University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 78 Issue 4, Fall 2007
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Richard B. Collins, The Colorado Constitution in the New Century. Richard Collins is Professor of Law and Director of the Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado. He teaches courses in constitutional law, property, Colorado government, law and religion, and American Indian law. He has co-authored The Colorado State Constitution (2002), Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005 & 1982 editions), and A People Without Law, 5 Indigenous L.J. 83 (2006). He has also authored Western Justice, 112 Yale L.J. 975 (2003), Sacred Sites and Religious Freedom on Government Land, 5 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 241 (2003), and How Democratic are Initiatives?, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 983 (2001).
Sherman J. Clark, Ennobling Direct Democracy. Sherman Clark is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a graduate of Towson University and the Harvard Law School. He practiced in Washington, D.C. with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. At the University of Michigan, he teaches courses in torts, evidence, and sports law. His publications include A Populist Critique of Direct Democracy, 112 Harv. L. Rev. 434 (1998), reprinted in Constitutional Theory (2005) and The Character of Direct Democracy, 13 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 341 (2004). His current research examines the ways in which legal rules and institutions can serve to construct and articulate community identity and public character.
Daniel A. Smith, The Educative Effects of Direct Democracy: A Research Primer for Legal Scholars and Representation and the Spatial Bias of Direct Democracy. Daniel A. Smith, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation (BISCF), a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Board of Scholars with the Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the co-author (with Caroline J. Tolbert ) of Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States (2004), and he is the author of Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy (1998).
Caroline J. Tolbert, The Educative Effects of Direct Democracy: A Research Primer for Legal Scholars. Caroline Tolbert is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. Tolbert received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1996. She is the co-General Program Chair for the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting and a member of the Board of Scholars of the Initiative and Referendum Institute of the University of Southern California. She is the co-author of Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States (2004) (with Daniel A. Smith) and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (2003).
John Gastil, When Good Voters Make Bad Policies: Assessing and Improving the Deliberative Quality of Initiative Elections. John Gastil is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He has conducted survey research for the University of New Mexico Institute for Public Policy, convened citizen conferences, and managed political campaigns. Gastil is the author of Democracy in Small Groups (1993) and By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections (2000). He is also the principal author of the Election Day computer simulation game.
Kevin O’Leary, The Citizen Assembly: An Alternative to the Initiative. Kevin O’Leary is a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and earned his doctorate in political science at Yale University. A political scientist and journalist, he is the author of the book, Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America (2006), and has written for the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, and Campaigns & Elections.
Michaele L. Ferguson, Initiatives, Referenda, and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion: A Reply to John Gastil and Kevin O’Leary. Michaele Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the co-editor with Lori Marso of W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (2007), and her work in democratic and feminist theory has appeared in Politics & Gender and Hypatia. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Sharing Democracy.
Congressman Mark Udall, Remarks at The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock Conference at the University of Colorado Law School, March 16–17, 2007. Congressman Udall is serving his fifth term representing Colorado’s Second Congressional District. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Science and Technology, and the House Natural Resources Committee. He serves as Chairman on the Committee on Science Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee. He is also the co-chair of the House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus and is recognized as a national leader in promoting a balanced national energy plan.
Ruth Gordon, Climate Change and the Poorest Nations: Further Reflections on Global Inequality. Professor Gordon is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University School of Law and New York University School of Arts and Sciences. She has taught a variety of International Law courses at Villanova University School of Law since 1990, and in 1994, she was the first recipient of the Riesenfeld Fellowship in Public International Law at the University of California at Berkeley. Before beginning her teaching career, she was a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane, an attorney at the renowned Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and an assistant to former Ambassador Robert Van Lierop, whom she assisted in his role as the Ambassador for Vanuatu at the United Nations.
Rebecca Tsosie, Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change. Rebecca Tsosie is a Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, and Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. She teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory. She has written extensively in the areas of tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights, cultural resources, and cultural pluralism. She is the co-author of a federal Indian law casebook entitled, American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (2007). She has also worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations and serves as a Supreme Court justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.