UO School of Law honors legal scholar
Robert R Mosteller, the 22 nd
Wayne Morse Chair of Law
and Politics, will give a series
of talks beginning today
Jillian Daley
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Respected legal scholar and Duke
University law Professor Robert P.
Mosteller has_
been chosen as
the 22nd
Wayne Morse
Chair of Law
and Politics.
Mosteller will
make the first
in a series of
public address
es at 7 p.m. to
day in Room
175 of the
Knight Law
Center.
His lecture, called “New Dimen
sions of Sentencing Reform in the
Twenty-first Century,” goes well
with the two-year focus topic for the
Wayne Morse Center for Law and
Politics, “Race, Class and the Crim
inal Justice System.” This is one of
the reasons the committee repre
senting the center selected him, of
ficials said.
“We chose Professor Mosteller
because of his deep interest in crim
inal sentencing, victim rights and
evidentiary issues in criminal jus
tice, and particularly child abuse,”
Wayne Morse Center Director Mar
garet Hallock said. “He is a national
ly renowned expert in criminal jus
tice and sentence policy.”
Mosteller’s speech today will fo
cus on this core issue.
“What I’m trying to identify in
the talk are some of the factors that
changed over five years ago, which
make (sentencing) reform more
positive,” Mosteller said.
He said that these factors include
falling crime rates, tight budgets and
new ideas in sentencing theory.
“I am interested in sentencing
because it is an important end
product of the criminal process,”
"What I'm trying to
identify in the talk are
some of the factors
that changed over five
years ago/ which make
(sentencing) reform
more positive"
Robert P. Mosteller
Wayne Morse chair
Mosteller said. “This is an impor
tant time to take advantage of sev
eral factors and think about positive
changes in sentencing policy.”
After a person breaks the law,
there is a certain method to begin
mending whatever damage has
been done, he said. “There’s three
elements that need to be restored
when a crime is committed: the vic
tim, the offender and the commu
nity.”
He was a law clerk on the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Cir
cuit, and during his clerkship he
met his wife, who is also a law pro
fessor. He was chief of the trial divi
sion for the Washington, D.C., Pub
lic Defender Service and co-wrote a
book called “McCormick on Evi
dence.”
Mosteller received a bachelor’s
degree in history at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
1970, a law degree from Yale Law
School in 1975 and a master’s de
gree in public policy at Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of Govern
ment in 1975.
Wayne Morse Center Community
Coordinator Cheri Brooks said the
center picks well-known scholars
like Mosteller who are usually
avant-garde mavericks with strong
views in their field, in the tradition
of Sen. Morse himself.
Morse was one of two senators
who voted against the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution in 1964, a move
that involved U.S. troops in the
Vietnam War, Brooks said.
She added Mosteller’s experience
and knowledge makes him worthy
of being the Morse chair.
“Every year, it’s a prominent
scholar in the U.S.,” she said.
Mosteller is taking the semester
off from his professorship at Duke
to teach a two-week seminar at the
University School of Law. In addi
tion to today’s talk, he is also sched
uled to speak in Room 175 at the
Knight Law Center at 5 p.m. Nov. 5,
and from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 10.
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