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353 Notes on Contributors Roberta Sue Alexander is Distinguished Service Professor of History and professor emerita at the University of Dayton. She earned a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law. Her publications include Place of Recourse: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and North Carolina Faces the Freedmen: Race Relations During Presidential Reconstruction, 1865–67. Martin H. Belsky is Dean and Randolph Baxter Professor at the University of Akron School of Law. He received his B.A. from Temple University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. He also has graduate diplomas from The Hague Academy of International Law and Cambridge University. In his career, he served as chief prosecutor in Philadelphia, counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, and as an administrator of a federal agency. He has served as vice president of the American Judicature Society and now serves as chair of AJS’s National Advisory Council. He has written numerous articles and books on the administration of justice, civil rights, constitutional law, privacy, criminal law, international law, environmental law, oceans and coastal law, and professional responsibility. Melvyn Dubofsky is Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology Emeritus , Binghamton University, SUNY. He holds a B.A. from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. In addition to teaching at several American universities, he served as Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and the John Adams Professor of American Civilization at the University of Amsterdam. A specialist in the history of labor in the United States, his numerous publications include We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW; John L. Lewis: A Biography (coauthor); The State and Labor in Modern America; and Hard Work: The Making of a Labor Historian. Paul Finkelman is a visiting professor at Duke Law School, where he holds the John Hope Franklin chair in Legal History. He is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at the Albany Law School. He received his B.A. in American Studies from Syracuse University, his M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Chicago, and was a fellow in law and humanities at 354 Notes on Contributors Harvard Law School. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty- five books and more than two hundred scholarly articles. His books, many of which have won prestigious awards, include Millard Fillmore, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, The Political Lincoln, and A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States. He has held numerous fellowships and has lectured not only throughout the United States, but also in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Alison K. Guernsey is an assistant federal public defender with the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington & Idaho in Yakima, Washington. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan Honors College, and her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law. Prior to her work as a trial attorney, she clerked for the Honorable Michael J. Melloy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her practice is focused solely on federal criminal law. Thomas R. Hensley received his B.A. from Simpson College, his M.A. from the University of Iowa, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1970. His primary research interests are civil rights and liberties, Supreme Court decision making, and the implementation and impact of judicial decisions. He coauthored The Changing Supreme Court: Constitutional Rights and Liberties with Chris Smith and Joyce Baugh. His The Rehnquist Court: Justices, Rulings, Legacies is forthcoming. Keith H. Hirokawa is an associate professor at Albany Law School. His scholarship explores convergences in ecology, ethics, economics, and law, with particular attention given to local environmental law, ecosystem services policy, watershed management, and environmental impact analysis. He has authored dozens of professional and scholarly articles in these areas and coedited (with Patricia Salkin) Greening Local Government (forthcoming). Professor Hirokawa earned his in M.A. and J.D. at the University of Connecticut and his LLM in environmental and natural resources law...