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This is a listing of Wayne Morse Past Resident Scholars.
Resident Scholar Bios
Garrett Epps (2007-08)
Garrett
Epps was the 2007-08 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar and Orlando
John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law, at the University of
Oregon. He researched the legislative history of the birthright citizenship
guarantee of the 14th Amendment, a crucial issue in light of debates
over increased immigration. The research follows Garrett's intriguing
research that led to his recent book, Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth
Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America,
that won him a 2007 Oregon Book Award. His project is potentially
foundational work with important implications for law and policy.
Epps organized and spoke at a symposium entitled, Immigration and Citizenship on January 25, 2008. Invited guests were Kevin R. Johnson from UC-Davis School of Law, Hiroshi Motomura from UNC School of Law and Dr. John Eastman currently Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law at Chapman University School of Law.
Professor Epps publishes articles regularly in popular media:
Free Speech for the Rich and Powerful Salon.com, July 9, 2007
A closer look at the 14th Amendment Oregon Daily Emerald, August 20, 2007
Resegregation The Oregonian, September 23, 2007
The Voter ID Fraud The Nation, January 10, 2008
Voter ID Law Podcast - Garrett Epps interviewed by KPFK (Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles). mp3 audio | run time: 13.3 min | file size: 1.3 mb | recorded on April 29, 2008.
Gordon Lafer (2007-08)
Gordon
Lafer, was also a 2007-08 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar and is
Associate Professor at the Labor Education and Research Center and
Political Science Department. His project focused on creating more
democracy at the workplace. He argued that union representation elections
do not pass the test of “free and fair” democratic elections.
The final phase of his book-length project suggested policy
recommendations for U.S. labor law and reframe our theoretical
understanding of the relationship between unions and democracy.
Lafer organized a discussion on: Monday, April 7, 2008 entitled “Enduring Feudalism?
The State of Federal Labor Law” at the Knight Law Center. The talk included a discussion of the difference between employer and employee-free speech rights at the workplace, and it examined the legal rights of employees to participate as citizens in elections to public office compared with workplace elections for unionization. View Gordon Lafer's Slide Lecture on April 7, 2008.
Lafer's most recent work discussed his argument about labor law reform: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society 1089-7011 - Volume 11, March 2008 (163K PDF).
Other video and articles by Gordon Lafer:
Secret Ballot in Name Only a February 2007 Testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Labor and Education, on the absence of a true secret ballot in Labor Board election. (YouTube video)
Scholar criticizes labor law in U.S. Oregon Daily Emerald, August 20, 2007
Free
and Fair? How Labor Law Fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards
an
American Rights at Work Report, June 2005.
Mary Wood (2006-07)
Mary Wood,
UO Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, has published extensively on the Indian trust doctrine, treaty rights, and environmental issues facing native nations. She is an award-winning teacher on Indian and natural resource law. Professor Wood conducted a study during her residency on "Tribes as Trustees Again: The Emerging Tribal Role in the Global Conservation Movement." She is a coauthor of a textbook in natural resources law (West, 2006) in which she presents a full framework of federal, tribal, state and individual ownership. Professor Wood is currently working on a book entitled, Nature's Trust: A Legal Paradigm for Protecting Land and Natural Resources for Future Generations.
During 2005-06, Wood was awarded a Morse Center project grant; she wrote and lectured around the northwest on tribal efforts to reclaim and protect fisheries. Her article, "Restoring the Abundant Trust: Tribal Litigation in Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery," was published by the Environmental Law Institute of Washington, DC.
Wood's article, concerning global warming, was published January 12, 2007 in the Register-Guard.
Wood delivered the keynote speech on "Nature's Trust: a Legal, Political, Economic, and Moral Frame for Global Warming" to the 2007 Renewable Energy Conference in Boulder, Colorado. Click here for speech (132K).
Read Mary Wood's speech to the City Club of Eugene given May 4, 2007, published in the Eugene Weekly May 10, 2007. Click here for speech.
Straight.com —Published January 19, 2009. “Obama, at the Threshold Catastrophic Climate Change, Already Has the Tools to Act” by Mary Wood UO Law Professor and Tim Ream 2008-09 Wayne Morse Fellow / Straight.com Read article. (304K PDF)
Rennard Strickland (2005-06)
A legal historian of Osage and Cherokee heritage, Rennard Strickland, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, emeritus, University of Oregon, is considered a pioneer in introducing Indian law into university curriculum. He has written and edited more than 35 books and is frequently cited by courts and scholars for his work as revision editor in chief of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Strickland has been involved in the resolution of a number of significant Indian cases. He was the dean of the UO School of Law from 1997 to 2002. Strickland was the intellectual guide for the Morse Center's inquiry into indigenous peoples. He co-taught classes with Wilma Mankiller and Richard West, served as the curator of an exhibit of art movie posters at the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, and celebrated his 40th book and 40th year of teaching at a symposium and reception at the law school.
Brian Klopotek (2005-06)
Brian Klopotek is an assistant professor in the UO Department of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies Program. His research areas include Native Americans of the southeastern United States, ethno-history, federal recognition of Indian tribes, Indian educational history, and American Indians and the cinema. His publications include the paper, "I guess your warrior look doesn't work every time': Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema." He is currently writing about the Tunica Treasure and Indian education in the segregated South. Klopotek spoke at the Center's symposium on Sovereignty and Native Education and organized a seminar on "Indigenous National Building" with Jennifer Nez Denetdale and J. Kehulani Kauanui.
Ibrahim Gassama (2004-05)
Ibrahim Gassama, Professor of Law, University of Oregon, has been heavily involved in issues surrounding human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development. These issues led him to recruit and train observers of elections in Haiti and South Africa, including South Africa's first all-race democratic election. In some cases, he served as an observer himself. Afterward, he supervised reports from the governmental agencies involved in the elections. Gassama has also worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Action Center in New York, representing clients on employment discrimination issues.
From 1985 to 1990, Gassama worked on human rights, foreign policy, and international economic development issues for TransAfrica, the African American lobby for Africa and the Caribbean. In 1994 Gassama coordinated the recruitment, training, and deployment of U.S. based nongovernmental observers participating in South Africa's first all-race democratic election. Gassama supervised the preparation of reports on the work of the South African Independent Electoral Commission and participated in two election-observer delegations composed of American and African lawyers.
Gassama's academic interest focuses on problems of international order; the changing role of international institutions in the post Cold War era; and the interrelationships among human rights, environmental degradation, and economic development. During his residency, Gassama organized a symposium on "New Voices in International Law" featuring Karen Engle and Morse Professor Hilary Charlesworth.
Lynn Fujiwara (2004-05)
Lynn Fujiwara is an assistant professor in the UO Women's and Gender Studies Program. Fujiwara's interests include feminist theory with an emphasis on Third World and Critical Race Feminisms; women of color, immigration, citizenship, welfare, labor, and family; and Asian American studies. Fujiwara presented a paper and organized a panel for "Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration, and Labor in Post 9/11 North America."
Keith Aoki (2003-04)
Keith Aoki, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon, sat on the editorial board for the Harvard Environmental Law Review and served on the editorial staff of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He then practiced law for two years at Hale and Dorr, a Boston firm specializing in technology law. He is interested in the intersection of critical theory and the law. His 1996 article, "(Intellectual) Property and Sovereignty: Notes toward a Cultural Geography of Authorship," appeared in the Stanford Law Review. During his residency with the Center, Aoki convened a major conference on plant genetics and published a companion article, "The Law and Politics of Intellectual Property and Plant Genetic Resources."
Lise Nelson (2003-04)
Lise Nelson, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Oregon, is a political and cultural geographer with an interest in international rural development, gender, Latin America, and immigration from Latin America to the United States. Her research reflects her broad interest in the relationship between democracy and globalization. Nelson collaborated with the Center for the Study of Women in Society on a major conference, "The Borders of Human Security: Geopolitics Comes Home."
Merle Weiner (2001-02)
Merle Weiner, Professor of Law, University of Oregon, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an expert in sex discrimination, domestic violence and family law. At Harvard, Weiner was the co-chair of the Women's Law Association, and was an editor on the Harvard Women's Law Journal. Weiner has presented papers at the International Society of Family Law's world conference, the Association of American Law School's annual conference, and at Seattle University School of Law's Hague Convention Symposium. She has trained judges on international child abduction for the National Conference of Juvenile and Family State Court Judges, has served as an expert witness in cases involving international child abduction, and has served as an observer for the drafting of the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act. During her residency with the Center, Weiner wrote an article on the law of domestic violence and child abuse.
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