Events

Please join Ananya Raghavan, the SBA VP of DEIB, and Alexandra Cook, the Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Resources for an Antiracist student book club this spring semester. The goal of this book club is to continue building on the discussions regarding race in the legal field students have had during law school through the DEI and anti-bias sessions, classes, and more.

The book club will be reading Open Season by Ben Crump, and the first 15 people to sign up will receive a free copy of the book. Any number of students can join. The book club will meet in January, February, and March to discuss the book. The first meeting will feature a guest speaker to provide context for the subject matter, intention set for the book club, and more.

This event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and will be rescheduled. More details to follow. 

Trystan Reese is an award-winning author, facilitator, and coach focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. He has also been organizing with the trans community for nearly two decades and has been on the frontlines of this generation’s most significant fights for LGBTQ+ justice. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear him speak! Pizza will be provided.

The Law School’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee invites you to attend the first 2024-25 Opt-In presentation. This presentation will feature Eileen Dowty, who will provide an overview of neurodiversity, how being neurodiverse impacts individuals, and how we can support neurodiverse individuals in and outside of the classroom and in the workplace.

Join Professor Steverson and Benjamin as they talk about their personal experiences in the law as women and women of color. This is a safe space to ask questions, share experiences, concerns and find community. All are welcome!

Come have a discussion with Ashley Needham and Chloe Clay, two alums, talk about their experiences working in public defense. As public defenders they are serving marginalized and often BIPOC communities. Although zealous advocacy is aspirational, being a White savior is not and neither is BIPOC fatigue. So how do we avoid it? Come join the discussion. All are welcome!

Ben Crump, renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney and one of the nation’s foremost lawyers and advocates for social justice, will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture on February 20 at the Agnes Flanagan Chapel on the campus of Lewis & Clark College.

Mr. Crump will be joined by Lewis & Clark Law Professor Robert Klonoff for a Q/A format. Professor Klonoff has worked closely with Ben Crump as co-counsel in ongoing litigation on behalf of the family of Henrietta Lacks against companies that profited by the use of Henrietta’s “immortal cell line.”

This is a hybrid event. 

To attend remotely via Zoom, please RSVP here.

There is still space at the lecture in-person, please let us know you are coming: RSVP here

Attendance at the event qualifies for 1.0 MCLE “Access to Justice” credit. (RSVP and advance request for CLE required.)

The Martin Luther King Jr. Endowed Lecture Series

Each year Lewis & Clark Law School hosts an endowed lecture honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made possible by a generous grant from alums Jacqueline Alexander ’07 and Lee Matthews ’73. The mission is to bring internationally recognized legal scholars, practitioners, jurists and civil rights leaders to Lewis & Clark to present a lecture to our law school community on issues of diversity, race relations, tolerance, and equal rights.

This event is sponsored by the Law School DEI Committee, as part of our continuing Opt-In series. Lunch will be provided to the first 50 individuals who register.

The Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) and Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) are excited to introduce a new initiative titled: “Faculty/Staff: Inclusive Practice Strategies.” Each month in the semester, our offices will jointly host an opportunity to talk about any challenging situations that may have occurred in the classroom, in your office, during an event, with a student, or a peer.