University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 80 Issue 2, Spring 2009
About the Contributors
GAVIN CLARKSON (Choctaw), Accredited Indians: Increasing the Flow of Private Equity into Indian Country as a Domestic Emerging Market, is an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Professor Clarkson holds both a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from Rice University, a Ph.D. from the Harvard Business School in Technology and Operations Management, and is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and President of the Native American Law Students Association. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Professor Clarkson has consulted, written, and published extensively on tribal sovereignty, tribal finance, tribal economic development, and tribal asset management, and was also a contributing author for the most recent edition Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, providing material on tribal finance, tribal corporations, economic development, and intellectual property. He has also testified before Congress on issues involving tribal access to the capital markets. Professor Clarkson holds the Series 7, Series 24, and Series 66 Securities licenses from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA, formerly NASD).
SAIRA MOHAMED, A Neglected Option: The Contributions of State Responsibility for Genocide to Transitional Justice, is a James Milligan Fellow at Columbia Law School. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and Attorney-Adviser for Human Rights and Refugees at the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Mohamed received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was Executive Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and recipient of the David Berger Memorial Prize for academic excellence in international law. She also received a master of international affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
PAUL W. HUGHES, Not a Failed Experiment: Wilson-Saucier Sequencing and the Articulation of Constitutional Rights, is a lecturer at John Hopkins University and law clerk to the Honorable Diana Motz, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Senior Editor for the Yale Law Journal, Student Director of the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, member of the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, and recipient of the Joseph A. Chubb Prize and C. LaRue Munson Prize. Mr. Hughes also received an M.A., with distinction, in international law and politics from Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
DAVID HORTON, Flipping the Script: Contra Proferentem and Standard Form Contracts, is a Lecturer in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA Law School in 2004, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review. He has worked as a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster, LLP, a law clerk to the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and an extern to the Honorable Ming W. Chin of the California Supreme Court. Mr. Horton lives in Albany, California with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Eleanor.
KIMBERLY C. PERDUE, The Changing Scope of the United States’ Trust Duties to American Indian Tribes: Navajo Nation v. United States, is a candidate for a Juris Doctor in May 2009 from the University of Colorado Law School. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her M.A. from The University of Chicago. Ms. Perdue has clerked or interned for the Honorable John Stavely of the Boulder County Court, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, and Snell & Wilmer, LLC in Denver, Colorado. After graduation, she will serve as a law clerk for the Honorable Janice Davidson at the Colorado Court of Appeals.
ANDY ROTTMAN, The Rocky Path from Section 601 of the IIRIRA to Issue-Specific Asylum Legislation Protecting the Parents of FGM-Vulnerable Children, is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado Law School. He grew up in Durango, Colorado and received his B.A. from the University of North Texas, where he majored in international studies and minored in both spanish and music. As an undergraduate, Mr. Rottman co-authored an article with Dr. Steven C. Poe and Chris Fariss empirically analyzing the factors affecting asylum determinations in the U.S., which was recently published in International Migration Review. During law school, Mr. Rottman interned at the United States Attorney’s Office and the Colorado Supreme Court. He was a summer associate at the law firm of Hill & Robbins in Denver, working in water law and civil litigation. After graduation, Mr. Rottman will clerk for the Honorable Nancy E. Rice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
SAMUEL S. BACON, Why Waste Water? A Bifurcated Proposal for Managing, Utilizing, and Profiting from Coalbed Methane Discharged Water, is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado Law School. He received his B.A. from the University of Vermont, graduating cum laude with majors in political science and economics and an english minor. During law school, Mr. Bacon worked with the Natural Resource Law Center and Trout Unlimited, focusing on water rights issues. Such policy work spurred his interest and attention to the novel issues surrounding Coalbed Methane development in his home in the Rocky Mountain West, providing the inspiration for this Comment.