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June 24, 2008 Professor Svitlana Kravchenko Re-Elected to Leadership Position on UN Committee
June 12, 2008 Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program Director to Talk About Climate Change
With the imminent arrival of "peak oil" and the reality of climate change, people are struggling with the gravity of what is happening to our world.
Tim Hicks, director of the Conflict and Dispute Resolution program at Oregon Law, will speak about the topic at the EWEB Training Center, 500 East 4th Ave., on Thursday, June 12, from 7-9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Hicks will present and facilitate a discussion titled, "The Climate Change/Peak Oil Crisis and the Human Story: What Role Compassion?"
At the event, Hicks will offer perspectives on climate change, explore how the public can come to terms with its realities, and evaluate the impact of stories about climate change.
"We're often faced with difficult circumstances beyond our control," said Hicks. "While we can't control the events, we can determine how we react and how we react will be more or less helpful.
"How shall we respond to the climate change crisis? It is perhaps bigger and more profound than anything humanity as a whole has had to confront."
The Conflict and Dispute Resolution program at Oregon Law is structured to prepare a new generation of scholars, practitioners and educators to rethink traditional approaches to conflict. Grounded in dispute resolution theory, the program combines broad interdisciplinary training and opportunities for individualized study and skills development.
June 10, 2008 Professors Svitlana Kravchenko and John Bonine Visit Riga, Latvia to Commemorate Anniversary of Aarhus Public Participation Convention
Professors Svitlana Kravchenko and John Bonine are in Riga, Latvia, this week, celebrating the 10th anniversary of an international treaty that they helped to negotiate and working to plan a new decade of accomplishment.
The Aarhus Public Participation Convention seeks to promote "environmental democracy" among the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, along with the nations of the Caucasus region and Central Asia. The Convention has been ratified by the governments of 41 countries. Representing environmental groups in the drafting, negotiation, and implementation, Professors Bonine and Kravchenko helped shape the Convention and its early years.
At the first Meeting of the Parties in Italy in 2002, Professor Kravchenko was elected as to the Convention's Compliance Committee, overseeing how well countries carried out the provisions of the agreement. The Committee is meeting for three days in Riga to evaluate that work. Its findings and recommendations will lead to actions by the Meeting of the Parties later in the week. The Compliance Committee will also consider new cases just filed by environmental groups in Spain and Albania, complaining about alleged violations of public participation and access to justice requirements.
Professor Bonine is attending the international diplomatic gathering as a delegate from the European ECO Forum, a coalition of environmental citizen organizations that works to improve the operation of the Convention. He has been asked to make presentations at a conference beforehand on barriers to access to the courts that sometimes prevent citizens from enforcing environmental laws in national courts in the region.
The week will culminate in the convening of the three-day Third Meeting of the Parties to the Convention. The Meeting of the Parties will consider such topics as the duties of the Convention's members to spread principles of public participation and access to environmental information into other international forums.
May 22, 2008 Professor Mary Wood to Speak on Columbia River Salmon Fishing Case May 29
Oregon Law Professor Mary Wood, an expert in environmental law who holds the the Philip H. Knight professorship, will speak on Thursday, May 29 at the conference "United States v. Oregon: The Columbia River Salmon Fishing Case." The conference, sponsored by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the Tribal Leadership Forum, will discuss the longest-running case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Professor Wood will speak on the significance of the case to legal scholars.
United States v. Oregon, which was filed in 1968, upheld the Columbia River treaty tribes' reserved fishing rights. Although its predecessor case, Sohappy v. Smith, was closed in 1978, United States v. Oregon remains under the federal court's continuing jurisdiction. The Hon. Garr King of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon is now the presiding judge. The States of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho are defendants. The United States and the four Columbia River treaty fishing tribes are plaintiffs. The Shoshone-Bannock tribe is an intervenor.
To register for the conference, visit www.regonline.com/USvO.
May 18, 2008 Oregon Law Alumnus John Karpinski '82 Wins "Sammy Award" For Protection of Salmon"
May 15, 2008 Professor Rennard Strickland Honored with Kutak Award
Oregon Law is proud to congratulate its Distinguished Professor Emeritus Rennard Strickland, who has been selected to receive the American Bar Association's ("ABA") 2008 Kutak Award. The Kutak Award is the highest award given by the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. It is presented annually to an individual who "meets the highest standard of professional responsibility and demonstrates substantial achievement toward increased understanding between legal education and the active practice of law."
May 12, 2008 Kimberly Purdy Wins Sovereignty Symposium Writing Competition
Graduating 3L Kimberly Purdy was recently notified that she won first place in the Sovereignty Symposium XXI Chief Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition. The competition was sponsored by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission, the Sovereignty Symposium, Inc., and the Oklahoma Arts Council.
Ms. Purdy's article is titled, "Race, Blood and Politics: The Convoluted Relationship of Indians, Tribes, and Affirmative Action in Public Universities." She describes the paper as follows:
"During the 1994-95 term, the Supreme Court severely curtailed the ability of government actors to create preference programs furthering equal access and opportunity. The import is grave, as only one purposeful, racial or ethnic classification has survived strict scrutiny in the last 60 years. This stringent approach has called into question the continued vitality of preferential programs, such as affirmative action, engendered to redress past discrimination and accord minorities greater access to education and jobs. However, for Indians, there may be a window in the newly restructured equal protection barrier. The product of a convoluted, inconsistent and often heartbreaking history of subjugation and colonization; Indian tribes have a special relationship with the federal government and the states. This relationship, founded on treaties and agreements, may serve to except them from the curtailment of preference programs. For public universities striving to increase ethnic and political diversity on their campuses and in their faculty, this tiny window of hope may give them the tools they need to embrace tribes within their borders and beyond. This paper examines this unique relationship and argues that public university programs designed to recruit and retain federally recognized Indian tribes should be exempted from strict scrutiny. Likewise, even if strict scrutiny applies, this paper offers unique reciprocal options that public universities can employ to encourage Indian student attendance without falling victim to the specter of a strict scrutiny analysis."
The Sovereignty Symposium will be held June 4 and 5, 2008, in Oklahoma City. Ms. Purdy's article will be published in the Symposium's 2008 compendium.
May 7, 2008 Congratulations to ENR Faculty!
Several ENR Faculty Members have been named professor or fellows for 2008-2009. Professors John Bonine and Dick Hildreth were named Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellows. Professor Susan Gary was named the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor. Professor Tom Lininger was named the Elmer Sahlstrom Senior Fellow. Professor Nancy Shurtz was named the Bernard Kliks Professor. Congratulations to all!
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