University of Oregon School of Law

The school, founded in 1884, is located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, on the corner of 15th and Agate streets, overlooking Hayward Field.

[6] Richard R. Thornton organized the department that began as a two-year program with three classes per week.

[9] In 1939, the law school graduated Minoru Yasui, who later took his challenge to the military curfew on Japanese Americans during World War II all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

[9] During the 1960s, Professor (and later dean) Chapin Clark offered the school's first courses in environmental and natural resources law.

[9] Later that decade, Professor Jon Jacobson founded the school's Ocean and Coastal Law Center.

[9] In 2003, the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program opened a fully staffed office.

[9] The ENR Program is ranked 10th in the country by U.S. News & World Report for the 2020-21 academic year.

[16] The ADR program is ranked 7th in the country by U.S. News & World Report for the 2023–24 academic year.

For the 2023–24 academic year, U.S. News & World Report ranked the LRW Program number 1 in the nation.

[27] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $199,048 for non-residents and $170,167 for Oregon residents.

The conference is a gathering of environmental activists, advocates, and students from across the United States and the world.

Land Air Water is a student group at the University of Oregon School of Law.

[citation needed] The content of the conference is aimed at professional environmental activists, such as people that work in non-profit public interest organizations such as the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, and the Oregon Natural Desert Association and public interest environmental attorneys like Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, and private public interest attorneys.