University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 72 Issue 2, Spring 2001

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

JOHN D. LESHY, Shaping the Modern West: The Role of the Executive Branch. A.B., 1966, cum laude, Harvard University; J.D., 1969, magna cum laude, Harvard University School of Law. For the past eight years, Mr. Leshy has served as the Solicitor for the Department of the Interior. He is on leave from his position as Professor of Law at Arizona State University, where from 1980-1992 he taught constitutional law, Indian law, water law, natural resources law, federal public land law, and law and social change. He has authored numerous books and articles on natural resources, constitutional law, and comparative law. In the 2001-2002 academic year, Mr. Leshy will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at University of California - Hastings College of Law.

ERIC K. YAMAMOTO, Racializing Environmental Justice. B.A.,University of Hawai`I 1974; J.D. Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1978. Professor Yamamoto has been a member of the University of Hawai`i Law School since 1985. He is known for his civil rights work and scholarship on racial justice. He served as a member of the coram nobis legal team successfully reopening the infamous WWII Japanese American internment case, Korematsu v. U.S. This case led to reparations, and assisted in the successful representation of 10,000 political torture victims in the international human rights class action case against Ferdinand Marcos. Professor Yamamoto's scholarship includes his recent book entitled INTERRACIAL JUSTICE: CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA, which received the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Books Award for 2000. He is currently completing a co-authored book entitled RACE, RIGHTS AND REPARATION. Professor Yamamoto has published many articles on civil rights, critical race theory and indigenous peoples' justice, as well.

JEN-L WONG LYMAN, Racializing Environmental Justice. B.A., University of Hawai`I, 1994; J.D. William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i 1997. After graduating from law school, Ms. Lyman served as the law clerk to Justice Robert Klein of the Hawai`i Supreme Court. Ms. Lyman practices law in Hawai`i with the firm of Stirling & Kleintop.

HOLLY DOREMUS, Water, Population Growth, and Endangered Species in the West. B.Sc., Trinity College (Conn.); Ph.D., Cornell University; J.D., University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). Holly Doremus is a Professor of Law and member of the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches courses in environmental, land use, and property law. Before joining the faculty at U.C. Davis, Professor Doremus clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced municipal law in Oregon. Prior to attending law school, she was a post-doctoral research associate in plant biochemistry at the University of Missouri. Her recent publications include The Rhetoric and Reality of Nature Protection: Toward a New Discourse and Delisting Endangered Species: An Aspirational Goal, Not a Realistic Expectation.