ENR News and Events

Oregon Law Professor Mary Wood, who serves as Faculty Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, provides expert commentary to The Seattle Times. 
Professor Mary Wood, who serves as Faculty Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, stressed the urgency for sky cleanup at the UHLC Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources Center's annual lecture. 
Oregon Law Professor Mary Wood among those reflecting on the legacy of late Judge Alfred T. "Ted" Goodwin (1923-2022) in article by The New York Times. 
Oregon Law Professor Michael Fakhri, who has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food since 2020, was a panelist at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture's kick-off event, "Food Systems Transformation: A Worldwide Response to Multiple Crises," in Berlin, Germany. 
Oregon Law Assistant Professor Sarah Adams-Schoen and Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center Research Associate Michelle Smith co-authored "Land Use Law and Climate Change," a chapter in Oregon's Sixth Climate Assessment. 
Oregon Law Professor Emerita Susan Gary and Beck Groff—an Oregon Law 3L who served as a 2021-2022 Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center's Conservation Trust Project—published their article, "Patagonia, Purpose Trusts, and Stewardship Trusts: Business with a Purpose," in Probate & Property Magazine, a publication of the American Bar Association's Real Proper
In May 2022, Professor Emerita Roberta Mann published "Targeting Plastic Pollution with Taxes" in the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law. Cumberland School of Law Professor Tracey Roberts recently reviewed the article for TaxBlog. 
The University of Oregon's Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice (JFI) was awarded the 2022 Racial Equity and Sustainability Collaborations Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Dr.
A new report by Oregon Water Futures—a collaborative that includes the Environmental Natural Resources Law Center—titled the "Oregon Water Justice Framework," is essential reading for policymakers and water decision-makers across the state. 
University of Michigan Law School Professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) visited Oregon Law to deliver the 16th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture with his talk, "The Dark Matter of Indian Law: The Duty of Protection to Indian Tribes."