University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 80 Issue 1, Winter 2009
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Todd J. Zywicki, The Law and Economics of Subprime Lending. Todd J. Zywicki is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, and Senior Fellow of the James Buchanan Center, Program on Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught as a Visiting Fellow at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown Law Center, Boston College Law School and Mississippi College School of Law and is a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. He has lectured and consulted with government officials around the world, including Iceland, Italy, Japan, and Guatemala. Professor Zywicki was a Member of the United States Department of Justice Study Group on “Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors in the United States Bankruptcy System.” He is the author of more than 60 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals as well as the forthcoming books, Bankruptcy and Personal Responsibility: Bankruptcy Law and Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Yale University Press, Forthcoming 2008) and Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (with Maxwell Stearns) (West Publishing, Forthcoming 2009). Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird LLP. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki received an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with high honors from Dartmouth College.
Joseph D. Adamson, The Law and Economics of Subprime Lending. Joseph D. Adamson is a J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Adamson earned his A.B. in Economics cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis. He is an associate editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Prior to law school, he was a research associate at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Richard A. Bales, Federal Question Jurisdiction and the Federal Arbitration Act. Richard A. Bales teaches Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and ADR in the Workplace, and coaches the Chase Arbitration Team. He has authored twenty scholarly articles, co-authored another thirty with Chase students, and helped sixteen Chase students publish scholarly articles on their own. Professor Bales has published three books. His first, on employment arbitration, was published in 1997 by Cornell University Press. His second, ADR in the Workplace (co-authored with Laura Cooper and Dennis Nolan), was published in 2000 by West (with a second edition in 2005). His third, Understanding Employment Law (co-authored with Paul Secunda and Jeff Hirsch), was published in 2007 by LexisNexis. His scholarly interest focuses on the intersection of employment law and alternative dispute resolution. Before coming to Chase, Professor Bales taught at the University of Montana Law School, Southern Methodist University Law School, and University of Houston Law School. Prior to that, he litigated employment cases for Baker & Botts LLP and Baker & Hostetler LLP. He received his law degree from Cornell Law School in 1993.
Jamie L. Ireland, Federal Question Jurisdiction and the Federal Arbitration Act. Jamie L. Ireland received her B.A. in Spanish & International Economics from the University of Kentucky (2004), and her J.D. from Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law (2008). Jamie will be working for the National Labor Relations Board in its Cincinnati, Ohio office. A Seattle native, she enjoys running, playing the piano, and traveling.
Amy B. Monahan, Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits. Amy B. Monahan teaches and writes in the areas of federal taxation and employee benefits law. Her current research interests include employer-provided health care, health insurance regulation, and retirement plans. She has previously taught at Notre Dame Law School, and is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. Professor Monahan currently serves as the Chair of the American Association of Law School’s Section on Employee Benefits. Professor Monahan received her B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in International Studies, with university and departmental honors. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where she was the Managing Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. Following law school, she practiced with Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago.
Elias Leake Quinn, The Solitary Attempt: International Trade Law and the Insulation of Domestic Greenhouse Gas Trading Schemes from Foreign Emissions Credit Markets. Elias Leake Quinn is a research analyst at the Center for Energy and Environmental Security at the University of Colorado Law School where he is also an Associate Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review. His research interests include climate change and corporate governance, modeling change and the diffusion of innovations, and driving the distribution of appropriate energy technologies to the world’s energy poor. His most recent work involves tracking the disclosure of climate change related risks in SEC filings, the early results for which were presented in an invited talk at a symposium hosted by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in November 2008.
Sean Ratliff, Independent Investigations: An Inequitable Out for Employers in Cat’s Paw Cases. Sean Ratliff earned his B.A., summa cum laude, in Comparative Religion and Sociology from Western Michigan University in 1998. He earned teaching credentials from Northern Arizona University in 2002 and, for four years, taught high school Social Studies in Jefferson County, Colorado. Sean is currently a third-year law student at the University of Colorado Law School where he is an Associate Editor of the University of Colorado Law Review. During law school, he has served as a law clerk for the Colorado Education Association and the National Labor Relations Board. He hopes to continue working in the areas of labor and employment law after graduating in May 2009.