Topic: leadership
Video: Law school convenes leaders of renewable energy sector
6 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
On April 23-24, Lewis & Clark Law School and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program hosted legal and energy leaders from across the country at a conference, Greening the Grid: Building a Legal Framework for Carbon Neutrality. They met to discuss the laws needed to support the growth of low- or no-carbon energy sources [...]
Graduates find meaningful career paths, skills to compete through student services
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
More than 900 students will graduate from Lewis & Clark this spring and move into fields as diverse as health care in developing countries, arts education and public interest law. Many of these graduates will have benefited from robust, comprehensive career service programs housed at the undergraduate, graduate and law schools where they discover that [...]
Robust career services prepare law students for challenging job market
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
In a down economy and competitive job market, career counseling services have become more important than ever for students preparing to graduate and prospective students considering where to attend law school. Lewis & Clark Law School is countering panic-inducing headlines with comprehensive career services and a wide array of clinical and other hands-on opportunities that [...]
Slideshow: Student draws connections between art and education
1 May 2009
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
An accomplished artist and world traveler, Ross Christy ’09 did not always picture himself becoming a teacher. After receiving honors for academic and artistic excellence and earning a degree in art from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, Christy moved to Portland and heard his calling. For the past year, he has worked as a student teacher [...]
U.S. News & World Report ranks law school among top ten in the Pacific region
23 April 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
Lewis & Clark Law School made a 12-point gain this year in the U.S. News & World Report rankings guide, following a comparable gain last year. The law school now ranks among the top ten law schools in the Pacific region and remains the top-ranked law school in Oregon. The school ranks in the top [...]
Blog: Professor of Education helps normalize conditions in Afghanistan
2 April 2009
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- Engaging our World
Education Professor Zaher Wahab splits his time between Lewis & Clark and Afghanistan, devoting six months of service each year to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. He is dedicated to helping normalize conditions in Afghanistan, and he believes “quality, equal and universal education is the key to establishing peace, security, democracy, harmony, and a [...]
Video: Students bring war pundits to campus for International Affairs Symposium
2 April 2009
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- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
A small group of students set out on a quest to develop an conference to address a series of serious questions facing the international community about the rules of war, who participates in war and how war is covered. The International Affairs Symposium, A World of Warfare: Dynamics of Conflict, brings together well-known international affairs [...]
President Hochstettler testifies before state committee for increased aid
27 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
President Thomas Hochstettler appeared before the Oregon Education and General Government Committee of the State Senate on March 25, 2009, in support of increased grant aid for low-income students. Senate Bill 478 proposes an increase in the amount of individual Oregon Opportunity Grants offered to lower income Oregonians to defray the cost of attending college. [...]
Lewis & Clark Law School creates first assistant dean position in field of animal law
18 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
Animal legal education has reached a new milestone with the creation of the nation’s first dean-level position in the field. Robert Klonoff, Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has appointed Pamela Frasch as the assistant dean for Animal Law Studies. Frasch also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Animal Law Studies [...]
Podcast: Law professors start digital press as alternative to costly textbooks
18 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
With a full-time course load, law school students will spend approximately $1,000 a year on reading materials alone for their classes. According to a 2006 General Accounting Office study of the rising cost of textbooks requested by Congressional representatives, textbook prices rose by 186 percent between 1986 and 2006. They attributed this increase to textbook [...]