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2007-09 Theme: Democracy and Citizenship in the 21st Century
The Wayne Morse Center explored aspects of the changing conception of citizenship and the democratic process in the United States and other countries. During 2007-08 the inquiry focused on international issues, Latin America and the debate over immigration. During 2008-09 the focus shifted to current issues of politics and participation in the United States, race and politics, and broader conceptions of citizenship. Our scholars and visitors presented programs on the role of courts in the democratic process; the impact of social movements; race, citizenship and politics; new forms of political activism; and executive power and civil liberties.
Wayne Morse Chair Professors
Arturo Escobar occupied the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics in 2007-08. He is the Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Escobar's public address focused on recent political developments in Latin America and examined their underlying nature. Escobar’s subsequent paper is “Latin America at a Crossroads: Alternative Modernizations, Postliberalism, or Postdevelopment?”
Mark Graber, Professor of Law and Government University of Maryland School of Law, occupied the Wayne Morse Chair in 2009. Graber is a graduate of Columbia Law School and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale. Graber was in residence at the UO School of Law in fall 2008, where he taught a class on Judicial Review and Democracy. Graber gave a public address on “Polarization and the Courts” and hosted a West Coast Constitutional Law Schmooze on Polarization and the Constitution.
Resident Scholars
Garrett Epps, Orlando J. Hollis Professor of Law, conducted research into the birthright citizenship guarantee of the 14th Amendment. Epps convened a symposium on Immigration held on January 25, 2008.
Gordon Lafer, Associate Professor at the Labor Education and Research Center and the Department of Political Science, researched issues of democracy at the workplace.
Michelle McKinley, Assistant Professor of Law, continued her groundbreaking research on race, gender and cultural citizenship. McKinley organized a symposium on Contested Citizenships.
Daniel HoSang, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies, completed his book Racial Proposition: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California. He organized a major symposium on Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century.
Distinguished Speakers
Steven M. Tipton, Emory University Professor of Religion and Sociology, Author “Public Pulpits: Religion in the Moral Argument of Public Life.”
Greg Grandin, New York University Professor of History, delivered a keynote address at a major conference on “Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America: Memory, Human Rights and Democracy.” Grandin discussed the history of U.S. involvement in Latin America and the current “transition to democracy” in historical context.
Lani Guinier, Harvard Professor of Law and Gerald Torres, Professor of Law at University of Texas, “Changing the Wind: The Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements.”
Sanford Levinson, “Wartime Presidents and the Constitution: From Lincoln to Obama” with Wayne Morse Center Senior Faculty Fellow Dan Tichenor.
Visiting Distinguished Scholars
Professor Richard Delgado, an alumni of the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, and his wife, Jean Stefancic, were Visiting Distinguished Scholars.
Wayne Morse Center Events
Film Fest - Politics of Dissent: Human Stories For Our Times
Bijou Art Cinemas
This special slate of five international, American contemporary and classic 35mm films was presented by the Eugene Weekly in conjunction with the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The films included: Medium Cool (1969), Road to Guantánamo (2006), Osama (2004), Iraq in Fragments (2006), and 12 Angry Men (1957).
Eugene Weekly Film Fest insert - published 09/27/07 (308K PDF)
Symposium — Examining Guantánamo
Organized by the Wayne Morse Fellows
A panel of experts discussed legal issues raised by the detention of prisoners at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay. Panelists included Steve Wax, the federal public defender for the District of Oregon who representing seven Guantánamo Bay detainees; Tom Johnson, legal counsel for Guantánamo Bay detainee Ihlkham Battayav; and Ibrahim Gassama, a UO law professor who has done extensive work on human rights and foreign policy issues. Garrett Epps, the 2007-08 Morse Center Resident Scholar, moderated the discussion.
Listen to Guantanámo Podcast
 Symposium — Immigration and Citizenship
A one-day symposium led by 2007-08 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar and Hollis Professor of Law Garrett Epps, featuring Kevin Johnson at the University of California–Davis, Hiroshi Motomura of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and John Eastman of Chapman University School of Law.
Speakers analyzed U.S. migration policy and argued for more openness and attention to the concept of citizenship. The morning panel featured a dialogue on the birthright citizenship guarantee of the 14th Amendment. The afternoon panel included community advocates discussing the politics of immigration policy at a local level.
Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America: Human Rights, Memory and Democracy
This major conference was organized by the UO Latin American Studies Program, particularly Professors Carlos Aguirre and Lynn Stephen. The conference featured 19 international scholars who gave papers on the search for the truth about what happened during decades of violence and repression in Latin American and the best ways to secure reconciliation and build a peaceful future.
View keynote speaker Arturo Escobar's Slide Lecture (01-31-08)
Download Arturo Escobar’s paper on Latin America at a Crossroads.
“The Imperial Presidency: Citizens and the Growth of Executive Power”
Organized by the 2008-9 Wayne Morse Center Fellows, featuring speakers from the
Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyer's Guild, Shayana (Shane) Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights and Jordan Paust, author of, Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration's Unlawful Responses in the "War" on Terror.
The panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners sought to demystify the current legal landscape on executive power and offer strategies for activists and lawyers.
“Mobilizing New Constituencies: The 2008 Elections,” a day-long event reviewing the strategies of the 2008 elections and attempts to involve new groups of voters.
“Race, Young Voters and Local Campaigns”
featured Matthew Barreto, University of Washington,
an expert on race and voting; Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and Councilor Andrea
Ortiz discussed local campaigns; and Daniel HoSang, David Rogers and Francisco Lopez discussed community-based organizations and political engagement.
“Yes We Did! Organizing Lessons from the Obama Campaign,”
with veteran campaign strategists Steve Hildebrand, Deputy Campaign Manager, Obama for America and Dan Carol, Issues and Content Director, Obama for America.
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
A two-day symposium organized by Dan HoSang, 2008-09 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar. Presentations by Michael Omi (Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley) and Howard Winant (Professor of Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara). Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the UO Department of Political Science.
Contested Citizenships Symposium
Symposium organized by 2008-9 Wayne Morse Center's Resident Scholar, Michelle McKinley.
Keynote address entitled “Immigration, Citizenship and the Concept of Space” was given by Leti Volpp, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley with comments from Linda Bosniak, Rutgers University. This event was cosponsored by the UO School of Law.
Book Events
Steve Bender, James L. and Ilene R. Hershner Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, gave a reading from his book, “One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, César Chávez, and the Dream of Dignity.” Bender's book won the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction at the November 2008 Oregon Book Awards.
Joseph Lowndes, Assistant Professor at the department of Political Science, discussed his new book "From the New Deal to the New Right."
Lowndes explores the intellectual origins of modern conservatism and the role the South has played in contemporary conservatism.
Read opening remarks by Associate Professor of Law, Robert Tsai, June 5, 2008.
(76K PDF).
Read remarks by Joseph Lowndes, June 5, 2008. (72K PDF).
"With Grit and By Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law"
Book discussion with former Justice Betty Roberts about her memoirs, a compelling story of her rise from a childhood of poverty in Texas to 13 years in the Oregon legislature and the first woman on the Oregon Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. The program featured Law School Dean Margie Paris, Oregon Supreme Court Justice Martha Walters and Morse Center Director Margaret Hallock.
Roundtable on Dan HoSang's Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California (under contract with the University of California Press).
Featuring Robert Ellis, Willamette University; Matt Lassiter, University of Michigan; and Naomi Murakawa, University of Washington.
“Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture”
Book release and signing with Rob Tsai, Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Cosponsored by the American Constitution Society. Comments by Dean Margie Paris, Professor Jim O'Fallon, and Professor Joe Lowndes.
Colloquia Series on Democratic Politics and Policy
Organized by Dan Tichenor, Senior Faculty Fellow and Knight Professor of Social Science
Stephen Skowronek, Yale University
“The Imperial Presidency and Theories of the Unitary Executive”
“Theories of the Unitary Executive” (276K PDF)
Lani Guinier, Harvard University and Gerald Torres, University of Texas at Austin
“Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements,” discussing research-in-progress on social movements and legal change.
Sandy Levinson (UT-Austin, Law)
“Constitutional Dictatorship”
Leonard Feldman, UO Political Science
“The Banality of Emergency: On the Time and Space of "Political Necessity"
Priscilla Yamin, UO Political Science, “The Nuptial Nation”
Project Grants and Other Events
Lamia Karim, Assistant Professor Dept of Anthropology, “Ambivalent Sisterhood: Feminist Legal Reform in Bangladesh.” The discussion was based on preliminary work conducted in 2007, with a project grant from the Wayne Morse Center, on feminist legal reform in the area of Family Laws in Bangladesh.
PIPS-Law Public Interest and Public Service Program: “A People’s Legislature:
Measure 58 and the Ballot Initiative Process in Oregon.”
A forum on Oregon’s direct democracy and one Measure to require English-only inssturction. Panelists included:
Bill Sizemore, Proponent of Measure 58; Steve Bender, Law professor and author of book detailing the English-only movement; Paco Furlan , Principal of River Road Elementary; Marcia Koenig, recruiter for Lane Migrant Education Services; and Alejandra Favela - Coordinator of the Bilingual Endorsement Program at Lewis & Clark College.
UO Women’s Law Forum cosponsored a symposium on “Elections Exposed: Women, Money and Politics.” Speakers included Supreme Court Justice Virginia Linder; Joan Mandle, Executive Director of Democracy Matters; Barbara Garfien, Campaign Fundraising and Management Consultant; and Oregon State Senator Suzanne Bonamici.
“Constructing a Right to Equal Education”
Camille Walsh, Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellow
Camille Walsh is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the UO and a 2008-09 Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellow. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Camille is researching the history of litigation in the struggle for equal education, beginning with Reconstruction-era cases in the late 1800's through the post-Brown v. Board era.
For a list of Project Grants for 2007-09, click HERE.
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