Counsel since 1999, Planner 2 years (1992–94). B.S., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (1990) (City and Regional Planning); M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992) (Environmental Policy, Planning, and Mediation); J.D., Lewis and Clark, Northwestern School of Law (1997) (Environmental and Natural Resources Law certificate). Jeff is also an adjunct professor of law at Lewis and Clark Law School (currently teaching Oregon Land Use Law and Land Use Planning; previously taught interstate compact law for 20 years, and occasionally administrative law); Adjunct Professor at Portland State University, Department of Public Administration (currently teaching Administrative Law); and legal advisor for The Council of State Governments’ National Center for Interstate Compacts.
Jeff is a frequent speaker on interstate governance arrangements at continuing education programs and a resource that other interstate compact agencies call to help think through thorny problems. Jeff’s writings include annual articles on new developments in interstate compact law since 2008; the first-ever casebook on interstate compact law, Interstate Compacts: Case and Materials (4th ed. Semaphore Press 2020); the first-ever casebook on Oregon Land Use law (with Ed Sullivan, available on SSRN); co-author for the second edition of The Evolving Use and Changing Role of Interstate Compacts (ABA Press, 2016); contributing author on intergovernmental agreements to The Municipal Law Deskbook (ABA Press 2015); and several chapters in various Oregon and Washington Bar Books. In 2016, Lewis and Clark Law School named Jeff a Distinguished Environmental Law graduate.