Eric Alan Isaacson
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | attorney |
| Location | La Jolla, California, United States |
| Introduction | I am a lawyer with a national law firm and teach Sunday school at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego. I am an occasional contributor to legal journals, with scholarship recently published in the Pierce Law Review and the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. I from time to time represent religious organizations, including the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations and the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry California as amici curiae or “friends of the court” in litigation concerning fundamental liberties and religious freedom. I was, for example, on the team of attorneys filing an Interfaith brief in California’s Marriage Cases where my Unitarian Universalist clients were joined by the California Council of Churches, California Faith for Equality, the Union for Reform Judaism, the United Church of Christ, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, dozens of additional religious organizations, and hundreds of California congregations and clergy, supporting civil marriage as a fundamental civil right for all Californians. I live with my wife, Susan Kay Weaver, and our three children in San Diego’s East County. |
| Interests | first amendment, church and state, religion, civil rights, same-sex marriage, constitutional history, liberal theology, liberal religion, religious liberalism, religious pluralism, the absolute perhaps, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian history, Universalist history, corporate governance, securities litigation, appellate procedure |
| Favorite movies | Annie Hall, (Woody Allen 1977);, My Dinner with Andre, (Louis Malle 1981);, Land and Freedom, (Ken Loach 1995);, Amistad, (Steven Spielberg 1997);, Eraserhead, (David Lynch 1977);, Titicut Follies, (Frederick Wiseman 1967);, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones 1975) |
| Favorite music | Thomas Morley, (1558(?)-1602);, John Dowland, (1563-1626);, John Playford, (1623-1686);, Henry Purcell, (1659(?)-1695);, Antonio Vivaldi, (1678-1741);, Johann Sebastian Bach, (1685-1750);, George Frideric Handel, (1685-1759);, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (1756-1791);, W.S. Gilbert, (1836-1911) [Gilbert & Sullivan];, Arthur Sullivan, (1842-1900) [Gilbert & Sullivan];, Jerome Kern, (1885-1945);, Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, (1885(?)-1941);, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, (1886-1939);, Irving Berlin, (1888-1989);, Spencer Williams, (1889-1965);, Cole Porter, (1891-1964);, Bessie Smith, (1894-1937);, Lorenz "Larry" Hart, (1895-1943) [Rodgers & Hart];, Ethel Waters, (1896-1977);, George Gershwin, (1898-1937);, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, (1899-1974);, Louis Armstrong, (1901-1971);, Richard Rodgers, (1902-1979) [Rodgers & Hart];, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller, (1904-1943);, Jack Teagarden, (1905-1964);, Harold Arlen, (1905-1986);, Victoria Spivey, (1906-1976);, Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, (1910-1953);, Billie Holiday, (1915-1959);, Ella Fitzgerald, (1917-1996);, Thelonious Sphere Monk, (1917-1982);, Charles Mingus, (1922-1979);, John Coltrane, (1926-1967);, Eric Dolphy, (1928-1960);, James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, (1942-1970);, Mike Watt, (1957- ) [The Minutemen; Firehose];, Jello Biafra, (né Eric Reed Boucher) (1958- ) [Dead Kennedys];, d. boon, (né Dennis Dale Boon) (1958-1985) [The Minutemen];, George Hurley, (1958- ) [The Minutemen];, The Minutemen, (1980-1985) [d. boon (Dennis Dale Boon) (1958-1985), on guitar, Mike Watt (1957- ) on bass, and George Hurley on drums) |
| Favorite books | Francois Marie Voltaire's "Candide" (1759) and "Philosophical Dictionary" (1764), Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792), Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), Peter Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution" (1902), Dorothy Parker's "Enough Rope" (1926) "Sunset Gun" (1927) and "Death and Taxes" (1931), e.e. cummings's "Complete Poems 1904-1962" (rev. ed.1994), Stephen Jay Gould's "Ever Since Darwin" (1977) "The Panda's Thumb" (1980) and Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes" (1983), Dr. Seuss's "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories" (1958), Erich Origen & Gan Golan's "Goodnight Bush" (2008) |