Join the University of Oregon School of Law's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center and cross-campus partners—including the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Native American Law Student Association, and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics—for the 19th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture at Oregon Law.

Our community is thrilled to welcome Amy Bowers Cordalis as this year's lecturer. 

Amy Bowers Cordalis is a mother, fisherwoman, attorney, and member and former General Counsel of the Yurok Nation—the largest Indigenous Nation in California. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group, a nonprofit advancing Indigenous sovereignty through the protection of cultural and natural resources, including the undamming of the Klamath River. She is the recipient of the United Nations' highest environmental honor, Champions of the World Laureate, and has been named to the second annual TIME100 Climate List (2024), featuring the one hundred most influential leaders driving business to real climate action.

Her book, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life, will be published by Little, Brown/Hachette on October 28, 2025, and is currently available for preorder. 

Questions about the event? Contact the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center at enr@uoregon.edu. 

Attend in person in Room 110 of the law school or join remotely via Zoom Webinar.