Energy Law & Policy Project

Exploring innovative law and policy to promote a green energy future

Faculty Leaders for the Energy Law and Policy Project are Professor Adell Amos, Professor Roberta Mann, and Adjunct Instructor Jennifer Gleason.

ELPP News

October 2009 If Congress fails to act before the December U.N. conference in Copenhagen, what can be done to indicate United States' commitment to action on climate change? This question was posed in a symposium at the Univ. of Oregon School of Law in late September and one answer that arose is a Presidential Executive Order. Prof. Mary C. Wood and Meg Rowe, a Fellow of Energy Law & Policy Project at the Bowerman Center for Environmental Law, wrote a Draft Presidential Executive Order on Climate Change. It advances the theory that the earth's resources are held in trust by each sovereign for present and future generations and as such, all nations hold a fiduciary duty to protect and restore those resources, including the atmosphere.

September 15, 2009 Professor Roberta Mann presents "Like Water for Energy: The Water-Energy Nexus Through the Lens of Tax Policy"

ELPP Fellows

Jasmine Hites

Jasmine Hites is a third year student at UO Law. She was the Treasurer and a Co-Director for the 2009 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference and is a senior editor on the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. During the summer of 2008, she worked for the U.S. Department of Justice within the Environment and Natural Resource section. More recently, Jasmine has been working as the law clerk for Iberdrola Renewables, a leader in the renewable energy industry. Jasmine has enjoyed interacting with her fellow students in the ENR Fellowship program, finding inspiration in the imagination and scholarship of her colleagues. When she isn't spending her time at the law school or at work, Jasmine enjoys playing outside and attempting all varieties of do-it-yourself projects.

Samuel Roberts

Sam Roberts, a second year law student, is pursuing a certificate in Sustainable Business law with an emphasis in energy issues. During the second half of his first year and summer thereafter, he clerked for a solo energy practitioner in Virginia assisting with energy regulatory matters. He also began clerking for the hearings division of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon during the summer and continues to clerk for the administrative law judges at the commission. He is particularly interested in new energy generation and energy infrastructure issues. Before law school, Sam worked as a litigation paralegal in New York City working on general corporate litigation matters. Prior to moving to New York City, Sam obtained his bachelor's in Political Science from the University of Washington where he also pole vaulted for the track team. In his spare time, Sam enjoys whitewater kayaking, backpacking and biking.

Meg Rowe

Meg is a third year law student, emphasizing climate law and policy. She worked at the Oregon Supreme Court in her second summer and clerked at the energy law firm McDowell & Rackner, PC (Portland) during her first summer. Her work on distributed generation policies was published in the Western Environmental Law Update, March 2009.

Prior to law school, she had a career in the visual arts where she taught college art & design courses and maintained a studio practice. "When the ideas expressed through my art became significantly more important than the form of the work, I decided it was time to find a more direct avenue for expressing them. Law is a tool that informs all aspects of public and private life and a versatile tool for crafting solutions to the climate challenges we face."

Her claims to fame are that she once babysat two Pennsylvania Black Bears (former-research subjects) while finding permanent homes for them and that she is a founding member of the Oregon Citizen Utility Board. She enjoys kayaking, road biking and hiking with her partner and dogs.

Faculty

Adell Amos

Roberta Mann

Jennifer Gleason