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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
American Civil Liberties Union Handbooks
The American Civil Liberties Union Handbook Series is published by Southern
Illinois University Press. To contact an ACLU Handbooks authopr, please
contact SIUP Publicity Manager Alberta Skaggs at askaggs at siu.edu. For
Stephen Pevar, author of The Rights of Indians and Tribes, see
below.
Gurcharan S. Bhatia
Gurcharan S. Bhatia chaired the Universal Rights and Human Values Conference
held in Edmonton, Canada, in 1998. He is a former director of the Canadian
Human Rights Foundation and Canadian Human Rights Commissioner. He has
served as editor and publisher of Canadian Link, a national newspaper
promoting multiculturalism.
Contact
Phone: 780-495-2195; Fax: 780-495-6739
Michael Kent Curtis
Michael Kent Curtis teaches constitutional law, free speech, and American
Legal and Constitutional History at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Before joining the Wake Forest faculty, Professor Curtis practiced law
for twenty years. In his law practice, he represented a number of clients
in free speech cases, often without fee. In 1986 he received the Frank
Porter Graham Award from the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union for
his work defending and advancing civil liberties in North Carolina.
Contact
Email: mcurtis at law.wfu.edu
Phone: 336-758-5714
David P. Forsythe
David Forsythe is the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor at the University
of Nebraska.
Contact
Mail: Political Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0328
USA
Phone: 402-472-1690
Gerald L. Gall
Gerald L. Gall is a professor law at the University of Alberta where he
teaches constitutional law and civil liberties. He is a barrister and
solicitor in the province of Ontario and has served on several boards
of directors including the Legal Education Society of Alberta and the
Centre for Constitutional Studies. He is a former executive director of
the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice and the author
of the first, second, third and fourth editions of The Canadian Legal
System.
Contact
Phone: 780-492-3349; Email: g.gall at ualberta.ca
Michael Gardner
Michael R. Gardner is a communications policy attorney in Washington,
D.C. He also serves as the pro bono chairman of the United States Telecommunications
Training Institute, a nonprofit international training initiative he founded
in 1982 while serving as the U.S. ambassador to the ITU Plenipotentiary
Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. A graduate of the College at Georgetown
University and of the Georgetown University Law School, Gardner has served
as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has also served on
four presidential commissions under Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and
Bush senior. His book, Harry Truman and Civil Rights, is A Selection
of the History Book Club.
Contact
Phone: 202-686-7111; Fax: 202-244-4717
Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff is the author of many articles and books about jazz, politics,
and education. His syndicated column appears in the Washington Post and
more than two hundred other newspapers. He is also a regular contributor
to the Village Voice.
Contact
Please contact Alexandra Dahne, Asst Publicity Manager at alex.dahne at ucpress.edu.
Jethro K. Lieberman
Jethro K. Lieberman is Professor of Law at New York Law School, Adjunct
Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, and author of The
Litigious Society (1981) and The Enduring Constitution (1987),
both of which won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.
Contact
Please contact Alexandra Dahne, Asst Publicity Manager at alex.dahne at ucpress.edu.
John McLaren
John McLaren is Lansdowne Professor of Law at the University of Victoria.
Contact
Please contact Professor McLaren through UBC Press.
Email: info at ubcpress.ca
Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies is Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
Contact
Please contact Professor Menzies through UBC Press.
Email: info at ubcpress.ca
David A. Neiwert
David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle and a fourth-generation
Northwest native. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, MSNBC,
Salon.com, the Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report, and numerous
regional publications. His reportage on domestic terrorism for MSNBC won
a National Press Club Award in 2000 for distinguished online journalism.
Contact
Email: dneiwert at attbi.com
John T. Noonan, Jr.
John T. Noonan, Jr. has served as Judge on the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1986. He is Robbins Professor Emeritus
at Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and
the author of prize-winning work in history, philosophy, and theology.
Contact
Please contact Amy Torack, Publicity Manager at amy.torack at ucpress.edu.
Stephen Pevar
Stephen L. Pevar is Senior Staff Counsel for the ACLU, and has taught
in law school and lectured extensively on the subject of Indian and tribal
rights.
Contact
Email: Pevaraclu at aol.com; Phone: 303-839-5752: Fax: 303-831-7524
Wesley Pue
Wesley Pue is Nemetz Professor of Legal History at the University of British
Columbia.
Contact
Please contact Professor Pue through UBC Press.
Email: info at ubcpress.ca
Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz
Bud Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Trinity College, and
Ruth Schultz is an independent scholar. They are the authors of It
Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America
(California, 1989.)
Contact
Please contact Stephanie Hansen, Sr. Publicist at stephanie.hansen at ucpress.edu.
Samuel Walker
Samuel Walker is the Isaacson Professor of Criminal Justice at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of ten books, most recently The
Rights Revolution: Community and Rights in America. His current research
focuses on police accountability and civilian oversight of police forces.
www.policeaccountability.org.
Contact
Email: semlen at unomaha.edu
Mail: Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Phone: 402-554-3590 office
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