Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

About the Center - Staff

1221 University of Oregon
220C Knight Law Center
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
(541) 346-3699
hallock@uoregon.edu

Margaret Hallock, Director

Margaret Hallock is a Ph.D economist who has been active in economic and labor policy in Oregon since 1974. She is the founding director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and has been coordinating the Wayne Morse Chair since 1988 when she was director of the UO's Labor Education and Research Center. She also was a member of the faculty in the department of economics at the UO.

Dr. Hallock has extensive experience in labor relations and state policy matters. She was the chief economist for the Oregon Public Employees Union, Service Employees International Union 503. She was appointed to chair the state's Pay Equity Task Force and led the successful pay equity campaign for state employees in the 1980s.

Hallock served as senior policy advisor to Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski for 2003-04 and has been a member of numerous boards and commissions. She has published papers on tax reform, labor unions, women and the economy, and workforce education and training.

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1221 University of Oregon
220B Knight Law Center
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
(541) 346-3700
eweber@uoregon.edu

Elizabeth Weber, Administrator

Elizabeth Weber joined the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics in 2006 after a fast-paced career as a social worker and paralegal. She has a B.A. in Social Work
and Sociology from Humboldt State University in
California. She was a social worker for eight years in California, specializing in crisis counseling for women, family advocacy, and child care. She also has a paralegal certificate and worked in complex litigation cases at Perkins Coie, Qwest and Hershner Hunter law firms as well as others for over 16 years. Weber is an active community volunteer with the Unitarian Univeralist Church and her son's school. She has been a volunteer for the Lifelong AIDS alliance in Seattle as well as for various
children's programs.

1221 University of Oregon
220B Knight Law Center
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
(541) 346-3717
astillie@uoregon.edu

Abbie Stillie, Communications Coordinator

Abbie Stillie joined the Wayne Morse Center for Law
and Politics in the summer of 2009. She has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alaska and an M.S. in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon. Stillie has previously worked as a newspaper reporter, graphic designer and copyeditor, and she is a freelance writer and web designer in her spare time.