Dimensions of Sustainability: The Emerging Context for the Practice of Law
Presented by the Center on Corporations, Law & Society in collaboration with Seattle University School of Law Office of Continuing Legal Education
| Date: | Thursday, November 8, 2007 |
| Time: | Noon - 1:30 p.m. |
| Place: | Seattle University School of Law, Room 109 1112 E. Columbia, Seattle, Washington |
| Cost: |
$25.00 Standard Registration Lunch included with registration |
| Credits: | 1.25 General CLE Credits pending approval 0.0 Ethics Credits |
- 60 Attendee Limit -
“Sustainable development is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
From Our Common Future; UN World Commission on Environment and Development (1987)
While many lawyers are concerned about ecological degradation and the forces driving it, traditional law practice does not provide a consistent or well-defined outlet to address these issues. Lawyers have an important role to play in promoting sustainable practices in our increasingly privatized and global economy. This seminar, taken by more than 400 lawyers in Oregon over the past 15 months, distills essential knowledge for lawyers on the fundamentals driving the sustainability movement: societal/ economic goals, alternative metaphors for sustainability, broadly accepted ecological principles, three factors driving human impact on natural systems, the interface with the global economy, and strategies being pursued to achieve a sustainable future. This program will not only offer lawyers an important foundation for understanding concepts of sustainability that can inform the many ways in which they can serve to promote social and environmental justice in their work, but it will also highlight several ways lawyers are applying these concepts in practice.
Agenda
| 11:30 a.m.- Noon |
Registration; pick up Box Lunch |
| 12- 12:15 p.m. |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 12:10- 1:30 p.m. |
Dimensions of Sustainability After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1970, Dick Roy joined the law firm of Stoel Rives in Portland to practice corporate law. In 1993, he resigned from the firm to join his wife Jeanne as a full-time volunteer in the emergent sustainability movement. Now nationally recognized for their innovative work, the Roys are co-founders of the Center for Earth Leadership, the Northwest Earth Institute, and the Oregon Natural Step Network. Mr. Roy is also the founder of Oregon Lawyers for a Sustainable Future, which was instrumental in passing recent legislation amending the Oregon Business Corporation Act to permit the articles of incorporation to direct a corporation to conduct the business of the corporation in a manner that is socially and environmentally responsible. |
For additional information about this, or any Seattle University School of Law CLE seminar, please contact Roxanne Mennes in the Office of Continuing Legal Education at mennesr@seattleu.edu or by phone at 206.398.4092.
Sullivan Hall