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March 1st 2006 • Printer version University of Oregon School of Law
A note from Dean Margie Paris on harbingers of spring: It's cold, but
signs of spring are arriving from the avian world: Sandhill cranes are
migrating north 250 or so flew over the law
school on Friday afternoon; Tree swallows are back - I
saw large numbers of them skimming over ponds in the wetlands this weekend;
Anna's hummingbirds (our only year-round residential hummer) are
already nesting; Canada geese chicks have begun hatching. Bring it on!
March 2 - 5
24th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.
Thursday through Sunday at the Knight Law Center. Alumni reception on Saturday,
7 p.m. in the Lewis Lounge. FULL STORY INFO Conference web site
Saturday, March 4 Last day for Marquee Massacres
Monday, March 6 Oregon Legal Theory Workshop Series
Noon, Lewis Lounge. Richard C. Schraggers publications and research
interests focus on questions of scale and power in democratic theory,
constitutional law, and property. He is an associate professor of law
at the University of Virginia. Speakers website
Monday, March 6
LECTURE: Domestic violence expert Sarah Buel
7:00 P.M., Room 175.Sarah Buel,
U Texas law professor, survived her own
battering by an intimate partner. What happened afterwards
resulted in her recognition in 1996 as one of NBCs Five Most
Inspiring Women in America. FULL STORY
Wednesday, March 8
FIRESIDE CHATS: John Bonine on public interest law practices
4:30 P.M., Many Nations Longhouse (directly behind the law school.) Law
professor John Bonine discusses Varieties of Public Interest Law
Practice.* Part of a series of informal conversations with law school
faculty in front of the longhouse fireplace (complete with cheerful
fire during the rainy and windy season.) Sponsored by the Environmental
and Natural Resources law program. INFO
(* This chat limited to law students.)
Friday, March 10
ORAL ARGUMENTS: Oregon Supreme Court
Room 175. Sponsored by the Legal Research and Writing Program.
9:00 A.M. Schnitzer Investment Corp v Lloyds of London
Responsibilities of an insurer in a Portland industrial pollution cleanup case
10:30 A.M. State v. Lisa Ann Henderson
Did police have probable cause to search a Springfield home for stolen diamond
rings?
1:30 P.M. State v Gregory Allen Bowen
Automatic death penalty review for the first person sentenced to death
in Curry County in 25 years. Court calendar
Friday, March 10 CAREERS: Portland Interview Program
All Day. UO Portland Center, 2nd and Yamhill downtown. Smaller Portland
area law firms and government employers that traditionally do not
interview on law school campuses meet with promising candidates for
summer or fall positions. WEBSITE
INFO:(541) 346-3847.
Monday, March 13 LECTURE: Cruel and Unusual
4:30 P.M., Room 110. Mental disability expert Jim Ellis argued the 2002
U.S. Supreme Court case that ended capital punishment for the mentally
retarded. In Atkins v. Virginia, the court ruled that such executions
violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
That same year, the National Law Journal named Ellis Lawyer of the
Year. The University of New Mexico professors interest in disability
law began many years ago when he worked at Yale Psychiatric Institute
as a conscientious objector. In addition to this free public lecture,
Ellis will speak at a faculty lunch about his newest Supreme Court case
and his pro bono practice. Sponsored by the faculty Lecture and Awards
committee. FULL STORY
Wednesday, March 22
FIRESIDE CHATS: Susan Gary on Legal Reform
4:30 P.M., Many Nations Longhouse (directly behind the law school.)
Associate Dean Susan Gary discusses lawyers and legal reform. Part of a
series of informal conversations with law school faculty in front of
the longhouse fireplace (complete with cheerful fire during the rainy
and windy season.) Sponsored by the Environmental and Natural Resources
law program. Open to the university
community.
Friday, March 24
PORTLAND CONFERENCE: Disentangling Church and State
9:00 A.M.-Noon, Portland World Trade Center auditorium, 121 SW
Salmon. Have the courts done enough to disentangle church and
state? Oregons judges and appellate attorneys are invited to discuss
the question with a number of presenters at the UO School of Laws
annual OConnell Conference. (3 CLE credits available.) It features
keynote speakers Judge John Noonan of the Ninth Circuit Court, and
Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke law professor, political scientist and
commentator. Panel discussions include national issues of church and
state as well as issues specific to Oregon. Sponsored by the OConnell
fund for bench and bar and Oregon Law Review. FULL STORY
March 24 25
EUGENE CONFERENCE: Protecting Childrens Need for Nurturance
All day, Knight Law Center. Developing and maintaining relationships
with caring, nurturing adults is essential to the healthy development
of children, but laws and policies often act to undermine them. The new
Oregon Child Advocacy Projects first national conference features
experts on law reform and a variety of parenting relationships. The
keynoter for "Protecting Childrens Need for Nurturance" is child
psychologist Joy Osofsky, a professor at Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center.
Time to get tickets for the Frohnmayer Award banquet on April 21!
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