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W. Richard West, Jr. (2006-07)
W. Richard West, Jr., a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne, is a founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. A lawyer (Stanford, '71), lobbyist, fundraiser, historian, arts advocate and lifelong activist, West has devoted his professional life to working with American Indians on cultural, educational, legal and governmental issues.
Before becoming director of the National Museum of the American Indian, West was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and, subsequently, in the Indian-owned Albuquerque law firm of Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C. He served as general counsel and special counsel to numerous tribes and organizations. In that capacity, he represented clients before federal, state and tribal courts, various executive departments of the federal government and Congress.
As director of the National Museum of the American Indian, West is responsible for guiding the successful opening of the museum's three facilities. He oversaw the creation and completion of the George Gustav Heye Center, a museum exhibition facility, which opened in New York City on October 30, 1994. He supervised the overall planning of the museum's Cultural Resources Center, which houses its vast 800,000-object collection, and is located in Suitland, Maryland. West's philosophy and vision for the museum have been critical in guiding the architectural and program planning of the Mall museum, which opened on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on September 21.
West will be in residence at the UO School of Law during September and early October of 2006. He will teach a class with Indian law professor Rennard Strickland entitled "Native American Cultural Rights and Intellectual Property." West will give a keynote address on the National Museum of the American Indian at a symposium on decolonizing the museum on September 14-15 at the Many Nations Longhouse. His public address on "Native America in the 21st Century: Out of the Mists and Beyond Myth" will be held on the evening of October 3 at the Knight Law Center.
Context Is Everything: History and Culture in Contemporary Tribal Life
Chief Wilma Mankiller is an author, activist, and formal principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. In 1983, she was elected the first female deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation and president of the tribal council. In 1987, Mankiller was elected principal chief of the Cherokees, making her the first woman in modern history to hold such a position. She was reelected four years later by an overwhelming majority. During Mankiller's tenure, she met with Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to present critical tribal issues. She and the Navajo Nation president, Peterson Zah, co-chaired a national conference between tribal leaders and cabinet members, which helped facilitate the establishment of an Office of Tribal Justice within the U.S. Department of Justice. Mankiller's tenure was also marked by a great deal of new development, including several new free-standing health clinics, an $11 million Jobs Corps Center, and greatly expanded services for children and youth. She led the team that developed the core businesses that comprise Cherokee Nation Enterprises. Mankiller was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998 and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Dartmouth College, Smith College, and other institutions. She has written and co-authored several works, including Every Day is a Good Day, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, and A Reader's Companion to the History of Women in the U.S. She has also contributed to other publications, including an essay for Native Universe, the inaugural publication of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Chief Wilma Mankiller was the 2005-06 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. During her stay at UO, she delivered a public lecture, participated in several symposia, and taught an ethnic studies course on Native American Life, Law and Leadership in the Modern Era with UO Knight Professor of Law Rennard Strickland. Read the text of her remarks or recent articles about Chief Mankiller and her stay at UO in The Oregonian, The Register-Guard, The Eugene Weekly, Willamette Week, Oregon Daily Emerald, and Inside Oregon. Hilary Charlesworth (2004-05)
The Missing Voice: Women and the War in Iraq
Hilary Charlesworth is director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University. Her books include Writing in Rights: Australia and the Protection of Human Rights and The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis, co-authored with Christine Chinkin. Charlesworth was the inaugural president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and she is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law. Neil Smith (2003-04)
Lost Geographies and Failed Globilzations: From Versailles to Iraq
Neil Smith is a prolific, provocative, and radical geographer. His work examines how seemingly far-flung places are connected in new and unexpected ways, from the instantaneous flows of financial capital across the globe, to environmental concerns that transcend national boundaries, to international immigration patterns A Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Smith also serves as director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. In addition to more than 140 articles and papers, Smith is the author of numerous books including, American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space. His work has been translated into more than ten languages and he has spoken around the world. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has received distinguished scholarship honors from the Association of America Geographers. Robert P. Mosteller (2002-03)
New Dimensions of Sentencing Reform in the 21st Century (144K PDF)
Robert P. Mosteller is the Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law at Duke University, where he teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure. He formerly served as clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals and was chief of the trial division for the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. He recently served as the Chair of the Academic Council for Duke University. Mosteller has published widely on the subjects of evidence and criminal procedure. His most concentrated writings have concerned issues in the prosecution of child abuse where children are victims and witnesses. He has also written extensively about his concern that a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution declaring a set of victims' rights would inevitably undercut Bill of Rights protections, which history has shown are particularly important to those who cannot expect protection through the normal political process. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (2001-02)
Black Man's Burden: The Death Penalty in America (401K PDF)
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. Ogletree has examined these issues not only in the classroom, on the Internet, and in the pages of prestigious law journals, but also in the everyday world of the public defender in the courtroom and in public television forums where these issues can be dramatically revealed. Ogletree's most recent book, co-authored with Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford University, Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and was published by the American Bar Association in August 2004. His historical memoir, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2004. Dana Frank (2000-01)
Working People and the Challenge of Globalization
Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she teaches about labor history, gender, and class. She is the author of several books, including Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, coauthored with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley. Frank earned a doctorate from Yale University in 1988. She has served as vice president of the Southwest Labor Studies Association since 1996. She is a member of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Organization of American Historians. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers in l996-1997. She is currently researching the bananna workers international labor movement in Central America. William B. Gould, IV (2000-01)
Labor Law for a Global Economy
William B. Gould IV is the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He served as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1994 to 1998, one of only three NLRB chairman to come from an academic background. Gould's memoir, Labored Relations: Law, Politics, and the NLRB, describes the tribulations of trying to ensure impartial administration of federal labor laws while faced with a hostile Republican Congress. Gould has arbitrated and mediated more than 200 labor disputes since 1965, including the Major League Baseball salary dispute in 1992 and 1993. He is author of more than 50 law journal articles and a number of books. His latest book is about his grandfather, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. Frances Fox Piven (1999-2000)
The Rich, the Poor, and American Politics
Frances Fox Piven is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Her book, Regulating the Poor, co-authored with Richard Cloward, is a landmark historical and theoretical analysis of the role of welfare policy in the economic and political control of the poor and working class. She also co-authored Poor Peoples' Movements (1977) The New Class War (1982, updated 1985), The Mean Season (1987), The Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997), Why Americans Don't Vote (1988; updated as Why Americans Still Don't Vote in 2000). She is the recipient of many awards and prizes including the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize, the President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Richard Delgado (1998)
Race and Social Change
Richard Delgado is a professor of law and the Derrick A. Bell Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he specializes in civil rights and critical race theory. He is one of the leading commentators on race in the United States and the author of many journal articles and 15 books. Delgado's books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently listed him as one of three leading Latino public intellectuals. Abner Mikva (1997)
The Unique Success of a Divided Government
Abner Mikva is the Schwartz Lecturer and Senior Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. Mikva served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before coming to the bench, he was elected to Congress for five terms, representing portions of Chicago and its suburbs. Judge Mikva served on both the Ways and Means Committee and the Judiciary Committee while in Congress. He has taught courses at Northwestern University, Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and New York University. Judge Mikva is the co-author of a political science textbook on the Congress entitled The American Congress: The First Branch and of law school textbooks on the legislative process. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Barbara Ehrenreich (1997)
The End of Caring: Rewriting the Social Contract
Barbara Ehrenreich is a political essayist and social critic who tackles a brave and diverse range of issues in books and magazine articles. She is the author or co-author of twelve books including: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War and Nickle and Dimed: on (Not) Getting By in America, and Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. She has written for dozens of magazines, including Ms., Harper's, The Nation, The Progressive, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times Magazine. Primitivo Rodriguez (1996)
Mexico and the United States: Economic and Political Integration
Primitivo Rodríguez is a political analyst and a sociologist. He is currently the North American Affairs Specialist for the Mexican Family Services Agency. For ten years Mr. Rodriquez was director of the Mexico-U.S. Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee. He is the cofounder of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. William Pfaff (1995)
Nationalism and the Evolution of International Society
William Pfaff is a globally respected political commentator and author on international relations, contemporary history and U.S. policy. He is published in five countries and his column is syndicated by Tribune Media Services. Pfaff is the author of eight books, including The Wrath of Nations (1993) and Barbarian Sentiments: America in the New Century (2000). His latest book is Fear, Anger and Failure: A Chronicle of the Bush Administration's War Against Terror from the Attacks of September 11, 2001 to Defeat in Baghdad (2004). He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, World Policy Journal, The National Interest, and a number of European periodicals. He is based in Paris. John E. Ecohawk (1994)
The Nature of Tribal and Indian Law: Current Issues and Trends
John E. Echohawk, attorney and member of the Pawnee tribe of Oklahoma, has battled for over three decades for justice for Indian tribes and has found ways to correct centuries-old injustices through the law. He has long been regarded as one of the foremost litigators in matters of tribal sovereignty and the safeguarding of natural resources and ancestral burial sites and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. In 1970, he co-founded the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), which he continues to serve as executive director. Robert A. Katzmann (1993)
Have We Lost the Ability to Govern? The Challenge of Making Public Policy
Robert A. Katzmann is a legal scholar and policy analyst working on issues of regulation, the administrative process, antitrust policy, court reform, judicial-congressional relations and disability law. He was the president of the Washington D.C.-based Governance Institute, and the Walsh Professor of Government and Professor of Law at Georgetown University before becoming a judge in 1999 on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit. He is the author of several books including Courts and Congress, Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life, The Law Firm and the Public Good, and Institutional Disability: The Saga of Transportation Policy for the Disabled. Douglas A. Fraser (1992)
A Union Perspective on Changes at the Workplace
Born the son of an electrician in Glasgow, Scotland in 1916, Douglas Fraser came to Detroit with his family at the age of six. Starting out at the Chrysler DeSoto plant he soon joined the fledgling UAW and was elected president of his local in 1944. Beginning with his election as an executive board member in 1962, he was instrumental in negotiating many path-breaking, historic agreements in the industry. Highly respected for his integrity, strong leadership, and adept negotiating skills, Fraser was elected vice president in 1970 and President of the UAW in 1977. In 1979, he accepted a seat on the Chrysler Board of Directors as a means of influencing key business decisions affecting the lives of UAW members. Fraser retired from the UAW in 1983 and has since devoted his energies to the classroom, first as a lecturer at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Michigan and now as a professor at Wayne State University. Ray Marshall (1992)
A High-Wage Strategy for Economic Development
Ray Marshall is professor emeritus and holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs. A member of the UT Austin faculty since 1962, he came to the LBJ School in 1981 after serving for four years as U.S. Secretary of Labor in the Carter administration. He has served as member and chair of numerous national commissions and boards focusing on labor skill development, economics, and international labor rights. He is the author of more than thirty books and monographs, including Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, and Back to Shared Prosperity. Hans A. Linde (1991)
Has the Supreme Court Ever Valued Individual Rights?
Hans A. Linde is currently the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Willamette University College of Law. He served as a justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1977 to 1990, and is a former professor of law at the University of Oregon and other universities. Early in his legal career he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Wm. O. Douglas. His publications include a course book on legislative and administrative processes and more than 75 articles, lecturers, and reviews. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. About Linde: Intellect & Craft: The Contributions of Justice Hans Linde to American Constitutionalism by Robert F. Nagel George McGovern (1990)
New Perspectives on America's Role in the World
President John F. Kennedy named George McGovern the first director of the Food for Peace Program. He then served as a U. S. senator representing South Dakota from 1962-1980. During his tenure in the Senate he became a vocal opponent of the war in Vietnam. In 1972, he was selected as the Democratic Party nominee for president, losing to Richard Nixon. President Gerald Ford named him a United Nations delegate to the General Assembly in 1976. In 2001 he was appointed as the first UN global ambassador on hunger. In this position, McGovern continues his leadership in the battle against world hunger. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. (1989)
What Happened to Liberalism on the Way to the Future?
Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by President Clinton in 1993. He was one of the foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers of his time and help found the District of Columbia's public law school. At the 1948 Democratic National Convention he drafted the civil rights plank of the Party's platform for Hubert Humphrey. The concepts embodied in that plank became the foundation for all of the human rights and equal protection laws that have since been enacted. Charles L. Black, Jr. (1987)
Reflections on Teaching and Working in Constitution Law
Charles L. Black, Jr. was a renowned lawyer and professor who was involved in many of the major civil rights legal cases of the 20th century. He helped write the legal brief for Brown vs. the Board of Education and fought capital punishment. His books include Capital Punishment: the Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake and Impeachment: A Handbook, published during the Watergate hearings while President Richard Nixon was facing impeachment. The book was reissued in 1999, when President Bill Clinton was being impeached, and brought Black back into the spotlight. He was a jazz aficionado and published three volumes of poetry. Fred W. Friendly (1985)
The Constitution: National Security and the News Media
Fred W. Friendly was a pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar. He enjoyed a 60-year career as remarkable for its longevity as for its accomplishments. He produced Edward R. Murrow's programs and popularized television news documentary in the decade after World War II by creating CBS Reports. After resigning from CBS as its News Division president in 1966, Friendly found a second career as an author and as creator of a series of moderated seminars on media and society. He is the author of a number of books including See It Now, edited with Edward R. Murrow, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control; The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, The First Amendment; and The Constitution: That Delicate Balance. Shirley M. Hufstedler (1984)
What are the Battle Lines in the Public Education War?
After practicing law in California and acting as a judge in Los Angeles, Shirley Hufstedler became an associate justice of the California Court of Appeals and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She served in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter as secretary of education. Following her time in the Carter administration, she subsequently became a professor of law at the Stanford School of Law. She is now senior of counsel at the law firm of Morrison and Foerster. Anthony Lewis (1983)
The Public and the Press
Anthony Lewis, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was until recently a syndicated columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of three books: Gideon's Trumpet about a landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade about the great changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991) about the case that changed the course of First Amendment litigation in America. He has also published numerous articles in legal journals. Philip M. Klutznick (1981)
The American Economy: An Assessment
Philip M. Klutznick was the international president of B'nai B'rith (1953-1959), president of the World Jewish Congress (during the late 1970s), and chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the United Jewish Fund. He worked as envoy to the United Nations under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Carter and became secretary of commerce in 1979, a position he held for the remainder of the Carter administration.
Willard Wirtz (1980)
Case for the Affirmative
Willard Wirtz served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and was a major architect of the War on Poverty. He is the author of several books including Labor and the Public Interest (1964), The Boundless Resource (1975), A Critical Look at the Measuring of Work (1975), and his latest book, Capon Valley Sampler: Sketches of Appalachia from George Washington to Caudy Davis (1990). He also served on the Board of Economic Warfare and the War Labor Board during World War II, and after the war, he was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board.
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
1221 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1221
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