University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 73 Issue 2, Spring 2003

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

GARY C. BRYNER, The National Energy Policy: Assessing Energy Policy Choices. Gary Bryner is a research associate at the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, and teaches in the graduate program in Public Policy at Brigham Young University. He has a J.D. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in government from Cornell University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and was director of the Natural Resources Law Center from 1991-2001. His current research interests include energy development in the Colorado Plateau and western United States, energy and climate change law and policy, and methods for incorporating ecosystem services and other ecological values into natural resource policy making.

SANDRA B. ZELLMER, Sustaining Geographies Of Hope: Cultural Resources On Public Lands. B.S., Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa; J.D., University of South Dakota School of Law; LL.M., environmental law, George Washington University National Law Center. Sandra Zellmer is an associate professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where she teaches natural resources law, environmental law, property law, and related courses. She has been a visiting faculty member at both Tulane Law School (2001) and Drake University Law School (1997-98). Her recent publications have addressed biodiversity, cultural resources, and constitutional issues related to public lands management. Zellmer currently serves as an appointed member of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Water Advisory Council and a faculty member of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes. Prior to teaching, she practiced as a trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice, litigating public lands and wildlife issues for the National Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. She also clerked for the Honorable William W. Justice, United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, and practiced law at Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

TOM L. ROMERO, II, Uncertain Waters And Contested Lands: Excavating The Layers Of Colorado's Legal Past Tom I. Romero is the Western Legal Studies Fellow at the University of Colorado's Center of the American West in affiliation with the School of Law and Department of History. A cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Romero is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, where he is completing his dissertation, "Of Race and Rights": Legal Culture, Social Change, and the making of a Multiracial Metropolis, Denver 1940-1975." The dissertation is a close examination about the relationship of law to racial and ethnic relations in the Denver Metropolitan Area after World War II. Mr. Romero has researched and presented extensively on the history of Colorado civil rights struggles, served as a summer associate at Davis, Graham, and Stubbs in Denver, Colorado, and has worked as an editorial consultant on issues related to law in the American West.

DALE A. OESTERLE, Lessons On The Limits Of Constitutional Language From Colorado: The Erosion Of The Constitution's Ban On Business Subsidies. Dale A. Oesterle is the Monfort Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law and the Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Center. His new book, co-authored with Richard B. Collins, is Colorado State Constitution (Greenwood Press 2002). He has also authored a casebook, The Law of Mergers and Acquisitions (West Group), in its second edition with a third edition due out in the fall of this year. His other contributions include over twenty law review articles, over twenty-five short articles, and a monthly column for the Boulder Daily Camera (entitled "Venture In"). He teaches courses in mergers & acquisitions, international trade law, securities law, corporations, and law for entrepreneurs.