University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 79 Issue 2, Spring 2008
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Robert M. Bloom, Accounting for Federalism in State Courts: Exclusion of Evidence Obtained Lawfully by Federal Agents, with Hillary Massey. Professor Bloom is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, where he has taught Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and clinical courses for over thirty years. He has also taught at Boston University Law School and the Temple University Beasley School of Law’s program in Rome, Italy. Professor Bloom has lectured on the American Jury System in Italy, Japan, and Tomsk, Russia. He was a civil rights attorney in Savannah, Georgia and a criminal attorney, both as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. He has written extensively in the area of criminal procedure, focusing on police abuses and the Fourth Amendment. His recent publications include CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE POLICE (5th ed. 2007) (with Mark S. Brodin); The Story of Pottawatomie County v. Lindsay Earls: Drug Testing in the Public Schools, in EDUCATION LAW STORIES (2007); The Constitutional Infirmity of Warrantless NSA Surveillance: The Abuse of Presidential Power and the Injury to the Fourth Amendment, 15 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 147 (2006) (with William Dunn); and Jury Trials In Japan, 28 LOY. L.A. INT'L& COMP. L. REV. 35 (2006).
Hillary Massey, Accounting for Federalism in State Courts: Exclusion of Evidence Obtained Lawfully by Federal Agents. Ms. Massey graduated from Boston College Law School in 2007. She is clerking for Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for the 2007–2008 term. During law school, Ms. Massey participated in the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Clinic and the Prosecution Clinic. She served as Articles Editor for the Boston College Law Review, in which her student note, Disposing of Children: The Eighth Amendment and Juvenile Life Without Parole after Roper, 47 B.C. L. REV. 1083 (2006), was published. Prior to law school, Hillary volunteered with the Peace Corps in Zambia, served as a medic in the Army Reserve, and worked in public health. She graduated from Tufts University in 1998.
Salil K. Mehra, The iPod Tax: Why the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors' Dreams Failed in Japan. Professor Mehra is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He earned his A.B. from Harvard University, his M.A. in Asian Studies (with a focus on Japan) from the University of California, Berkeley, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After graduating from law school, Professor Mehra clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He practiced law in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and with a law firm in New York. As a law professor, he teaches in the areas of antitrust, contracts, corporations, Japanese law and Asian legal systems. Professor Mehra is the 2008 chair of the American Association of Law Schools' section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation. His current comparative law research involves antitrust, intellectual property, and cyberlaw. His other publications can be found in the Tulane Law Review, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Rutgers Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the University of Chicago Law Review, and (previously) the University of Colorado Law Review.
Katherine J. Strandburg, Users as Innovators: Implications for Patent Doctrine. Professor Strandburg is an Associate Professor at DePaul University College of Law, where she teaches patent law, cyberlaw, trademark and copyright law, and information privacy law. She has recently visited at New York University School of Law (2007–08) and the University of Illinois College of Law (2005). Her research interests are in patent law; science and technology policy; law and network science; social norm theory; and information privacy law. She has co-authored three law professor amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on patent issues, including briefs at the cert petition and merits stages of the KSR v. Teleflex case. Professor Strandburg obtained her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1995 and served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to her legal career, Professor Strandburg was a research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, having received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and conducting postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon. She was a visiting faculty member of the physics department at Northwestern University from 1990–1992.
Angela K. Upchurch, Can Granny Have a New Home? Resolving the Dilemma of Dementia and Domicile in Federal Diversity Jurisdiction Cases. Professor Upchurch is an Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. She teaches in the area of Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution, and Children and Family Law. Professor Upchurch was appointed as the Academic Director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy in 2007. Professor Upchurch graduated first in her class at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a Loyola ChildLaw Fellow, editor-in-chief of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and recipient of the Loyola University Chicago Presidential Medallion. She is the author of A Postmodern Deconstruction of Frozen Embryo Disputes, 39 CONN. L. REV. 2107 (2007); The Deep Freeze: A Critical Examination of the Resolution of Frozen Embryo Disputes Through the Adversarial Process, 33 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 395 (2005); and Right to Recovery for Infringement Under 42 U.S.C. §1983: Is the Impact to the Parent-Child Relationship the Proper Focus for the Court?, 20 CHILD. LEGAL RTS. J. 2 (2000). She is a contributing author of the book ABA CENTER ON CHILDREN AND THE LAW, A JUDGE'S GUIDE: MAKING CHILD-CENTERED DECISIONS IN CUSTODY CASES (2001).
Jessica Broderick, Reverse 404(B) Evidence: Exploring Standards When Defendants Want to Introduce Other Bad Acts of Third Parties. Ms. Broderick is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Colorado Law School. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English with great honors from the University of Northern Colorado. During law school, she served as a Production Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review and worked as a law clerk for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and for Sherman & Howard LLC in Denver. After graduation, Ms. Broderick will join the Private Client group at Sherman & Howard.
Mark D. Evans, An End to Federal Funding of For-Profit Charter Schools? Mr. Evans is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Colorado Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. He earned his B.A. in Environmental Science at Northwestern University, graduating cum laude. Following his undergraduate education, Mr. Evans served as an officer in the United States Navy. During law school he worked as a summer associate at Caplan and Earnest LLC and interned at the State of Alaska’s Office of Administrative Hearings. After graduation Mr. Evans will serve as a clerk to the Honorable James S. Casebolt of the Colorado Court of Appeals.