Professor Mary Wood delivered the keynote address at the North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection's 2022 Connect+ Conference with her talk, "The Oregon Forest Trust: An Ecological Endowment for Posterity."
The new fellows for the upcoming school year have been announced for Oregon Law’s Business Law, Environmental and Natural Resources, and Public Law and Policy programs.The Business Law Program
Oregon Law Professor Greg Dotson, an expert on Congress and environmental policy, discusses historic climate legislation he worked on as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
U.S. News and World Report released its 2023 Best Law Schools rankings. The University of Oregon School of Law climbed to #67 from last year’s #72 rank, the highest rank in at least two decades. The school remains #1 in the state. The Legal Research and Writing Program repeats its ranking as #1 (tied) in the nation. Two other Oregon Law programs rose among the nation’s top programs: Environmental Law (#7) and Dispute Resolution (#9).
Professor Michael Fahkri, who is currently serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur On The Right To Food, will deliver the Kent Law annual Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) lecture on the topic of impact of Covid-19 on food security and global food supply on Monday March 8 at 11am PST. The title of his lecture is "The Radical Potential of the Right to Food," and it
John Leshy is emeritus professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law and former Solicitor (general counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. On March 1, Yale University Press will publish his book Our Common Ground. It’s the first comprehensive history of America’s public lands — those managed by the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S.
Professor Mary Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor from the University of Oregon, will discuss Nature’s Trust: Protecting An Ecological Endowment for Posterity at the virtual 33rd Environmental Law Distinguished Visitor Lecture at Lewis and Clark Law School on March 16, 2022.
Visiting Assistant Professor Tade Oyewunmi's recent article, "An Instrumental Perspective on Power-to-Gas Hydrogen, and a Spotlight on New York's Emerging Climate and Energy Policy," was among the Environmental Law Institute's 20 Best Articles of 2020-2021.