Biographical Information of Symposium Participants - Biographical Information

• Citation: Vol. 58 No. 3
• Publication year: 2007

Using Metaphor in Legal Analysis and Communication

A Symposium of the Mercer Law Review

Friday, November 10, 2006

Biographical Information of Participants

Mark L. Johnson . . . Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon . . . Education: University of Kansas (B.A., 1971); University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1977) . . . Experience: Previous Professor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. . . Publications: Co-author with George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By (1980); Co-author with George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western thought (1999); the body in the mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason (1987); moral imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics (1993); The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (2007).

Steven L. Winter . . . Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law, Wayne State University School of Law . . . Education: Yeshiva University (B.A., 1974); Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1977) . . . Previous Judicial Clerkship: Honorable Paul R. Hays, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . . . Experience: Previous Professor, Brooklyn Law School (1997-2002); Previous Professor, University of Miami School of Law (1986-1997); Previously taught at American University School of Law, Washington College of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Rutgers-Newark School of Law, and Yale University School of Law; Served as Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Representative Experience in civil rights cases including Guthrie v. Evans (Georgia State Prison case), Tennessee v. Garner (U.S. Supreme Court, 1985, landmark case holding the common law fleeing felon rule unconstitutional) (1978-1986); Served as a consultant for the Helsinki Watch Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency; Filed brief in the United States Supreme Court in 2001 on behalf of Intellectual Property Creators and the Society of Amateur Scientists as amici curiae in Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd., 532 U.S. 722 (2002), using developments in cognitive linguistics to argue successfully against reliance on the literal language in patent law . . . Publications: A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life and Mind (2001).

Michael Goldberg . . . Currently provides hospice education to the public and chaplaincy support to terminally ill patients and their caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area...