University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 81 Issue 1, Winter 2010
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ERIN RYAN, Federalism at the Cathedral: Property Rules,
Liability Rules, and Inalienability Rules in Tenth Amendment
Infrastructure. Erin Ryan is an Associate Professor of Law at
the William & Mary School of Law where she teaches property,
natural resources law, and negotiation. She is a graduate of
Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Hewlett Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation
Research Project. After graduating from law school, she
clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at
William & Mary, she practiced environmental, land use, and
local government law in San Francisco and taught at the University
of California, Hastings College of the Law. Prior to law
school, she served as a U.S. Forest Service ranger at the Mono
Basin National Forest Scenic Area, east of Yosemite National
Park. She received a Masters degree in Ethnomusicology from
Wesleyan University and undergraduate degree in East Asian
Languages and Civilizations from Harvard-Radcliffe College.
Professor Ryan publishes on topics in environmental and natural
resources law, property and land use law, negotiation
theory, and federalism. Her forthcoming book, Federalism and
the Tug of War Within, will be published by Oxford University
Press in 2011.
BETH A. BURKSTRAND-REID, The Invisible Woman: Availability
and Culpability in Reproductive Health Jurisprudence.
Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid is a Visiting Assistant Professor at
the University of Illinois College of Law. Her primary research
interests include family law and reproductive health. She received
her J.D. summa cum laude from the American University
Washington College of Law, where she later taught as adjunct
law professor, and her B.A. from Emory University. Prior
to entering academia, Professor Burkstrand-Reid was an associate
with Crowell & Moring LLP, where she handled litigation
and regulatory matters and maintained an active pro bono
family law and sex-equity practice; a fellow in the Women's
Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, during which time
she focused on reproductive rights issues; and a pro se law
clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia. Professor Burkstrand-Reid is also a former print
journalist whose writing has appeared in several national
newspapers.
LESLIE SALZMAN, Rethinking Guardianship (Again): Substituted
Decision Making as a Violation of the Integration
Mandate of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Leslie Salzman, Clinical Professor of Law, has taught for the
past nineteen years at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law’s Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a civil litigation clinical program
representing low-income individuals who are elderly or
have disabilities. During this time, she has been involved in
individual and class action litigation involving rights to benefits
under the Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare programs,
including Rodriguez v. City of New York, 197 F.3d 611
(2d Cir. 1999). Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, she was an
attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, where
she specialized in litigation concerning the rights of individuals
with physical and mental disabilities, and worked for several
years as a staff attorney at South Brooklyn Legal Services. After
graduating from New York University School of Law, she
served as pro se law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit.
DOUGLAS O. EDWARDS, An Unfortunate “Tail”: Reconsidering
Risk Management Incentives After the Financial Crisis of
2007–2009. Douglas O. Edwards is a Juris Doctor candidate at
the University of Colorado Law School and Lead Articles Editor
of the University of Colorado Law Review. He earned a B.S. in
Economics with specialization in Quantitative Methods from
Louisiana State University in 2004. Prior to attending the
University of Colorado Law School, he earned a Master of
Business Administration from Saint Louis University in 2008.
During law school, Mr. Edwards interned for the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and the Honorable
Allison H. Eid of the Colorado Supreme Court. After graduation,
Mr. Edwards will serve as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable
Nathan B. Coats of the Colorado Supreme Court. Mr.
Edwards would like to especially thank Karl S. Okamoto and
Roger J. Dennis for kindly providing him the opportunity to
present An Unfortunate “Tail” to the students and faculty that
participated in the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University’s
Seminar on the Financial Crisis.
MICHELE K. MULHAUSEN, A Second Chance at Justice: Why States Should Adopt ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
3.8(g) and (h). Michele K. Mulhausen will receive her Juris
Doctor from the University of Colorado School of Law, where
she is a Production Editor for the University of Colorado Law
Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania
State University, where she graduated with Highest Distinction
with a degree in advertising and public relations and minors
in business and international studies. During law school,
Ms. Mulhausen served as an intern with the United States
Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the United
States Department of Health and Human Services, Office for
Civil Rights.