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April 25th 2005 • Printer version
News and Events of the University of Oregon School of Law
Life@Law April 25 May 8, 2005
HIGHLIGHTS: Oregon Innocence Network hosts OregonÃs first public
defender - Lare Aschenbrenner, Indian law expert Charles Wilkinson
speaks on Blood Struggle, Economist James Galbraith discusses the
crisis in American wages and more.
April 25-May 9 Spring semester exams
Relax! Real life isnÃt like finals week. Real life is like law
school without the grades, awards and encouragement - but with a lot
more cash. So you come out about even.
Monday, April 25
ACTUAL INNOCENCE: OregonÃs First Public Defender
5:00 P.M. Lewis Lounge (Fourth floor) Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner, appointed
OregonÃs first public defender in 1964, will speak on noted cases he
has litigated and his life as a civil rights lawyer.
In the 1960s, a cursory review of the trial transcript in one of
OregonÃs most infamous cases revealed race prejudice to Aschenbrenner
and his office successfully won post conviction review and a dismissal
of a thirty-year old murder conviction against a Klamath Falls black
man. In 1932, Teddy Jordan, a 24 year-old employee of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, had been convicted by an all-white jury of murdering
a white train steward and sentenced to hang. After an outcry from the
NAACP and other groups who drew similarities to the infamous Scottsboro
case of the same period, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment
the day before his scheduled execution in 1934. Sponsored by the Oregon
Innocence Network. Refreshments.
Tuesday, April 26 UO Awards Feature Law Staff
3:30 P.M., Gerlinger Lounge (west of the EMU)
Jim Horstrup, Knight Law Center building manager and Dianne Bass,
administrative assistant for the environmental and coastal law
programs, will be honored with top awards at the UO Classified Employee
Recognition Ceremony.
Wednesday, April 27 LECTURE: Blood Struggle
6:30 P.M., Many Nations Longhouse (behind the law school.) Charles
Wilkinson began his teaching career at the UO law school in 1975 and
introduced Indian law into the curriculum. Now on the faculty at the
University of Colorado, the noted Indian law expert, author, and tribal
attorney talks about the beginning of the modern tribal sovereignty
movement after World War II and his new book, Blood Struggle: The Rise
of Modern Indian Nations. Free. Booksigning and reception after the
lecture. INFO: (541) 346-3036
Friday-Saturday, April 29-30
CONFERENCE: Working in the Global Economy
From Canadian and Mexican labor union leaders to Bangladeshi workersÃ
groups and Hong Kong Christian labor advocates, GAP representatives to
E-Law an extraordinary international conference covering working
conditions and labor rights, health and safety, cross-border technical
assistance, trade agreements and corporate conduct. ItÃs happening
right here in River City. Free to UO students, faculty and staff.
<http://www.uoregon.edu/~lerc/olshep/globaleconconf.htm>
Monday, May 2 LECTURE: The Crisis in American Pay
4:00 P.M., Fir Room, EMU, 1222 E. 13th Ave. Economist James K.
Galbraith will deliver a free public lecture on wage inequality and its
link to global insecurity. He is the author of Created Unequal: The
Crisis in American Pay and his comments appear regularly in the
national press. The gap between good and bad jobs was once quite
small, he writes, But the gap has grown, and now is wider than at any
other time since the Great Depression. It is so wide that it has come,
once again, to threaten the social solidarity and stability of the
country. Galbraith is a Morse Center Distinguished Speaker. INFO:
<www.morsechair.uoregon.edu> or (541) 346-3699.
NEWS
Freedom and Obedience
In each of us, all the time, the will for freedom clashes with the
wish to obey, writes constitutionalist Garrett Epps in an Oregonian
oped on Sunday, April 24. The current turn to the authoritarian
right wonÃt last, he argues . . . (The) backlash may come sooner or
later ó but in America, it always comes. When it does, the GOP will
return to its roots, which (Missouri Republican Senator) Danforth
identified as limited government, free trade, judicial restraint and
internationalism.
FULL STORY
KUDOS
For the Kids
Second-year law student Molly Allen has been awarded a Henry Bergstrom
Child Welfare Law Fellowship from the University of Michigan to support
her work in child advocacy this summer. Through the fellowship,
students gain insight into the field and provide much needed services
to various child welfare offices specializing in representation of
children, parents and social service agencies. After attending a
training conference in May, Allen will work for 10 weeks for the
Juvenile Rights Project in Portland, an independent nonproft that
advocates for poor and minority youth, children in foster care and
abused and homeless young people.
This is a big deal! said family law professor Leslie Harris, Molly
is the first student from Oregon to receive this fellowship!
Fellowship website: <http://www.law.umich.edu/CentersAndPrograms/childlaw/summerfellows/>
Palais des Nations
International environmental law expert and resident professor Svitlana
Kravchencko writes, This week in Geneva at the United Nationsà Palais
des Nations, I am going to participate in a high international
governmental event ó the second "Meeting of the Signatories" of the
Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment. This is an
international treaty that I helped negotiate as a delegate from
nongovernmental organizations over the past several years. The 37
countries that have signed it will now discuss its implementation.
Everyday Law for Latinos
Law professor Steven Bender, author of the 2003 book, Greasers and
Gringos (scheduled to get its second wind as a trade paperback this
fall, also by NYU Press), just inked a contract with Paradigm
Publishers for a book in their new Everyday Law series.
Everyday Law for Latinos will be written for a general and legal audience.
As immigrants, minorities and Spanish language speakers, Latinos often
confront special legal problems under constitutional and civil rights,
immigration, labor and criminal law. WeÃll address these with practical
legal-oriented solutions, Bender said.
He and his coauthors Joaquin Avila (Seattle University Law School) and
Raquel Aldana (University of Nevada- Las Vegas law school) look forward
to publication at the end of 2006.
COMING UP
Thursday, May 12 REUNION: Class of 1950
Noon, Lewis Lounge (Fourth floor). Lunch followed by a tour of the
William W. Knight Law Center, a State of the Law School talk by Dean
Laird Kirkpatrick INFO
Sunday, May 15 WINE SALE
Buy a bottle or a case of your offical UO Law
2005 class wine. For sale 9:30 to 12:30 before Commencement and 3:00 on
after the ceremony. INFO: (541) 346-0037.
Sunday, May 15 COMMENCEMENT: Class of 2005
1:00 P.M., Hult Center, 6th and Willamette in downtown Eugene, followed
by a reception in the Commons. Jeff Adachi, the elected San Francisco
Public Defender, will speak. The law school will confer the meritorious
service award on Eugene attorney Alice Plymell. The Hollis award for
teaching, given by the faculty, goes to commercial law professor Carl
Bjerre. The graduating class as the Commencement Marshall selected Joe
Metcalfe, who teaches criminal law and trial practice, and Martha
Pellegrino was chosen as class speaker. INFO
All events are free and open to the public at the Knight Law Center
(1515 Agate Street, Eugene), unless otherwise noted. Dates and times
are subject to change best to check the contact number or email just
to make sure.
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