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Publications | Presentations
The law's ability to apply principled methods of using state power to resolve human disputes in a fair, thoughtful, and honest manner motivated John Gorby to pursue a legal career. His interest in the role of power and injustice led him, after law school, to a German Exchange Fellowship and an assistantship with Professor Herman Mosler, a judge on the European Court of Human Rights and, later, Permanent Judge on the International Court of Justice.
Thereafter, Professor Gorby served as first assistant state's attorney for McHenry County, as public defender of McDonough County, as legal director of the AUL Legal Defense Fund, and as an environmental lawyer. In choosing to teach the law, Professor Gorby saw an opportunity to convey to future lawyers his love and passion for principled legal solution.
Professor Gorby joined the faculty in 1974. He teaches Constitutional Law, Evidence, and Philosophy of Law.
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Publications
Application for Mediation of Charles Gyude Bryant: Former chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Economic Community of West African States, 2008
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Presentations
"In vitro Fertilization and the Abortion Controversy," at the Virginia State Bar Association, 1982, broadcast later on National Public Radio.
"I'd Rather Be a Fiji," at the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Banquet, 1986, a speech about racism in American College Fraternities.
"Doing Politics in the United States Supreme Court," at the Universities at Cologne, Mainz, Saarbruecken and Bielefeld and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, 1988.
"Weighing Evidence in 'Right to Die' Cases," at conference sponsored by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled and Georgetown University, entitled, "Current Controversies in the Right to Live, Right to Die," April 1989.
"On the Constitution, Lawyers, Theologians and the Abortion Problem," Trinity International University Founders' Lecture, February 1996.
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