Environmental Law Podcasts

Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law Podcasts

Since 2006, Lewis & Clark Law School has provided open access to lectures and presentations at the law school through downloadable podcasts. For a complete listing of available podcasts go here. Podcasts on environmental law, natural law, animal law and related topics are indexed below. An ALL-CAPS font denotes a conference or symposium with multiple speakers; for more details on speakers and topics click on the conference link.

Air Quality

Clinical Professor Aubrey Baldwin, Lewis & Clark's Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center
An Overview of the Clean Air Act (NEDC Speaker Series, September 23, 2008)

Filmmaker and activist Sharon Genasci
What’s in Our Air? (March 15, 2007)

Animal and Wildlife Law

Professor Dan Rohlf, Professor Kathy Hessler, and Nathan Baker, staff attorney for Friends of the Columbia Gorge
Eliminating Invasive Species (March 10, 2009)

16TH ANNUAL ANIMAL LAW CONFERENCE (October 17-19, 2008)

Jay Johnson-Castro, Sr., human rights activist and founder, Border Ambassadors, and Zak Smith, project attorney, National Resources Defense Council
Military and Homeland Security Exemptions from Laws Affecting Wildlife
(16th Annual Animal Law Conference, October 18, 2008)

Idaho Law Professor Dale Goble, Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Scholar
Recovery Within the Endangered Species Act ( LL.M. lecture, September 17, 2008)

2008 SALDF (Student Animal Legal Defense Fund) Speaker Series:

Professor Song Wei, University of Science and Technology of China
Animal Law in China (April 17, 2008)

Brian Vincent, Communications Director, Big Wildlife
The War on Carnivores (April 2, 2008)

Sybil Hebb, Director of Legislative Advocacy, Oregon Law Center
and Pamela Frasch, General Counsel for the Animal Legal Defense Fund
The Link Between Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse (April 1, 2008)

Adam Karp, ABA Animal Law Committee vice-chair
Cutting Edge Cases in Animal Law (March 13, 2008)

Cynthia Hodges, LL.M. candidate, and Paula Walker,3L
Canadian Seal Hunt (March 13, 2008)

Sarah Baeckler, 3L
Undercover for Animals (February 26, 2008)

15TH ANNUAL ANIMAL LAW CONFERENCE (September 28-30, 2007)

2007 SALDF (Student Animal Legal Defense Fund) Speaker Series:

Captain Paul Watson on Whales (And a Whole Lot More) (May 2, 2007)

Recent Legislative Developments Addressing Animal Cruelty in Oregon (April 27, 2007)

Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearings on Animal Protection Bills (held at the Law School, March 16, 2007)

14TH ANNUAL ANIMAL LAW CONFERENCE (October 13-15, 2006)

Pamela Frasch and Dana Campbell, Animal Legal Defense Fund
The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence: Recent Legislative Advances
(April 25, 2006)

Career Paths

Environmental and Animal Law Attorney Panel (February 14, 2008)

Climate Change and the Law

2008 FOCUS THE NATION: GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA (January 31, 2008)

Sonja Jones, Pacific Legal Foundation, and Lewis & Clark Law Professor Craig Johnston
Standing and the Global Warming Debate: Did Massachusetts Really Have Standing? (October 23, 2007)

Georgetown Law Professor Lisa Heinzerling
Climate Change in the Supreme Court
20th Annual NRLI Distinguished Visitor Lecture (October 3, 2007)

2007 SYMPOSIUM ON OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY LAW & POLICY (October 1, 2007)

Noah Greenwald and Kristina Haddad
Impacts of Global Warming on Wildlife (September 28, 2007)

Energy Law and Policy

Rich van der Veen, President, Mackinaw Power
Wind Powering for Lawyers (March 30, 2009)

2007 SYMPOSIUM ON OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY LAW & POLICY (October 1, 2007)

Environmental Justice

Janice Morgan, Director of the Farmworker Program at Legal Aid Services of Oregon, and Ilene O’Malley, attorney for the Migrant Farmworker Program of the Oregon Law Center
Migrant & Farm Worker’s Rights (March 19, 2009)

Lewis & Clark College Professor Bruce Podobnik
Environmental Justice Dilemmas in Portland: Problems and Potential Solutions (November 6, 2008)

2008 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES ROUNDTABLE Part 1 (February 21, 2008)

2008 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES ROUNDTABLE Part 2 (February 21, 2008)

2007 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES SYMPOSIUM:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE - IS IT ALL TALK? (March 17, 2007)

Environmental Justice speaker series:

Cheyenne Chapman, Oregon Center for Environmental Health
Reforming Toxic Chemical Policies (November 5, 2007)

Deeohn Ferris, president of Global Environmental Resources, Inc.
Brownfields, Vacant Property & Smart Growth: Community Development at the Intersection of Environment and Health (April 11, 2007)

Daria Neal, Director of Lawyers' Committee Environmental Justice Project
Constitutional Claims as a Response to Environmental (In)justices (April 4, 2007)

Litigator David Paul
Litigation As a Response (And What Do Public Records Have To Do With It?) (March 22, 2007)

Filmmaker and activist Sharon Genasci
What’s in Our Air? (March 15, 2007)

New Mexico Law Professor Eileen Gauna
El Dia de los Muertos: The Death and Re-birth of the Environmental Movement (March 14, 2007)

Seattle Law Professor Catherine O’Neill
Environmental Justice: Tribal Government and Indigenous People (March 7, 2007)

North Carolina Law Professor Don Hornstein and Lewis & Clark's Monica Kirk
Risk Assessment: The Intersection between the Law of Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice (February 15, 2007)

Environmental Law and Science

Kendra Kimbirauskas, conservation organizer
Environmental Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (November 18, 2008)

Massachusetts v. EPA: Did Massachusetts Really Have Standing?
Debate (Sonja Jones vs. Professor Craig Johnston)
October 23, 2007

LAW, SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM
April 19-20, 2007

Keynote Address of the Law, Science and Environment Forum
Dr. Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute
Sound Science in an Ideological Era

Environmental Litigation and Public Interest

Lesley Adams and Christopher Len, KS Wild
The Legal Work of Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Rogue Riverkeeper
(October 22, 2008)

Chris Winter, CRAG Law Center
Litigating for Social Change (February 27, 2008)

Environmental and Natural Resources Policy

Lewis & Clark Professors Bill Funk, Craig Johnston and Melissa Powers
The Obama Administration and the Environment: What to Expect, What Not to Expect

Duke Law Professor Christopher Schroeder
Moving the 21st-Century Environmental Agenda:
Lessons From the Environmental Decade of the 1970’s
21st Annual Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor Lecture (October 22, 2008)

International and Comparative Environmental Law

Janis Searles Jones, Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Ocean Conservancy, and Kim McCoy, Quartermaster and International Executive Director, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Troubled Waters: Bringing International Attention to the Oceans’ Plight
(16th Annual Animal Law Conference, October 18, 2008)

Paul Littlefair, senior manager, international programmes, RSPCA, and Amanda Whitfort, professor of law, University of Hong Kong
Pandas in Peril: Advancing Animal Law in Asia>
(16th Annual Animal Law Conference, October 18, 2008)

Lewis & Clark's IELP Acting Director Erica Thorson, Bethany Cotton, and Paula Walker
Can the Wildlife Trade Bridge the Poverty Gap? CITES, Livelihoods, and Sustainable Use
(November 14, 2007)

Chapman Law Professor Timothy Canova
Global Trade, Endangered Species, and the New Protectionism (15th Annual Animal Law Conference, September 28-30, 2007)

Gonzaga Law Professor Upendra Acharya
Indigenous Rights and Biotechnology: A Perspective from India, Nepal and the United States (April 12, 2007)

Dr. Lottie Cunningham Wren
Nicaraguan Indigenous Rights and Environmental Issues (October 19, 2006)

National Environmental Moot Court Competition

Lewis & Clark's Winning 2009 National Championship Round
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Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition (February 21, 2009)

Lewis & Clark's Winning 2008 National Championshp Round View presentation here (Plays in Real Player from the Pace Law School website)

recorded at
2008 Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition (February 23, 2008)

Lewis & Clark's 2007 National Finals Round recorded at
2007 Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition (February 24, 2007)

Native American Natural Resources

Professor Bob Miller, Lewis & Clark Law School
“Discovering” Native America (October 14, 2008)

Gonzaga Law Professor Upendra Acharya
Indigenous Rights and Biotechnology: A Perspective from India, Nepal and the United States (April 12, 2007)

Seattle Law Professor Catherine O’Neill
Environmental Justice: Tribal Government and Indigenous People (March 7, 2007)

Natural Resources Law

Professor Jim Huffman and Visiting Professor Gabriel Eckstein
FLOW: The Privatization of and Conflict Over Global Water Resources (March 9, 2009)

Lesley Adams and Christopher Len, KS Wild
The Legal Work of Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and Rogue Riverkeeper
(October 22, 2008)

Colorado Law Professor Charles Wilkinson
Wildness and the Soul of the American West: The Crucial Role of the Federal and Indian Lands
September 29, 2006

Arizona Law Professor Robert Glennon
Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping: Herein Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries
19th Annual Distinguished Environmental Visitor Lecture (September 14, 2006)

Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy

Property Rights and Takings

Paul Beard, National Litigation Center Principal Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation
Paul Beard: McClung/Tapps Brewing v. City of Sumner (November 18, 2008)

Sustainability and Economic Development

Student Advocates for Business and Environment speaker series:

Cory Schreiber, leader of farm-to-school effort for Oregon Department of Agriculture
Rethinking School Lunches (February 26, 2009)

Melora Golden, Recode Oregon
Developing Grassroots Sustainability Regulations (November 7, 2008)

INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Sustainability, Culture and Business Agenda

Toxic Torts

Chuck Tauman, President, Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association
Williams v. Phillip Morris (February 12, 2008)

Transportation Law and Policy

Mark Ginsberg, Portland attorney
Alternative Transportation and the Law (February 14, 2008)

Water Law

Awards Presentations

2008 Distinguished Environmental Graduate and Williamson Awards

2007 Distinguished Environmental Graduate and Williamson Awards