University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 72 Issue 4, Fall 2001
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ALLISON H. EID, A Spotlight on Structure. B.A., Stanford University; J.D., University of Chicago. Allison Eid is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. Before joining the Colorado faculty in 1998, Professor Eid clerked for the Honorable Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After these clerkships, she practiced commercial and appellate litigation with the Denver office of Arnold & Porter. Prior to attending law school, Professor Eid served as Special Assistant and speechwriter to then-U.S. Secretary of Education, William J. Bennett. She teaches first-year Torts, Advanced Torts, and Legislation, and has concentrated her research in the areas of tort law, legislation, and federalism. The University of Colorado Law Review extends its sincere appreciation to Professor Eid for her sponsorship and coordination of this symposium, New Structures for Democracy.
MICHAEL C. DORF, Can Process Theory Constrain Courts? A.B., J.D., Harvard. Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Columbia Law School. Rotary Foundation Scholar on Physics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Law Clerk to Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Law Clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Dorf's publications include The Supreme Court 1997 Term Foreword: The Limits of Socratic Deliberation, Harvard Law Review (1998); A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism (with co-author Charles F. Sabel), Columbia Law Review (1998); Incidental Burdens on Fundamental Rights, Harvard Law Review (1996); Facial Challenges to State and Federal Statutes, Stanford Law Review (1994); and On Reading the Constitution (with co-author Laurence H. Tribe, 1991).
SAMUEL ISSACHAROFF, Can Process Theory Constrain Courts? B.A., Binghamton, 1975; J.D., Yale, 1983. Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Professor Issacharoff's wide-ranging research deals with issues in employment law, civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, and voting rights and electoral systems. His many influential articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, American Economic Review, Supreme Court Review, and elsewhere. He is also co-author of The Law of Democracy: Legal Regulation of the Political Process (1998).
GEORGE L. PRIEST, Reanalyzing Bush v. Gore: Democratic Accountability and Judicial Overreaching. George Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School. RICHARD B. COLLINS, How Democratic Are Initiatives? B.A., Yale University; LL.B., Harvard University. Richard Collins is a Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, where he teaches courses in property, constitutional law, constitutional history, and Native American law. Professor Collins clerked for U. S. Court of Appeals Judge Charles M. Merrill in San Francisco, then worked as a legal services attorney for, successively, California Rural Legal Assistance, California Indian Legal Services, and Dinebeiina Nahiilna Be Agaditahe in Window Rock, Navajo Nation. He was a staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund and joined the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Law in 1982. He was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 1998. His publications include Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1982 ed., with others), Indian Consent to American Government, Economic Union as a Constitutional Value, and Structuring the Ballot Initiative: Procedures That Do and Don't Work (with co-author Dale Oesterle). The Colorado State Constitution (with co-author Dale Oesterle) will be published early in 2002.
JOHN GASTIL, There's More Than One Way to Legislate: An Integration of Representative, Direct, and Deliberative Approaches to Democratic Governance. B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. John Gastil is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where he studies and teaches courses on political deliberation and communication in small groups. From 1994-1997, Gastil conducted public opinion research at the University of New Mexico Institute for Public Policy. His publications include By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections (University of California Press 2000) and Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making, and Communication (New Society Publishers 1993).
MARK A. SMITH, There's More Than One Way to Legislate: An Integration of Representative, Direct, and Deliberative Approaches to Democratic Governance. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Mark Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses on American government, interest groups, Congress and research methodology. His research focuses on the political power of business in America, the relationship between public opinion and public policy, the effects of ballot initiatives and the citizenry, and how the economy is used in policy debates. His recent publications include American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
CINDY SIMMONS, There's More Than One Way to Legislate: An Integration of Representative, Direct, and Deliberative Approaches to Democratic Governance. B.A., Macalester College; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cindy Simmons is the Managing Editor of ClearingUp, a weekly newsletter. Prior to this position, she conducted in-depth interviews with politically active residents of Washington state on Ned Crosby's citizen jury concept. She also edited Crosby's forthcoming book. Simmons freelances for Washington Law & Politics.
GENE R. NICHOL, JR., The Practice of Redistricting. B.A., Oklahoma State University, 1973; J.D., University of Texas, 1976. Gene Nichol is a Dean at the University of North Carolina Law School. Prior to moving to North Carolina, Dean Nichol was Dean of the University of Colorado School of Law. Dean Nichol is the author (with M. Redish) of Federal Courts and has published articles on civil liberties and federal judicial power in a wide variety of journals. He has testified frequently on constitutional matters before committees of the United States Congress and various state legislatures. In 1990, he was chair of the Governor's Bipartisan Commission on Campaign Finance Reform in Colorado. The following year, he served as a member of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission. Dean Nichol was named special master by a three-judge federal court in Martinez v. Romer to resolve a dispute between the Governor and the Legislature over the drawing of federal congressional districts.
PAUL F. CAMPOS, The Search For Incontrovertible Visual Evidence. A.B., M.A., J.D., University of Michigan. Paul F. Campos, who served as the Director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law from 1995 to 1999, has been on the University of Colorado faculty since 1990. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Last American Diet. He is also the author of the books Jurismania: The Madness of American Law, and, with law professors Pierre Schlag and Steven D. Smith, Against the Law. For the past two years Professor Campos has written a weekly opinion column for the Rocky Mountain News and the Scripps Howard News Service. His numerous published articles and essays primarily focus on legal interpretation and constitutional theory.