To help law students gain context and understanding of emerging legal issues at this moment in history, Oregon Law began hosting “Current Conversations,” said Jennifer Geller, managing director of Oregon Law’s Public Service and Policy program.
Jennifer W. Reynolds, JD, professor of law and interim dean at the University of Oregon School of Law has been selected as the new permanent dean and Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law. University of Oregon Provost and Senior Vice President Christopher P. Long announced Reynolds assumed the role effective March 17, 2025.
For over four decades Land Air Water (LAW), an Oregon Law student organization, has organized, led, and hosted the oldest and largest Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) in the world.
Oregon Law announces Jane Gordon, JD ’79, an alumna, former Oregon Law associate dean, and current vice president for UO Portland as the 2025 Frohnmayer Award for Public Service honoree.
Not all lawsuits are as they seem. In the 2025 Derrick Bell Lecture, featured speaker Professor Kimberly West-Faulcon, James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law, Loyola Marymount University, will address how some race-conscious affirmative action lawsuits hide a different goal.
Oregon Law Professor Greg Dotson was among a dozen leaders in law, policy, and community named by Oregon Attorney General-elect Dan Rayfield to a new advisory group curated to defend against potential federal impacts on the state and Oregonians.
Oregon Law is proud to announce Magistrate Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai, JD ’96, has been confirmed by the United States Senate as US District Court Judge for the District of Oregon. The vote makes him the first Asian American lifetime judge and first Muslim lifetime judge in the District of Oregon. Kasubhai is the third Muslim lifetime judge in our nation’s history.
The Business Law Clinic is celebrating 20 years providing free legal services to entrepreneurs around the state, giving students a chance to put their law school training into action while benefiting small businesses. This year the clinic added trademarks and established Oregon Law as one of 64 schools in the US certified to provide free legal services to the public for trademark matters.
Taking place virtually from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST on Thursday, October 24, 2024, the 18th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture will feature Mr. Charles F. "Chuck" Sams III (Cayuse and Walla Walla), the Director of the National Park Service, with his talk, "Fulfilling a Covenant: Stewardship of America's Best Idea -- The intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and the 1916 Organic Act."
