| Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes are co-authors of The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country--and Why it Can Again
Eric Lane is the Eric J. Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Public Service at Hofstra University School of Law. He is the co-author of two books with the Honorable Abner J. Mikva. The first, titled, The Legislative Process, is a law school text. The second, An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative Process, is a text for law students and lawyers. Presently, he is writing a book with Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune, on the genius of the Framers and the applicability of their insights to today's political world. This book is intended to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2008. He is also the author of a number of articles on governmental decision-making.
Presently, Professor Lane is the Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center of Justice and the NYU School of Law. Through last year he has served as a special counsel to the speaker of the New York City Council. Professor Lane has also recently served as a consultant for the Justice Project of the Center for Court Innovation. From July 1993 to February 1995 he served as counsel to the New York State Temporary Commission on Constitutional Revision.
He serves on the boards of the Vera Institute of Justice and The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.
 Michael Oreskes became executive editor of The International Herald Tribune in May 2005. Previously, Mr. Oreskes was deputy managing editor of The New York Times since November 2004. In that role, he oversaw the Times Web and television content. During this time, television programs produced by the New York Times won numerous awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award, the George Polk award, the George Foster Peabody Award, Harvard's Goldsmith award, and several Emmy awards. Mr. Oreskes also supervised the Times’s relationship with The International Herald Tribune. He had been an assistant managing editor and director of electronic news since 2000.
Previously, Mr. Oreskes served as the Times' Washington Bureau Chief; during his two–year tenure bureau members won three Pulitzer Prizes. Mr. Oreskes directed the newspaper’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment trial of President Clinton.
Listen to the interview in Real Audio
 Listen to the interview in Windows Media
|
