University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 71 Issue 5, 2000
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
RICHARD POLENBERG, The "Saintly" Cardozo: Character and the Criminal Law. B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Columbia Uni-versity; Ph.D., Columbia University. Richard Polenberg has been teaching at Cornell University since 1966 and is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of American History. Professor Polen-berg is a recent recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He has offered a seminar on Justice Cardozo and the Judicial Process for the last few years. His most recent book, The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, was published by Harvard University Press in 1997.
PNINA LAHAV, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Character and Judicial Discretion. M.A., Boston University; J.S.D. Yale Law School; L.L.B. Hebrew University. Pnina Lahav is a Professor of Law at the Boston University, where she teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, civil rights, and first amendment law. Prior to teaching, she served as a judicial clerk to Justice M. Ben Porath. Professor Lahav has also taught law at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Center for Interdiscipli-nary Studies, Oxford University, and Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France. In addition, she is the author of Judgment in Jeru-salem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century, which won two prizes: the Seltner Prize in Israel and the Gratz Centennial Book Award in the United States.
R. KENT NEWMYER, John Marshall as an American Original: Some Thoughts on Personality and Judicial Statesmanship. A.B., Doane College; Ph.D., Nebraska University. Kent Newmyer has taught history and the University of Connecticut in Storrs for thirty-seven years, where he is currently a Professor of Legal His-tory. His teaching and research interests are early United States legal history, constitutional history, American history, and legal development. Professor Newmyer is the author of numerous books and articles on legal history, including Supreme Court Jus-tice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic, which received the Littleton-Griswold Award for Best Book on Law and Society by the American Historical Association in 1985 and the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, 1985-86.
LAURA KALMAN, Does Character Affect Judicial Performance? B.A., Pomona College; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Yale University. Laura Kalman is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960; Abe Fortas: A Biography, which won the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold prize; and The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism, as well as nu-merous essays. Professor Kalman has received fellowships from the American Bar Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, and Harvard's Charles Warren Center. She serves on the Holmes Devise and, from 1997 to 1999, she served as Presi-dent of the American Society for Legal History. She is a member of the California Bar.
THE HONORABLE DAVID M. EBEL, Byron R. White-A Justice Shaped by the West. B.A., Northwestern University; J.D., Univer-sity of Michigan. Judge David M. Ebel currently serves on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Ebel clerked for Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court during the 1965-66 term. Prior to taking a seat on the bench, Judge Ebel spent twenty-two years at the Denver law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs, special-izing in litigation. His previous publications include A Tribute to Justice Byron R. White and Justice Byron R. White: A Brief Sketch. JAMES E. SCARBORO, Good Judgment as a Manifestation of Character in the Opinions of Justice Byron R. White. B.A., Colo-rado College; J.D., University of Colorado. He reported for the Ridgefield Press, a weekly Connecticut newspaper, for three and one-half years. He served as a law clerk to then-Chief Judge Al-fred A. Arraj of the United States District Court in Denver, and subsequently clerked for Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court. Mr. Scarboro served on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Law from 1973 to 1978, teaching in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and con-tracts. He was an associate with Davis Graham & Stubbs in Den-ver, and a partner in the firm of Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn and Maledon in Phoenix. Mr. Scarboro is currently a partner in the firm of Arnold & Porter in Denver. His publications include Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Cases, Questions, and Notes.