Dean Symeon C. Symeonides, Willamette University College of Law

Professor Robin Morris Collin, Director, Certificate Program in Sustainability Law, Willamette University College of Law

Introduction of Working Group Concept and Moderators:

Professor Susan L. Smith, Director, Certificate Program in Law and Government, Willamette University College of Law

Group 1: Defining and Enforcing the International Human Right to Water

Professor Gwynne Skinner, Director of Human Rights Clinic, Willamette University College of Law

Sarah Hunt Vasche, Attorney

Group 2: Defining the Human Right to Water in the West: Protecting Livelihoods and Ecosystems

Gail Achterman, Executive Director, Institute of Natural Resources, Oregon State University

Tom Dimitre, Attorney

Professor Robin Morris Collin

Group 3: How Western Water Law Currently Secure the Human Right to Water

Reed Marbut, adjunct professor, Willamette University College of Law; of counsel, Karnopp, Peterson

Jonathan S. Clyde, Attorney, Clyde Snow & Sessions

Group 4: Governance and the Role of Economics in Implementing the HRW

Professor Don Negri, Professor of Economics, Willamette University College of Liberal Arts

James Culliton, Staff Attorney, North American Energy Standards Board

Joe Bowersox, Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Communities, Willamette University College of Liberal Arts

Josh Newton, Partner, Karnopp, Petersen LLP

Introductions:  Susan Smith, Professor College of Law, Willamette University

Bruce Aylward, Ecosystem Economics, LLC; Operations Manager, Deschutes River Conservancy; former Senior Advisor, World Commission on Dams

Elizabeth "Betsy" Burleson, Professor, University of South Dakota School of Law

Reed Benson, Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law

Introduction:  James Culliton-Conference Organizer-Staff Attorney North American Energy Standards Board

Professor Gabriel Eckstein, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law; Director, International Water Law Project

"Deconstructing the Human Right to Water: Implications for Implementing the Right in the West and Beyond"

Introduction:  Jonathan S. Clyde-Conference Organizer, Attorney, Clyde, Snow & Sessions

Eric Dannenmaier, Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow, Indiana University School of Law -- Indianapolis

Michael Grainey, Renewable Energy Advisor, Oregon Business Development Department

Paul Kibel, Professor, Golden Gate University Law School

Introduction:  Tom Dimitre-Conference Organizer, Attorney

Guest Speaker
Congressman Earl Blumenauer
Oregon's 3rd District

"It's Not 'Water for the World', It's Bigger:  How Water Will Define our Politics, Economy Environment and Humanity"

Introduction:  Tom Dimitre-Conference Organizer, Attorney

Guest Speaker
Charlie Clements
Executive Director
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

Introduction:  Sarah Hunt Vasche-Conference Organizer, Attorney

Guest speaker
Charles "Jody" Calica
Confederated Tribe of the Warm Springs Secretary Treasurer

Professor Susan L. Smith

Report of Working Groups: Presentation of draft reports

Review draft Conference Report: Suggestions for final Conference Report

A field trip to the City of Salem's renowned slow sand filter water treatment system on Geren Island, and the legally protected north Santiam River watershed that supplies Salem's water, will be available for participants interested in the interplay between water quality and water treatment costs as well as an example of the intersection between municipal and endangered species issues.

11:00am-1:00pm

Transportation will be provided

Leave Willamette University Law School back lot at 10:30
Return to Willamette University Law School at 1:30

Contact Reyna Meyers at 503-370-6046 or rmeyers@willamette.edu by Monday, January 31, 2011 to reserve a seat.