University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 80 Issue 3, Spring 2009

About the Contributors

ELI WALD, The Other Legal Profession and the Orthodox View of the Bar: The Rise of Colorado’s Elite Law Firms, holds S.J.D. and L.L.M. degrees from Harvard Law School and L.L.B. and B.A. degrees from Tel-Aviv University.  Prior to joining the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, he was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.  Professor Wald’s academic interests include the American legal profession, legal ethics, and corporate law.  His recent research has examined topics such as the regulation of the corporate bar, increased lawyer mobility, attorney-client communications, and the rise and fall of Jewish and WASP law firms.  Professor Wald, a C.L.E. instructor, legal ethics expert commentator for LexisNexis, and expert witness, is a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct and a member of the Colorado State Bar Association’s Ethics Committee.

JARED A. GOLDSTEIN, Aliens in the Garden, is an Associate Professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, and Constitutional Law.  His current research interests include the common law history of environmental law, the social construction of natural resource protections, and the intersection between individual rights and environmental law.  Professor Goldstein received his B.A. from Vassar College in 1990 and his J.D., summa cum laude, in 1994 from the University of Michigan Law School.  He clerked for the Honorable Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General.  From 1997 to 2001, Professor Goldstein worked for the United States Department of Justice in the Appellate Section of the Environment and Natural Resource Division.  From 2001 to 2005, Professor Goldstein worked as an associate at Shearman & Sterling, LLP, where he helped litigate habeas corpus cases on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

LAURA SPITZ, The Evolving Architecture of North American Integration, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.  Professor Spitz received her S.J.D. from Cornell University, her J.D. from the University of British Columbia, and her B.A. from the University of Toronto.  In addition, she spent a summer at the European University Institute.  Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Spitz clerked for the Honorable Mr. Justice Warren of the British Columbia Supreme Court and practiced corporate and commercial law in the Vancouver office of Miller Thomson, LLP.  A recipient of several fellowships, including a John M. Olin Foundation Fellowship; a British Columbia Law Foundation Graduate Fellowship; a Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Research Grant; and a Cornell Gender, Sexuality, and Family Scholarship; Professor Spitz’s research focuses on the co-constitutive and overlapping relationships among law, national identity, and regional integration in North America.

LINDSAY VANGILDER, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Under People v. Pozo: Advising Non-Citizen Criminal Defendants of Possible Immigration Consequences in Criminal Plea Agreements, received her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, where she was production editor for the University of Colorado Law Review.  She grew up in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, and received her B.A. from the University of Denver, where she graduated summa cum laude with majors in Criminology and Spanish.  During law school, Ms. VanGilder interned for the Honorable Morris B. Hoffman of the Denver District Court, the Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County, and the Denver District Attorney’s Office.  She also received an Equal Justice America Law Student Fellowship to work at Boulder County Legal Services and was a summer associate for Hutchinson Black and Cook, LLC.

MATTHEW M. MORRISON, Class Dismissed: Equal Protection, the “Class-of-One,” and Employment Discrimination After Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School.  He earned his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in History, Science, and Technology.  During law school, he worked as a summer associate at Sherman & Howard, LLC and interned with the Honorable Jolene Blair and the Honorable Terence Gilmore in Colorado’s Eighth Judicial District.  After graduation, Mr. Morrison will join the Labor and Employment group at Sherman & Howard.