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A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell’s Fight to Save the Columbia River Gorge

Bowen Blair JD ’80 pens a biography of Nancy Russell and her successful campaign to establish and protect the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Bowen tells the story of the unlikely activist who fought one of the most fiercely contested conservation battles of the 1980s, interweaving it with the natural and political history of the legendary landscape that inspired her. Oregon State University Press, 2022. 320 pages.

Animal Dignity Protection in Swiss Law—Status Quo and Future Perspectives

Gieri Bolliger LLM ’14 discusses the basic ideas, implications, challenges, and opportunities of animal dignity protection as well as its systematic embedding within Swiss law.

Breach!

Eric DeWeese JD ’09 pens his second novel, which tells the story of an ordinary protagonist’s battle with cancer. Self-published, 2020. 211 pages.

It All Comes Back to You

Farah Naz Rishi JD ’16 pens a “a multilayered coming-of-age narrative that addresses growth and identity, Islamophobia, struggles with faith, and capricious twists of fate (or divine intervention),” according to Kirkus Reviews. Quill Tree Books, 2021. 432 pages.

Seeking Tong-Shaan, Encountering Gum-Shaan: What It Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900

Doug Lee BS ’68, JD ’88 pens his first book, a study of the Cantonese people over the final 50 years of the 1800s in America. This unique examination of history will be of interest to both academic readersand the general public. Lee’s book is the first in a planned nine-volume series. Dorrance Publishing, 2023. 498 pages.

The Kylie Android

Michael Metroke BS ’75, JD ’79, MPA ’85 authors this science fiction murder mystery. The plot follows a detective tracing the path of a criminal who’s murdered an android, thereby threatening a fragile peace between Earth’s humans and their manufac- tured androids. This work is the sequel to his previous book, The Masada Affair. There’s also a third book in the works. Outskirts Press, 2022. 184 pages.

Whale’s Tails

Dale S. MacHaffie JD ’80 has written Whale’s Tails, a novel that features parallel stories told through the activities of four young friends who live in two different centuries. College students Reggie and his best friend Tom have signed on as research assistants with an Oregon State University project based out of Newport, Oregon, that involves tagging humpback whales. Reggie’s ancestor George Page and George’s friend Thomas Payne live a scary and hard existence on a whaling ship in the 1850s. Reggie, who has inherited the journal in which George recorded his adventures, finds himself transported in his dreams back to the 1850s, where he shares George and Thomas’ experiences. Whale’s Tails, which is based on the real life of George Page, is filled with current events, whale facts, scientific observations, environmental crises—and action-packed adventure.

A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma

Robert James Miller JD ’91, professor of law at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, coauthors a book that explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. 304 pages.

Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery

Micheline D’Angelis JD ’09 is the coauthor of “Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, and the International Law of Discovery,” which traces how Portugal, from the 15th century to the Brazilian independence in 1822, colonized Brazil by using the International Law Doctrine of Discovery. This article demonstrates each of the 10 elements of the Doctrine of Discovery and how they were used by Portugal to subjugate the Indigenous populations of what would come to be known as the territory of Brazil.

Bushwood Murder Augusta Mystery

Eric DeWeese JD ’09 offers a mystery in which Judge Smails is murderedon the eve of the Masters Tournament, leaving two golf families to struggle to come to terms with his death and with one another.Self-published, 2021. 249 pages.

Placebocracy and Other Ailments; A Classical Liberal Take on America Today

Mark J. Hartwig JD ’95 writes a provocative critique of the United States through the lens of traditional classical liberalism, arguing that American democracy is imperiled as a result of institutionalized ignorance on the part of its constituents. He suggests that an honest national debate is the first step toward resolving political, economic, and sociocultural problems.
Yucca Ash Press, 2020. 320 pages.

The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me

Joan Wilson JD ’96 recounts a sister’s journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. She further seeks an understanding of how the first book of Timothy, the work of Saint Paul, contributed tothe silencing of women in her once-loved Catholic Church. Boreal Books, 2021. 320 pages.

The Medal of Honor: The Evolution of America’s Highest Military Decoration

Dwight Mears JD ’17 expanded his capstone project for Lewis & Clark Law School’s Professors Tung Yin and William Funk into a thorough and meticulously documented history of the medal and its recipients. Now a retired U.S. Army major, Mears was a professor of history at West Point. 

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