PANELS-Updated

PANELS Friday, February 28th 9 am - 10:30 am 

Oregon’s Drinking Water Crisis (Law School Room 184)

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A State Tipping Strategy for Recognition of Fundamental Climate Rights (Law School Room 141)

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Genocide = Ecocide: Climate & Environmental Costs & Drivers of the War on Gaza (Law School Room 142)

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Breathing New Life into Pesticide Regulation: 2024 litigation updates (Law School Room 241)

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Rising to the Challenge: NARF’s Tribal Water Institute and Advancing Water Justice in Indian Country (Law School Room 242)

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Pursuing the Nation’s First Old-Growth Amendment and Shifting the Culture of the US Forest Service (EMU Room 119)

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The Fight to Save Oak Flat: Using Litigation to Protect a Sacred Site on Public Lands (EMU Room 145)

10:45 am - 12:15 am 

Next steps in a just clean energy transition: upholding Indigenous rights by reforming mining laws and addressing the need for critical minerals (Law School Room 184)

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Food Justice (Law School Room 141)

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Empowering Youth through Outdoor Access: Fostering Environmental Justice and DEI in Conservation (Law School Room 142)

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Electrifying Our Communities: The Power of Youth Leaders in Climate Action (EMU Room 104)

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The Right to Hunt: Impacts and Outcomes (Law School Room 241)

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The Earth and Its Community of Life: Elevating Non-Human Animals in Justice, Ethics, and Law through Wilderness Protection (EMU Room 230)

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Protecting the Environment Through Law in Europe (EMU Room 231)

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The People's Right to a Healthy Environment (EMU Room 232)

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Coastal Issues and Environmental Justice (EMU Room 023)

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Recent Developments in Alaska Public Lands Law (Law School Room 242)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 

Rumble On The River: Nukes Across The Columbia? SMNRs in Washington to Power Oregon's Data Centers (Law School Room 184)

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Blazing the Trail: How Youth Leadership is Transforming Wildfire Management (Law School Room 141)

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xAI in Memphis: A case study on AI data centers & environmental justice issues (Law School Room 142)

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Safeguarding Bird Diversity: Harnessing the Law to Recover Endangered Species (Law School Room 241)

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Working Remotely: Lessons Learned in the Fight Against the Donlin Mine in Alaska (Law School Room 242)

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Take under ESA Section 9 and How to Prove It. (Law School Room 175)

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Forest Fires and Fish (Law School Room 141)

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Reforming Rodenticides: Can the law and science reduce the threat from rat poisons? (Law School Room 243)

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Mapping Impacts for EJ Legal Advocacy (EMU Room 230)

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Anti-Deforestation Avocados: A Campaign to Protect Monarch Butterflies and Human Communities Using Laws and Consumer Pressure (EMU Room 104)

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Defending Orgs & Activists from SLAPPs and 3rd party shenanigans (EMU Room 231)

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What’s next for public lands in Oregon? Exploring the threats and opportunities for Oregon’s iconic landscapes (EMU Room 232)

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Fukushima Now: Contamination and our Waterways (EMU Room 119)

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The True “Overstory”: How Eugene based Cascadia Forest Defenders, Earth First! and the ELF Saved 59 Million Acres of Wildlands and Ended Ancient Forest Clearcutting West of the Cascades (EMU Room 023)

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Creating Tribal Relationships Through Yellowstone Bison (EMU Room 145)

Saturday, March 1st 8:30 am - 10 am 

Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy: Threats and Solutions to Southern Resident Orcas and Chinook salmon (Law School Room 184)

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The Thin Green Line 2.0: Community Impacts and Resistance to the West Coast Biomass Export Proposals (Law School Room 141)

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Western wolves in the crosshairs: politics, poaching and (poor) protections (Law School Room 142)

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Water, Justice, and the State of Oregon (Law School Room 241)

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The Toll of Urban Freeways on Vulnerable Communities (Law School Room 242)

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Tribal Inclusion Needs Fire Inclusion in the Northwest Forest Plan (Law School Room 243)

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Greenwashing on the Columbia River (EMU Room 230)

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What's Next After the Closure of Oregon's Incinerator: Landfill Pollution (EMU Room 104)

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Can Environmental Law Deliver on its Promise to Vulnerable People (EMU Room 231)

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Law Students for Climate Accountability (EMU Room 232)

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PB&J: Pinyon Pine, Biodiversity, and Juniper Conservation (EMU Room 119)

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The First Tribally Nominated National Marine Sanctuary (EMU Room 023)

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Nutrient Pollution: Strategies for Defending Our Ecosystems and Communities (EMU Room 145)

10:15 am - 11:45 am 

Taking Factory Farm Water Pollution to Court (Law School Room 184)

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Keeping Factory Farm Gas Out of Our Energy Systems: Cow Poop Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis (Law School Room 141)

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A just world is possible: Oregon leaders respond to the 2024 Election (Law School Room 142)

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Reimagining Equity in a post-Chevron Era (Law School Room 241)

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Stop Extinction: A Look At Global, National, and Local Solutions To Combat The Biodiversity Crisis (Law School Room 242)

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Orphans, Zombies, Strippers, and Deadbeats: Abandonment Issues in the Oil & Gas Industry (Law School Room 243)

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Grazed to Death: Livestock Production Adversely Modifying Critical Habitat on Public Lands (EMU Room 230)

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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: FEMA’s Failure to Implement the National Flood Insurance Program in Oregon (EMU Room 104)

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Will Climate Refugees Be Well-Received? (EMU Room 231)

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Indigenous-Led Resistance to False Climate Solutions: Resisting Green Colonialism for Real Solution to Climate Crisis (EMU Room 232)

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Life on the rocks - sharing our iconic coast with wildlife (EMU Room 119)

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Navigating the Backlash Against DEI: What it means for the environmental movement (EMU Room 023)

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Apache Stronghold v. US: Context, Contours, and Current Status (EMU Room 145)

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm 

Post CEQ? The Marin Audubon v. FAA Decision (Law School Room 184)

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Rewilding the Nur (Chinook Salmon) on the McCloud River (Law School Room 141)

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Forests, Fire and Climate: Unpacking the Myths & False Solutions Endangering Communities, Forests, and Our Climate (Law School Room 142)

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Environmental Justice Litigation Without Environmental Justice Legislation (Law School Room 241)

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“EL-T” — Launching a Law Student Environmental Law-Teaching Practicum at Your Law School (Law School Room 242)

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Protecting Heirs' Property as Environmental Justice Work (Law School Room 243)

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It's a Necessity: What campaigners and orgs need to know about the necessity defense (EMU Room 230)

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Climate Change and Economic Growth (EMU Room 104)

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Dispossession, Displacement and Climate Mobility Justice (EMU Room 231)

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Controlling Nutrient Pollution Pursuant to the Clean Water Act: If the Need is Urgent, Why are Agencies Slow-Walking a Response? (EMU Room 232)

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Revolutionizing Wildlife Governance for Environmental and Social Justice (EMU Room 119)

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Using Oregon Land Use Law to Protect the Environment (EMU Room 023)

Sunday, March 2nd 9 am - 10:30 am 

Rural Communities Deserve Clean Water Too: The Safe Drinking Water Act and Agricultural Pollution (Law School Room 141)

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Ignoring Science, Policy, and NEPA: BLM's Push to Log Western Oregon's Last Best Forests (Law School Room 142)

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You Are What You Eat: How Impact Litigation Is Fighting Back Against Greenwashing in Food Labels (Law School Room 241)

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Saving Washington's Legacy Forests (Law School Room 242)

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The Arachne Project | Conservation for an Interwoven World, Unravelling (Law School Room 243)

10:45 am - 12:15 pm 

Navigating the Backlash Against DEI: What it means for the environmental movement (Law School Room 184)

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Watchdogging 101: Digital Sleuthing and Ground-Truthing For Environmental Advocacy (Law School Room 141)

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Killing Barred Owls to Help Spotted Owls: A Necessary Evil or an Unjust Slaughter? (Law School Room 241)

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Beaver Believers (Law School Room 242)

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Protecting Sacred Places on Public Land, Air & Water (Law School Room 110)

WORKSHOPS Friday, February 28th 

12 pm to 2 pm - Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy: Threats and Solutions to Southern Resident Orcas and Chinook Salmon (Law School Room 110)

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12 pm to 2 pm - CAFO Litigation Workshop (EMU Room 146)

Saturday, March 1st 

8:30 to 10:30 - FOIA: Don’t be afraid of the F*** Word (Law School Room 110)

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3:30 pm to 5:30 pm - Ethical PIEL Lawyering (Law School Room 175)

**This schedule is tentative and will be subject to updating as needed.