This lecture will discuss sustainability’s challenges and how social workers can greatly contribute to educating other professions because of their attention to equity in practice and theory.
Sustainability is often defined as the triangulation of ecosystems, economics, and equity. Yet, contributions to sustainability are often ignored in the United States. Law professor Robin Morris Collin will focus on how this presents challenges for teaching sustainability in higher education and its practice, urging us to train our minds for the complexity and scale of the change necessary. By embracing sustainability intentionally, social workers should expect to encounter a blind spot. She warns that sustainability dialogs will initiate wide ranging economic and ecosystem discourse, but may ignore the element of equity.
Attend this lecture and help respond to society’s needs with a sustainability-based vision of the good life and of right relationships.
Robin Morris Collin joined the faculty at Willamette University College of Law in fall 2003 as professor of law. Morris Collin, who has taught law since 1984, came to Willamette after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured member of the University of Oregon School of Law faculty. In 1993, she became the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. She currently heads the school's Certificate Program in Sustainability Law. She also serves on the American Association of Law Schools Membership Review Committee and has served in the American Bar Association’s accreditation process as a site visitor since 1991. Read her full bio.