On October 24, 2024, the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center virtually welcomed Mr. Charles F. "Chuck" Sams, III (Cayuse and Walla Walla), the director of the National Park Service, for the 18th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture.
Interested in participating at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), the oldest and largest such conference in the world? Panel and workshop submissions are requested by October 31, 2024.
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."
"Legal and Policy Interventions to Restore and Protect Lake Abert," the latest report of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center's Oceans, Coasts, and Watersheds Project, examines possible water management strategies for better stewarding and safeguarding Oregon's only hypersaline lake.
Check out Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law Tom Lininger's latest article, "Empowering Family Forestland Owners to Reduce Wildfire Risk," in Volume 58 of the Georgia Law Review.
Plan to join the 43rd annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon! Organized by the dedicated students of Land Air Water, Oregon Law's environmental law society, PIELC is the largest and longest-running such conference on the planet. The theme for PIELC 2025 is "Rising to the Challenge: Justice on the Horizon."
ENR's Oceans, Coasts, and Watersheds Project's latest report examines how FERC's regulation of hydropower projects impacts decisions to remove dams, identifying several regulatory obstacles and potential policy solutions for overcoming them.
In her latest article, "Securing Ecology 'Capable of Sustaining Human Life': Invoking the Inherent and Inalienable Public Trust Rights of the People," Professor Mary Wood explains the urgent need to address climate change and explores environmental constitutionalism as a possible approach. Access the article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal on Constitutional Law (Volume 26).
Professor Michael Fakhri serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. His latest UN report, "Palestine and the Right to Food," comprises three graphic reports—"Gaza Fishers," "Dignity Despite Suffering," and "Palestinian People's Food Sovereignty"—developed in collaboration with comic artist Omar Khouri.
Associate Professor Greg Dotson worked on the historic Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, "the biggest climate investment in the country's history." In a recent Oregon Public Broadcasting article, Dotson speaks to how Oregon is taking advantage of opportunities the legislation makes available.
