University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 78 Issue 1, Winter 2007
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
David H. Getches, Professor Homer Clark: “Just Do It!” David H. Getches is the Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. During his academic career, Dean Getches has become a national authority on natural resources and Indian law issues. He has authored numerous casebooks, books, book chapters, and articles, including some written in Spanish and French. His current research focuses on the United States Supreme Court’s Indian law decision-making, changing patterns of governance in water law, and indigenous and water law issues in Latin America. A graduate of Occidental College and the University of Southern California Law School, Dean Getches founded the Native American Rights Fund, in Boulder, Colorado, was the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and served as Special Consultant to the Secretary of the Interior.
James Boyd White, Homer Clark:Colleague and Friend. James Boyd White is the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law, an Associate Professor of English, and an Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Amherst College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Graduate School, where he obtained an M.A. in English, Professor White began his legal teaching career at the University of Colorado. He has published numerous books on a variety of legal topics. His most recent work is about free speech and includes the book Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force (Princeton University Press 2006).
Carol S. Bruch, An Appreciation of Homer Clark: Towering Presence; Modest Man. Carol S. Bruch is a Distinguished Professor Emerita and a Research Professor in King Hall at the University of California, Davis School of Law. For five years, Professor Bruch chaired the school’s doctoral program in human development. Her scholarship in the field of family law has shaped legislation in several states affecting child support standards, marital property, and custody and visitation rights. Her current research concerns international child abduction by family members. Professor Bruch earned her B.A. from Shimer College in Waukegan, Illinois, and her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a United States Supreme Court law clerk to the Honorable William O. Douglas, the fourth woman in history to clerk at the Court.
James E. Scarboro, Homer Clark’s Third Way. James E. Scarboro is a Senior Partner at the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Scarboro is the office’s senior litigator and maintains a broad civil litigation practice that includes product liability, contracts, real estate, corporate governance, commercial issues, zoning, securities, antitrust, and constitutional issues. Two Colorado Lawyers Committee Task Forces were founded by Mr. Scarboro, one for the Colorado Innocence Project and the other for Sentencing Reform. He is a graduate of Colorado College and the University of Colorado School of Law, where he was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the University of Colorado Law Review. In 2000, the University of Colorado School of Law awarded Mr. Scarboro the William Lee Knous Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sanford N. Katz, Homer H. Clark, Jr., as Scholar. Sanford N. Katz is the inaugural holder of the Darald and Juliet Libby Millennium Professorship at Boston College Law School where he teaches Family Law and Contracts. Professor Katz is a regular lecturer at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges where he teaches seminars on family law. He is the author, co-author, or editor of over forty publications and was the legal consultant to Houghton Mifflin on legal words for the fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (2000). Professor Katz holds a B.A. from Boston University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law school, he clerked for a federal judge in Washington, D.C.
Ann Laquer Estin, Fifty Years Later: Homer Clark and the Law of Domestic Relations. Ann Laquer Estin is a Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She has written several articles and book chapters on a range of family law topics including divorce, parental and children’s rights, and cohabitation. Most recently, she co-authored Global Issues in Family Law (forthcoming Thompson/West 2007) and edited The Multi-Cultural Family (Ashgate Publishing 2007). She is also co-author of the sixth and seventh editions of Homer Clark’s Cases and Materials on Domestic Relations (7th ed., Thompson/West 2005; 6th ed., West Group 2000). Professor Estin is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Dartmouth College.
The Hon. Stephen G. Breyer, Remarks at the Dedication of the Wolf Law Building at the University of Colorado Law School, September 8, 2006. The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, and was a professor for many years at Harvard Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Justice Breyer clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, worked in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor during Watergate, and was Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, Justice Breyer was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, becoming Chief Judge in 1990. In 1994, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton.
Alfred L. Brophy, The Emerging Importance of Law Review Rankings for Law School Rankings, 2003-2007. Alfred L. Brophy is a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama and Book Reviews Editor of Law and History Review. He is the author of Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 (Oxford University Press 2002) and Reparations Pro and Con (Oxford University Press 2006). He is currently working on a study of antebellum jurisprudence tentatively titled, “University, Court, and Slave.” He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review, and a Ph.D from Harvard University, where he held a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship.
Lorenzo A. Trujillo, The Relationship of the Bar Exam and Law School: A Look at Assessment and Student Success. Lorenzo A. Trujillo is the Assistant Dean for Students and Professional Programs, and the Professor Attendant Rank at the University of Colorado School of Law. Dean Trujillo’s areas of expertise are in education law, juvenile law, and immigration law. He has authored or co-authored several practitioner’s guides including one on attendance and truancy procedures and another on immigration proceedings. Dean Trujillo is General Counsel for the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association and is a member of the 17th Judicial District Nominating Commission. He holds a B.A., an M.A., and a J.D. from the University of Colorado, as well as an Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco.
Kenneth D. Chestek, MacCrate (In)Action: The Case for Enhancing the Upper-Level Writing Requirement in Law Schools. Kenneth D. Chestek is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University and teaches the areas of legal writing and research, professional responsibility, and legal process. Professor Chestek is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. He is the principal author of two books on the specialized use of WordPerfect in law offices. He has also written articles on the “moot case” approach to legal education.
Mark W. Pletcher, In Restraint of Trade: The Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Plan. Mark W. Pletcher is an Honors Program Trial Attorney for the National Criminal Enforcement Section in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Pletcher’s practice consists of all aspects of enforcing criminal antitrust and fraud laws, including prosecuting international price-fixing cartels and spearheading multinational investigations. After receiving his B.A. in Chemistry and Political Science from Swarthmore College, Mr. Pletcher attended the University of Michigan where he earned both an M.S. in Organic Chemistry and a J.D.
Ludovic C. Ghesquiere, In Restraint of Trade: The Judicial Law Clerk Hiring Plan. Ludovic C. Ghesquiere is a litigation associate at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Paul, Weiss, Mr. Ghesquiere worked for the National Criminal Enforcement Section in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, and before that for the United States Senate Budget Committee. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and the University of Michigan Law School.
Robert J. Rhee, The Effect of Risk on Legal Valuation. Robert J. Rhee is an Associate Professor of Law at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He has published articles in the fields of torts, insurance, capital markets, and bargaining. His work is oft cited. In September 2006, for instance, his article on terrorism risk and insurance was cited in Terrorism Risk Insurance: Report of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, a congressionally mandated joint report of the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, SEC, and CFTC. Professor Rhee is a graduate of the University of Chicago, George Washington University School of Law, and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Richard Nygaard on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and worked as an Honors Program Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice. Professor Rhee was also a vice president of the corporate finance group at Swiss Re in New York.
Glenn C. Smith, Solving the “Initiatory Construction” Puzzle (and Improving Direct Democracy) by Appropriate Refocusing on Sponsor Intent. Glenn C. Smith is a Professor of Law and Chair of the J.D./Ph.D. Dual Degree Program in Political Science at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. He is also a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Smith earned a B.A. from George Washington University in Interdisciplinary Public Affairs, a J.D. from New York University, and an LL.M. from Georgetown. For several years, Professor Smith served as legal counsel to the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee where he advised Senate Democrats about regulatory reform legislation, administrative agency oversight, and the proper constitutional relationship between Congress and the judiciary. He has written about a variety of legal issues, both for scholarly and non-scholarly publications. His areas of expertise include the intersection among the federal legislative, executive, and judicial branches, and the special challenges posed when state voters adopt important public policies through the initiative process.
Chelsy L. Knight, Beyond Agency Authority: Administrative Elimination of Statutory Eligibility for Lawful Permanent Residence. Chelsy L. Knight is a J.D. candidate at the University of Colorado. She attended George Washington University, where she earned her B.A. in Political Communication. As a law student, she has worked as a summer clerk with the Ball Corporation Legal Department, a student clerk at the United States Attorney's Office in Denver, Colorado, and a summer associate with the law firm Cadwalder, Wickersham, and Taft, LLP in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation, Chelsy will work as a litigation associate at Cadwalader.
Jerod Neas, Dura Duress: The Supreme Court Mandates a More Rigorous Pleading and Proof Requirement for Loss Causation Under Rule 10b-5 Class Actions. Jerod Neas is a J.D. candidate from the University of Colorado, where he also earned a B.S. in Business Administration. During law school, he worked as a summer intern with the Securities and Exchange Commission and as a summer associate with the law firm of Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons LLP. He will graduate in May 2007.