Oregon LL.M.

Professors

University of Oregon law professors are nationally and internationally recognized scholars. Their textbooks are used in classes all over the United States. They participate in research, conferences, trainings and diplomatic negotiations in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and Africa.

Oregon faculty members are innovators. They established the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (a network of public interest environmental lawyers from 60 countries), the Western Environmental Law Center (a law firm representing citizen groups throughout the Western United States), the groundbreaking Ocean and Coastal Law Center, and the first environmental law clinic in the world. They are co-founders of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and an electronic network of environmental law professors.

	Adell Amos Assistant Professor of Law. Director of Environmental & Natural Resources Center. J.D., Oregon (on leave) Professor Amos teaches water resources law and wildlife law. Her scholarship addresses the federal government's role in managing water resources and the role of state administrative agencies in water resource management. She has represented and advised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on state and federal water rights issues.
	John E. Bonine Professor of Law. A.B., Stanford; LL.B., Yale Professor Bonine co-founded the world's first environmental law clinic; established the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW), and is known worldwide as an expert in access to justice in environmental matters. He is author of the textbook, The Law of Environmental Protection.
	Heather Brinton Assistant Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center. J.D. Oregon, 1996 Ms. Brinton teaches Climate Law and Policy. She formerly represented municipalities on land use, water, environmental, public utility and local governmental law and litigated public interest environmental law cases as a staff attorney at the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene, Oregon.
	Attorney Greg Costello directs the Western Environmental Law Center, where University of Oregon students practice law as part of the Law School's Environmental Law Clinic. The Clinic was the first in the world and WELC is the leading environmental law firm in the Western United States.
	Susan Gary Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Law, B.A., Yale; J.D., Columbia Professor Gary teaches the law of non-profit corporations. Students in her non-profit corporations course provide analysis that benefits environmental and other non-profit organizations in their start-up phase. Professor Gary's tax and estate planning expertise is central to understanding conservation easements, a widely used tool in conserving landscapes through private initiative.
	Ibrahim Gassama Professor of Law. B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; J.D., Harvard Professor Gassama is an expert on human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development. These issues led him to recruit and train observers of elections in Haiti and in South Africa's first all-race democratic election. Prof. Gassama's academic interest focuses on problems of international order; the changing role of international institutions in the post Cold War era; and the interrelationships among human rights, environmental degradation, and economic development.
	Attorney Jennifer Gleason administers the E-LAW Internship for the Law School, at the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide. She is the Senior Staff Attorney at E-LAW, and works on a daily basis with environmental lawyers from Australia to Zimbabwe, with such diverse places as Chile, China, Jamaica, India, and Malaysia in between.
	Richard Hildreth Professor of Law. Director, Ocean and Coastal Law Center. B.S.E., Michigan; J.D., Michigan; Diplomas in Law, Oxford & Stockholm Professor Hildreth is the author of three casebooks and many other publications on ocean and coastal law. He practiced business law in San Francisco before starting his teaching career. He has consulted frequently with federal and state coastal management agencies in the U.S. and Australia and with Pacific Island governments on environmental legal matters. Hildreth served as the University of Queensland (Australia) Law Faculty's 50th Anniversary Visiting Fellow.
	Svitlana Kravchenko Professor of Law. J.D., Lviv National University; Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Soviet Legislation, U.S.S.R.; LL.D., Law Academy, Ukraine Professor Kravchenko serves as Director of the LL.M. program and teaches courses such as international environmental law, environment and human rights and global environmental challenges. Before moving to Oregon she taught environmental law for 25 years at Lviv National University, Ukraine. Dr. Kravchenko helped negotiate several multilateral environmental agreements and is the elected Vice-Chair of the Compliance Committee for the European Aarhus Convention on Public Participation. Svitlana is founder and president of the first public interest law firm in Ukraine. She served as an advisor to the Ukraine Ministry of Environment and the Committee on Environmental Policy of the Parliament of Ukraine. She has published 11 books and more than 170 scholarly articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian.
	Tom Lininger Associate Professor of Law. B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard Professor Lininger is the director of the Public Interest/Public Service (PIPS) program at the UO School of Law. He has worked as a federal prosecutor, as counsel to a subcommittee in the U.S. Senate, and as a litigation attorney with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in San Francisco. His published work covers issues of ethics, evidence, and energy conservation.
	Roberta Mann Professor of Law. M.B.A. and J.D., Arizona State; LL.M. Georgetown Professor Mann is a tax, property, and environmental law expert. She practiced in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, concentrating primarily on the areas of partnerships, corporate, estate and gift, and natural resources. She also served on the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in U.S. Congress.
	Nancy Shurtz Professor of Law. B.A., Cincinnati; J.D., Ohio Professor Shurtz specializes in tax law and teaches a wide range of tax courses. She approaches environmental law with an interest in non-regulatory mechanisms to achieve conservation. Professor Shurtz is currently working on a book on environmental taxation and is developing a course on environmental tax policy.
	Rennard Strickland Distinguished Professor Emeritus. B.A., Northaestern State; M.A., Arkansas; J.D., S.J.D., Virginia Professor Strickland brings a rich array of Indian law courses to the environmental curriculum. A legal historian of Osage and Cherokee heritage, Professor Strickland pioneered the introduction of Indian law into university curriculum. He has published over 25 books on Indian law topics and is frequently cited for his work as revision editor of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law. He served as president of the Association of American Law Schools, chair of the Law School Admissions Council, and former dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.
	Mary Wood Professor of Law. B.A., Washington; J.D., Stanford Professor Wood teaches public lands law, federal Indian law, wildlife law, and property law. She has published extensively on the Indian trust doctrine, treaty rights, and environmental issues facing native nations. She is currently working on a co-authored textbook in natural resources law in which she is presenting a unified framework of federal, tribal, state and individual ownership. Prof. Wood has received the University's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Orlando Hollis Law Faculty Teaching Award.

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