University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 72 Issue 3, Summer 2001
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
GERALD LEONARD, Rape, Murder, and Formalism: What Happens if We Define Mistake of Law? A.B., Oberlin College, 1984; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1992; J.D., University of Michigan, 1995. Following clerkships with the Hon. J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. on the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and the Hon. David H. Souter on the United States Supreme Court, Professor Leonard joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Law in the fall of 1997. In addition to his writings on criminal law theory, he is completing a book-length history of the role of political parties in the American constitutional system of the early nineteenth century.
MARYBETH HERALD, Licensed to Speak: The Case of Vanity Plates. B.A., Michigan State; J.D., Harvard University. Marybeth Herald is an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Professor Herald's areas of expertise include Constitutional Law and Contracts. Her previous publications have explored the legal and political relationships of United States territories and other areas of constitutional law. Professor Herald's recent work includes Reversed, Vacated, and Split: The Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the Congress published in the Oregon Law Review. Before joining the Thomas Jefferson School of Law faculty in 1991, Professor Herald clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She also worked as a staff attorney at Micronesian Legal Services Corporation in the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, served as counsel to several public agencies and corporations, and formed her own private law firm in the Mariana Islands specializing in trial and appellate work.
REBECCA FRENCH, Time in the Law. B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., University of Washington Law School; LL.M, Yale Law School; Ph.D. in Anthropology of Law, Yale University. Staff Attorney, Seattle-King City Public Defenders Office, Seattle, Washington; private practice King, King & Davidson, Seattle, Washington, 1976-77; Miles, Way & Caldart, Olympia, Washington, 1977-79. Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, 1991-92. Rebecca French is an Associate Professor and Charles Inglis Thomson Fellow at the University of Colorado School of Law and an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology. Since joining the faculty in 1992, Professor French has taught a wide variety of subjects including Anthropology of Law, Modern Legal Theory, Religion and Law, Property, Wills and Trust, Law and Social Science, Comparative Law, and Legal Rhetoric. Her extensive publications reflect her varied interest, ranging from religion and legal anthropology to Tibetan culture and eastern philosophy. She also founded the first legal anthropology journal, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and served as its Editor from 1992-97. Professor French lectures nationally on issues concerning religion and law and Tibetan law.