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April 3rd 2006 • Printer version  APRIL EVENTS 2006 Pro Bono champs, business law awards, Public
Service Day, Racial Culture critique, Frohnmayer Award honors Portland
judge, Disney theme park challenger speaks, Rennard Strickland
celebration, and more
Wednesday, April 5
FIRESIDE CHAT: Gas Guzzlers and Electric Cars
Thursday, April 6
PORTLAND: Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Awards
5:30 6:30 P.M. Reception at Embassy Suites, 319 SW Pine St. UO law
students spearheaded Oregons first law school pro bono program in 1996
and, since the Oregon State Bar first offered its Pro Bono Challenge to
law students five years ago, we've aced the competition.
In 2006, we
did it again with 10,552 logged volunteer hours on behalf of the poor
and legally underserved. University President Dave Frohnmayer will
keynote the awards ceremony, which also honors all of the Oregon
lawyers and law firms who contributed a total of more than 86,000 pro
bono hours this year. Pro Bono program director Jane Steckbeck will
accept on behalf of the UO School of Law. FULL STORY
Thursday, April 6
EUGENE: Law and Entrepreneurship Reception
Wine and cheese reception honoring Denise Evans (see above) and Will
Glasson, the 2005-6 Outstanding Student in Law and
Entrepreneurship. This year, Glasson is a Portland Business extern at
Mentor Graphics, working under Vice President and General Counsel Dean
Freed 83. Glasson was part of a winning team that developed a business
plan for a new technology that cleans up arsenic-treated wood that
would otherwise poison our landfills. He has accepted an offer to work in the
Mentor Graphics legal office after graduation.
Friday, April 7
FUNDRAISER: UO Law Golf Scramble
2:00 P.M., River Ridge Golf Course. The Class of 2006 presents what it hopes will
be an annual graduating class fundraiser.
INFO Katie or Carey
Saturday, April 8
PIPS: Public Service Day
8 A.M. Noon. At the annual spring Public Service Day sponsored
by the law schools Public Interest/Public Service program, good deeds
are always rewarded with a delicious breakfast. Eugene Mayor Kitty
Piercy will awaken all of this years volunteers in the Morse Commons
at 8:30 A.M.
Carpools will then leave for work assignments at Greenhill
Humane Society, Friends of Buford Park and Mt. Pisgah, United Way,
Willamette Parks and Recreation, Eugene Family YMCA, Food for Lane
County, Relief Nursery, South Lane Wheels, Eugene Specialized
Recreation, Good Samaritan skilled nursing facility, Eugene Hearing and
Speech Center and Kidsports. All welcome. Sign up April 3-7 at
noon in the Knight Law Center Commons.
Saturday, April 8
BENEFIT: Rippling River Run
The Chapin Clark Memorial Rippling River Run is a benefit for
at-risk youth. Run, walk, wheelchair - whatever your means of
conveyance. INFO: Paul Zosel 686-1842 or Community Mentor Network
Monday, April 10
LECTURE: A Citizens Challenge; Why SCRAP still resonates
7:00 P.M., Many Nations Longhouse (directly behind the law school).
Speaker Neil Thomas Proto has spent 30 years putting teeth, flesh, and
blood on the dry bones of the law. In 1970, he and four other law
students formed Student Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures
(SCRAP), defining and crafting arguments to forcing recalcitrant
government agencies to make the new National Environmental Policy Act a
real force in law.
Their efforts resulted in one of the most
significant oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court during the last
30 years: U.S. v. SCRAP, the 1973 case that established standing to sue
and opened the courts to environmental citizen suits.
Proto is a
partner in the international firm of Schnader Harrison Segal &
Lewis, Washington D.C. office. Free and open to the public. Sponsored
by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center. INFO FULL STORY
Tuesday, April 11
LECTURE & BOOKSIGNING: Richard Thompson Ford
7:30 P.M., Room 175. What is black culture? Does it have an
essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and
by building our laws accordingly?
Stanfords Richard T. Ford, author of Racial Culture: A Critique,
will discuss his book at a free public lecture at the University of
Oregon as the 2005-2006 Colin Ruagh Thomas OFallon Lecturer in Law and
American Culture. The lecture was established by a gift in memory of UO
law professor Jim O'Fallon's son. Sponsored by Oregon Humanities
Center. FULL STORY
Thursday, April 13
EUGENE: Pro Bono Awards Ceremony
5:30 P.M. 7:00 P.M., Wayne Morse Commons. INFO
Friday, April 14
SYMPOSIUM: From the Warrior Viewpoint: The Next
Generation of Indian Law and Policy
1:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M., Knight Law
Center. Morse Center Resident Scholar Rennard Strickland and other
scholars will discuss how Indian law may change in the next two decades
during the morning session. Theyll look ahead to the next edition of
the Cohen Handbook of Federal Indian Law and speculate on what it might
contain - and what it should contain.
Afternoon panel discussions
include The Federal-Tribe Nexus and Resources, Criminal
Justice, and the Tribal Court System. Books and materials from
Stricklands career will be on exhibit all day at the Jaqua Law
Library. Sponsored by the Morse Center. INFO: (541) 346-7000. Symposium
website
Friday, April 14
GALA: Celebrating Forty with Rennard Strickland
7:00 P.M., Wayne Morse Commons. Knight Law Professor and former dean
Rennard Strickland will retire with emeritus status this year after
forty books and forty years of teaching. He will teach one more time at
the UO next fall and then return to his native Oklahoma.
This gala
event honors his many contributions to legal education and to Native
Americans. Featured speakers include a former and present chiefs of
the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller and Chad Smith, the UO leadership,
and master of ceremonies Margie Paris, interim dean of the law school.
Strickland will read from his fortieth book, Grandfather was a Good
Witch. FULL STORY
Monday, April 17 Law school employees capture UO awards
3:30 P.M.-5:00 P.M., Gerlinger Lounge. Faculty support supervisor and human resources
coordinator Debbie Thurman
will be honored with the Outstanding Officer of Administration award at
a university-wide ceremony; Legal Research and Writing assistant Donna Williamson and Career Services editor Kay Bailey will receive Outstanding Classified Employee awards.
Monday, April 17
Domestic Violence Clinic benefit
5:30 P.M., Three Square, 28th and Oak, Eugene. Lane County Women Lawyers
host a wine and hors doeuvre hour to benefit the Domestic Violence Clinic. Cost: $15. INFO
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