ENR News and Features

Check out Professor Greg Dotson's latest article, "Looking for Your Friends at a Cocktail Party: The Dubious Role of Rejected Legislation and the Overlooked Potential of the Appropriations Process," in the Harvard Journal on Legislation's Summer 2024 issue. 
Professor Greg Dotson joins co-panelists for "The Challenge of U.S. Climate Law in the Next Five Years: What to Expect from Congress the President, and the Supreme Court," at Harvard's Climate Action Week. 
Oregon Law Professor Michael Fakhri, who serves as both faculty leader of the ENR Center's Food Resiliency Project and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, is a keynote speaker at the AFHVS and ASFS annual joint conference on food equity. 
Oregon Law Professor of Practice Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos joins the Waterloop podcast for "Empowering Oregon to Achieve Water Justice," an episode in Waterloop's Color of Water Series. 
Commissioned by the Oregon State Legislature's Joint Water Caucus, ENR's Oceans, Coasts, and Watersheds Project's latest report explores ways to streamline decision making around water. 
Over 21 months ago, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri—who also leads ENR's Food Resiliency Project at Oregon Law—submitted a request to make an official visit to the UK. With no approved visit to date, 86 civil society organizations have sent a letter calling for the prime minister to cease evading Fakhri's expert scrutiny. 
Oregon Law Professor Emerita Susan Gary retires this year, but she is not slowing down her work to promote the Perpetual Purpose Trust as a sustainable model for business ownership. This morning, she was quoted as an expert in an OPB article on the topic. 
This week, Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos, Professor of Practice at Oregon Law, was named a faculty grantee of a 2024 Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies Research Award. The award will support Dr. Reyes-Santos' forthcoming project, "Borifuturos Campesinos." 
One year after Oregon Law Professor and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri delivered the 8th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture, the T.M.C. Asser Press has published his remarks as a book entitled The Right to Food, Violence, and Food Systems. 
Jocelyn C. Pease (JD '09), a former Oceans, Coasts, and Watersheds Project Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, was recognized in the 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for her work in energy and environmental law.