Olya Melen, an environmental lawyer from Ukraine, will deliver a free public lecture at 7 P.M. in the Many Nations Longhouse, directly behind the law school.

Melen, an attorney with Environme nt-People-Law (EPL), challenged government plans to dredge a canal through the Danube Delta “ a World Heritage Site and biosphere reserve. Her tenacious fight brought her up against the notoriously corrupt, pre-Orange Revolution government of Ukraine.

On April 24, Melen and five others from different continents were honored in San Francisco as œenvironmental heroes, each receiving the $125,000 Goldman Environmental Prize, the largest grassroots environmental prize in the world.

Melen™s lecture is cosponsored by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and LL.M. Program at the University of Oregon School of Law.

For information, contact E-LAW at 687-8454, extension 14 or Prof. Svitlana Kravchenko at the Law School, at 346-0532.

For more information on Ms. Melen™s accomplishment, see www.elaw.org, and www.goldmanprize.org. For an interview with her, see www.grist.org.