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Each student group is asked to staff a table with representatives who are interested in talking with other students, sharing wisdom and experiences, and getting people psyched and joined up! For this, you will need three or four people from your group to commit to hanging out at your table. Please RSVP with Alex Donahue (adonahue@ or 675-0655), who will reserve a table at the event for you.
The curious need only show up!
If you have any questions, please contact Alex Donahue or SBA President Alix Gnoske (gnoske@ or 236-4526).
JANITOR UNIONIZATION FORUM
On Tues., Feb. 23, at 5:30 p.m., in the Stamm rooms of Templeton Center, there will be a student-run organizational forum to engage interested members of the Lewis and Clark community in the pressing issue of janitor unionization. With students and workers interested in more effective dialogue among faculty, administrators, and Skyline Maintenance Building Co., this forum will focus on campus-wide politicization of a critical moment in the unionization process.
Find out: What is the Justice for Janitors Campaign? Who is organizing? How might tuition be affected? Where can student and faculty efforts be most effective? How have workers been intimidated? Why is the administration shying away from responsibility? Why should you be concerned? What are the logistics of a "living wage" benefits package for on-campus workers? Come join Portland area college janitors, Jobs with Justice, concerned students, workers, faculty and SEIU Local 49 Union for this organizational forum.
1999 NORTHWEST PUBLIC SERVICE CAREER FAIR
The largest public service career fair in the Northwest will be held at the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College on Sat., Feb. 20, 1999. The fair will be a great opportunity to talk to attorneys from government agencies, legal services, and a wide variety of public interest organizations. Students can also interview for volunteer and paid positions available this summer and beyond.
Sign up now! Go immediately to Career Services to register for the 1999 Northwest Public Service Career Fair. A mere $10 fee will cover registration, lunch, and morning refreshments. Your Career Services staff can tell you more about this great opportunity.
REBELLIOUS LAWYERING CONFERENCE
The fifth annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference will be held at Yale Law School, Feb. 19-21. The conference will bring together legal practitioners, advocates, activists, and law students from around the country and the world to discuss innovative strategies for achieving social change. Rebellious Lawyering is a unique opportunity for progressive law students to meet like-minded students and practitioners and to discuss creative methods for fighting injustice in our communities.
This year's keynote speaker will be Sister Helen Prejan, C.S.J., author of Dead Man Walking and board member of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1985-1995 (Chairperson, 1993-1995). The conference will also feature panels of prominent lawyers and activists speaking about innovative legal and quasi-legal methods, including organizing, policy advocacy, direct representation, and impact litigation.
The conference will begin Friday at 7 p.m. and will conclude Sunday at noon. A registration fee of $10 is requested but may be waived by request. Free housing with Yale law students will also be available for participants upon request. For updated information on the conference and to register, visit <www.law.yale.edu/reb-law/>.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
The 1999 NWLSA Conference, "Balancing the Scales of Justice: Realizing Our Potential in the 21st Century," will be held in Syracuse, New York, on Feb. 26-28. The fee is $50. The conference will also host the Sojourner Truth Moot Court competition.
1999 PIELC CONFERENCE, EUGENE, OREGON
The 1999 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference will be held March 4-7 in Eugene. Keynote speakers for this year include:
- Ramona Africa: Minister of Information, MOVE
- Daniel P. Beard: Senior Vice President for Public Policy, National Audubon Society
- David Brower: Founder, Earth Island Institute, The Brower Institute
- Dr. Helen Caldicott: Founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility, author/anti-nuclear activist, Nobel Prize nominee
- Elizabeth Furse: Retired U.S. Representative, Oregon, First District
- Tim Goldtooth: Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Julia "Butterfly" Hill: Forest Activist, Luna Tree-Sit
- Charles Lee: Director of Research, United Church of Christ Commission of Racial Justice
- Lee Lew Lee: Film Producer/Director, "All Power to the People"
- Robin Morris-Collin: Professor, University of Oregon School of Law, Environmental Justice
- Samuel Alain Nguiffo: Center pour l'Environment et le Development (CED), Cameroon
- Jose Padilla: Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance
- Andrea Smith: Co-coordinator, Committee on Women, Population and Environment
- Paul Waldau: Vice President, Great Ape International
- Lori Wallach: Public Citizen, Director of Global TradeWatch
On Friday night, Dana Lyons and the Casey Neill Trio will perform; on Saturday night, following the keynoters, John Trudell will present a spoken-word poetry reading. There will be plenty of beer for everyone. For more information, visit <http//www.pielc.uoregon.edu/>.
WEST COAST CONFERENCE ON PROGRESSIVE LAWYERING
This conference will be held at Stanford Law School, Mar. 12-14. The keynote speaker is Ralph Nader, and this year's theme is "Shaking the Foundations." Panels on the following topics will be available:
- Ethnicity and Environment
- Queer Culture Clash
- Starting Your Own Non-Profit
- Poverty Law Advocacy
- Progressive Prosecution
- Criminal Defense
- Employment Law
- International Labor Law
- Immigration Law
For more information, check out <www.stanford.edu/~actionj/Shaking.html>, call (650) 725-2730, or email Toni Braddus (broaddus@stanford.edu) and David Radel (radeld@stanford.edu). Travel fellowships are available.
Property Guru to Deliver Higgins Lecture
By Emily Davis
James E. Krier, the 1999 Higgins Distinguished Visitor, will address the law school community and the public on Wednesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the student lounge. Mr. Krier, who is the Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, will lecture on “Judicial Fairness and Efficiency in the Law of Takings.”
No stranger to Lewis & Clark, Mr. Krier taught summer school here in 1977, and was our Distinguished Natural Resources Visitor in 1989. Formerly a member of the Stanford and UCLA faculties, he has authored and co-authored several books, among them Environmental Law and Policy and Pollution and Policy. Notably, Mr. Krier is also the co-author, with Jesse Dukeminier, of a 1L Property tome. All are welcome and encouraged to attend the lecture and meet Mr. Krier, a lawyer and professor whose contributions to American property and environmental law have influenced the field’s academic and professional landscape.
Visionaries, Living Legends to Attend Law Conference in Eugene
By Tom Miller and Mary Jo Powrozek
Howdy, L&Cers,
Time to prepare for back-to-back public interest blowouts! First, it's the PILP Auction on Feb. 26. Then it's time for another annual extravaganza!
HUH? The 17th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference—arguably the coolest gathering of its kind on Planet Earth
WHERE? University of Oregon Law School, Eugene, OR
WHEN? Thursday, Mar. 4 to Sunday, Mar. 7
WHAT? Much, much more than privileged, gloomy white kids whining about the fate of the world, the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is a cornucopia of diversity that attracts bright, festive minds from all over the globe. Name your topic—it's covered.
Keynote speakers for this year include:
· Ramona Africa: Minister of Information, MOVE
· Daniel P. Beard: Senior Vice President for Public
Policy, National Audubon Society
· David Brower: Founder, Earth Island Institute, The
Brower Institute
· Dr. Helen Caldicott: Founder, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, author/anti-nuclear activist, Nobel Prize
nominee
· Elizabeth Furse: Retired U.S. Representative, Oregon,
First District
· Tim Goldtooth: Executive Director, Indigenous
Environmental Network
· Julia “Butterfly” Hill: Forest Activist,
Luna Tree-Sit
· Charles Lee: Director of Research, United Church of
Christ Commission of Racial Justice
· Lee Lew Lee: Film Producer/Director, “All Power
to the People”
· Robin Morris-Collin: Professor, University of Oregon
School of Law, Environmental Justice
· Samuel Alain Nguiffo: Center pour l’Environment
et le Development (CED), Cameroon
· Jose Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural
Legal Assistance
· Andrea Smith, Co-coordinator, Committee on Women,
Population and Environment
· Paul Waldau: Vice President, Great Ape
International
· Lori Wallach: Public Citizen, Director of Global
Trade Watch
On Friday night, Dana Lyons and the Casey Neill Trio will perform; on Saturday night, following the keynoters, John Trudell will present a spoken-word poetry reading. There will be plenty of beer for everyone.
NOT SURE? Visit http://www.law.uoregon.edu/~l-a-w/
ELC is organizing and subsidizing carpools and hotel rooms for the event. Keep an eye out for more info! If citizens of Zimbabwe, East Timor, and Peru can manage to attend, we should be able to get a carpool convoy organized.
PILP AUCTION DRAWING CLOSER . . .
By Robin Snyder and Amie Wexler
A week-long stay in Tuscany, Cabo San Lucas, or Jackson Hole . . . meals at your favorite restaurant . . . poker with Professors Brown, Funk, Johnston and Large . . . comfort meals during exam period . . . All of these items and much more are yours to bid on at the upcoming PILP Auction to be held Friday, Feb. 26, 1999 at the law school. Are you ready?
The excitement begins at 4:30 p.m. with the silent auction where you’ll find salon gift certificates, artwork and student services. The first silent auction section closes at 6:45 p.m.; the second section closes at 7:30 p.m. Shortly after the real excitement begins with the live auction where you’ll have the chance to bid on tons of great items.
The Auction benefits PILP’s summer stipend program, which allows students to work at their dream jobs and provide much-needed legal help to non-profit groups. Last year’s auction raised $35,000, and PILP was able to fund 17 stipends.
In addition to coming to the auction, having a great time, and raising lots of money, it’s time to start getting your stipend application together. Stipend applications are due on Mar. 5 by 5 p.m. in Career Services. Pick up your applications and get busy! Stipends fund work at $9/hour at 40 hours a week for 10 weeks, a total of $3600!
ELC Events Provide Opportunities for Involvement
By Holly Pettit
The Environmental Law Caucus (ELC) has a full slate of events planned for this semester, offering various opportunities to participate. For example, ELC is organizing and subsidizing students who wish to go the Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, coming up Mar. 4-7. This conference brings together a tremendous variety of environmental activitists, lawyers, and students, provides a great learning experience, and really is a lot of fun. To help organize our trip to the conference, please email Coby Dolan (cdolan@) or Mary Jo Powrozek (powrozek@).
There are a lot of opportunities to help plan the school’s Earth Day celebration, which this year has been expanded to an Earth Day Week of Events. This year ELC has planned speakers, music, barbecues, games, an environmental organization fair, videos, a mug drive, and a T-shirt and grocery bag sale. If you want to help out with this year’s Earth Day celebration, please contact Holly Pettit (hpettit@) or Jess Brown (jbrown@).
ELC also hopes to release a Portland Green Scene guide on Earth Day. This pamphlet would be a “green Majority Opinion,” filled with students’ recommendations on how to live as an environmentalist in Portland. The guide may contain students’ favorite vegetarian restaurants, places to buy organic food and environmentally friendly products, favorite hiking and camping spots, and other useful information. ELC hopes to cooperate with undergraduate environmental studies students on this project. If you have any ideas on what the guide should contain and/or if you want to help gather the information, please contact Holly or Jess.
Finally, there are the beach cleanup in March, the Law Suits Sale (which recycles professional clothes), joint ELC/CATS ivy and blackberry pulls in Tryon Forest, and two hikes planned for the semester. Let Holly and Jess know if you want to help out with these events.
In addition to all this, several great colloquia are planned, including a visit from the (Asian) Indian lawyer credited with saving the Taj Mahal, a session on environmental justice in (American) Indian county, a presentation by the Alaska Rainforest Campaign, and others still in the works. A calendar of ELC events is posted on the ELC board near the cafeteria, and reprinted here for your convenience.
ELC Spring Events
Feb. 22
Colloquia: MC Mehta, a lawyer from India speaking on
practicing environmental law in India
Mar. 2
Colloquia: Jim Grijvala on Environmental Justice in Indian
Country
Mar. 4-7
Environmental Law Conference, Eugene
Mar. 9
Colloquia: Alaska Rainforest Campaign: Inspiring Journey
into the Wild
Mar. 13
Forest Park Hike
Mar. 27
SOLV Beach Cleanup
Apr. 10
Saddle Mountain Hike
Apr. 19-22
Earth Week