In Memoriam: Svitlana Kravchenko (1949-2012)

Svitlana Kravchenko, a highly respected authority in environmental and natural resources law and professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, died last week in a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. She was 62 years old.

Professor Kravchenko had been on the Oregon law faculty for eight years and was director of its master’s degree program in environmental law. Previously, she taught for 25 years at Lviv State University in the Ukraine, where she earned her law degree.

Over the course of her career, she traveled and lectured on environmental law in over 70 countries worldwide. She was the founder and president of Environment-People-Law, the first public interest environmental law firm in the Ukraine.