Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
Legal and Professional
“Journey Up the Mountain of Justice.”
Remarks on Child Abuse Cases to National Crime Victims Bar Association Conference, New Orleans, 2012.
“Kerry Lewis v Boy Scouts of America,” presentation of closing trial argument, as part of Portland Daily Journal of Commerce’s “Battle of the Lawyers.” Kelly’s presentation was awarded the People’s Choice award for the event.
“Child Sexual Abuse and Other Related Torts,” Chapter 4 in Oregon State Bar’s Publication of Torts, 2012.
“Engineering the Perfect Storm: The Trial of Jack Doe 4 vs Boy Scouts of America,” Chapter 27 in Bill Barton, Recovering for Psychological Injuries (ATLA, TrialGuides, 2010).
“Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse,”
Oregon State Bar, Continuing Legal Education Series
Portland, September 16, 2010.
“Child Sexual Abuse: Lessons Learned from 15 Years in the Courtrooms”
Guest Speaker, Ohio Trial Lawyers Association,
Columbus, Ohio,
May 14, 2009.
“Institutional Child Abuse: Not Just A Catholic Thing,”
William Mitchell Law School,
St Paul, Minnesota,
April 24, 2009
(published at Wm Mitchell Law Review, Volume 31, issue 1: http://www.wmitchell.edu/lawreview/36_I.html ).
“A Chance at Justice:
Strong Jury System the Best Guard against Big Government,”
Brainstorm Magazine,
Feb, 2009.
“Vocare: What it Means to Be Called as a Professing Lawyer”
Baccalaureate Address,
Lewis and Clark Law School,
Portland, Oregon.
May 25, 2007
“The Silent Survivors: Struggles do not End with the Banging of a Gavel”–
Editorial on the End of the Portland Archdiocese Bankruptcy,
Eugene Register Guard,
April 29, 2007
“Scars Will Linger, But Truth is the Best Healing Agent,”
Guest Editorial on the End of the Portland Archdiocese Bankruptcy,
The Oregonian,
April 22, 2007
“Observations from a Peculiar Lampost — Reflections of a Christian Trial Lawyer on Fifteen Years of Suing the Church,”
University of Portland
April 14, 2007
Publ. in The American Experiment–Religious Freedom,
(Margaret Monahan, et al, eds, 2008).
“Of Compelling Interest—
Religious Liberty Issues in the Priest Abuse Cases,”
Co-authored with Kristian S. Roggendorf and Peter B. Janci,
Oregon Law Review, Spring, 2007.
“Empowering Those We Represent,”
The Warrior, Journal of the Trial Lawyers College,
Winter, 2007.
“Government as Brothel: What’s Your Pleasure, Honey?”
One Nation United National Conference on Federal Tribal Gaming Policy,
Washington, D.C.,
November 14, 2006.
“On Suing the Church: A Christian Trial Lawyer Reflects on a Decade of the Catholic Sex Abuse Cases,”
Remarks Given at Lewis and Clark Law School,
November 8, 2006.
“The DaVinci Code, Opus Dei and Self-Flagellation—
Why We Have Too Much Free Speech in Oregon.”
Debate at City Club of Portland,
June 16, 2006.
“What My Mother Said Not to Do:
Religion and Politics at the Dinner Table—
How Both the Left and the Right Oversimplify Church-State Questions,”
Remarks Given at Pomona College, California, Public Affairs Debate,
April 14, 2006.
”Religious Liberty Issues in the Priest Abuse Cases,”
Presentation to University of Oregon Law School O’Connell Symposium,
Portland, March 24, 2006,
published in Oregon Law Review, Spring 2007, referenced above.
“The Right to Die? Hard Questions about Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act,” Oregon State Bar CLE Seminar,
Portland, September 15, 2005.
”Talk About Chutzpah: A Christian Talks to Jews about the Ten Commandments—and other Recent Developments up on the Mountain,”
Presentation to Solomon’s Legacy Jewish Legal Federation,
June 9, 2005, Portland.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board,
Proving Mental and Emotional Injuries, by John Winer,
James Publishing, 2005.
“Building a Culture of Dialogue,”
Participation in Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council (discussion of media coverage of high-profile cases), Portland, May, 2005.
“Court’s Sound, Sane Ruling Can’t Undo County’s Damage,”
The Oregonian, Guest Commentary on Same Sex Marriage Case,
April 15, 2005.
”Middle Earth, Middle-Oregon and Mordor:
A Modern Fellowship of the Ring,”
Remarks on the Passage of Constitutional Amendment 37,
Oregonians in Action Annual Conference, March 12, 2005.
”Emerging Issues in Oregon Constitutional Law,”
Presentation to Oregon Law Institute Seminar,
Portland, December, 2004.
“Recent Developments in Constitutional Law,”
Oregon State Bar Annual Convention,
Portland, October, 2004.
”Why the Pledge is Constitutional: A Nuanced View,”
US District Court Historical Society,
Summer, 2004.
“The Same-Sex Marriage Debate,”
Oregon State Bar Seminar,
June, 2004.
”The Gay Marriage Debate,”
Lewis and Clark College Chronicle,
Summer, 2004.
“County Process was an Insult to the Public,”
Invited Guest Editorial,
The Oregonian, March 4, 2004.
“Why I Said Yes: a Defense of the Defense of Marriage”
Brainstorm NW Magazine, May, 2004.
“Mock Closing Arguments in Priest Sex Abuse Cases,”
Guest lecture at Oregon Association of Defense Counsel
Annual Convention, June, 2003.
”On Using All of the Arrows in the Quiver,”
Oregon Administrative Law Newsletter,
June, 2002..
“Suffer the Little Children: On the Catholic Priest Abuse Cases,”
The Warrior, Journal of the Trial Lawyers College,
Summer, 2002.
“The Art of Advocacy,” Speech on Public Speaking,
Oregon Campaign Institute, 1996 – 2010.
”Marbury v Madison, Oregon Style: A Short History of the Sudden and Untimely Death of the Initiative,”
Co-Authored with Ross Day, Esquire,
Brainstorm NW Magazine, June 2001.
“The Oregon APA,”
Chapter in Administrative Law Treatise
Oregon State Bar, 2001.
“Government’s Reaction to Measure 7 is Symbolic of Larger Problem,”
co-authored with Eric Winters, Esquire,
The Oregonian, December 10, 2000.
“Charter Schools: Chartered and Unchartered Waters,”
Remarks and Article, Lorman Educational Seminar and Publication,
June 2000.
“Abuse and Harassment in Schools,”
Presentation to CLE Seminar,
Professional Development Network, May 2000.
“Immunities and Other Obstacles to Recovery Against Public Entities,”
Article in Constitutions and Torts,
Oregon State Bar and Oregon Law Institute, 1999.
“Political Responses to Constitutional Decisions,”
Article in Constitutional Law II: Law and Politics of Constitutional Cases,
Oregon Law Institute, 1996.
Non-Legal Presentations:
“The Gospel of Bill (W)–
What the Churches Can Learn from the Twelve Step Programs,”
Three-part seminar and accompanying homily,
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Fall, 2011.
Also given at Trinity Episcopal Church, Ashland, Oregon, July, 2010.
“How to Fail. Lessons from an Expert,”
–Salem Downtown Rotary, Dec. 14, 2006,
–Lake Oswego Leadership Forum, Fall 2005, 2006.
“Unmasking our Politics, or, Why God is not a Republican – or a Democrat.” Three-part Seminar, Sunset Presbyterian Church,
Portland, October-November, 2004.
“What Unites Us,” Homily given at Trinity Episcopal Church,
Ashland, Oregon, March, 2003.
“Christian Perspectives on Hotbutton Political Issues,”
A three-part Lenten lecture/seminar given at Trinity Episcopal Church, Ashland, Oregon, March, 2003.
“War and Peace from Augustine to Bonhoeffer:
Thoughts on September 11,”
Three-part Lecture/Workshop
Trinity Episcopal Church, Ashland, Oregon, October, 2001.
“Faith Perspectives on Contemporary Issues,”
Six-part Lenten Lectures
Episcopal Parish of St. John the Baptist, Portland, Spring, 2000.
Honors and Distinctions
2012 Recipient, Sparks of Hope Foundation Award
for advocacy on behalf of victims of child sexual abuse.
2012, Vice Chancellor’s Scholar, United Faculty of Theology,
Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia
2010 Recipient, Stanton Archer Prize for Academic Excellence in the field of Church History, United Faculty of Theology/Melbourne College of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia.
2004 Nominee, Oregon Trial Lawyers’ Association’s “Arthur Bryant Public Justice Award” for work on child abuse cases.
2001 Graduate, Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, Jackson, Wyoming.
1991 Recipient, Outstanding Young Alumnus, Lewis & Clark College.
1991 Recipient, Outstanding Legislative Leadership Award, Oregon Juvenile Department Directors Association.
1989 Recipient, Certificate of Commendation, ACLU
1983 Recipient, Environmental Law Certificate, Lewis & Clark Law School.
