- Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps (born in 1950 in Richmond,
Virginia ) is an award-winning legal scholar, novelist, and journalist. He currently is the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at theUniversity of Oregon . Epps has written two novels, including "The Shad Treatment ", which won theLillian Smith Book Award , as well as the nonfiction books ', which was published in 2001 and was a finalist for the ABA's Silver Gavel Award, and ', which was published in 2006 and is the first comprehensive history of the framing of theFourteenth Amendment .Fact|date=February 2007. "Democracy Reborn" won the 2007Oregon Book Award for non-fiction, and also was a finalist for the ABA Silver Gavel Award. He has also written numerous articles and editorials in newspapers including "The New York Times " and "The Washington Post ".Epps attended
St. Christopher's School andHarvard College , where he was the President ofThe Harvard Crimson . He later received an M.A. in Creative Writing fromHollins University , and a law degree fromDuke University , where he was first in his class. Immediately before coming to the University of Oregon, he spent a year clerking for the HonorableJohn D. Butzner of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit .Books
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The Shad Treatment " (1977)
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