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Orlando John & Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law Contact Room 337 Phone: (541) 346-1578 Email Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps is the Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law, and has published numerous books, scholarly articles, and articles for general audiences in the field of constitutional law and civil rights. In 2007-2008, Professor Epps is the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics Resident Scholar, and on January 25, 2008, will convene a symposium at the Center on the topic of "Immigration and Citizenship." Professor Epps's most recent book, Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America (2006), was a finalist for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. A novelist and former journalist, Professor Epps is a former staff writer for the Washington Post, and has also written for, inter alia, The New York Times, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books.

Professor Epps joined the faculty after clerking for the Honorable John O. Butzner, Jr., of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia. He earned both his LL.M. (in Comparative and International Law) and his J.D. from Duke University, where he served as Articles Editor of Law and Contemporary Problems. Prior to attending law school, Professor Epps earned his M.A. in English Writing from Hollins College in 1975, and his B.A. from Harvard College in 1972, where he was Editor of the Harvard Crimson.

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