SCOT M PETERSON

Scot M. Peterson Balliol College Oxford Oxford OX1 3BJ scot.peterson@politics.ox.ac.uk Mobile: (+44) 07427-611134
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy	Thesis Title: The Establishment And Disestablishment Of Religion In Great Britain, 1906–1936: A Comparative Historical Study Supervisor: Iain McLean, Nuffield College, Oxford Examiners: David Robertson, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford Colin Kidd, University of Glasgow (examiners’ report, no corrections, issued December 2009)
Juris Doctor	University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) Awarded June 1989
Master of Arts	The University of Chicago, Department of Political Science Awarded June 1984
	Thesis Title:	The Clear Limits of Judicial Power
	Thesis Advisors:	Dennis J. Hutchinson, University of Chicago Law School J. David Greenstone, University of Chicago Department of Political Science
Bachelor of Arts	University of Colorado at Boulder
	Political Science and magna cum laude in Philosophy
	Awarded June, 1981
	Thesis Title:	G.W.F. Hegel: A Synthesis of Freedoms
	Majors:	Political Science and Philosophy
	Awards:	Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha
EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Academic Years 2006–2012	University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations Lectures for Undergraduates: UK Politics (Prelims) Michaelmas Term, 2011 British Politics and Government (Final Honour Schools) Hilary Term, 2012 Undergraduate Training Officer, 2011-12, provided instruction for graduate students, prerequisite to their being allowed to teach undergraduates Academic Editor, Politics in Spires (blog) College Teaching and Lectureships Organizing Tutor in Politics (responsible for teaching arrangements, pastoral care and overall supervision of undergraduate politics education): Corpus Christi College, 2009-10, 2011-12 St Anne’s College, 2011-12 St Hugh’s College, 2010-11 Stipendiary Lectureships Pembroke College, 2010-12 Corpus Christi College, 2007-2011 Balliol College, 2007-2012
	Other College Teaching: St John’s, University, Magdalen, Regents Park, St Benet’s Hall, Worcester, Hertford
Academic Years 2007-10	Reading University, School of Politics and International Relations Sessional Lecturer United Kingdom Politics, 1960–2005 United States Government Introduction to Politics
Academic Years 1982–86	The Kiski School Saltsburg, Pennsylvania Secondary Education in a College Preparatory Boarding School

PAPERS TAUGHT

University of Oxford

Politics Prelims (United Kingdom, United States and German Government)

Politics 201, Comparative Government

Politics 202, British Politics and Government since 1900

Politics 205, Government and Politics of the United States

Reading University

PO2AmG, American Government and Politics

PO3UKP, United Kingdom Politics, 1960–2005

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

· ‘A Uniform British Establishment’ in Mark Chapman, Judith Maltby and William Whyte, eds., The Established Church: Past, Present and Future (T&T Clark, 2011) (with Iain McLean).

· ‘Recent Developments In Church-State Relations In Scotland’ in R. Morris (ed.) Church and State in 21^st Century Britain (Palgrave, 2009) (with Frank Cranmer and Marjory MacLean).

Articles

· ‘Secularity and Secularism in the United Kingdom: On the Way to the First Amendment’ Brigham Young University Law Review 2011:637 (with Iain McLean).

· ‘Entrenching the Establishment and Free Exercise of Religion in the Written UK Constitution’ International Journal of Constitutional Law 9(1):230 (2011) (with Iain McLean).

· ‘Adam Smith at the Constitutional Convention’ Loyola Law Review 56:95 (2010) (with Iain McLean).

· ‘Rational Choice, Religion and the Marketplace: Where Does Adam Smith Fit In?’ Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48(1):186 (2009).

· ‘Employment, Sex Discrimination and the Churches: The Percy Case’ Ecclesiastical L.J. 8:392 (July 2006) (with Frank Cranmer).

· ‘Of Wheat, the Church in Wales and the West Lothian Question’ Welsh History Review /Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 23(3):151 (2007) (with Iain McLean).

· ‘Beerheide v. Suthers: A Case Study Concerning Religion in Prisons in the U.S.A.’ Ecclesiastical L.J. 8:67 (January 2005).

Reviews

· John Maiden, National Religion and the Prayer Book Controversy, 1927–28, Parliamentary History 30(2): 279 (2011).

· Anthony Bradney, Law and Faith in a Secular Age, Ecclesiastical L.J. 12: 252 (May 2010).

· Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution: Establishment and Fairness, Ecclesiastical L.J. 11: 229 (May 2009).

· Douglas Stalker, ed. GRUE! The New Riddle of Induction, Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie (June, 1995).

Working Papers/Under Submission

· Iscariot’s Purse: Church Finance, Vested Interests and British Religious Establishment, 1886–1936 (revision of D.Phil. thesis for commercial publication; manuscript under preparation).

· Some Economic, Demographic and Political Aspects of the Disruption of the Church of Scotland: A Rational Response to Regulation (manuscript under preparation), presented at the Symposium on Religion and Politics, Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT

January 1996 –

August 2004

Koff, Corn & Berger, P.C.

Denver, Colorado

Complex Civil Rights, Civil and Commercial Litigation including Trials and Appeals

January 1995 –

December 1995

Scot M. Peterson, Attorney at Law

Sole Practitioner, Specializing in Litigation with an emphasis on Civil Rights, Business and Employment Law

September 1989 –

December 1994

Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor & Pascoe, P.C.

Denver, Colorado

Commercial Litigation including Commercial Bankruptcy and Complex Financial Litigation

AWARDS, AFFILIATIONS

· OxTalent, Oxford University Teaching Award, 2010

· William R. Miller Bursary, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (two-year bursary equivalent to accommodation costs for college living accommodation)

· Current Member

o Royal Historical Society

o American Political Science Association

o Ecclesiastical Law Society

o Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

· Martindale-Hubbell Rating (Professional Peer Rating for Attorneys in the U.S.):

AV (highest professional competence and ethical standards)

· Guest Lecturer, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado — Episcopal Canon Law

and Religious and Legal Issues: Spring, 1998; Spring, 2000, Spring, 2002

SELECTED PUBLISHED CASES

SGI Air Holdings II LLC v. Novartis Intern’l AG

239 F.Supp.2d 1161 (D. Colo. 2003)*

SGI Air Holdings II LLC v. Novartis Intern’l AG

International commercial litigation concerning the sale of a private jet; resolved when the United States court asserted jurisdiction over a Swiss corporation located in Basel, reversing its previous published decision in the same case

192 F.Supp.2d 1195 (D. Colo. 2002)*

Beerheide v. Suthers

286 F.3d 1179 (10th Cir. 2002)†*

Beerheide v. Suthers

82 F.Supp. 2d 1190 (D.Colo. 2000)†*

Beerheide v. Zavaras

Preliminary injunction, final judgment and affirmance on appeal of claims by Orthodox Jewish inmates in the Colorado Department of Corrections seeking a kosher diet

997 F.Supp. 1405 (D. Colo. 1998)†*

Jones v. Denver Post Corp.

Civil rights claims by African-American employees of newspaper reinstated, in part, on appeal from adverse judgment by court of first instance

203 F.3d 748 (10th Cir. 2000)†*

Copeland v. MBNA America Bank, N.A

907 P.2d 87 (Colo. 1995)

Copeland v. MBNA America Bank, N.A

Colorado precedents in nationwide challenge to certain fees imposed on credit-card holders under the National Bank Act

883 P.2d 564 (Colo. App. 1994)

Evans v. Romer

Successful challenge to a state constitutional amendment, which prohibited minority status civil-rights protection by municipalities based upon sexual orientation, affirmed in Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996)

854 P.2d 1270 (Colo. 1993)(amicus curiae)*

*Principal Responsibility for Briefing

† Principal Responsibility for Trial, Oral Argument

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