Law

Environmental Attorney Peter Culp

What Do You Call 10 Lawyers Chained Together at the Bottom of the Ocean?

Peter Culp is a Phoenix-based attorney who practices in the areas of water and natural resources, environmental, and federal Indian law. Before participating in a panel on how much water should cost, he explained what most Americans don’t understand about Native Americans in our country today—and admitted that he didn’t play cowboys and Indians, growing up in Vermont—in the Zócalo green room.

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San Francisco City Attorney Therese Stewart

Litigating on Behalf of What Just Might Be the Wackiest City in America

Therese Stewart is chief deputy city attorney for the City of San Francisco; she argued for the city against Proposition 8 in federal court. Before participating in a panel on …

Los Angeles Times Reporter Maura Dolan

Life On the Working Mom’s Beat

Los Angeles Times reporter Maura Dolan is based in San Francisco and covers legal affairs, including the California Supreme Court and the 9th Circuit. Before moderating a panel on what …

Legal Journalist-Turned-Scholar Henry Weinstein

A Mustard Maven With a Conscience

Henry Weinstein is a professor of law and literary journalism at UC Irvine; previously, he spent 30 years as a Los Angeles Times reporter, much of it covering legal affairs …

Supreme Court Journalist Linda Greenhouse

What I Don’t Miss About The New York Times

Linda Greenhouse covered the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2007. Currently, she is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in …


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