Hans A. Linde is a retired justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He served on the Court from 1977 to 1990 and was a member of Oregon’s Commission on Constitutional Revision from 1961 to 1963. Linde has served as a commissioner for the Oregon Law Commission since its inception in 1997. He is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Earlier in his career, Linde served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, as an attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser to the Department of State, and as legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Richard L. Neuberger. A prolific scholar, his publications include a course book in legislative and administrative processes and more than 75 articles, lectures and reviews.

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Edwin J. Peterson is a retired chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court who is frequently cited in the press as an expert on Oregon state law. He served as an associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1979 to 1993 and as chief justice from 1983 to 1991. As chief justice, he oversaw a major reorganization of the state’s judiciary system. Prior to joining the Court, he practiced law in Portland for more than 20 years with the firm of Tooze, Kerr, Peterson, Marshall & Shenker, specializing in civil tort, insurance and business litigation. In 1998, he received the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics by the National Inns of Court. The award was conferred in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, the Oregon State Bar/Oregon Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism created the Edwin J. Peterson Professionalism Award. Justice Peterson was the first recipient.

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After graduating with dual degrees from Duke University, where he served as articles editor of the Duke Law Journal, Professor Dobbins clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dobbins worked for four years in the Commercial Litigation Group of Perkins Coie LLP in Portland, Ore., and for six years in the Appellate Section of the Environment Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career, he has briefed and argued more than 50 cases in federal and state appellate courts. Dobbins joined the Willamette law faculty in 2006. He teaches Federal Courts, Administrative Law and Appellate Procedure.

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Valerie J. Vollmar is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on physician-assisted death. She has been widely interviewed by the media, including National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and “Talk of the Nation” from Washington, D.C. Professor Vollmar is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, was founding chair of the Oregon State Bar’s Elder Law Section, is former chair of the Oregon State Bar’s Estate Planning and Administration section, and served as co-chair of a committee whose work led to adoption of the Oregon Uniform Trust Code in 2005. She received the Oregon State Bar President’s Membership Service Award in both 1989 and 2005. Vollmar joined Willamette University’s College of Law in 1984.

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