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CONSERVATION TRUST

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEMOCRACY

NATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY

OCEANS, COASTS, AND WATERSHEDS

SUSTAINABLE LAND USE

Sustainable Land Use Project
Evaluating land use laws, theories, and practices to ensure sustainable development in our communities

The ENR Program's projects allow faculty and students to integrate traditional course work, through the law school curriculum, with specialized study in each of the project’s subject areas. Launched in 2005 following the passage of Oregon’s Measure 37, a property compensation initiative, the SLU Project addresses legal issues surrounding how we choose to develop – or not to develop – lands within our communities. Faculty leaders are Tom Lininger and Mary Wood.

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Mark McLaughlin Mark McLaughlin is a third year law student specializing in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, Ocean and Coastal Law, and International Law, with interests in marine conservation, biodiversity protection, and renewable and alternative energy issues. In addition to being chosen as a Sustainable Land Use Fellow, Mark has also been awarded a Bowerman Fellow Stipend. Mark was a 1L Rep of Land Air Water (LAW) during his first year of law school, a 2008 Co-Director of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference last year, and is presently a 2008-09 Co-Director of LAW. During the summer of 2008, Mark received a Friends of Land Air Water stipend as a law clerk for Save Guana Cay Reef Association and Callenders & Co. in the Bahamas, where he helped work on the first ever environmental lawsuit brought in the country. The litigation focuses on such issues as coral reef and mangrove protection, sustainable development, public participation, and access to justice. Mark participated in a study abroad program in Fortaleza, Brazil in the summer of 2007 where he received a Scholar of Merit in International Environmental Law award from Cumberland School of Law. Mark also worked as a research assistant for Professor Richard Hildreth on local, state, tribal and NGO created marine protected areas. Prior to attending law school, Mark was a Watershed Research and Restoration Analyst and Habitat Surveyor where he conducted field surveys and planned restoration projects of salmonid habitat in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. Mark graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Environmental Science from Oregon State University in 2004, and received minors in Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy, North American Environmental Science, and Spanish. Mark's pastimes include surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, hiking, and traveling.

Faculty

Tom Lininger Prior to joining the law school faculty, Tom Lininger prosecuted environmental crimes as an assistant U.S. attorney and special assistant U.S. attorney. While working in private practice, Lininger represented municipal agencies seeking to recover damages from private polluters. Lininger was elected to the Lane County Board of Commissioners, where his votes on environmental issues earned a 100-percent rating from the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. Lininger serves on the state board of the Oregon Natural Resources Council. He and his family practice sustainable forestry on a 240-acre parcel of timberland near Eugene. Lininger is preparing to offer courses on land use planning, environmental crimes, and global warming, and is currently serving as the faculty director of the Public Interest Public Service Program (PIPS).

Mary Wood A natural resources law/federal Indian law/property law professor, Mary Wood is studying domestic climate litigation involving states and federal agencies. Her focus is on the politicization of agency regulation in this area and the viability of judicial review. She is exploring common law claims brought by states and tribes against the federal government for its failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Wood is a co-author of a national textbook in natural resources law and authoring a forthcoming book, Nature's Trust, in which she argues that the global atmosphere is a property asset owned by all nations of the world as sovereign trustees who hold a duty of protection towards future generations.

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