University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 76 Issue 3, Summer 2005
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
RONALD J. KROTOSZYNSKI, JR., Navigating Dangerous Constitutional Straits: A Prolegomenon on the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Disenfranchisement of Sexual Minorities. Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., is Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, where he has taught full time since 2000. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University in 1987. While at Emory, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. In 1991, Professor Krotoszynski received his J.D. and LL.M. from the Duke University School of Law. While at Duke, he served on the Duke Law Journal as an Articles Editor and Administrative Law Symposium Editor. Professor Krotoszynski graduated with high honors and was selected for membership in the Order of the Coif. He then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. From 1992 to 1995, he worked as an Associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. In 1995, Krotoszynski began his teaching career at the Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis as an Assistant Professor of Law; in 1999, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Law with tenure. In 2000, Professor Krotoszynski joined the Washington and Lee faculty as an Associate Professor; he was promoted to full Professor of Law in 2002. Based on his scholarly achievements, he was designated the Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow in 2001-02 and again in 2002-03. He has been a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Washington School of Law and, more recently, at the Seattle University School of Law. He taught as a Visiting Professor at the William and Mary School of Law and the Washington and Lee School of Law. Krotoszynski is the author of a forthcoming book from New York University Press, the co-author of a casebook in administrative law, and the author of numerous law review articles and essays. His works have appeared in leading national law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, and Texas Law Review.
E. GARY SPITKO, Navigating Dangerous Constitutional Straits: A Prolegomenon on the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Disenfranchisement of Sexual Minorities. E. Gary Spitko is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. He earned his A.B., with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University and his J.D., with high honors, from the Duke University School of Law, where he was elected Order of the Coif. While at Duke, he served as an editor of the Duke Law Journal and as Executive Editor of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum. Following law school, Professor Spitko clerked for the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat, who was then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He then practiced law for several years as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1997, Professor Spitko joined the faculty at the Indiana University School of Law. He then joined the faculty at the Santa Clara University School of Law in 2002. Professor Spitko also has taught as a visiting professor at Ohio State University College of Law. Professor Spitko has published extensively in the areas of family law, inheritance law, dispute resolution, and law and sexuality. His recent works have appeared in the Washington University Law Quarterly, Washington & Lee Law Review, Georgia Law Review, and Arizona Law Review. He teaches courses in family law, adoption and assisted reproduction, wills and trusts, and dispute resolution.
PETER K. YU , P2P and the Future of Private Copying . Peter K. Yu is Associate Professor of Law and the founding director of the Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University College of Law. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences as MSU and sits on the advisory committee of the MSU CyberSecurity Initiative. He is also a member of the affiliated faculty of the Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism ("PCSE") at Syracuse University College of Law and a research fellow of the Intellectual Property Research Center of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu writes extensively and lectures frequently on intellectual property, communications law, international trade, human rights, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong.
SUJA A. THOMAS, Judicial Modesty and the Jury. Suja A. Thomas is Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She received her B.A. in mathematics from Northwestern University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the New York University Law Review. While at NYU, she received the Mendes Hershman Prize for excellence in writing in the field of property law; the William Miller Memorial Award for outstanding scholarship in the field of municipal law; and the Leonard M. Henkin Prize for her note on the equal rights portion of the Fourteenth Amendment. After graduation, Professor Thomas clerked for the Honorable John F. Grady of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked in the litigation departments of several law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard; and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P. Part of her practice included representing athletes accused of doping violations. At the University of Cincinnati College of Law, she teaches courses in evidence, employment discrimination, judicial decision-making and the role of the jury, and sports and the law. In 2003 she was awarded the Goldman Prize for teaching excellence