ENR News and Events

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. 
Professor Mary Wood, Faculty Director of Oregon Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, has been named one of Bloomberg's Green Champions for 2024. As a Green Champion, Professor Wood is joining a global community of leaders and activists whose ideas are reshaping the state of our climate for the better. 
Professor Roberta Mann of the University of Oregon School of Law explains how taxing single-use plastics could help combat their environmental effects in an interview with Forbes.com.
Interested in working with Oregon Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center and our incredible community? ENR is accepting applications to our Interdisciplinary Research Projects and Fellows Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. Apply now! 
Assistant Professor Andy Winden teaches Sustainable Business and other Business Law courses at the University of Oregon. 
Oregon Law Professor Michael Fakhri, who serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, hosts "The Palestinian People's Food Sovereignty," a side-event at the UN Human Rights Council's 55th Session in Geneva.  
The Western Environmental Law Update (WELU) is a student-generated creative zine that is distributed annually during the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon. Check out the 2024 WELU, "Cultivating Community." 
Oregon Law Professor Emeritus John Bonine is one of the founders of the historic Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), the oldest and largest such conference on the planet. At PIELC 2024, student organizers honored Professor Bonine's contributions with the creation of the annual John Bonine Keynote.