University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 77 Issue 4, Fall 2006
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
EMILY M. CALHOUN,
Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons from Hogwarts. Now
Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law, Professor
Calhoun is an alumna of the University of Texas School of Law, where she
was on the editorial board of the Texas Law Review. Before entering
academia at the University of Georgia School of Law, she was a staff attorney
for the Southern Regional Office of the ACLU in Atlanta, Georgia, where
she worked on voting rights, jury discrimination, and prisoner's rights
lawsuits throughout the southeastern United States. Professor Calhoun's
experience in academia is broad, including a two-year term as Chair of
the University of Colorado's Faculty Council, as three-year appointment
as an Associate Vice President with responsibility for faculty affairs,
and a recent appointment as one of two Privilege and Tenure Committee
mediators for faculty-administration grievances. Her research and writing
are concentrated in the area of constitutional rights litigation.
LARRY ALEXANDER,
Academic Freedom. A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law
School, Professor Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
at the University of San Diego School of Law. He teaches and writes in
the areas of constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence, and
serves as an Executive Director of the University of San Diego's Institute
for Law and Philosophy. Professor Alexander has authored or co-authored
over 150 scholarly articles and several books including: Rules and
the Rule of Law (2001), Is There a Right of Freedom of Expression?
(2005), and, forthcoming, The Demystification of Legal Reasoning
(Cambridge University Press). He sits on the editorial boards of the journals
of Ethics and Law & Philosophy, and is co-editor
of the international Legal Theory.
PAUL CAMPOS, Three
Versions of Nonsense. Professor Campos is Professor of Law
at the University of Colorado School of Law.He earned his A.B., M.A.,
and J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. His graduate studies
in English literature provided him with rigorous training in literary
theory that has been helpful to his current work in constitutional interpretation.
He has written several well-regarded law review articles in this area,
including Against Constitutional Theory, 4 YALE
J. L. & HUMAN. 279 (1992), and Advocacy
in Scholarship, 81 CAL. L. REV.
817 (1993). Professor Campos also writes a syndicated weekly column for
the Scripps Howard News Service, through which his provocative take on
a wide range of topics is made known to the population at large. His most
recent book, The Diet Myth: Why America 's Obsession with Weight Is
Hazardous to Your Health (2005), best exemplifies Professor Campos'
unique world view.
FREDERICK SCHAUER,
Is There a Right to Academic Freedom? Professor Schauer is the
Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University. Formerly Professor of Law
at the University of Michigan and the Daniel R. Fischel and Sylvia M.
Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago,
Professor Schauer is the author of The Law of Obscenity (1975),
Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), Playing By The
Rules: A Philosophical Examination Of Rule-Based Decision-Making In Law
And In Life (1991), and Profiles, Probabilities, And Stereotypes
(2003). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recent
holder of a Geggenheim Fellowship, his most recent work on the First Amendment
includes: The Boundaries of the First Amendment: A Preliminary Exploration
of Constitutional Salience, 117 HARV. L. REV.
1765 (2004), and Towards an Institutional First Amendment, 89
MINN. L. REV. 1256 (2005).
J. PETER BYRNE,
Constitutional Academic Freedom After Grutter: Getting Real
About the "Four Freedoms" of a University. Professor Byrne
is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He graduated
from Northwestern University and from the University of Virginia School
of Law. After law school, Professor Byrne was a law clerk to Chief Judge
Frank Coffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for
Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the U. S. Supreme Court. He
taught at Georgetown since 1985 and served as Associate Dean for Georgetown's
J.D. program from 1997 until 2000. Professor Byrne has written several
articles advancing a distinctive theory of constitutional academic freedom
and student free speech. Currently, he is writing a book on historic preservation
law. Recently, he co-authored an amicus brief for the National League
of Cities in Kelo v. New London, 542 U.S. 965 (2005) (No. 04-108),
available at 2005 WK 166931.
ALAN K. CHEN, Bureaucracy
and Distrust: Germaneness and the Paradoxes of the Academic Freedom Doctrine.
Prior to becoming Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College
of Law, Professor Chen supervised and conducted civil rights and civil
liberties litigation for the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU in Chicago,
IL. Deeply committed to public interest work, Professor Chen is an active
pro bono litigation attorney. His most recent case, Lane v. Owens,
No. 03-B-1544 (D. Colo. filed Aug. 12, 2003), is a First Amendment,
civil rights action on behalf of public school students in Colorado challenging
Colorado's mandatory law requiring daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
in all public schools. Professor Chen has written several scholarly articles
and is working on a book entitled Law, Lawyering, and Social Change.
Professor Chen was named Professor of the Year, 1998-99, by the University
of Denver's law students, who based their selection on excellence in teaching.
ROBERT M. O'NEIL,
Bias, "Balance", and Beyond: New Threats to Academic
Freedom. After serving as President of the University of Virginia
from 1985 to 1990, Professor O'Neil became the Founding Director of the
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville,
Virginia. The Center is affiliated with the University of Virginia, where
Professor O'Neil teaches law school courses in the First Amendment field.
Before going to Virginia, Professor O'Neil amassed two decades of administrative
service, including a term as Vice President of Indiana University-Bloomington
and a term as President of the University of Wisconsin. He is a Director
of the National Coalition Against Censorship, chairs a special committee
for the American Association of University Professors on Academic Freedom
and National Security in Time of Crisis, and serves on the national Academy
of Sciences Committee on Privacy in the Information Age. Professor O'Neil
is the author of many law review articles and several books, most recently
The First Amendment and Civil Liability (2001).
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