On Thursday, November 5, at noon in room 175, the Public Interest/Public Service (PIPS) program will present the Dom Vetri "Champion of the Public Interest" Award to Catherine Carr.

On October 29, tax, property, and environmental law expert Professor Roberta Mann will speak at and moderate a panel discussion on "Selected Tax Issues Involving Alternative Energy Investments" as part of the 10th Biennial Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax Conference.

The University of Oregon announces the 2009 Cheyney Ryan Peace and Conflict Studies Essay Contest, open to all undergraduate students.

Oregon Law Professor Mary Wood will be the featured speaker during the City of Eugene's 350! Artists for Climate Change event, taking place from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, October 24, at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. The Eugene event is one of more than a thousand events being held in communities across the globe on the same day.

The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will host a roundtable discussion on climate change policy featuring scholars Jim McCarthy, Dale Jamieson, and Mary Wood, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, October 22, in Knight Law Center 110.

Oregon Law's annual Wine Law reception will take place at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, October 17, at the University of Oregon in Portland's White Stag Building.

Developing a full-sized protected areas project for Jamaica; managing a watershed project in Iran; evaluating a five-nation European Union funded conservation project in South America; and finishing up a project for World Bank covering more than thirty sub-Saharan nations.

Oregon Law's Environmental and Natural Resources program, along with the Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center and the University of Oregon's Environmental Studies program continues its "Crisis and Collaboration: Environmental Decision-Making in a Rapidly Changing Landscape" series of fireside conversations at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 21, in the Knight Law Center's fourth floor Lewis Lounge.