L&C in the Media

“’More and more workers are standing up and saying this isn’t working for us,’ said Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, a Lewis & Clark College law professor specializing in labor relations. He said higher costs of living are also creating tenser working relationships, calling inflation ‘an absolute paycheck killer.’ Higher inflation is leading to higher rents, he said, but wages are trailing even as people have to spend more money.”

Lisa Benjamin, an environmental law professor at Lewis & Clark, is asked to weigh in on a groundbreaking verdict in a Montana climate crisis lawsuit.

“‘The ruling really provides nothing beyond emotional support for the many cases seeking to establish a public trust right, human right or a federal constitutional right’ to a healthy environment, said James Huffman, dean emeritus at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland.”

“Oregon is a beautiful state, with scenic hiking trails and beautiful beaches everywhere, so it’s unsurprising that its colleges are gorgeous as well. Perhaps the stand-out of Oregon’s 43 colleges and universities is Lewis & Clark College in Portland. While Lewis & Clark College may be situated right in one of the biggest cities in Oregon, the campus itself is surrounded by woods and the nearby Willamette River.”

“The non-unanimous jury rule in Oregon, which is the subject of our film, is a good example of how decisions made nearly a century ago affect the lives of people right now…Our vision for the film was to explain the roots of this law and to bring forward the human emotions and costs that often get lost in debates about criminal justice systems. Aliza Kaplan, a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, has been a leading advocate to end the non-unanimous jury verdict system. It was through Aliza that we met Tacuma Jackson and learned about how his life was derailed by this unconstitutional law. Both Aliza and Tacuma placed their full trust in the project, and we were able to follow them for the five months leading up to the Oregon Supreme Court’s ruling in late December 2022.”

“Samir Parikh, a bankruptcy law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, said the Supreme Court has in the past reviewed fundamental bankruptcy practices and found them unconstitutional or inconsistent with the law. ‘This could be one of those instances,’ he said. ‘But losing non-consensual third-party releases would be detrimental to victim recoveries. Remember, the Purdue victims approved the plan with the releases because it enabled a meaningful recovery on a relatively short timeline. Without the releases, those victims are going to be thrown into a far more chaotic scenario.’”

“Stafford found love and marriage while in the CO camps of California. After the war, he furthered his efforts toward writing and settled into a career as a teacher at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he taught for thirty years.”

“‘We’re still looking at this crazy increasing extinction rate,’ said Nicholas Fromherz, an international wildlife law expert at the Lewis & Clark Law School’s Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment, a group of legal experts that focuses on protecting animals. ‘All these other protections just aren’t enough.’”