University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 77 Issue 1, Winter 2006

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

JESSELYN RADACK, Tortured Legal Ethics: The Role of the Government Advisor in the War on Terrorism. Jesselyn Radack is an Adjunct Professor of professional responsibility at the American University Washington College of Law. She serves on the D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Committee and works with the ABA Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants. Prior to that, she was a legal advisor to the Department of Justice's Professional Responsibility Advisory Office and resigned over ethical misconduct in the case of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh.

DAVID A. ANDERSON, Freedom of the Press in Wartime. David A. Anderson holds the Fred and Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas. He is co-author of a casebook on mass media law and a casebook on torts, former chair of the Mass Communications Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has written extensively on freedom of the press. He is a contributing editor to the Texas Monthly magazine and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Texas Observer. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Texas Law School, and has served as a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the College of William and Mary, Columbia University, Cambridge University, Queen Mary College, University College London, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Melbourne. He has taught courses on defamation and invasion of privacy in England and Australia, and has lectured in Italy and the Netherlands.

CAROLYN B. RAMSEY, Intimate Homicide: Gender and Crime Control, 1880-1920. Carolyn B. Ramsey is an Associate Professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law. She teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, legal history, and gender studies. Professor Ramsey writes from both modern and historical perspectives and is especially interested in bringing insights from archival history research to the study of law. Her recent work, which focuses on the role of social norms and political pressures in the prosecution of homicide cases, has been published in the Hastings Law Journal and the American Criminal Law Review. Professor Ramsey received her B.A. in history at the University of California and then pursued graduate studies in history at Stanford University. In 1998, she earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Court, and the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, then Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

NICKI HERBERT, Appellate Review of a "Strong Basis in Evidence" in Public Contracting Cases. Nicki Herbert is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado School of Law. She was a project manager and consultant in the mortgage technology industry prior to attending law school. As a law student, she has interned with the Honorable Petrese B. Tucker, United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Attorney's Office, District of Colorado. Upon graduation, she will work as an associate with the law firm of Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP, Denver, Colorado.

KARL SCHOCK, Permissive Discrimination and the Decline of Religion Clause Jurisprudence: The Wearing Out of the Joints. Karl Schock is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado School of Law. He attended Northern Arizona University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations. As a law student, he worked as a summer associate in Denver, Colorado, with both Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber and Arnold & Porter. He also clerked for Caplan & Earnest in Boulder, Colorado. Upon graduation, he will serve as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Michael R. Murphy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Salt Lake City before joining Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber as a litigation associate.

DRURY STEVENSON, Book Review of Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language in the Justice System, by John Gibbons. Drury Stevenson received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and his LL.M. from the Yale Law School. He has worked as a legal aid lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut, and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Environmental Division. He now teaches at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas, specializing in Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, and Law & Economics. He has published several law review articles and book reviews, including publications in the Yale Law & Policy Review and the Cornell International Law Journal.