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(CLE) Learning from Lacey - Structural Legal Collaboration to Combat Wildlife Trafficking



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In this on-demand CLE, Erica Lyman, Clinical Professor and Director of our Global Law Alliance for Animals and the Environment (GLA), and Attorney Nicholas Fromherz, Adjunct Professor and GLA's Latin American Program Director, assess the Lacey Act's potential to serve as a model national approach in the global fight against wildlife trafficking. By criminalizing almost all market dealings in wildlife tainted with illegality—and by acknowledging that much of the predicate illegality may occur in a foreign country—Lacey maximizes the U.S.’s contribution to the global effort to curb illegal wildlife trafficking.

This CLE unpacks this and other unique features of the Lacey Act in the context of NGO calls for a proposed wildlife crime protocol to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It is approved by the Oregon State Bar for 1 general CLE credit and may be eligible for CLE credit in other states. Most states accept credit from other mandatory CLE states such as Oregon, but please check with your law bar association to confirm. (Original program date February 24, 2021) Handout available here: https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/33286-cle-handout-learning-from-lacey
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