University of Oregon Environmental & Natural Resources Law Center

The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) will be held from March 3-6 and is organized by the Land Air Water Society (LAW). LAW is a student organized environmental law society at the University of Oregon and is the nation's oldest and largest student environmental law society. Their most prioritized activity is organizing the PIELC. This event offers CLE credit.

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Scenes from the Climate Strike today near campus! The park was buzzing with students, community members, and activists all showing their support for climate action. The Strike will continue on into the afternoon.

Oregon Law is hiring a new Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership Development. The Director will lead the collaborative effort of the law school’s faculty, staff, and students to develop, implement, and support programs and services that increase diversity, promote inclusion, a sense of community, and the discussion of difference within and outside the classroom. Learn more here!: https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/528883/director-of-diversity-inclusion-and-leadership-development

We're so grateful for this support! Read here about how this generous donation will bolster our climate research:

Gift from Roger Worthington helps Oregon Law address urgent climate challenges Pictured: Roger Worthington outside of Knight Law Center in Fall of 2021It was the birds in toxic waste that spurred a turning point for UO donor Roger Worthington. When he was 16 years old, his family moved to Houston—far from the forests, rivers, and mountains of his Oregon childhood. He went on...

Check out these new climate-related job opportunities!

New jobs are emerging as federal agencies expand efforts to address climate change, this entails implementing programs through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Some of the jobs include those posted on USAJOBS, the US Department of Energy's Clean Energy Corps program, and the US Department of Homeland Security's Climate Change Professionals program. We encourage students and alumni to apply if interested, and will share more info as it becomes available. Links can be found here for more application information:

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Happy Indigenous People's Day! If you would like to celebrate at the UO Campus, meet at the EMU Amphitheater. Ceremony runs from 2:30pm-3:30pm.

3L Native Environmental Sovereignty Project Fellow Reza Sadeghzadeh weighs in on salmonoid populations and dams:

Guest View: The Willamette River's salmon silver lining's playbook The Corps has seemingly arrived at a clear fork in the road: maintaining business as usual while these two species face extinction or changing how these dams operate.

The Guardian recently featured an article written by Oregon Law professor and UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri. His writing highlights food rights. This hard-hitting article emphasizes how food insecurity is deeply entrenched within human rights and social protection. Fakhri is an independent official advisor for the UN Summit on Food Systems and stresses the need for world governments to implement a plan to improve this pressing issue. Fakhri's hope is that the world will congregate to combat food insecurity during these troubling times.

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