PANELS
Friday, February 28th
9 am - 10:30 am
Oregon’s Drinking Water Crisis (Law School Room 184)
A State Tipping Strategy for Recognition of Fundamental Climate Rights (Law School Room 141)
Genocide = Ecocide: Climate & Environmental Costs & Drivers of the War on Gaza (Law School Room 142)
Breathing New Life into Pesticide Regulation: 2024 litigation updates (Law School Room 241)
Rising to the Challenge: NARF’s Tribal Water Institute and Advancing Water Justice in Indian Country (Law School Room 242)
Pursuing the Nation’s First Old-Growth Amendment and Shifting the Culture of the US Forest Service (EMU Room 119)
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)
Food Justice (Law School Room 141)
Empowering Youth through Outdoor Access: Fostering Environmental Justice and DEI in Conservation (Law School Room 142)
Electrifying Our Communities: The Power of Youth Leaders in Climate Action (EMU Room 104)
The Right to Hunt: Impacts and Outcomes (Law School Room 241)
The Earth and Its Community of Life: Elevating Non-Human Animals in Justice, Ethics, and Law through Wilderness Protection (EMU Room 230)
Protecting the Environment Through Law in Europe (EMU Room 231)
The People's Right to a Healthy Environment (EMU Room 232)
Coastal Issues and Environmental Justice (EMU Room 023)
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)
Blazing the Trail: How Youth Leadership is Transforming Wildfire Management (Law School Room 141)
xAI in Memphis: A case study on AI data centers & environmental justice issues (Law School Room 142)
Safeguarding Bird Diversity: Harnessing the Law to Recover Endangered Species (Law School Room 241)
Working Remotely: Lessons Learned in the Fight Against the Donlin Mine in Alaska (Law School Room 242)
Take under ESA Section 9 and How to Prove It. (Law School Room 175)
Forest Fires and Fish (Law School Room 141)
Reforming Rodenticides: Can the law and science reduce the threat from rat poisons? (Law School Room 243)
Mapping Impacts for EJ Legal Advocacy (EMU Room 230)
Anti-Deforestation Avocados: A Campaign to Protect Monarch Butterflies and Human Communities Using Laws and Consumer Pressure (EMU Room 104)
Defending Orgs & Activists from SLAPPs and 3rd party shenanigans (EMU Room 231)
What’s next for public lands in Oregon? Exploring the threats and opportunities for Oregon’s iconic landscapes (EMU Room 232)
Fukushima Now: Contamination and our Waterways (EMU Room 119)
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)
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)
The Thin Green Line 2.0: Community Impacts and Resistance to the West Coast Biomass Export Proposals (Law School Room 141)
Western wolves in the crosshairs: politics, poaching and (poor) protections (Law School Room 142)
Water, Justice, and the State of Oregon (Law School Room 241)
The Toll of Urban Freeways on Vulnerable Communities (Law School Room 242)
Tribal Inclusion Needs Fire Inclusion in the Northwest Forest Plan (Law School Room 243)
Greenwashing on the Columbia River (EMU Room 230)
What's Next After the Closure of Oregon's Incinerator: Landfill Pollution (EMU Room 104)
Can Environmental Law Deliver on its Promise to Vulnerable People (EMU Room 231)
Law Students for Climate Accountability (EMU Room 232)
PB&J: Pinyon Pine, Biodiversity, and Juniper Conservation (EMU Room 119)
The First Tribally Nominated National Marine Sanctuary (EMU Room 023)
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)
Keeping Factory Farm Gas Out of Our Energy Systems: Cow Poop Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis (Law School Room 141)
A just world is possible: Oregon leaders respond to the 2024 Election (Law School Room 142)
Reimagining Equity in a post-Chevron Era (Law School Room 241)
Stop Extinction: A Look At Global, National, and Local Solutions To Combat The Biodiversity Crisis (Law School Room 242)
Orphans, Zombies, Strippers, and Deadbeats: Abandonment Issues in the Oil & Gas Industry (Law School Room 243)
Grazed to Death: Livestock Production Adversely Modifying Critical Habitat on Public Lands (EMU Room 230)
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: FEMA’s Failure to Implement the National Flood Insurance Program in Oregon (EMU Room 104)
Will Climate Refugees Be Well-Received? (EMU Room 231)
Indigenous-Led Resistance to False Climate Solutions: Resisting Green Colonialism for Real Solution to Climate Crisis (EMU Room 232)
Life on the rocks - sharing our iconic coast with wildlife (EMU Room 119)
Navigating the Backlash Against DEI: What it means for the environmental movement (EMU Room 023)
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)
Rewilding the Nur (Chinook Salmon) on the McCloud River (Law School Room 141)
Forests, Fire and Climate: Unpacking the Myths & False Solutions Endangering Communities, Forests, and Our Climate (Law School Room 142)
Environmental Justice Litigation Without Environmental Justice Legislation (Law School Room 241)
“EL-T” — Launching a Law Student Environmental Law-Teaching Practicum at Your Law School (Law School Room 242)
Protecting Heirs' Property as Environmental Justice Work (Law School Room 243)
It's a Necessity: What campaigners and orgs need to know about the necessity defense (EMU Room 230)
Climate Change and Economic Growth (EMU Room 104)
Dispossession, Displacement and Climate Mobility Justice (EMU Room 231)
Controlling Nutrient Pollution Pursuant to the Clean Water Act: If the Need is Urgent, Why are Agencies Slow-Walking a Response? (EMU Room 232)
Revolutionizing Wildlife Governance for Environmental and Social Justice (EMU Room 119)
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)
Ignoring Science, Policy, and NEPA: BLM's Push to Log Western Oregon's Last Best Forests (Law School Room 142)
You Are What You Eat: How Impact Litigation Is Fighting Back Against Greenwashing in Food Labels (Law School Room 241)
Saving Washington's Legacy Forests (Law School Room 242)
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)
Watchdogging 101: Digital Sleuthing and Ground-Truthing For Environmental Advocacy (Law School Room 141)
Killing Barred Owls to Help Spotted Owls: A Necessary Evil or an Unjust Slaughter? (Law School Room 241)
Beaver Believers (Law School Room 242)
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)
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)
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.