Jeffrey Litwak

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Counsel

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 Law School (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 interstate compact law, and previously taught administrative law); and an advisory board member 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 since 2008 on new developments in interstate compact law (published with The Urban Lawyer since 2020); the first-ever casebook on interstate compact law, Interstate Compacts: Cases and Materials (now in its fourth edition, Semaphore Press 2020); co-author of the only textbook on Oregon Land Use Law, Oregon Land Use Law: Cases and Materials (self-published 2023); 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.