Laurie Hauber is the Director of Experiential Education and an Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Oregon School of Law. Previously, she worked at the Oregon Law Center, focusing on affordable housing and homelessness issues. She is also the founder and former director of the Community Economic Development Program at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and she worked as clinical professor at Vanderbilt Law School. Her recently published article, “Criminalization of the Unhoused: A Case Study Of Alternatives to a Punitive System,” appeared in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy. Professor Hauber holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.  

Ed Johnson is the Director of Litigation at the Oregon Law Center. He has been a legal aid lawyer in Oregon for 30 years. His work focuses on fair housing, subsidized housing, housing preservation and homeless rights litigation. Mr. Johnson filed the case Johnson v. Grants Pass that eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Oregon Law Center sued on behalf of Gloria Johnson and other homeless individuals alleging the city’s camping and sleeping ordinances violated the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Johnson holds a J.D. from Columbia School of Law.

Kristen Bell (Moderator) is an Assistant Professor at University of Oregon School of Law where she teaches criminal law. Her research focuses on parole, sentencing, and state constitutional law. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill. She clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, worked as a Soros Justice Fellow, and was a Senior Liman Fellow and Lecturer at Yale Law School. Her work has been published in the Cardozo Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and Law and Philosophy.

Adell Amos holds the Clayton R. Hess Professorship and serves as the Executive Director for the UO Environment Initiative. Her research emphasizes the jurisdictional governance structures that are deployed for water resources management. Her teaching and scholarship have been recognized by the UO Fund for Faculty Excellence and the Hollis Teaching Awards. Amos first joined the faculty in 2005 after practicing law with the U.S. Department of Interior. In 2008, Amos returned to Washington D.C. to serve in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Amos returned to the UO School of Law in 2011. Professor Amos holds a B.A from Drury College and her J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. 

Greg Dotson is a faculty member with Oregon Law’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, where he leads the Energy Law and Policy Project. Prior to joining academia at Oregon Law in 2017, Dotson served as the Vice President for Energy Policy at the Washington, D.C.-based multidisciplinary think tank the Center for American Progress. Dotson has also held senior environmental staff positions in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. From February 2021 until October 2022, Dotson served as the Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In this position, he worked on the American Recovery Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. Professor Dotson holds an undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech and a J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law.  

Aaron Landau (Moderator) is a partner at Harrang Long PC where his practice focuses on matters of constitutional and public law, chiefly before Oregon’s appellate courts. His practice also has included a broad variety of business disputes, including employment, health care, and product liability. He also serves as an instructor pro tem for the University of Oregon School of Law, where he teaches a course in Oregon Practice & Procedure. Among his recognitions are inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®  for Administrative/Regulatory and Appellate Practice for 2024. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Landau was a founding member and bassist for a modern jazz ensemble in Portland. He holds a B.A. from Lewis & Clark and a J.D. from University of Oregon School of Law. 

Stuart Chinn is the Frank Nash Professor of Law at University of Oregon Law School of Law. He writes and teaches about constitutional law, legislation, legal and political history, and American higher education. Stuart received his B.A., Ph.D. (political science) and J.D. degrees from Yale University. 

Garrett Epps is a Professor of Practice at Oregon Law. He returned to Oregon from the University of Baltimore Law School. Before heading east, Professor Epps taught Constitutional Law at Oregon Law. While at Baltimore, he served for ten years as Supreme Court Correspondent of The Atlantic, publishing more than 400 essays analyzing the Supreme Court’s evolving jurisprudence and constitutional issues. His book To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial is a comprehensive history of Employment Division v. Smith, the 1990 Oregon “peyote case.” His scholarship has appeared in law journals including Duke Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, and American University Law Review.  Garrett Epps received his LL.M. and J.D. from Duke University and an M.A. from Hollins College.

Bryan Dearinger (Moderator) is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.  Previously, he served UO as an Associate General Counsel.  Professor Dearinger has extensive federal court experience, including several years litigating high-profile constitutional cases for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.  His research interests are in constitutional law, privacy law, and sports law.  Professor Dearinger has published academic articles in the Oregon Law Review and the St. John’s Law Review.  He holds a B.A. from University of Portland and a J.D. from Drake University Law School, where he was a public service fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the Drake Law Review.

Cary Franklin is the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law at UCLA. She is the Faculty Director of UCLA’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the Harvard Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, and the Yale Law Journal. She received a B.A. from Yale and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then of the Second Circuit. 

Jennifer Williamson (Moderator) is the former Oregon House of Representatives Majority Leader and the Co-Founder and a Partner with Swift Public Affairs. Early in her career, she worked for US Senator Mark Hatfield and Oregon’s state superintendent of public instruction, Susan Castillo. During her time in the Oregon House, she sponsored and helped pass Oregon’s comprehensive reproductive healthcare law. She also served as the interim executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. She holds a B.S. from University of Oregon and a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law, where she served as Editor of the Law Review.