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2009-2011 Theme: Climate Ethics and Climate Equity
Wayne Morse Chair of Law
and Politics:
Dale Jamieson, 2009-10
Maxine Burkett, Fall 2010
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Winter 2011
Distinguished Speaker:
Rebecca Tsosie
Visiting Distinguished Scholar:
James J. McCarthy
Resident Scholars 2009-10:
Adell Amos
Ted Toadvine
Dissertation Fellow:
Shangrila Joshi Wynn
Wayne Morse Center Law Fellows:
See list
Project Grants:
See list
Theme Overview:
The two-year inquiry on Climate Ethics and Climate Equity aims to examine overarching ethical issues involved with climate change as well as solutions that focus on equity and environmental justice, both domestically and internationally. During 2009-10 we focus on ethics and environmental law, ethics and science in climate change discourse and policy, the role of tribes as sovereign nations, green jobs, and youth and intergenerational equity in the climate crisis.
Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics:
 Dale Jamieson will be in residence at the UO during fall term 2009. He is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law. Jamieson is a well-known scholar on environmental values and policy and climate change. His books Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, and Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature” have become standard texts in environmental ethics. Jamieson will be hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Environmental Studies Program. He will teach a seminar for graduate and undergraduate students called
Climate Ethics and Law and deliver a public address in Eugene on November 3 and in Portland on November 17. Please read Dale Jamieson's CV here. (228K PDF).
Watch a UO Today episode featuring Dale Jamieson.
The following year, 2010-2011,
we will host two visitors in the Wayne Morse Chair.
 Maxine Burkett will visit the School of Law during fall semester, 2010. Burkett is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii and inaugural director of the Island Climate Center: Center for Climate Adaptation and Policy, dedicated to helping islands adapt to climate change. Burkett’s work focuses on climate justice, the disparate impact of climate change on poor and of-color communities and our moral and legal obligation to these communities. She will teach a law class on environmental justice in early fall, 2010. Read an interview with Burkett published in the Honolulu Star Bulletin (PDF).
Dr.Vandana Shiva will visit the UO during winter term, 2011. She is a scientist and activist on issues of agriculture and food, bioethics, globalization, gender, and the worldwide impacts of climate change. Dr. Shiva is the Founder and Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, Navdanya.
She is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989). She recently released Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Change. Read Dr. Vandana Shiva's abbreviated CV here (56K PDF).
Watch the Newshour interview with Dr. Shiva
Watch Dr. Shiva's recent lecture at Oregon State
Distinguished Speaker 2009-2010:
Rebecca Tsosie
In conjunction with the School of Law and the inauguration of the Indian Tribes Professorship, the Wayne Morse Center will host Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law and director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University. She has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental ethics, policy and cultural rights. Tsosie will speak to natural law, native environmental ethics and policy, and traditional approaches to environmental stewardship. She delivers the annual Rennard Strickland Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 15 in Room 110 of the Knight Law Center. The title of her address is “Native Nations and Climate Change: Building an Ethics of Environmental Stewardship.”
Tsosie will also participate in a forum with tribal leaders on climate change. “The Role of Tribal Sovereignty” will focus on needs and opportunities for tribal nations to participate in climate change policy. Cosponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and the law school’s Environment and Natural Resources Center, the forum will be held at the UO Many Nations Longhouse on October 15-16, 2009. See http://enr.uoregon.edu/indianlaw/pacificnorthwesttribalclimatechangeevents/
Visiting Distinguished Scholar
James J. McCarthy, Harvard University climate scientist and co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will visit the Wayne Morse Center and the School of Law in early fall 2009. McCarthy is a highly respected scientist and public policy advocatd on climate change. He was also one of the lead authors on the recently completed Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. McCarthy is the outgoing President of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. Read about his critique of climate change policy in his Presidential address.
Resident Scholars for 2009-2010:
Adell Amos, School of Law, “Ethical Water Allocation in a Changing Climate.” Professor Amos, a water resources lawyer and scholar, plans to evaluate mechanisms for allocating water resources using an ethical framework. She will examine current ethical guidelines set out by the field of environmental ethics to critically analyze various national and international approaches to water allocation and suggest policy reforms. Adell Amos will be on leave during 2009-10.
Ted Toadvine, Department of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, “Ethics and Intrinsic Value in Environmental Problem-Solving: The Case of Global Climate Change.” Environmental problems have ethical dimensions that are often ignored in favor of empirical or scientific inquiry. However, the ethical and normative dimensions of climate change are essential for just and equitable policy responses. This project proposes an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problems that poses the ethical and normative contributions of the humanities as complementary to the contributions of the natural and social sciences.
Toadvine has organized a symposium to discuss these issues for November 13, 2009 at the UO Many Nations Longhouse. The Perfect Moral Storm: Ethical Challenges of Our Climate Crisis features Morse Professor Dale Jamieson, Steve Gardiner from the University of Washington, Kathleen Dean Moore from Oregon State University, and Jay Odenbaugh from Lewis and Clark College.
Dissertation Fellow 2009-2010:
Shangrila Joshi Wynn, a Ph.D. student in Geography and Environmental Science, will be a 2009-10 Dissertation Fellow. Wynn's research examines issues of equity and justice in climate change policy with a focus on the role of India in international negotiations. She addresses the challenges of reconciling ecological justice and international equity.
Wayne Morse Center Law Fellows 2009-2010:
The following law students have been selected for fellowships due to their activism, outstanding course work, and interest in Climate Ethics and Climate Equity theme.
• First Year: Nadia Dahab, Emily Johnson, and Maya Leonard-Cahn
• Second Year: Aaron Kraft, Kiran Sahdev and Brent Wilkins
• Third Year: Erin Gould, Autumn Johnson, Tim Ream (Spring 2010) and Jillian Clearman (Fall 2009)
Project Grants 2009-2010:
UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC)
“Equity and Green Jobs: Paving the Way for Worker Participation in Oregon’s Emerging Green Economy.” LERC will conduct organizing, training and technical assistance to create a network of low-income and worker advocates who can pursue a “green jobs agenda” in their communities. The project includes a collaborative meeting in Eugene featuring a speaker from Green for All in Oakland, California.
UO Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (JELL).
JELL will conduct a student-led symposium on September 11, 2009: “Advocating for an Environment of Equality: Legal and Ethical Duties in a Changing Climate.” Panelists will discuss current negotiations on climate change law, access to environmental justice, legal ethics, and litigating on behalf of environmental refugees. The program includes Continuing Legal Education credits for Oregon attorneys.
UO Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI), Institute for a Sustainable Environment.
The Junior Climate Stewards program, a youth-focused climate change program for schools will build on the successful Climate Master program to enhance youth awareness, knowledge and skills pertaining to climate change. The program will focus on intergenerational equity and explore the ethic of stewardship. A training for teachers will be held on October 9, 2009. Contact Sarah Mazze at smazze@uoregon.edu for more information.
Institute for Sustainability Education and Ecology (ISEE) and the UO Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).
Funds will support an ELP service-learning project that will bring together university students, community non-profit organizations and area middle schools to raise awareness about equity, safety and climate issues associated with student transportation to and from school.
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).
ELAW will host the 2008 Goldman Prize winner Pablo Fajardo from Ecuador for an ELAW Fellowship. He will present a lecture at the UO School of Law on August 26, 2009 titled “Jungle Law: Battling Chevron-Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” Fajardo’s work holding multinational oil giants accountable for decades of polluting activities in the Ecuadorean Amazon has received worldwide attention.
Katie MacKendrick, UO Masters Student in community and regional planning.
Thesis: “American Indian Tribes and Climate Change Adaptation Planning." MacKendrick is working with the Coquille and the Hoopa Valley tribes and will discuss the implications of her research with these tribes and the UO community. Her research considers the ethical issues facing policymakers and tribes in climate change adaptation.
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