Bill Long is currently a writer and legal consultant living in Salem OR. The two projects that currently occupy him are: (1) foundation consulting--legal status of foundation, goals, mission, learning about grantees, maximazation of foundation efforts-- and (2) writing a book on autism and law, focusing especially on biomedical treatments for autism. From 2003-06 he was a Visiting Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon. Before Willamette he was a litigation attorney with Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, OR (2000-03), a professor of history and government at Sterling College in KS (1990-96), interim senior pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland (1988-89), and a professor of religion and humanities at Reed College in Portland (1982-88). During a sabbatical from Reed, he was a senior editorial writer for The Oregonian (1985), Oregon's largest circulating daily newspaper.
Bill is the author or co-author of ten books and numerous articles on subjects of law, religion and history. Most of his writing these days is focused on the 3,600+ mini-essays on this web site, primarily on legal subjects, words, history, exposition of classic texts (such as Shakespeare), and reviews of current events or movies. He launched his autism "page" on November 1, 2007 and his page called "Supreme Court Times" on November 27, 2007. To date he has posted the equivalent of more than fifty-three 200 to 240-page books of mini-essays on this site.
Bill holds the B.A. and Ph. D. from Brown University in Providence, R.I., the J.D. from Willamette, the M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA and was the recipient of a prestigious DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst) award for research and dissertation writing at the University of Tuebingen, Germany (1980-81).
Bill has studied 11 languages, has taught Biblical Greek and has placed second twice and third once in the National Senior Spelling Bee. While not writing essays, Bill loves to comb through unabridged dictionaries, believing that words create worlds and bring us immediately into other realities we haven't yet explored.
His greatest delight, however, is in following the lives of his children, 26 and 21. Without them he would not know who is dating whom in the celeb world, nor would he have otherwise been acquainted with Swedish death metal music.
For a more detailed autobiographical statement, click here.
For recent ruminative autobiographical essays, click here.
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