Professor Mary Wood's latest article, "Sky Carbon Cleanup and Biodiversity Restoration: Devising Regional Frameworks," is among the "Top 20" articles selected for the 2025 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, a joint publication of the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Law Reporter and Vanderbilt University Law School.
After engaging in UC Davis' NSF-funded summer program, International Approaches to Groundwater & Drought Management, Oregon Law 3L and ENR Fellow Andy Archer joined peers from multiple institutions to present "Sustainability in Times of Scarcity: How Catalonian Water Policy Could Inform California's Groundwater Management" at the American Geophysical Union's 2024 Annual Meeting.
Professor of Practice Dr. Alaí Reyes Santos recently presented a keynote address, "Fostering Collaboration in the Public Humanities," and served on a "Racial and Climate Justice" panel discussion at Oklahoma State University.
Check out "The Essential Work of Community Gardens," a report and digital story map created by Case Martin, Dillan "Bubba" Smith, Chloe Tesch, and Lesley Valencia, students from Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos' 2023 Environmental Justice course.
In mid-November, three fellows working with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW)—Mamadou Alpha Diallo, Vanessa Torres, and Clinton Ezeigwe—visited Professor of Practice Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos and her class, Human Rights and the Environment.
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.
