University of Oregon Law School in Portland
The first University of Oregon program to occupy space in Portland's Willamette Block Building was the University of Oregon School of Law, which was officially opened on Friday, October 10, 1884, by Judge Matthew P. Deady. In 1906, the law school moved to the courthouse; then in 1913 the board of regents of the University of Oregon decided to move the law school to the main campus in Eugene.
The UO School of Law maintains business offices at the University of Oregon Portland Center to facilitate its Portland outreach to the legal and business community.
Programs at the Portland Center include a semester-in-Portland program that allows students to take business classes live in Portland while participating in business law externships with the Portland area's most prominent corporations. The law school conducts summer classes at the Portland Center and uses its offices to facilitate Portland-area law conferences (including the annual business innovation conference each fall), student job placement, oversight of Portland-area externships, and the activities of the law school's Appropriate Dispute Resolution Program.
Additional information about the UO School of Law and activities in the Portland area can be found at www.law.uoregon.edu/pdx/.