University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 73 Issue 3, Summer 2002
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
STACY L. BRUSTIN, Legal Services Provision Through Multidisciplinary Practice-Encouraging Holistic Advocacy While Protecting Ethical Interests. B.A., Tufts University: J.D., Harvard University. Professor Brustin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Catholic University, Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. She teaches in the General Practice Clinic. The Clinic represents low-income individuals primarily in the areas of public benefits, special education, and family law. The Clinic also represents community groups interested in non-profit incorporation. Students advocate on behalf of clients and participate in a variety of community legal education projects. Professor Brustin conducts research and writes on topics related to family law, ethics, and public interest law practice. Before coming to Catholic University, Professor Brustin was a staff attorney at Ayuda, Inc., a community-based legal services office that assists immigrants and refugees in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. While at Ayuda, she founded ermanas Unidas, a support and community advocacy group for Latina survivors of domestic violence.
OLIVER HOUCK, Unfinished Stories Professor Houck is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law Center, with three intervening years in the United States Army. He served as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, and then as General Counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, also in Washington, D.C. He joined the Tulane University law faculty in 1981.
ROSANNA CAVALLARO, Better Off Dead: Abatement, Innocence, and the Evolving Right of Appeal. Professor Cavallaro is a 1983 graduate of Harvard College and a 1986 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Women's Law Journal. After clerking for the Hon. Thomas A. Flannery of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, she served as an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts (1987-1990), an associate at a small firm in Boston (Peckham, Lobel, Casey, Prince & Tye, 1990-1991), and an associate in the appellate law practice of Alan M. Dershowitz. Professor Cavallaro has been at Suffolk University Law School since 1993, where she teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Law and Literature.
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN, Does Literature Work as Social Science?: The Case of George Orwell. B.A. (Juris.), Oxford University; LL.B., Yale Law School. Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Before joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972, where he served as Interim Dean from February to June 2001. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991-2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law Economics. His books include Torts (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books 1998); Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care? (Addison-Wesley 1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard 1995); Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business 7th ed. 2000); Bargaining With the State (Princeton 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard 1992); Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard 1985); and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press 1980). He has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and nterdisciplinary subjects. He has taught courses in communications, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, health law and policy, legal history, property, real estate development and finance, jurisprudence, land use planning, patents, individual, estate, and corporate taxation, torts, and worker's compensation.