University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 74 Issue 3, Spring 2003
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
MICHAEL RADELET, Capital Punishment in Colorado: 1859-1972. B.A. Michigan State University; Ph.D Purdue University; Post-doctoral Fellow (Psychiatry), University of Wisconsin. Michael L. Radelet is Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Visiting Professor, University of Westminster School of Law, London. Between 1979 and 2001 he was on the Sociology faculty at the University of Florida. Radelet is a death penalty researcher, with special interests in race and death sentencing, psychiatric issues in death penalty cases, and erroneous convictions in homicide cases. His books include In Spite of Innocence (Northeastern University Press 2nd ed. 2003); Executing the Mentally Ill (Sage Publications 1993); and Facing the Death Penalty (Temple University Press, 1989). Most recently, he served as an editor for Judicature (Summer 2002) for a special issue on miscarriages of justice, and as a special consultant for Governor George Ryan of Illinois and his Commission to Study the Death Penalty (2000-2002). A study prepared in that capacity, "Race, Region, and Death Sentencing In Illinois" was published in 2002 in Oregon Law Review.
AMY CONEY BARRETT, Stare Decisis and Due Process. Amy Barrett is an Assistant Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where she teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence. A graduate of Rhodes College (B.A. 1994) and Notre Dame Law School (J.D. 1997), Professor Barrett's research interests include issues related to civil procedure and the federal courts. Before joining the faculty of Notre Dame, Professor Barrett clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. She also worked in the litigation department of a Washington, D.C. law firm and spent a year at George Washington Law School as an Olin Fellow in Law.
ROBERT H. MNOOKIN, When Not to Negotiate: A Negotiation Imperialist Reflects on Appropriate Limits. Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. Professor Mnookin has written or edited nine books and numerous scholarly articles. His most recent books are the award-winning Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (with Scott Peppet and Andrew Tulumello) (2000) and Negotiating on Behalf of Others (co-edited with Professor Lawrence Susskind) (Sage 1999), and exploration of the role of agents in negotiation. Professor Mnookin also won awards for co-editing Barriers To Conflict Resolution (1995) and for Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody (1992), which he co-authored with Eleanor Maccoby. A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin helped to resolve such complex negotiations as the landmark dispute over operating system software between IBM and Fujitsu and the "salary cap" dispute between the National Basketball Association and its Player's union. Professor Mnookin has also successfully mediated many complex commercial disputes. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Professor Mnookin was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation, and interdisciplinary group concerned with overcoming barriers to the negotiated resolution of conflict. Professor Mnookin received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1964 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He later served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan.