University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 82 Issue 1, Winter 2011
About the contributors
John Tehranian, Parchment, Pixels, & Personhood: User Rights and the IP (Identity Politics) of IP (Intellectual Property), is Professor of Law and Director of the Entertainment Law Center at Chapman University, School of Law. He has previously served as Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, and as Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola Law School. Professor Tehranian received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities and a senior editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He has published numerous articles on the interface between law and culture, with a particular focus on issues of intellectual property, entertainment, civil rights, and race. He is also the author of the book Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority (New York University Press, 2008), an analysis of the social and legal construction of race, and the forthcoming book Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You (Oxford University Press, 2011), an examination of copyright law in the digital age. A frequent commentator on legal issues for the broadcast and print media, he is also an experienced entertainment and intellectual property litigator, having represented prominent Hollywood, publishing, new media and technology clients at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and One LLP.
Darwin P. Roberts, The Legal History of Federally Granted Railroad Rights-of-Way and the Myth of Congress’s “1871 Shift,” is an Assistant United States Attorney in Seattle. He is currently assigned to the Criminal Division, where he prosecutes a variety of federal crimes. He has also worked in the Civil Division and has litigated cases ranging from asset forfeiture to tort claims. He attended the University of Chicago (B.A., History, with honors) and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Staff Member of the University of Chicago Law Review. He was also a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robert H. Henry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and a litigation associate with Heller Ehrman LLP.
Kristin N. Johnson, Things Fall Apart: Regulating the Credit Default Swap Commons, is an Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School who specializes in the area of corporations law. Prior to joining Seton Hall Law School in 2008, Professor Johnson was Assistant General Counsel and Vice President at JPMorgan and a corporate associate at Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett LLP in New York. Practicing law followed her development of an interest in finance. Prior to law school Professor Johnson worked as an analyst for Goldman Sachs & Co. She received her B.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University. She received her J.D., from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as Notes Editor of the Michigan Law Review. Following graduation, Professor Johnson served as a Bates International Research Fellow and clerked for the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Anna-Liisa Mullis, Dismantling the Trojan Horse: Mesa County Board of County Commissioners v. State, is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Colorado Law School and an Articles Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. She received her B.S. from the University of Colorado, where she graduated with distinction with a degree in Media Studies. Ms. Mullis first became interested in TABOR when her mother was elected to the Colorado Springs City Council.
Eric Robertson, A Fundamental Right to Read: Reader Privacy Protections in the U.S. Constitution, is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Colorado Law School and a Casenote and Comment Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. He received his B.S. from Boston University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Film. Prior to law school, Mr. Robertson worked for the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colorado, where he first grew interested in readers’ privacy rights.
Jeff Van der Veer, Varying Declarations of Interdependence: The Tenth Circuit’s Inconsistent Analysis of Criminal Conspiracy, is a Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Colorado Law School and an Associate Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. He grew up in the great state of Rhode Island and received his Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University, where he majored in English and Quantitative Economics. Before coming to law school, Mr. Van der Veer worked for a law firm in Washington, DC, for another law firm in New York City, and for The Washington Monthly—a political magazine. During law school, he interned at the United States Attorneys’ Office in Denver and also clerked for Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP, a local Boulder law firm.