Michael Moffitt
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Oregon School of Law.
Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law
Associate Director, ADR Center

Before joining the Oregon law faculty in 2001, Michael Moffitt served as the clinical supervisor for the mediation program at Harvard Law School and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School and at the Ohio State University College of Law.  Following a federal judicial clerkship, he spent several years with Conflict Management Group, consulting on negotiation and dispute resolution projects around the world.  Moffitt has published a number of scholarly articles on mediation, negotiation, and civil procedure.  He co-edited The Handbook of Dispute Resolution, (Jossey-Bass, 2005), an award-winning compilation of 31 original chapters by leading scholars and practitioners in the field.   He also co-authored the innovative, student-focused book, Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (Aspen 2008).  The Provost of the University of Oregon named Mr. Moffitt in the first group of recipients of a five-year award from the Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence.  The Oregon law school faculty awarded Mr. Moffitt with the law school’s Orlando J. Hollis Faculty Teaching Award.  He is also the recipient of the University’s Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Author of:

Iqbal and Settlement, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 51 (2010).

Professor EagleWoman brings a diverse background that includes tribal economic development, legal code development, litigation, criminal law and scholarly interest in international indigenous law to her work at the University of Idaho Law. She received her L.L.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Studies in 2004 from the University of Tulsa College of Law.  Professor EagleWoman teaches in the areas of Native American Law, Native Natural Resources Law, Tribal Nation Economics & Law and Civil Procedure.

She has served several terms as a Board member of the National Native American Bar Association and believes in staying firmly tied to the Native legal field. She also maintains membership in the Bar Associations of the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota. Highlights of her legal career include serving as General Counsel to the Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, working as an associate attorney with Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson in Washington, D.C. and serving as Tribal Public Defender for the Kaw Nation and the Ponca Nation, both of Oklahoma.

Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation.

Professor EagleWoman was formerly a member of the law faculty at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and held a visitorship position at the University of Kansas in the KU School of Law and the Indigenous Nations Program. In the spring of 2008, she was selected as the recipient of the KU Center for Indigenous Nation’s Crystal Eagle Award for showing leadership and dedication toward helping community members or students within indigenous communities.

Author of:

A Constitutional Crisis When the U.S. Supreme Court Acts in a Legislative Manner?  An Essay Offering a Perspective on Judicial Activism in Federal Indian Law and Federal Civil Procedure Pleading Standards, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 41 (2010).

Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law.  J.D., University of Pennsylvania.  A.B., Brown University.

Professor Kit Kinports joined Penn State Law in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor Kinports clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before entering the teaching profession, she practiced law with Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff & Ewing in Washington, D.C. for several years.

Professor Kinports is a leading scholar of feminist jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism. Her recent work includes an article entitled “Criminal Procedure in Perspective,” published in 2007 by the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and an article forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law entitled “Veteran Police Officers and Three-Dollar Steaks: The Subjective/Objective Dimensions of Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.” New editions of both casebooks she co-authors,Criminal Law: Cases and Materials and Constitutional Litigation Under Section 1983, were also published in 2008. Professor Kinports received several teaching awards at the University of Illinois, including the John E. Cribbet Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest mark of teaching achievement awarded by that institution.

Scholarly Dialogues Series

Professor Kinports presented during the Penn State Law Review Scholarly Dialogues Series on April 12, 2010.

Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law, and Director, Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy and Research.  J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.  A.B., University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Stephen Ross joined the Penn State Law faculty from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduation from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was associate editor of the California Law Review, Professor Ross held a variety of positions leading up to his career in teaching. He spent several years in Washington, D.C., as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and served as minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate.

Professor Ross is the author of the Principles of Antitrust Law (2003) and scholarly works on U.S. and Canadian antitrust and competition policies, domestic and international sports antitrust issues, statutory interpretation, and comparative Canadian law. His recent book, Fans of the Worlds, Unite! (2008), was noted by Wired.com magazine as one of the 12 bright ideas of 2009. Professor Ross has provided expert testimony and advice on antitrust issues in the sports arena to governmental entities in the U.S. and Canada over the years, and he has consulted on sports league design for professional sports organizations in ice hockey, cricket, and motorcycle racing.

Professor Ross is a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute and serves as pro bono counsel to the AAI and the Consumer Federation of America on antitrust and sports litigation.

Scholarly Dialogues Series:

Professor Ross presented during the Penn State Law Review Scholarly Dialogues Series on April 6, 2010.

Eric Engle, Dr. Jur., J.D., D.E.A., LL.M.,  is a freelance legal researcher and legal translator; he has worked for Harvard Law School, and has taught law at the University of Tartu, Estonia and at the Universitaet Bremen, Germany.  His working papers are available through SSRN, and he can be contacted through email.

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U.N. Packing the State’s Reputation? A Response to Professor Brewster’s “Unpacking the State’s Reputation.” 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 34.

Wendy Gerwick Couture is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, where she teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure and business law.  She has published articles in the Seattle University Law Review, Albany Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, and Securities Regulation Law Journal.  In the classroom and in her articles, Professor Couture draws from her practice experience as a law clerk to a federal district court judge and as a securities litigator.  Professor Couture enjoys integrating her scholarship with her teaching and credits her first-year civil procedure students for inspiring her to write this essay.¹

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Conley v. Gibson’s “No Set of Facts” Test:  Neither Cancer Nor Cure.¹ 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 19.

From the Author:

¹ Wendy Gerwick Couture is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.  The author would like to thank Katy Stein, Faculty Services Librarian, and Kelly Havner, a second-year law student at St. Mary’s, for their invaluable research assistance.  She would also like to thank the students in Section B of the St. Mary’s Class of 2012 for putting up with their professor’s obsession with pleading standards.

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Associate Professor, Legal Research and Writing, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.  In addition to Legal Writing and Research, Professor Shulman teaches courses on Religious Liberty as well as classes for LL.M. students.

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When is Religious Speech Outrageous?: Snyder v. Phelps and the Limits of Religious Advocacy.¹ 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 13.

The Outrageous God:  Emotional Distress, Tort Liability, and the Limits of Religious Advocacy.² 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 381.

From the Author:

¹ Associate Professor, Legal Research and Writing, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Shulman has written on Snyder v. Phelps for the Penn State Law Review. See Jeffrey Shulman, The Outrageous God: Emotional Distress, Tort Liability, and the Limits of Religious Advocacy, 113 Penn St. L. Rev. 381 (2008). He also wrote an amicus brief on behalf of Albert Snyder. See Brief of Amicus Curiae Jeffrey I. Shulman Supporting Appellee, Snyder v. Phelps, 580 F.3d 206 (4th Cir. 2008) (No. 08-1026), 2008 WL 3460050.

² This article was supported by a grant from the Georgetown University Law Center. I would like to thank my colleagues at the Law Center for their efforts on my behalf. Michael Seidman and Steven Goldberg have been a continual source of guidance and encouragement. I am also grateful to Robin West for her enthusiastic support of my research. I am especially thankful for the hard work of my (2007-2008) 1L students, who struggled mightily, and with good grace, with many of this article’s principal (and most perplexing) concerns, and for the dedication of the truly stellar group of law fellows (Rupal Doshi, Kevin Glandon, Catherine Grealis, Molly Gulland, Sonia Ignatova, and Benjamin Vaughn) who ensured that the struggle was such a productive one.

Elizabeth Thornburg is a Professor of Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.  She teaches and writes in the area of civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution. Drawing on her experience with civil rights and commercial litigation, her scholarship focuses on the procedural fairness of the litigation process, especially at the pleadings, discovery, and jury charge stages.  She also writes and speaks in the areas of comparative procedure, online dispute resolution, and the intersection of law and culture.

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Law, Facts, and Power.  114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 1.

Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy; Director, Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy; Professor of Law.  J.D., Stanford Law School; B.A., University of Wisconsin.

Professor Gildin is recognized as one of the nation’s leading teachers of advocacy skills and is a leader in the use of technology to assist instruction and learning. In 1999 he received the Jacobson Award presented annually to the outstanding teacher of trial advocacy. In addition to developing and teaching a nationally-recognized set of courses in advocacy, Professor Gildin has designed a course on Civil Liberties Litigation, for which he has prepared a multi-disciplinary and multi-media electronic coursebook, entitled Civil Liberties Litigation. In addition to his excellent course design and instructional work, Professor Gildin is a noted scholar in the field of religious liberty. His recent articles in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy have explored ways in which religious freedom might be more extensively protected by state constitutions than by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As director of the Miller Center for Public Interest Advocacy, Professor Gildin has been instrumental in providing Penn State Law students with many opportunities to participate in public interest law practice, including as interns during their legal education. And Professor Gildin is not merely an excellent teacher and scholar; he has served as an officer of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and of its South Central Pennsylvania chapter. His work as counsel in civil liberties cases often affords students opportunities for observation or participation in significant litigation. Professor Gildin used a Canada-Fulbright Award to spend the 2007-08 academic year as Visiting Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.

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Iqbal and the Supreme Court’s Legislative Agenda.¹ 114 Penn St. L. Rev. ___. *(forthcoming in Iqbal Symposium Issue)

From the Author:

¹This author welcomes responses to this abstract and the upcoming article.  The author may be contacted at:

• E-mail: gsg2@psu.edu
• Phone: (717) 240-5238

Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., Indiana University, with honors.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia joined Penn State Law in July 2008 as director of the school’s new Center for Immigrants’ Rights and as a clinical professor of law. She also teaches Asylum and Refugee Law and a clinical course on Immigration Law and Policy. Previously, Professor Wadhia worked for several years as deputy director for legal affairs at the National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. During that time, Professor Wadhia was immersed in issues surrounding the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and “Post 9-11” executive branch policies impacting immigrant communities, and was a voice in the debates surrounding “comprehensive immigration reform.” She provided legal expertise and analysis of legislative and regulatory proposals; engaged in direct advocacy with Congress and the administration; and led an NGO-governmental work groups on immigrant due process and civil liberties. She also taught Immigration Law and Asylum and Refugee Law at Howard University School of Law and the American University Washington College of Law (2005-2008).

Prior to joining the National Immigration Forum, Professor Wadhia was an attorney with Maggio Kattar, P.C. in Washington, D.C., where she litigated deportation matters before the immigration courts in Virginia and Maryland and represented clients seeking asylum as well as those needing assistance with obtaining family and employment-based immigration benefits from the Department of Homeland Security (formerly INS). While a student at Georgetown University Law Center, she served as an editor for the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and as a research assistant to former INS general counsel T. Alexander Aleinikoff.

Professor Wadhia is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and  National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers’ Guild and holds bar licenses in Maryland and New Jersey. She writes and speaks frequently on immigration law and policy.

Professor Wadhia was recognized in 2008 by both the Department of Homeland Security Office for Inspector General and the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties for her years of leadership as co-chair of the NGO working group. In 2006, she was honored by the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Leadership Award, and in 2003, she was named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year by the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. Professor Wadhia conducted human rights work in India and South Africa before she began her legal career.

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Business as Usual.¹ 114 Penn St. L. Rev. ___. *(forthcoming in Iqbal Symposium Issue)

From the Author:

¹This author welcomes responses to this abstract and the upcoming article.  The author may be contacted at:

• E-mail: ssw11@psu.edu
• Phone: (814) 865-3823