Jonathan Newman Memorial Law
Conferences
co-Sponsored with Lewis and Clark Law School
Since its founding
in 1983, the Institute for Judaic Studies of
the Pacific Northwest has co-sponsored a
number of Law Conferences. These have dealt
with a wide range of issues, and have
attracted lawyers, law students, and members
of the general community.
Beginning with the 1992
conference — The
Jewish Stake in the Bill of Rights —
the series permanently honors Jonathan Newman
(1927-1991). A graduate of Yale Law School,
Judge Newman moved to Portland in 1953 and
practiced civil law here for nearly 30
years.
He was a founding member of the
Oregon American Civil Liberties Union and its
first secretary, also serving as a cooperating
attorney in court cases and legislative
hearings. In 1982 the ACLU awarded him
its highest honor, the E. B. MacNaughton Civil
Liberties Award,
In 1968, he was elected to the
Portland School Board.
In 1982 Newman was elected to
the Oregon Court of Appeals and re-elected six
year s later, serving with distinction on the
bench until shortly before his death.
It was particularly appropriate
that the first conference memorializing Judge
Newman, himself the son of a rabbi and a
distinguished civil libertarian, should deal
with the Jewish Stake in the Bill of Rights.
2007 Codes & Commands:
Emerging Law & Religious Traditions in
the Treatment of Animals
2005 Ethical Issues in Reparations to
Aggrieved Groups: What Lessons Can We Learn
from the Holocaust?
1992 The Jewish Stake in the Bill of
Rights
1990 Law and Human Rights in the West Bank
and Gaza
1988 Jewish Supreme Court Justices
1986 Reverence for Life
1985 Death and Loss in Contemporary
America: Psychological and Judaic Viewpoints
1984 The Roots of Common Law in the Bible
and Talmud
