L&C in the Media

At age 60, Calvin Duncan earned his law degree from Lewis & Clark – after having spent decades in prison for a wrongful conviction. As Duncan explains, it was the effort to prove his innocence and assist his fellow prisoners that inspired his career as a lawyer.

Lewis & Clark is partnering with Oregon Public Broadcasting to create the Public Records and Government Transparency Project. L&C Law students will provide legal support for journalists and media organizations to access public records and to surmount obstacles to investigative reporting involving government agencies and elected officials.

A new law ensures that Oregonians on medicaid will have access to Art Therapy to support their mental health. L&C Professor Mary Andrus, who helped pass the law, explains why some people find Art Therapy more effective than other mental health treatments.

It’s one thing to love animals and to advocate for animal rights.  But, as recent Lewis & Clark  student Cynthia von Schlichten explains, LLM training in animal law offers particular expertise, now accessible to students around the world.

Students in L&C’s “Data for Good” course got hands-on experience improving food justice, through a partnership with Oregon nonprofit Growing Gardens. Students helped the nonprofit make ethical and efficacious improvements to its data collection and reporting, while also learning about how to improve access to healthy food for all Oregonians.

Innovation Law Lab, founded by L&C alum Stephen Manning, is revolutionizing legal protections for immigrants.  

Congress advanced HR9495 as a way to end support for terrorism. But, as Lewis & Clark Professor Suparna Chaudrhy explains, the measure might end up harming nonprofits that protect civil society.

Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jude Pate focused on Public Interest law when he was a student at Lewis & Clark Law School.  In this year’s Law School commencement address, he offered new graduates insights from Sitka/Klingit culture and from his years on the bench.