Med Week: 2011 Keynote Speaker

Robin Morris Collin is professor of law at Willamette University College of Law in Oregon. Her latest publications include "Restoration and Redemption" in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (a collection including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and others, 2010), and the Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Environment and Ecology, Business and Economics, Equity and Fairness (coauthored with Robert William Collin, 2010). She is the first US law professor to teach sustainability courses in a US law school. She has been awarded the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, the Leadership in Sustainability Award from the Oregon State Bar, the Campus Compact Faculty Award for Civic Engagement in Sustainability, and the national Environmental Justice Achievement Award from the Environmental Protection Agency for her work with the Oregon Environmental Justice Task Force. She has been recognized as a Founder and Leader of the Sustainable Futures Section of the Oregon State Bar. Morris Collin also served as the founding chair of the legislatively created Oregon Environmental Justice Taskforce and a founding board member of the environmental Justice Action Group of Portland, and also Lawyers for a Sustainable Future. She cofounded the Conference Against Environmental Racism and the sustainable Business Symposium.