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Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2010

The Interdisciplinary DifferenceAlso New Faculty And Law Asia

G E O R G E T O W N L A W

G E O R G E T O W N L A WSpr ing/Summer 2010

ANNE CASSIDYEditor

ANN W. PARKSStaff Writer

BRENT FUTRELLMEGAN McCARTHYDesigners

ELISSA FREEExecutive Director of Communications

KARA TERSHELDirector of Media Relations

JAMES COLVARDWeb Designer/Developer

MARY ANN DEROSA, ANNE FEROLA, MIDGE GARDNER, MARGARET GARIGAN, JEFF GIBSON, MIKE HOLMES, KIM KETTIG, FRANCISCO MARTINEZ, MELISSA McCULLOUGH, CHUCK REAM, CHRISTINE STURGESContributors

MATTHEW F. CALISEDirector of Alumni Affairs

MARY MATHERONExecutive Director of Development

KEVIN T. CONRY (L’86)Vice President for Strategic Development and External Affairs

JUDITH AREENInterim Dean of the Law CenterPaul Regis Dean Professor of Law

On the cover: Professors Laura Donohue, Melissa Henke, Christopher Brummer, Howard Shelanski, Joshua Teitelbaum and Philomila Tsoukala.

Cover Photo by Rhoda BaerBack Cover Photo by Sam Hollenshead

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Letter from the Editor

In this issue of Georgetown Law, we celebrate the accomplishments of our former dean, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, now United Nations deputy high commissioner for

refugees, and express gratitude to Interim Dean Judith Areen for guiding us until a permanent dean is found.

One of Dean Aleinikoff ’s legacies to this institution is his energetic outreach to the world and his belief in the importance of ideas. In this issue of the magazine, we write about the “Interdisciplinary Difference,” the notion that ideas know no bound-aries and that the practice of law is enhanced by thinking wide and thinking deep. It goes beyond the fact that many Law Center professors have advanced degrees in other disciplines — although this is certainly part of it. (See the article on new faculty on page 10.) It harkens back to an older model of the law. As Professor Robin West likes to tell her Law and Humanities seminar students, elite lawyers living in Thomas Jefferson’s time “were supposed to know everything, because it was from everything that you learned the true laws of the universe. You learned the true laws of the universe so that you could understand the role that man’s law was playing.” (See article page 32.)

You’ll find further praise of interdisciplinarity in the alumni essay (page 74) by Paul Secunda (L’97), an associate professor at Marquette University Law School, who writes that Section 3, the innovative curriculum that combines law with other disciplines, made a world of difference in his legal education.

One of the ways Georgetown Law enriches its curriculum, faculty and student body is through Law Asia. Jesuit involvement in Asia is several centuries old, and Georgetown Law is continuing that tradition in many ways. (See article page 40.)

Our faculty article (page 28) is a “Letter from London” by Professors Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Franz Werro, the current co-directors of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. They share a mid-year report on this unique institution.

Inside you will also find (page 50) the first of an occasional feature called “In Class,” in which we take you inside a Georgetown Law classroom. This time around it’s a seminar on Bioethics and the Law, taught by Professor Patricia King.

As you probably know, this winter brought unprecedented snow to Washington, D.C. Enjoy this view of our transformed campus, and, now that the snow has melted, come visit us soon. As always, we welcome your comments. Write a letter, send an e-mail — let us know what you’d like to read.

JOSHUA NELSON

Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2010

G E O R G E T O W N L A W

58 Alumninotices

61 inmemoriAm

70 clecAlendAr

71 AlumniProfiles

76 AlumnicAlendAr

78 Alumnievents

10 OntheCover:DynamicNewcomersMaketheirMark ByAnnW.Parks

28 FacultyArticle:LetterfromLondon ByCarrieMenkel-MeadowandFranzWerro

32 TheInterdisciplinaryDifference ByAnnW.Parks

40 LawAsia ThesumofGeorgetown’sLawAsiaismuchmorethanitsparts

ByAnnW.Parks

50 InClass ThefirstofanoccasionalfeatureinwhichwesitinonLawCenterclasses

ByAnneCassidy

74 AlumniEssay:ItAllAddsuptoSection3 ByPaulSecunda(L’97)

2 fAcultynotes

14 lectures&events

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OnJanuary30,T.AlexanderAleinikoffsteppeddownasdeanoftheLawCenterandexecutivevicepresident

ofGeorgetownUniversitytoassumethepositionofUnitedNationsdeputyhighcommissionerforrefugeesinGeneva,Switzerland.DeanEmeritaJudithAreen,thePaulRegisDeanProfessorofLaw,isservingasinterimdeanuntilapermanentreplacementisnamed.

“Ithasbeenanextraordinaryprivilegetoserveasdeanforfiveandahalfyears,”Aleinikoffsaidinastatement.“Onecan-notwalkourhalls,talkwithourstudents,ormeetwithouralumniwithoutappreciatingtheremarkablecommunitythatthriveshere.Ourreachisbroad;ourbondsaredeep.”

Sincebecomingdeanin2004,Aleinikoffhasthoughtbig:Heinitiatedinnovativeprograms,recruitedtalentednewfacul-tyandhelpedensurethatthestudentbodyismoreimpressiveeveryyear.Hecreatednewopportunitiesforalumnioutreachandsuccessfulfundraisingefforts,andhestronglysupportedtheLawCenter’spublicservicetraditions,includingitstop-rankedclinicalprogramsanditsLoanRepaymentAssistanceProgram.

Aleinikoffhasakeeninterestinhowideascrossbordersandthuswasinstrumentalinthe2006establishmentofWeekOne,theinnovativeprogramthatgivesfirst-yearstudentsachancetoputtheirlawschoolexperienceintoaninternationalperspective.HewasalsoacrucialcatalystfortheLindaandTimothyO’NeillInstituteforNationalandGlobalHealthLaw,apremiercenterforhealth,lawandpolicy,in2007,andforthe

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first-of-its-kindCenterforTransnationalLegalStudiesintheheartofLondon’slegalquarterin2008.

“TheO’NeillInstituteandtheCenterforTransnationalLegalStudieshavestrengthenedtheLawCenter’spositionasaleadingtransnationallawschoolintheUnitedStatesandplacedGeorge-townattheforefrontofthemostpressingissuesofourtimeonaglobalscale,”PresidentJohnJ.DeGioiasaidinastatementan-nouncingAleinikoff ’sdeparture.

Duringhistimeasdean,Aleinikoffgavetheimpressionofbeingeverywhereatonce.HetraveledtoEuropeandAsiatoes-tablishCTLSandtostarttheEuropeanandAsianalumniadvi-soryboards.Heintroducedspeakersandhosteddignitaries.TheDrinanandDennychairsandtheWeidenbruch,SaundersandDelaneyprofessorshipswereallestablishedduringhistenure.AndtheCenteronNationalSecurityandtheLaw,theCenterfortheStudyoftheLegalProfessionandtheSandraDayO’ConnorProj-

ectontheStateoftheJudiciaryalsobenefitedfromhisinsightandencouragement.

ButwhileAleinikoffdedicatedhimselftotheLawCenter’sfuture,hedidnotoverlookitspresent.Headdednewelectivestothecurriculumandenhancedthelegalresearchandwritingprogram.Morethantwodozenstellarnewfacultymemberswerehiredwhilehewasatthehelm,andtheLawCenterexperiencedsomeofitsstrongestadmissionsseasonsever.Asthousandsofstu-dentsmatriculated,thousandsmorewentoutintotheworld,J.Ds,LL.MsorS.J.Dsinhand.

NomissionwasmoreimportanttoAleinikoffthanGeorge-town’sJesuitcallingtoserveothers.Lawclinicsflourisheddur-inghistenure,asdidanenhancedLoanRepaymentAssistanceProgram,whichmakesiteasierforstudentstochoosecareersingovernmentornonprofits.InannouncingtheJusticeAgendaintheFall’09issueofGeorgetown Lawmagazine,Aleinikoffsaidthatjus-

Clockwise from top left: Dean Aleinikoff with former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the late Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J. (L’49, LL.M.‘51), and current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; with Sen. Patrick Leahy (L’64); former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr.; and writer John Grisham.

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ticeandthepublicinterestprogramsthatpromoteitare“theheartandsoulofwhatwedohere.”

AleinikoffraisedthepublicprofileoftheLawCenter.Hecre-atedtheGeorgetownLawForum,whichattractedspeakersrang-ingfromformerTreasurySecretaryHenryPaulsonJr.toGen.Da-vidPetraeus.Asthefounderandhostof“OnPoint@GeorgetownLaw,”AleinikoffinterviewedformerSupremeCourtJusticeSandraDayO’Connor,JusticeStephenBreyer,authorJohnGrishamandothers.HisinterestinelectroniccommunicationsledhimtocreatetheDeanpageandtochampionothernewformsoftechnology.

InacceptingtheUNHCRposition,Aleinikoffreturnedtohisacademicrootsasanimmigrationlawscholar.ThefirstclasshetaughtattheLawCenterin1997wasRefugeeLaw.Beforecom-inghere,AleinikoffservedasgeneralcounselandthenexecutiveassociatecommissionerforprogramsattheU.S.ImmigrationandNaturalizationService.Healsoco-chairedtheImmigrationPolicy

ReviewTeamforPresidentBarackObama’stransitionlastyear.Inhisnewposition,Aleinikoffissecondincommandofanorganiza-tionthatserves34millionpeoplearoundtheworld.

“IamnotabletoexpressadequatelymygratitudetothosewithwhomIhaveworked,”Aleinikoffwroteinhisfarewellmessage.“IhavebeenproudeverydayasDeantobeamemberofthiscommu-nity,andIlookforwardtoreturningtoteachingandscholarshipatGeorgetownuponcompletionofmytermofserviceatUNHCR.”

Incelebrationofhismanyinterestsandaccomplishments,thesephotosprovideaglimpseofDeanAleinikoff ’sfiveandahalfyearsatGeorgetownLaw.

Clockwise from top left: Dean Aleinikoff at the opening of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London with Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia (first row, far left) and other founding deans; with Karen Pierce, director of wellness promotion, on a “run with the dean” in 2007; with former Solicitor General Paul Clement and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; and with Father Drinan.

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Clockwise from top left: Dean Aleinikoff with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Gay Johnson McDougall and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia in 2006; with Senior Assistant Dean Everett Bellamy and the Hoya mascot at Home Court; with retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, retired Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and David Souter, Justice Stephen Breyer and DeGioia; with Director Li Liangdong of China’s Central Party School; with Visiting Professor Ladislas Orsy, S.J.; and receiving a farewell gift from Vice President of Stategic Development Kevin Conry earlier this year.

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GeorgetownLawProfessorRichard

Lazarusknewfromthetimehewasa

16-year-oldhigh-schoolstudentinIllinois

thathewantedtobeanenvironmentallaw

professor.AndonFebruary3,Georgetown

LawhonoredLazaruswiththeJusticeWil-

liamJ.Brennan,Jr.Professorship,named

forthelateSupremeCourtjurist.“Rich-

ardisverymuchthekindofenvironmental

lawyerthatJusticeBrennanwouldlike,”

saidProfessorPeterByrne,whointroduced

Lazarus.

InterimDeanJudithAreenwelcomed

theguests,includingChiefJusticeJohnG.

RobertsJr.andhiswife,JaneSullivanRob-

erts(L’84),andmembersoftheLazarus

family,includinghiswife,JeannetteAustin

(LL.M.’10).Theprofessorship,madepos-

siblebyananonymousgiftfromaGeorge-

townLawalumnus,wasestablishedto

honorthelifeandlegacyofthelateJustice

Brennan,afoundingmemberofGeorge-

townLaw’sBoardofVisitorsandavisiting

facultymemberattheLawCenterfollow-

inghisretirementin1990.“WhenDean

Aleinikoffinformedmethatmychairwas

namedafterJusticeBrennan,Icouldnot

havebeenmorepleasedorhonoredbythe

affiliation,”saidLazarus.

Inhisinvestitureaddress,Lazarus—

thefounderandco-directorofGeorgetown

Law’sSupremeCourtInstitutewhohas

arguedbeforetheCourt13times—took

theaudienceonatouroftwoofhisfavor-

itetopics:environmentallawandSupreme

Courtdecision-making.Lazarussingled

outcasespertainingtotheNationalEn-

vironmentalPolicyAct,whichrequires

governmentagenciestopreparestatements

onhowaproposedfederalprojectorac-

tionwillaffecttheenvironment.Although

environmentalistshavelosteveryoneof

the16NEPAcasesbroughtbetween1976

and2008(“that’squitesomethinginterms

ofstreaks,”hejoked),Lazarusshowed

thatsomelossesactuallyservedtobolster

theact.Andheendedthelectureonthis

optimisticnote:“Ourstudentsgoontodo

greatthings,perhapsmaybeevensomeday

towinaNEPAcasebeforetheSupreme

Court.”

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georgetown.edu/webcast/eventDetail.

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SchragBecomesDelaneyFamilyProfessor

Duringhisinvestitureaddressasthe

firstDelaneyFamilyProfessorof

PublicInterestLawlastSeptember,Profes-

sorPhilipSchragquotedAlbertEinstein,

whosaid,“Strivingforsocialjusticeisthe

mostvaluablethingtodoinlife.”

“Publicinterestlawyersspendtheir

livesinthatpursuit,”Schragsaid.Direct-

inghisremarkstostudentsconsideringa

careerinpublicinterestlaw,Schragof-

feredalistofcompellingreasonstofollow

thispath—includingthesharedmission

amonglike-mindedlawyers,thecamarade-

riewithinthelargerpublicinterestcom-

munityandthelargedegreeofresponsibil-

itygiventorecentgraduates.

Thenewprofessorshipismadepossible

throughthegenerosityofAprilMcClain-

Delaney(L’89)andJohnK.Delaney(L’88),

anditrecognizestheimportantrolethat

GeorgetownLawfacultymembersplayin

preparingpublicinterestlawyersandin

contributingscholarshipthatfurthersthe

causeofjustice.TheDelaneys,whomet

attheLawCenter,areactivealumni,serv-

ingontheUniversity’sBoardofDirectors

(John)aswellastheLawCenter’sBoardof

Visitors(April).

“Philhasbeenasignificantcivilrights

litigator,oneofthenation’sfirstconsumer

advocates,anarmscontrolofficial…atrue

pioneerinclinicallegaleducation,acham-

pionoflawstudentsinterestedinpublicin-

terestlaw,andnolessachampionofindi-

vidualsseekingasylumwithinournation’s

borders,”saidProfessorRichardLazarus,

whointroducedhiscolleague.Schrag’s

workontheCollegeCostReductionand

AccessActof2007,Lazarussaid,wasan

evengreatergift.

Schragconcludedhisaddresswithwhat

hebelievesisthemostimportantreasonto

beapublicinterestlawyer—andthatisto

provideservicestopeople(suchastherefu-

geesassistedinGeorgetownLaw’sCenter

forAppliedLegalStudies)whodesperately

needhelp.“Theseareoftenlifeanddeath

decisions,andweusuallywin,”hesaid.

“ThesearethemomentsthatIamproud-

esttobeapublicinterestlawyer—whenI

havedonesomethingtangibleandconcrete

toimprovethelifeofanotherperson.”

For Schrag’s complete address see www.

law.georgetown.edu/news/documents/Dela-

neyprofessorshipspeech.pdf. And for a Web-

cast, go to www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/

eventDetail.cfm?eventID=897.

Dean Aleinikoff congratulates Professor Schrag who poses (right) with Aleinikoff, April McClain-Delaney (L’89) and John K. Delaney (L’88).

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ProfessorEmeritusNorman BirnbaumhasbeenawardedtheCrossofHonoroftheOrderofSanRaimundodePe-ñafort.ThehighesthonorbestowedbytheSpanishMinisterofJustice,theaward

recognizes“achievementinthefieldoftheadministrationofjusticeandonthedevel-opmentandapplicationofallbranchesoflaw.”BirnbaumtellsGeorgetown LawthathistiestomodernSpaingobacktoitsearlyperiodoftransitiontodemocracy,whenhewashosttotheoppositionleaderandlaterPrimeMinisterFelipeGonzalesonhisvisittotheUnitedStatesin1980.BirnbaumisaregularcolumnistforthenewspaperEl PaisandhisbookAfter Progress: American So-cial Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth CenturywaspublishedinSpan-ishtranslationin2002.“SanRaimundowasamedievaljurist,afriendofThomasAqui-nasandlivedtobe100,ofspecialinteresttomeat83,”Birnbaumsaid.

ProfessorMartin Ginsburgwasoneofsev-eralhigh-profilesupernumeraries(theoperatermforanon-singing,walk-onrole)playing

FacultyAwardsandRecognition

Professor Martin Ginsburg and his wife, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Irene Thorin, who played Ariadne in Washington National Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos.

theroleofpartyguestsintheWashingtonNationalOpera’sproductionofAriadne auf NaxosOctober24.Ginsburgandhiswife,SupremeCourtJusticeRuthBaderGins-burg,wereonstagefor90minutesalongwithSupremeCourtJusticeAntoninScalia,Del.EleanorHolmesNorton(D.C.)andartsphilanthropistAdrienneArsht.

ProfessorDavid ColereceivedanhonorarydegreeinpsychologyfromtheAdlerSchoolofProfessionalPsy-chologyinChicagoatitscommencementinNovember.Hewasalsothecommence-mentspeakeratthatevent.

ProfessorAdam Levi-tin istheinauguralrecipientoftheYale Journal on Regulation’sWalterH.HamiltonPrizeforOutstandingScholarship,whichispresentedannu-ally“totheauthorofthearticlemostlikely

tohaveasignificantimpactonthestudyandunderstandingofregulatorypolicy.”Levitin’s“HydraulicRegulation:RegulatingCreditMarketsUpstream”waspublishedlastsummer;itproposesanovelapproachthatpermitsstatestoengageinconsumer-protectionregulationoffederallycharteredbanksthroughtheregulationoftheirstate-lawsecuritizationvehicles.

Edith Brown WeissreceivedtheAmericanSocietyofInterna-tionalLaw’sManleyO.HudsonMedalattheSociety’sannualmeetinginMarch.Theawardrecog-nizesscholarshipandachievementininter-

nationallaw.Themedalisgivenfromtimetotimetorecognize“pre-eminentscholar-shipandachievementininternationallaw,”andhonoreeshavecomefrommanydiffer-entcountriesovertheyears.ProfessorJohnH.Jacksonreceivedthemedalin2008.

DeanofStudentsMitchell Bailinhastakenonadditionaldutiesandisnowas-sociatevicepresidentanddeanofstudents.Inhisexpandedrolehewillbecollaborat-ingmorewithmaincampusGeorgetown

administratorsinstudentaffairsandotherdepartments.

Adam KolkerisnowtheassistantdeaninadditiontobeingexecutivedirectoroftheOfficeofTransnationalPrograms.Beforehisarrivalhere,KolkerwasassistantdeanandexecutivedirectorforinternationalprogramsattheUniversityofPennsylvaniaLawSchool.CaraMorris,formerlydeputydirectoroftransnationalprograms,isnowdirector.

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thetorturememosdavidcole

Foryears,thepublichasbeenhearingabouttheonce-secretmemosissuedbytheU.S.DepartmentofJustice’sOfficeofLe-galCounselafter9/11—memosshowinghowtopattorneysintheBushadministra-tionmanagedtoauthorizetheuseofharshinterrogationtacticsbyCIAemployeesintheirquesttowintheWaronTerror.NowthepubliccanlearnjustwhattheOLCmemoscontained,thankstoanewcollec-tionentitledThe Torture Memos: Rational-izing the Unthinkable(NewPress,2009),editedbyProfessorDavidCole.

“It’sastoryoflawatitsworst,”saidCole,atalaunchcelebratingthepublica-tionofthenewbookonOctober7.

Thebook,whichspanstheOLCmem-osdated2002to2007,notonlycompilesthememosinoneplace—editedonlytopreventrepetition—butcontainsrele-vantcommentarythatraises,amongotherthings,thequestionofaccountabilityforthosewhodraftedthem.

BooksinBrief“Theinterrogationtechniques,tosay

theleast,arecontroversial,”saidProfes-sorMittRegan,whointroducedColeandotherexpertsatadiscussionaccompany-ingthebooklaunch.Regannoted,infact,

thatitishardtoreaddescriptionsofthetechniqueswithoutbeingrepulsed.“Ourfocustoday,however,isnotontheCIAemployeeswhoemploythesetechniques,butonthelawyerswhoconcludedthatthatbehaviorwaslawful…thequestion

is,didlawyersattheOfficeofLegalCoun-selsatisfytheirprofessionalobligationsinanalyzinglegallimitationsoninterrogationtechniques—andconcludingthatnoneofthemapplied?”

PanelistsincludedStuartTaylor,legalaffairscolumnistattheNational Journal andaNewsweekcontributingeditor;ProfessorLauraDonohue;ProfessorDavidLubanandProfessorAlanMorrisonfromtheGeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool.

constitutionAlengAgementinAtrAnsnAtionAlerAvickiJackson

ThenewbookbyProfessorandAssoci-ateDeanforTransnationalStudiesVicki

Jacksonis“beautiful”and“stunning”—andthat’sjustthecover.SosaidProfessorandAssociateDeanforResearchRobinWestataDecember1paneldiscussiontolaunchConstitutional Engagement in a

Transnational Era (OxfordUniversityPress,2010).WesthailedJackson’sworkas“amajorcontributiontoourunderstandingofconstitutionaldemocracies”—andDean

“Thequestionis,didlawyersattheOfficeofLegalCounselsatisfytheirprofessionalobliga-tionsinanalyzinglegallimitationsoninterro-gationtechniques...”Regansaid.

“Thispromisestobe

theleadingbookinthis

greatdebate,”saidPro-

fessorDavidFontanaof

theGeorgeWashington

UniversityLawSchool.

AlexAleinikoffwasequallyunstintinginhispraise.“Somanyadjectives—oneisnuanced…andanotherisfair,”AleinikofftoldJackson.“Yougooutofyourwaytomakeabettercaseforopposingviewsthanthepeoplewhoholdthoseviews.”

Thebook,excerptedintheFall-Winter2009issueofGeorgetown Law,exploreshowcustomaryinternationallaw,decisionsofforeignorinternationaltribunals,andothertransnationalinfluencesaffectun-derstandingsofconstitutionsandofcourtsindecidingconstitutionalcases.ProfessorDavidFontanaoftheGeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchoolsaidofthebook,“ThereisnobetterscholartodaythanVickiJacksoninhelpingusunderstandandap-preciatethegrowingrelationshipbetweenAmericanconstitutionallawandthelawoftherestoftheworld.Thispromisestobetheleadingbookinthisgreatdebate.”


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On the Cover

Dynamic Newcomers Make Their Mark

By Ann W. Parks

Photograph by Rhoda Baer

The seven newest members of the Georgetown Law faculty (pictured opposite

and on the cover) are an eclectic bunch. They’ve lived everywhere from Derry,

Northern Ireland, to Cape Town, South Africa. These days, most of them can

be found in their offices in McDonough Hall, adding to an already impressive

body of scholarship. Four have pursued advanced degrees in disciplines other

than law, bringing a new dimension to their course work; others have focused

exclusively on the law, adding an expertise that is just as valuable. We looked

at their biographies, life paths and scholarship in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of

Georgetown Law — but for a slightly more irreverent look at these dynamic

newcomers, read on…

Opposite page, clockwise from left: Philomila Tsoukala, Melissa Henke, Howard Shelanski, Joshua Teitelbaum and Laura Donohue. Not pictured: Christopher Brummer and Michael Doran.



OnabookshelfinProfessorChristopher Brummer’sofficerestsalife-sizedlightsaber—stillinitsoriginalbox.AplasticheadofDarthVaderholdscandyforvisitors.Sowehadtoask:IsheaStarWarsfan?“Absolutely,”hesays,laughing.“Thatwasmyrealeducation.”

He’sbeingmodest,ofcourse.AsoneofGeorgetownLaw’snewestfacultymembers,BrummerhasaCVthataJedimasterwouldenvy,ifaJedimastereverdecidedtoteachInternationalFinanceandRegulationorGlobalizationandSystemicRisk.ThesonofaUniversityofArkansaslawprofessor,BrummerinitiallyresistedhisdestinyandchosetoexploreGermancultureinBraunschweig,studyGermancolonialisminSouthAfricaandpracticecommerciallawinLondon,wherehewasoftentheonlypersonwhocouldtalkonthephonetoaGermanclient.Andalwaysalongtheway,he’sadvancedtothenextlevelwithsucheasethatonemightevensaytheForcehasbeenwithhim.

Eventually,teachingbe-cameapassion,too.“Ifeltthattherewasbothaneedand anopportunitytodowhatIreallyenjoyandwhatIlove,teachingandlearningmoreabouttheintersectionbetweeninternationalbusi-ness,politics,regulationanddevelopment.”

ProfessorLaura Donohue’sscholarshipinlegalhistoryandcounterterrorismlawiswellknown.Butwhatmanypeopledon’tknowisthatDonohuealsohasthepotentialtobethenextJ.K.Rowling:foryears,she’sbeencreatingachildren’sbookwithherdaughter.Nine-year-oldJasmineishermother’stough-estcritic.ShewasunimpressedwhenDonohue’smostrecentbook,The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty(CambridgeUniversityPress),waspublishedin2008,butafterDonohuewasinvitedtospeakatthesamewriters’conferenceasseveralwell-knownchildren’sauthors,herdaughterchangedhermind.“Sheasked,‘Couldwewriteourstorydownandpub-lishit?’Sothat’swhatwearedoing.”

AtGeorgetown,Donohueappreciatesthathercolleaguesrespecthermultidisciplinaryapproach,whichdrawsfromBritishandAmericanlaw,historyandpolitics(shelovestheEdwardBennettWilliamsLibrary’srarebookcollection).InherNationalSecurityLawclass,forexample,she’sabletoplacewhatsheteachesinitshistoricalcontext.TheUnitedKingdom,

shenotes,wasintheprocessofdevelopinganthraxweaponstouseonGermanyduringWorldWarII,untilWinstonChurchillputastoptoit.“Studentsaren’tjustgetting,hereisthestateofthelaw.They’regetting,here’stheletterthatChurchillwrotethatendedtheprogram,pavingthewayforBritaintosigntheBiologicalWeaponsConvention,”shesays.“Itbringspolicy-makingandthepasttolife.”

OnaWednesdayafternooninMcDonoughHall,ProfessorMichael DoranischattingwithoneofhisTaxIstudents.Shetellshimthatbeforeshetooktheclass,shehadnointerestintaxlaw.She’snotevensurewhyshetookit.Nowshe’sfindingitthemostinterestingthingshe’sencounteredallyear.“That’s

veryrewarding,”saysDoran,whoteachesTaxIandIIinadditiontoafirst-yearprop-ertycourse.“Ifindittobeaveryinteresting,veryrich,challenging,excitingarea…helpingstudentsseethemagicthat’sinsidethisareareallyappealstome.”

Doransawthemagicearly,whenhetookataxcourseinthespringofhisILyearatYale.Hebrieflytoyedwiththeideaofbecomingalitigator,butsayshelacked

everyskillthatalitigatorneeds.Litigation’slosswastaxlaw’sgain,however,andDoranjoinedtheWashington,D.C.,taxfirmofCaplin&Drysdalein1992.

Whatpropelledhimintotheclassroomwasthefreedomtothinkandwriteaboutwhatinterestedhim.(Andbyleav-ingtheUniversityofVirginiatocometoGeorgetownLaw,henowhasmoretimetothink,havingshortenedhiscommuteby110miles.)Afatherofthree,heenjoysspendingtimewithhischildrenandhiswifeDiana—whomhemetatapokergamesponsoredbyalawfirmpartnerlookingforauniquewaytorecruit Yalestudentstothefirm.“Shewas‘cleaningup’inthegame,asIrecall,”Doransays.“WetalkedforacoupleofminutesandthenacoupledayslaterIcalledherupandthatwasthat.”

OnGeorgetownLaw’sWebsite,ProfessorMelissa Henke’s“expertise”columnlistswrongfulconvictionsinadditiontocivilprocedureandlegalresearchandwriting.Thecivilproce-dureskillscamefromHenke’sjudicialclerkshipandlawfirm

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the magic that’s inside this

area really appeals to me.”

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commerciallitigationwork—andtheresearchandwriting,ofcourse,frompracticeandteaching.Sohowdidcriminallawenterthemix?

Becauseasayoungassociate,Henkeaskedtogetinvolvedinaprobonocasethatcouldmakeadifferenceinaclient’slife.WhatshegotwasaroleinthewrongfulconvictioncaseofDer-ekTice,aU.S.NavyveteranwhowasconvictedofrapingandkillingawomaninNorfolk,Virginia,in1997.VirginiaGovernorTimothyKainegrantedaconditionalpardontoTiceandtwoothersin2009,andHenkewastherewhenTicewalkedoutofprison—havingspentmorethan11yearsbehindbars.

“Itwasjustsurreal,”saidHenke,whowasintheprocessofpreparingforfallsemesterclassesinlegalresearchandwrit-ingwhenshelearnedthatTicewouldbefreed.“Itwasahor-riblefeeling[previously]towalkawayfromprisonvisitswithDerekknowingthathecouldn’tleaveandhav-ingabsolutelynodoubtthathewasinnocent.”Henkedescribesherinvolvementinthisinnocencecase,knownastheNorfolkFourcase,as“themostchallengingandrewardingofmycareer,”andshemakessuretosharetheexperiencewithherstudentsinclass.

ProfessorHoward Shelanskiisalwaysonthemove.Anecono-mist,lawyerandmarathonrunner,hehastraveledbackandforthbetweenlawpractice,academiaandgovernmentwiththeeaseofaworld-classtriathlete—andyou’llseehiminandoutofGeorgetownLawintheyearstocome.

WhenShelanskidecidedtorelocatefromBerkeley’sBoaltHallSchoolofLawtoGeorgetownlastspring,hesimultane-ouslyfoundhimselfbeingofferedthepostofdeputydirectorattheFederalTradeCommission’sBureauofEconomics.Facedwithtwosuchterrificopportunities,Shelanskitookboth.He’llteachseminarsherein2010-2011andwillteachfulltimethefollowingyear.

Thegovernmentrolesuitshim,hesays,andasforGeorge-townLaw,“thestudentsandfacultyaregreat,andforthepoli-cystuffIdo,there’sreallynoplacebetterformetobe.”

Theothernewlawyer/economistonthefaculty,Joshua Teitel-baum,alsohashighpraiseforhisnewhome—inpartbecause

heenjoysinteractingwithexpertsinotherdisciplinesinaddi-tiontotheonesinhisownfield.“Mysubjectmatterislaw,andthehugeattractionaboutGeorgetownisthatithasabigfacultywithalotofdepthinalotofdifferentareas,”hesays.“JustthefactthatthereareothereconomicsPh.D.sonthefaculty…andthenalltheotherdisciplineslikepsychology,sociology,his-tory—that’swonderful.”

He’simpressedwiththestudents,too.InhisLawandEconomicsWorkshop,hesays,studentscritiquethepapersofeconomists—buthalfthestudentshaveopted,foradditionalcredit,towriteanoriginalpaperoftheirown.“Theyarereallyshowingaseriousinterest,becausethat’sabigundertaking,”hesays.“Mostofthemdonothaveanygraduateleveleconomicstraining,sotheyarereallytakingonadifficultproject.”

ProfessorPhilomila Tsou-kala,meanwhile,isenjoy-ingteachingstudentstheintricaciesoffamilylawandcomparativefamilylaw.TsoukalaherselfstudiedlawinGreece,wherestudentshavetostartplanningbytheageof15iftheywanttomakeitthroughthecompetitiveentranceex-ams.Fortunately,itwastherightchoice—andagoodfit.Thelaw“gavemethe

toolsnecessarytobothfeedmypoliticalimpulsesregardingfeminismandsomeofmyprojectsintherealworldalongwithadesiretotheorizeaboutthemandthinkmorebroadly,”sheexplains.“It’salwaysbeenaverygoodcombinationofreal-in-the-worldactionalongwithcompellingthinking,sothat’swhyIstuckwithit.”

Interestingly,actingwasalsoapossibility—shewaspartofadramaschoolforseveralyears—butthelackofscholarlythinking(alongwiththethreatofdestitution)helpedsolidifyherchoice.Thesedays,ofcourse,TsoukalahashappilytakenuppermanentresidenceatGeorgetownLaw;she’sbeenavisit-ingprofessorheresince2006.“MoreandmoreGeorgetownisfocusingoninternationalandtransnationalstudiesandit’sveryexcitingtobeapartofthat,”shesays.“Ireallyenjoythefactthatit’saschoolthat’sconsciouslymakingthedecisiontogothatway,becauseitperfectlyfitsmyinterests.”ThesamecouldbesaidofallGeorgetown’snewfacultymembers;despitetheirmanydivergentinterests,they’veallfoundahome.

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Members of the Georgetown Law community came together October

1 to celebrate the school’s commitment to public service and to honor John D. Podesta (L’76) with the 2009 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Law Alumni Public Service Award. Podesta, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress and a distinguished visitor from practice at the Law Center, has held numerous positions in government, including White House chief of staff to former President Bill Clin-ton (F’68). Most recently, Podesta served as a co-chair of the transition team for President Barack Obama.

The Drinan award, created in 1996, honors Georgetown Law alumni whose ca-reers enhance human dignity and advance justice. The award was named for the late Father Robert F. Drinan (L’49, LL.M.’51, H’91), U.S. congressman, Georgetown Law professor, author, scholar, human rights activist and more. Drinan died in 2007.

“At Georgetown, we work hard to master not only the nuances of the law; we study how to use the law to reach the higher goal of justice,” Podesta said.

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(Opposite) John D. Podesta (L’76). From top left: Podesta, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and Dean Alex Aleinikoff watch a brief film featuring Alayna Stone (L’10) and other law students who do public interest work; John K. Delaney (L’88); Visiting Professor Ladislas S. Orsy, S.J., with Podesta; and attendees at the October 1 event.

The celebration also highlighted some of the many public interest projects undertaken by Georgetown Law last year and how much more it will continue to do with its “Justice Agenda,” a new program designed to enhance public interest clinics and loan repayment assistance, postgradu-ate fellowships and more.

Assisting in the Justice Agenda are many alumni, including April McClain-Delaney (L’89) and John K. Delaney (L’88), who recently made possible the

Delaney Family Professorship in Public Interest Law (see page 7) — and are providing additional resources to the Loan Repayment Assistance Program for law alumni working in the public interest. “We really should be attracting and training and ‘unleashing’ as many students as possible who are not only prepared to do public ser-vice and public interest work, but want to do it for the right reasons,” John Delaney said at the event.

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Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Judges, Elections and Money

Less than a week after the Supreme Court issued its controversial 5-4 deci-

sion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — lifting restrictions on cor-porate spending in political campaigns — retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and other legal luminaries came to Georgetown Law to discuss the impact of money on state judicial races.

Educating the public about judicial selection is a priority for the former justice, who since 2006 has led five conferences at the Law Center to address the need for an independent judiciary. Although Georgetown Law and its co-sponsor, the Aspen Institute, had planned the January 26th conference well before the decision in Citizens United, the timing of the event could not have been better.

“I step away for a couple of years and there’s no telling what’s going to happen,” O’Connor joked during her keynote ad-dress. While she left it to the panelists to discuss the particulars, the retired justice

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said she hoped that the attention given to Citizens United, and the 2009 Caper-ton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. case, would speed consideration of the need for an independent judiciary. In Caperton, the

Court required a state appeals judge to step aside from a case where an officer of the corporate defendant had contributed a significant amount of money to that judge’s election campaign.

“These two cases should be a warning to states that still choose their judges by popular elections,” O’Connor said. “These states need to at least think about whether changes are needed in the system.”

NPR’s Nina Totenberg served as a moderator along with the National Law Journal’s Tony Mauro and Pamela Harris of Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court In-stitute. Panelists noted that while judicial elections may provide a sense of public participation in the selection of judges — as opposed to a system where judges are appointed by the governor — judges need to answer to the law, not to any particular group. “We accept the notion in other branches of government that dollars purchase an expectation of a particular ideology,” said Rebecca Kourlis, executive director of the Institute for the Advance-ment of the American Legal System and a former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. “But judges cannot be a part of that expectation.”

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg (center) with (from left) Professor Roy Schotland, Professor Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School, Carte Goodwin of the West Virginia Independent Commission on Judicial Reform, and Bert Brandenberg, executive direc-tor of the Justice at Stake Campaign.

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It’s not often that a student (or a profes-sor, for that matter) gets the chance

to converse with a four-star general, the commander of the U.S. Central Command, about the U.S. military’s presence around the world. But that’s what happened when Gen. David H. Petraeus arrived at George-town Law’s Hart Auditorium January 21 for a forum with students about CENTCOM’s efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

“General Petraeus … deals with issues ranging from Somali piracy to the Iranian nuclear threat,” said Dean Alex Aleinikoff, as he welcomed Petraeus. Because Petraeus once wore the title of chief of operations of the United Nations Force in Haiti, it was only logical that Dean Aleinikoff (then only days away from becoming United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees) opened the discussion with the topic of Haiti’s reconstruction in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake.

“My hope is that something extraor-dinarily good can come out of something

Gen. Petraeus Speaks on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the U.S. Military

extraordinarily bad,” said Petraeus. “You have to start in all directions … I’m hoping that this can be a catalyst that can lead to yet another new opportunity for Haiti, but one in which the assistance is provided in a way so that it builds up Haitian capability

and Haitian human capital and Haitian de-velopment, rather than creating additional dependencies.”

Aleinikoff then turned his moderator role over to the audience, which questioned

Petraeus on topics that included percep-tions of the United States among countries in the Middle East, U.S. drone strikes against insurgents in Afghanistan, relations with Pakistan, causes of extremist behavior and the role of the U.S. military.

“We don’t have any question about who the commander in chief is,” Petraeus said — countering an audience suggestion that the U.S. military has become so autono-mous that it doesn’t matter who serves as president. “Our job at the end of the day … is to provide our best professional military advice,” he said.

Petraeus also dispelled any notions that he might make a run for the White House. “I’ve said no in about as many different ways as I possibly could, and I truly mean it. …” he said. “I think there would be nothing more injurious to civil-military relations than to have some sense that the guy in uniform at the end of the ‘Sit Room’ table — the [White House] Situation Room, not Wolf Blitzer’s — is sizing up the opposition.”

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Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, greets Navy Lieutenant Craig Thedwall (L’10). Petraeus spoke to students in the Law Center’s Hart Auditorium on January 21 about CENTCOM’s efforts around the world.



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The “States” of Global Warming As the federal government searches for

solutions to the problems of climate change, it often looks to the states. And at a workshop last fall called “States in the Lead” participants did that, too. “We need the states,” Georgetown Climate Center Director Vicki Arroyo (L’94) told the crowd of state and federal officials. “We need you to continue to play a role.”

So what are the states doing? A panel led by Professor Peter Byrne looked at ways states are reducing motor vehicle emis-sions. Will Schroeer, state policy director of Smart Growth America, examined a new mixed-use development in Atlanta, Georgia, that allows residents to cut their driving time by 75 percent. Brian Taylor, a UCLA professor and director of UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, looked

at ways to reduce travel time, noting that the amount of time drivers spend on er-rands now outnumbers the time traveling to and from work. And Brandon Hofmeis-ter, special counsel for energy and climate policy in the Office of Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, looked at Michigan’s initiative to jump start advanced auto bat-tery manufacturing in the United States.

“[Climate change] is an issue that we will remain committed to forever … or until the earth cools,” said Dean Alex Aleinikoff. The Climate Resource Center (which sponsored the workshop along with UCLA’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment) “has quickly established itself as a critical resource for states,” he said.

Law at the MoviesHart Auditorium isn’t exactly the

Cannes Film Festival, but students attending the Georgetown Law Library’s new film series, “Law at the Movies,” got some welcome study breaks, free enter-tainment and even scholarly points to ponder concerning law in film.

The October 1 premiere featured “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” a 1962 Western starring Jimmy Stewart as a lawyer determined to bring the rule of law to the Wild West. Georgetown Law Professors Naomi Mezey, who teaches a law and film seminar, and Randy Barnett, a former prosecutor who actually played an assistant prosecutor in the 2008 movie “InAlienable,” provided some “value-add” before the show.

Mezey, who counts “Liberty Valance” among her favorite films, encouraged stu-dents to think less about the ways in which popular culture represents lawyers — and more about the ways in which popular culture generally serves as its own kind of jurisprudence. Barnett, who decided to

become a criminal lawyer after watching a television show called “The Defenders” as a boy, noted that when he was working as a prosecutor, he always hoped that “Twelve

Angry Men” wasn’t being aired on TV whenever he had a jury deliberating.

“[I was afraid] that my jury would get the wrong impression, that they would think they were supposed to solve the crime in the jury room and not rely on the cases brought by the parties,” he said.

Subsequent films — one each month — included “Breaker Morant,” “My Cousin Vinny,” “A Few Good Men,” “Judg-ment at Nuremberg,” “Thin Blue Line” and “Anatomy of a Murder.” (Fortunately, the Hart Auditorium’s ban on such items as popcorn and soda was temporarily lifted for the series, by unanimous vote.)

Kumar Jayasuriya, associate law librar-ian for patron services who created “Law at the Movies,” said the idea was origi-nally to do a book club discussing legal themes — but quickly discovered that film was better for time-strapped students. “Our late director Bob Oakley used to say that learning is done through discussion,” Jayasuriya said.

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Commentator Clive Crook with Kenneth Feinberg in Hart Auditorium on October 27.

Georgetown Law Hosts Symposium with TARP Special Master Kenneth Feinberg

Less than a week after Kenneth Fein-berg issued his report limiting pay

for the top 25 executives of seven U.S. companies receiving government bailout money, the man popularly known as the “compensation czar” came to Georgetown Law to discuss a subject that has sparked much public controversy over the past year. How much compensation should the ex-ecutives of American International Group (AIG), Citigroup, General Motors, GMAC, Bank of America, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial receive? How should that pay be structured?

Feinberg, an adjunct professor here who has served as President Obama’s special master for executive compensation under the Troubled Asset Relief Program since June 2009, sat down for a public conversation on the matter with editor and commentator Clive Crook in Hart Audi-torium on October 27. The event — cov-ered by a host of media outlets including CNN, CBS, the Wall Street Journal and

Bloomberg — was part of a joint sympo-sium between Georgetown Law and the As-pen Institute’s Justice and Society Program on “Executive Compensation and TARP:

Finding Equity in a Third Rail Issue.”“[These are] issues — economic, legal

and moral — that obviously have the country’s closest attention,” said Elliot

Gerson, executive vice president of policy and public programs at the Aspen Insti-tute, who introduced Feinberg along with Georgetown Law Visiting Professor Meryl Chertoff.

Later in the day, Feinberg also partici-pated in a one-on-one chat with Dean Alex Aleinikoff as part of the Law Center’s Web interview series, “On Point @ Georgetown Law.” In both conversations, he outlined the structure of his executive compensa-tion plan — stating that while he hopes his approach is voluntarily adopted in the marketplace as a “best practices standard,” the government does not want to get into the business of micromanaging executive compensation.

“These companies must be made able to thrive financially, they must stay in business, they must be able to attract and retain top talent,” he told Dean Aleinikoff. “Unless these events happen, the taxpayer will not be repaid the billions that have been lent to these companies.”

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Ethiopian Health Minister Ghebreyesus, Ambassador Dybul and Dean Aleinikoff.

Honoring the Fight against Global AIDS

On September 25, His Excellency Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, minister of health of the Federal Demo-

cratic Republic of Ethiopia, chose the Law Center to honor the contributions of Ambassador Mark R. Dybul (C’85, M’92, H’08) to global health and to the health of his country. Dybul, who served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator from 2006 to 2009, led the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief under President George W. Bush. He is currently a visiting professor at the Law Center and a co-director of the O’Neill Institute. Dybul also serves as Senior Counselor for the Global Business Coalition on HIV, Tubercu-losis and Malaria. Ghebreyesus, who chairs the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and is an internationally recognized researcher on malaria, has led Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health since 2005.

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More than two centuries after the signing of the U.S. Constitution,

questions about the relationship between our nation’s founding document and interna-tional law remain a hot topic of debate. On September 17, the day set aside by Congress in 2004 as “Constitution Day,” a panel of experts gathered at Georgetown Law to dis-cuss the role that international law plays in the constitutional system, particularly with respect to human rights. “We celebrate the drafting of the Constitution, but we do so in a very different world than the framers were acting in,” said Professor David Cole.

David Stewart, a visiting professor at the Law Center and a former assistant legal adviser for private international law at the State Department, noted that many see it as constitutionally impermissible to refer to laws beyond the legal system. Still, like Cole, Stewart and panelist Patricia Wald — a former chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia — found nothing wrong with at least looking to the laws of other lands when interpreting the Constitution.

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“The debate on whether judges should even look at international law is downright silly,” Wald contended. “What are you going to do, have ‘judge police’?”

The panel also examined topics such as the International Criminal Court — which

the U.S. has yet to join — and Medellin v. Texas, a 2008 case in which the Supreme Court held that the United States was not required to review the convictions of 51 Mexican nationals on death row, as the Inter-national Court of Justice declared it should.

Frontline producer Michael Kirk (right) receives the Constitution Project’s 2009 Constitutional Commentary Award for his 2008 documentary “Bush’s War.” The award was presented by former award recipient Charlie Savage of the New York Times.

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The Ryan Lecture: On Law and Love in King LearWhat does King Lear have to do with

the War on Terror? More than one might think. As Susan Sage Heinzelman — associate professor of English and direc-tor of the Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin — explained, the Shakespearean tragedy was penned between 1603 and 1606 — the same time as Guy Fawkes’ attempt to as-sassinate James I and blow up the English Houses of Parliament. After the plot was discovered, Fawkes was arrested and tortured in an attempt to get him to divulge the names of his co-conspirators.

“Torture had reached its greatest use un-der Elizabeth [1558-1603], but it had never been legislated into law by Parliament. In fact, the English prided themselves that the common law did not permit the use of tor-ture,” Heinzelman told the crowd gathered for the 30th annual Thomas F. Ryan Lecture on October 28. “In a letter dated the sixth

of November 1605 James I ordered that Fawkes be submitted first to the ‘gentler tor-tures’ and thus by steps extended to greater ones.” Fawkes and his co-conspirators were tried for treason, convicted — and then hung, drawn and quartered.

King James, who succeeded Elizabeth, claimed a free and absolute authority over his subjects. “Kings were authors and mak-ers of the laws … a king’s authority was total and godlike,” Heinzelman said.

Heinzelman ended her lecture with further references to King Lear. “Both [law and love] are necessary to legitimize the authority of the state,” she said, noting that in the opening scene of the play, Lear set in motion events that lead to his own death, the deaths of his three daughters and others. This result, she said, is “the consequence … of too little law and not enough love — or too much law and not enough love.” Susan Sage Heinzelman

Panel Examines the Crisis in HondurasOn June 28, Honduran President José

Manuel Zelaya was arrested by the military of his own country, put on a plane to Costa Rica and ousted from power. The removal, which had been authorized by the Supreme Court of Honduras, was con-demned by much of the world — including the U.N. and the U.S. — as a coup d’état. Was the recent crisis in Honduras indeed a coup, or a constitutional change of regime?

That was the question examined by a group of experts at a panel discussion October 21. The event was hosted by the Georgetown University Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas, the Latin American Law Stu-dents Association and Foreign Lawyers at Georgetown.

CAROLA Director and Professor Joseph Page, along with the Carmack Wa-terhouse Professor of Constitutional Law

Vicki Jackson, moderated the discussion, which looked at the legal issues involved in the recent events in Honduras.

Douglass W. Cassel, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, said he considered what happened on June 28 a coup d’état — an unconstitutional overthrow of the then-existing government. But Miguel Estrada, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, said there was a credible basis — when looking at the language of the country’s constitu-tion — for the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress to remove Zelaya as president (although he agreed that sending Zelaya to Costa Rica was clearly illegal). And he pointed out, too, the pitfalls of outsiders at-tempting to impose their own ideas of how the Honduran Constitution should work.

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Technology is moving faster than the law can keep up with it, so how do you

protect children, who studies have shown spend more than six hours a day with some form of digital media? What’s the proper role for the government in a field where the protection of children often bumps up against the freedom of speech? And how can parents protect kids who are more

technologically savvy than they are?

Those questions and others were the focus of a November 2 event hosted by Georgetown Law and Common Sense Media, a national nonprofit organiza-tion promoting online safety and providing information to families about media choices. Professor Angela Campbell; Maryland Attor-ney General Doug Gansler; Kim Matthews, an attorney at the Federal Communica-

tions Commission’s media bureau; and Dan-iel Brenner, a partner at Hogan and Hartson and a Georgetown Law adjunct professor, served as panelists at the discussion.

“Kids in a 24/7 digital world have unbe-lievable opportunities for self-expression, creativity, communicating and learning,” said April McClain-Delaney (L’89), the Washington director of Common Sense

Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (L’78), D-Hawaii

Tales of Trailblazers When Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (L’78),

D-Hawaii, was a student at George-town Law in the 1970s — a time when there were few women or Asian Americans in the legal profession — she would leave the Law Center at night with her law books in an army surplus backpack and marvel at the sight of the U.S. Capitol nearby, not knowing that she would become the first immigrant woman of Asian ancestry to be sworn in as a member of Congress. That was just one of the stories shared with members of Georgetown Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at its inaugural symposium November 5. Hirono joined Shirley A. Higuchi (L’84), the head of legal and regulatory affairs at the American Psychological Association and the first Asian American president of the D.C.

Bar; Associate Judge Brian G. Kim of the District Court of Maryland for Montgom-ery County, who became the second Asian Pacific American judge in the state of Mary-land; D.C. Superior Court Judge Florence Y. Pan; Stuart J. Ishimaru, acting chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-mission; Tina Matsuoka, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; and Pratik A. Shah, assistant to the solicitor general, to talk about the chal-lenges still faced by Asian Pacific Americans in the legal profession and to encourage the next generation of law students.

“As an immigrant … to have educa-tional opportunities afforded by a wonder-ful school like Georgetown — and my law degree has really stood me in good stead in what I do in politics — to be able to give

back in this way is a very humbling thing,” Hirono said. “We all can make a difference as minorities; first of all, you have to be at the table.”

Studies show that children spend more than six hours a day with some form of digital media.

Media, Kids and the First AmendmentMedia. “But at the same time, there are dangers and pitfalls.”

Delaney and Campbell described re-cent developments in this area — including recent congressional hearings on rethinking the Children’s Television Act of 1990; the FCC’s recent filing in the “fleeting exple-tives” case involving the 2002 broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards and attempts at the state and local level to curb violent content in video games. Campbell outlined the legal landscape for the audience, of-fering a First Amendment primer for both lawyers and high school students present at the event.

Gansler looked at the issues through the lens of state government. And Jim Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media, moderated the event. “In the world of iPhones, YouTube and Twitter, it is no longer [about a] device with some pictures on it,” Steyer said. “This is shaping lives, impacting the way people behave … the intersection of all this is incredibly important.”

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After a spring and summer that saw many Georgetown alumni accepting

key roles in the Obama Administration, attendees of the Global Antitrust Enforce-ment Symposium on September 22 got to hear from one of the Law Center’s own: Christine Varney (L’86), the assistant attor-ney general for antitrust at the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice.

At a luncheon address before television cameras and several hun-dred symposium attendees, Varney discussed an initia-tive to review the guidelines for the merger enforcement policy of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. “Par-ticularly in times of economic uncertainty, providing clear guidance to businesses about enforcement intentions is good government that benefits us all,” Varney said.

The announcement of the interagency initiative came just hours earlier from FTC Chair Jon Leibowitz, who recognized the need to provide up-to-date guidance in this area in the way the European Commission has done. “The bulk of the guidelines are

17 years old now — old enough to drive, almost old enough to vote, and probably old enough to drink in the 27 members of the European Union,” he said. “The aim of our project will be to demystify the process.”

Keynote speaker Philip Lowe, direc-tor general of the European Commission’s Directorate General for European Compe-

tition, delivered the opening address. “We believe that competition policy is one of the tools that is going to get us out of this [finan-cial] crisis,” Lowe said — noting, like many others, that relaxing antitrust standards and prin-ciples at such a time is not the way to go.

FTC Commis-sioner William E.

Kovacic concluded the day with a look at the functions of competition agencies in the United States and overseas. “It’s not just a casual matter of concern about whether the FTC and the Department of Justice are sharing antitrust portfolios,” he said, noting that the wrong configuration of functions can be very costly for policy mak-ing. “Getting these kinds of questions right … is competition worth having.”

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Members of the national news media who showed up for Georgetown

Law’s annual Supreme Court Press Brief-ing on September 21 found plenty to enlighten them regarding the Court’s 2009 term. With a new justice on the bench, dozens of cases on the docket and two new Georgetown Law professors to help jour-nalists sift through the issues, the discus-sion proved to be a lively combination of analysis, insight and expertise.

Representatives from the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, CBS News, National Public Radio, USA Today and other media were on hand as moderator Pam Harris, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute, began the discussion with the number one topic on everyone’s minds — the replacement of now-retired Justice David Souter with Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor, the 111th member of the Court, has “life experiences that are very different … from the 110 justices who have preceded her,” said Professor Susan Low Bloch, who teaches constitutional law and a Supreme Court seminar at the Law Center. Professor David Cole outlined

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two First Amendment cases sure to garner media attention — a free speech challenge to a federal law barring depictions of ani-mal cruelty and an Establishment Clause

challenge to the display of a cross-shaped memorial on federal land in California. Cole briefly summarized Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (a landmark

case decided in January, which determined that limiting corporate funding of inde-pendent political broadcasts in candidate elections is a violation of free speech).

Professor Julie O’Sullivan discussed two criminal law cases involving the federal mail fraud statute and two asking whether juveniles may constitutionally be sentenced to life without parole for non-homicide crimes.

And two of the Law Center’s new-est faculty members, Professors Howard Shelanski and Christopher Brummer, lent their expertise to cases involving business and securities law. “We see the Court engaging many of the considerations that Congress and the president are grappling with regarding key issues in the economy,” Brummer said. “What is excessive execu-tive compensation? Does compensation need to be regulated? Can it be regulated effectively, and if so, how? … The Su-preme Court could posit its own economic theory of the market, which is fascinating to say the least.”

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Ingrained in the debate about American health care is the belief that medical

malpractice litigation, or the threat of it, contributes heavily to health care costs. Yet how much of this concept can be backed up with hard evidence?

That was one of the questions posed to a panel of experts at “Medical Malpractice and Health Care Costs: Can Tort Reform Bend the Curve?” held in Georgetown Law’s Hart Auditorium on October 6. The event, sponsored by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, featured Professor Kathryn Zeiler, the Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein and Professor David A. Hyman of the University of Illinois. Ac-cording to these experts, the data show that medical malpractice lawsuits affect health care costs less than the public may think.

Zeiler shared evidence of the actual effects on health care costs of attempted tort reforms such as limiting a malpractice plaintiff ’s access to the court system, modi-fied liability rules and caps on damages. The bottom line, according to Zeiler, is that these reforms don’t seem to work as well in lower-ing costs as proponents say they do.

On October 26, the O’Neill Institute

Law Center Events Examine Health Care Reform

held its fall symposium on “Legal Solutions in Health Reform: The State of the De-bate.” Panelists presented the latest findings on health reform and the law, a project that began in 2008 with funding from the Rob-ert Wood Johnson Foundation. Professors Mike Seidman and Gregg Bloche, Adjunct Professor Sara P. Hoverter and Professor Nan Hunter, acting faculty director of the O’Neill Institute, were among those who participated.

Panels looked at discrimination in federal health reform, the constitutionality of man-dates to purchase health insurance, and the issues posed by health insurance exchanges — entities that connect small businesses and individuals into larger pools that spread the risk of insurance companies while helping the uninsured secure health care.

“The symposium exemplified the Georgetown tradition of bringing critical thinking to bear on the great political issues of the day,” Hunter told Georgetown Law.

A week earlier, on October 19, the O’Neill Institute welcomed the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, as a distinguished visitor to the Institute. Grover is the director and co-

founder of the Lawyers Collective, which has handled hundreds of HIV-related cases in India (from discrimination to access to medicines), and is a leading figure in the use of law to advance the rights of people with HIV/AIDS in India.

On October 27, panelists at a George-town Law Forum discussed the way health care works in other countries as well as the impact of the Obama presidency on health care issues. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer mod-erated the forum, which featured Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize winner and syndicated columnist; Sen. John Barrasso, M.D. (C’74, M’78), R-Wyo.; Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.; and Professors Judy Feder and E.J. Dionne Jr. of Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute. Dean of Admissions Andy Cornblatt welcomed the audience.

The panelists generally agreed that the American system of employer-linked health care began as a kind of “historical accident” after World War II — a difference that makes it difficult to model our health care after other countries’ systems.“We need to make our system work, not take somebody else’s and not ration care,” said Feder. “We can make our system work for everybody.”

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Professor Nan Hunter and Anand Grover, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to health.


140 years ago ...in 1870, Georgetown Law was founded.

From the Files of

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1.1870-1872Georgetown Law was first housed in the American Colonization Society Building at Pennsylvania Avenue and 4 ½ Street, N.W.2.1872-1882 This is the old Washington Seminary, Gonzaga Hall, 915 F Street, N.W., where the law school moved next and where it remained for 10 years.3.1882-1884 Look to the right of the corner building to see the Lenman Building on New York Avenue, where Georgetown Law resided for

the next two years.4.1884-1889This house at 6th and F Street, N.W., is the first building entirely occupied by the law school. Opposite page: 1891-1971506 E Street, N.W. is the first home owned by Georgetown Law. Some of you can remember this building, where theinstitution grew and grew (and which it finally outgrew) before moving to its current location at 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.

The law school moved to four different buildings in its first 20 years, finally settling at 506

E Street, N.W., where it remained from 1891-1971. In honor of the 140th anniversary of

our founding, we bring you photographs of the first five Georgetown Law buildings.

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To mark the second year of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, Georgetown Law Professors Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Franz Werro, 2009-2010 CTLS co-directors, bring us up to speed on this innova-tive new program, which includes students and faculty from the law programs of ESADE (Spain); University of Fribourg (Switzerland); Hebrew University (Israel); Freie Universität (Germany); Kings College, London; University of Melbourne (Australia); National University of Singapore; the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil); the University of Torino (Italy); the University of Toronto and Georgetown.

It may be dark and a little bit cold in London, but the warmth of our students

sharing experiences across cultures and legal systems provides the hearth

and heart that knits our program together — intellectually and socially.

Next year we will be joined by a widening group of colleagues from UNAM

(Mexico), Peking University, National Law School of India University (Ban-

galore), Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), Catolica (Portugal), Moscow

State, Sciences Po (France), Bucerius (Germany), University of Auckland

(New Zealand), Monterrey Tech (Mexico), the College of Management

Academic Studies Law School (Israel), and Queens University (Belfast).

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We began this semester with our global practice exercise in

which students take on the roles of arbitrators and lawyers in a mul-

tinational employment (environmental and labor whistle-blowing)

and contractual dispute, in order to learn what laws apply in cross-

border legal transactions and how to effectively represent clients and

make procedural and substantive decisions. Students work in diverse

groups that allow them to share their own legal experiences (often

contrasting civil and common law traditions), as they are guided by

the faculty from our partner schools and we all get to know each

other. Then we dine together, this time at Kings College on the

Thames (where we also closed the fall semester with student and

faculty speeches), gazing at a brilliantly lit London, with Parliament,

the Eye, St. Paul’s, the City and, on a clear day, the Tower Bridge.

Each term we have offered students a variety of both public

and private law courses taught by our faculty, who are internation-

ally renowned experts in fields ranging from international business

transactions to comparative emergency powers to European human

rights. [For a complete list of faculty, their specialties and current

CTLS classes, see http://ctls.georgetown.edu.] Many classes include

participatory exercises (simulations of courts and legislatures or an

international drafting session for Internet and privacy regulation) and

student presentations on national variations in various legal policies.

Highlights include classes that meet together on occasion (such as

Emergency Powers and Anti-Terrorism) to compare notes on various

legal issues, and those that take field trips to learn their subject mat-

ter (watching administrative hearings at local employment tribunals

or visiting the London Court of International Arbitration, the Royal

Courts of Justice and the London Stock Exchange). Students in

Capital Markets saw movies and plays that chronicled the Enron

scandal with documentary techniques, and most of our fall students

ended the semester with a trip to the Old Vic to watch actor Kevin

Spacey in the American trial classic “Inherit the Wind.”

In our required “core” course, faculty and students are grap-

pling with “transnational issues and the study of comparative law”

as we compare families and patterns of law across systems and look

at where common legal problems have been solved with similar or

different legal solutions (making and breaching contracts, remedies,

privacy, alternative dispute resolution and crowded court dockets,

definitions of human rights, and the role of religion in legal systems).

This course has evolved each semester as we try to develop bridging

concepts for our students to use in all their courses. All students and

faculty also attend weekly colloquia at which faculty present cutting-

edge transnational legal research on such topics as international

standards for judicial independence, arbitrator ethics and compara-

tive corporate social responsibility.

In CTLS-sponsored lectures we hear from leading international

scholars on what “globalization” of law really means (William Twin-

ing, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London),

whether “the rule of law”

can itself lead to illegality

(Ugo Mattei, Professor of

International and Com-

parative Law at Hastings

College of Law and the

University of Torino), and

what the fight against

terrorism has meant to

international criminal law

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Society, University College

London, Kings College,

Oxford, Cambridge, and

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scholars and practitioners in the

world.

To make sure we’re not all

work and no play, we spon-

sor international movie nights

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est), such as “The Story of Qiu

Jo” (China), “No Man’s Land”

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faculty take the Eurostar train

to Paris and Brussels to see

the legal institutions there and

to sample museums, food,

cultural events and other

international entertainments.

In our formal breaks students

travel throughout Europe,

the Middle East, Scotland,

Ireland, even as far away as

Asia — and come back with new insights, new-found traveling com-

panions and lifetime friends and associates for future transnational

legal work. We attend concerts, plays, museums, and go shopping in

groups large and small; we bump into each other in all of London’s

great markets — Covent Garden, Borough Market, Portobello Road,

Spitalfields and Brick Lane — as well as in Kings College Law

Library and legal London’s Chancery Lane.

The fall faculty read Amartya Sen’s new book The Idea of Justice

and are now writing a joint, perhaps first ever, “transnational” book

review, “Senses of Sen.” The students contributed their own transna-

tional “food for thought” by producing a transnational “tea” in which

foods of all our nations were shared in one of our weekly teas, thus

combining conversational and culinary diversity!

The fall begins in warmth and green parks and ends in Christmas

lights all over London. In the spring (winter really) we begin with

less light and more earnest study, and end with the beauty of London

bathed in flowers and spring’s longer-lasting light.

We create our own wonderful community with no one coun-

try dominating and no particular school of thought in ascendance;

instead, we all grapple collectively with the challenges of global prob-

lems and different kinds of legal answers. Our faculty and students

have learned from each other. The professors all feel privileged to

enjoy an intensive “post-doctoral” experience as we all learn so much

from each other — sharing teaching methods, scholarship and ideas.

This spring many of the faculty (past, present and future) will meet

in Torino to share what we have learned: “What is transnational law?

What should we teach? How have we taught it? What can we take

home from CTLS to our home institutions? And, most importantly,

what lies ahead in our future?”

Already, more than 40 faculty members have taught with us and

more than 200 students have studied together, creating a growing

CTLS network of multinational scholars, lawyers and friends. We

may not solve all the world’s problems, but we are certainly working

on them.

We thank our always helpful and supportive administrative staff —

Scott Foster, Maike Kotterba, Clare Sidoti and Emma Till — without

whom we couldn’t do all our work and have all our community fun.

Asia — and come back with new insights, new-found traveling com

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The Interdisciplinary

Difference

As Professor Robin West likes to tell students in the Law and

Humanities seminar that she teaches in the fall, elite lawyers living

in Thomas Jefferson’s time had to read a lot more than cases and

statutes in order to be considered intellectually astute. To train in

law then meant that you had to become a man of letters, someone

who was completely familiar with the knowledge and wisdom that

existed at the time. To become a lawyer meant that you studied

not only the works of legal luminaries Sir William Blackstone and

Sir Edward Coke but also Shakespeare, Plato and Aristotle.

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“You were supposed to know everything, because it was from everything that you learned the true laws of the universe,” West says. “The true laws of the universe were obviously not limited to the laws of contract and torts. … You learned the true laws of the universe so that you could understand the role that man’s law was playing.”

Two hundred years later, interdisciplinary study is stronger than ever — and evidence of it is everywhere at Georgetown Law. More than three dozen of the Law Center’s full-time faculty members have advanced de-grees in other disciplines, making for a range and depth of knowledge that enhance traditional legal study. A stag-gering array of classes offers everything from AIDS law to a Law, Mind and Brain seminar. So if students are looking for a unique way to combine their legal studies with a background or interest in medicine, philosophy, literature, media stud-ies or historic preserva-tion, chances are they’ll find a way to do so at Georgetown Law — while still getting one of the finest legal edu-cations in the world.

“If you look at something like the O’Neill Institute here — if you want to say something meaningful about health reform or the role of law in health reform — you can’t do it unless you’re also in dialogue with health professionals and people who are interested in health,” says West, who notes that George-town’s geographic proximity to the seat of lawmaking explains some of the focus here. And of course, a wide variety of interests is something to be expected in a law school with more than 100 full-time faculty members. Still, the diversity of knowledge is not just a happy acci-dent of location or size.

“We do now have at Georgetown enough of an estab-lished tradition in interdisciplinarity that it becomes in a way self-fulfilling,” says West. “We are looking to enrich law and humanities programs and law and philosophy and law and economics, so we regard those as fields just as we would regard torts and contracts as fields.”

Framing the StoryThe relationship between economics and law is on the minds of just about everyone in Washington, D.C., these days — including Professor Joshua Teitelbaum. “If you don’t understand the economics perspective, in many areas of law, you’re missing the real story,” he says. “I don’t think economics explains everything, but I think in many areas of the law, including torts and contracts, even in criminal law, if you don’t hear that perspective, you’re missing a big piece of the story.”

Teitelbaum is, not surprisingly, an economist, one of four new members of the Georgetown Law faculty arriv-ing at the Law Center with a Ph.D. in another discipline. (For more on new faculty, see page 10.) Teitelbaum and Howard Shelanski will join fellow lawyer-economists Ste-ven Salop and Kathryn Zeiler in helping to make George-

town Law an economic powerhouse at a time when the nation is looking at economics and law through a magnifying glass. And Teitelbaum and Shelanski both say that an economic lens can bring certain le-gal and policy issues into sharper focus: their eco-nomics training provides a framework for understand-ing many questions of law and policy.

“In almost every course I teach, there’s an eco-nomic component,” says

Shelanski, who currently serves as deputy director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission and will teach at the Law Center full time in 2011. “So for the students who dislike mathematical formulas or who have never taken an economics class, I try to teach them a basic framework through which they develop the economic intuition they need to understand antitrust or some other body of law to which economics is relevant.”

Teitelbaum says that economics is a great tool kit to use if you’re trying to ask questions about what the law should be. It also helps to impose order on the chaos that students often feel — especially in their first year — when they are hit with what seems to be a completely ad hoc collection of cases.

“You were supposed to know every-

thing, because it was from everything that

you learned the true laws of the universe,”

West says. “You learned the true laws of the

universe so that you could understand the

role that man’s law was playing.”



“Every perspective that people bring to the law is about, how do I organize these cases coherently to say what the law is, what rules are there that rationalize these cases,” Teitelbaum says. “In many cases that ratio-nalization I think is clearest from the economic perspec-tive. I don’t think it’s always the story, but I think it’s a good one.”

Different Perspectives As the health care debate heated up on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2009, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law invited a group of experts to the Law Center to discuss tort reform. Yet the panel didn’t con-sist solely of medical malpractice lawyers. Among those holding court in Hart Auditorium were Professor Gregg Bloche, who is also a doctor; Professor Kathryn Zeiler, who is also an economist; and Amy Goldstein, a Wash-ington Post reporter. Why a journalist? Because as the panel noted, this type of issue-joining — medicine and law — is frequently overlooked by the media (though not by Goldstein).

“On most Sundays, at least since the health reform battle became ‘town-hall meeting hot’… there’s been someone proclaiming that medical malpractice reform is critical to get control of health care costs,” Bloche said at the October panel. “I haven’t heard yet one of the Sunday talk show hosts question this claim.”

So when the lawyers, the doctors, the economist and the journalist set themselves the task of question-ing a theory that has been basically accepted as fact, they came up, perhaps surprisingly, with a different conclusion.

“What you’re not hearing … is that the medical mal-practice system, including defensive medicine … adds at most several percentage points to annual health care spending,” Bloche said. “That is but a small and steady fraction of our total health care bill.”

Nan Hunter, acting director of the O’Neill Institute, says that interdisciplinarity is “built into the DNA” of the O’Neill Institute. Besides its interest in the national health law debate, the Institute has looked at issues from food safety to the impact of climate change on health.

“The O’Neill Institute is structured as interdisciplin-ary because it is a joint partnership between the Law Center and Georgetown University’s School of Nursing

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and Health Studies, and having that structure makes it a lot easier to actually engage in interdisciplinary work,” Hunter explains. “So there’s a very real commitment to bringing an interdisciplinary approach to some of these questions.”

Telling the StoryOn the walls of Professor Laura Donohue’s office hang two photographs, one on top of the other. One is of the World Trade Center, perfectly intact against a clear blue sky. Just below it is a second photograph, a picture of a crowd of New Yorkers, all staring at something they find impossible to believe. The two photographs together tell a story that each one alone is unable to do; because of the first picture, we know exactly what the people in the second are seeing.

“[People] think about terrorism as about the attack, but it is also about the impact of the attack,” explains Donohue, a new faculty member whose expertise is counterterrorism and national security. “These pictures capture September 11. … Every person in the crowd responds in a very personal way. They are also targets of the violence.”

Donohue’s dual roles of historian and lawyer create a story that no one could have anticipated a decade ago. When she decided to get her Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s, she could not have imagined the role that her academic interest — namely, the conflict in Northern Ireland — would have on her future life as a counterterrorism and national se-curity expert teaching in the United States.

Another new faculty member, Christopher Brummer, is also bringing his expertise in German to his passion for international law and finance. “To the extent to which I want to read certain documents, books or law review articles in different languages, knowing a couple of for-eign languages can be very useful — and was key to my success as a lawyer in Europe,” says Brummer. From a research standpoint, he believes that his Ph.D. helps him to think in more abstract and theoretical ways — while the J.D. helps him to solve the problems. “I try to the ex-tent possible to create projects that operate on two levels — that make theoretical contributions but that also have an application to the real world and real world problems.”

Philomila Tsoukala, who teaches family law and comparative family law at Georgetown, initially studied


law in Greece and in France — and was so intrigued by the fact that one could study things like feminist legal thought in the United States that she went on to earn an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from Harvard in addition to her LL.B. Today, she’s adding new dimensions to her teaching at Georgetown.

“In Europe it’s not even possible to talk about femi-nist legal theory,” she says, adding that the notion that feminist thought has anything to contribute to the law is, well, completely foreign over there. “It always amazes me how insightful talking to people beyond your own field of concentration can be,” she says, adding that talking with her colleagues across interdisciplinary boundaries always yields very useful insights. “They don’t as-sume the things you as-sume, so they can really bring new things to the table … we have people [doing] economics, people working with his-tory — it’s a good place to be.”

Law at Its BestMatthew Murrell (L’12) learned the importance of interdisciplinary study at Georgetown Law when, in the first week in No-vember, he was asked to lead a student discussion in his Section 3 legal justice seminar with Pro-fessor Michael Seidman. (The very existence of Section 3 — the innovative cur-riculum that emphasizes the sources of law in history, philosophy, political theory and economics — itself proves the importance of interdisciplinary thinking at Georgetown Law.) To prepare, Murrell — a communications stud-ies major who taught speech and debate as a high school teacher for six years — went back and looked at all the critical legal studies articles that he’d found with the help of his high school students. So who wrote some of the ar-ticles that he’d saved over the years? People like Professor Michael Seidman and Professor Robin West.

“I was exposed to a lot of the Section 3 literature by virtue of being in the debate world,” explains Murrell. “It’s just phenomenal, the talent, the ability, the incred-ible environment and academic fortitude that the profes-sors have.”

As an English major at Georgetown University, Ray Tolentino (C’09, L’12) wrote an undergraduate thesis evaluating Filipino immigration through the lenses of gender, nationalism, race studies and psychoanalysis. To write the thesis, Tolentino “depended heavily” on an article written by Professor Naomi Mezey — who now teaches his first-year class Legal Process and Society.

“It’s cool to have professors with interdisciplinary backgrounds because a lot of people in Section 3 and in the rest of George-town are interested in not just the law itself but how the law affects the world in general,” Tolen-tino explains. “It’s impor-tant to have professors who are open to that. It’s a different way of looking at the law, but I think it’s a very important way.”

Mezey, who teaches a law and film seminar as well as Legal Process and Society — Section 3’s answer to traditional civil procedure — says that what’s exciting to her about interdisciplinary study is that every legal issue can be thought of

as interdisciplinary. A course in law and film, for example, takes on an important role in legal education at a time when torture is understood through the television show “24.”

“A lot of what is thought of as the most traditional kind of legal scholarship can be quite arid when it’s detached from a historical context, when it’s detached from a cultural context, when it’s detached from ideas of justice … political theory and philosophy, history, cultural studies, behavioral theory,” Mezey says. “I actually think that law is at its best when it is thought of in an interdis-ciplinary way.”

“A lot of what is thought of as the

most traditional kind of legal scholarship

can be quite arid when it’s detached from a

historical context, when it’s detached from

a cultural context, when it’s detached from

ideas of justice … political theory and phi-

losophy, history, cultural studies, behavioral

theory,” Mezey says. “I actually think that

law is at its best when it is thought

of in an interdisciplinary way.”


Cause and EffectA multidisciplinary approach allows for more leeway, because it goes beyond black-letter law and the stereo-types of the scientific or religious person to see what each group values and suggest ways those differing values can be accommodated in the law. “In areas like the contro-versies over teaching evolution in the public schools, I find that a sensitive understanding of the religious and scientific points of view is essential in deciding how the law should react,” says Professor Steven Goldberg. “It is impossible, in my view, to avoid considering the value systems of science and religion when one looks seriously at these matters in the law.”

Science also plays a role in areas like en-vironmental law. And although the courses that Professor Rich-ard Lazarus teaches in environmental law are not what he would call interdisciplinary, he makes sure that students understand to what extent the law depends upon other fields like science.

“Environmental law can’t afford to fictional-ize science; it has to respond to what the problems really are,” Lazarus explains. En-vironmental science is complex, he notes, and environmental protection law must reflect those complexities to be effective. “You can’t ignore cause and effect … you have to craft a law that is responsive to the actual complexities of cause and effect and the ecosystem to solve the problem.”

At Georgetown Law’s State-Federal Climate Resource Center, Faculty Director Peter Byrne is bringing his knowledge of property law and land use to bear on envi-ronmental questions. What does property law have to do with the environment? Quite a lot — since development patterns in this country have led to wasteful transporta-tion practices.

“[Others] have significant expertise in the Clean Air

Act and that sort of thing, so I think that it’s not neces-sarily a bad thing that my expertise is different, because it may expand the scope of competence within the Center,” Byrne says. “Yes, I’m coming to the Climate Center from a nontraditional specialty, but one that I think is seen by many, many people as relevant.”

Critical ThinkingBut what about students on their way out of Georgetown Law? Does learning law and literature or law and phi-losophy help when one has a job lined up with, say, the Justice Department?

“I think interdisciplin-ary study just helps you increase your critical thinking skills,” says Kate Mitchell-Tombras (L’10), editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Mitchell-Tombras enjoyed the interdisciplinary nature of Professor Salop’s Antitrust Economics and Law class and also jumped at the chance to take Law and Humanities with Professor West — where she enjoyed learning about the Jef-fersonian ideal of lawyers. “I actually feel smarter, meaning that I have not simply gained knowledge, but rather I’ve increased my capacity to think criti-

cally about legal issues from the perspective of different disciplines.”

Drake Hagner (L’10), who also took the Fall 2009 Law and Humanities class to study under Professor West, is examining films portraying rape in prison in order to shed light on cultural attitudes about it. “I don’t think just the legal side — just looking at cases and the history of the Prison Rape Elimination Act — tells us the whole story,” says Hagner, editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, who will be clerking next year for Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“I think interdisciplinary study just

helps you increase your critical thinking

skills,” says Kate Mitchell-Tombras (L’10).

“I actually feel smarter, meaning that I have

not simply gained knowledge, but rather I’ve

increased my capacity to think critically

about legal issues from the perspective

of different disciplines.”

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West notes that interdisciplinary study not only pro-vides a better understanding of the law but also a way to criticize law. It’s more than saying, for example, that this piece of contract law isn’t right because it doesn’t fit with the rest of the contract law puzzle; it gets you outside of contract law in order to gain critical insights and perspec-tives about the law itself. “You can stand outside law and throw tomatoes, but that’s not very effective or satisfying,” West says. “So the disciplines and the interdisciplinary movement, part of the attraction of them in law school, I think, is that they provide a way to ground criticism.”

Tapestries of ThoughtOf course, as West points out, law schools cannot risk becoming a repository for economists who don’t want to be in an economics department, or for literary theorists who got fed up with studying literature. Professors do, after all, need to be lawyers first.

“Law schools are in the business of studying law and producing lawyers, and that has to be done by people who think of themselves as in the business of studying law and producing lawyers,” she says.

Professor Richard Lazarus, too, notes that while envi-ronmental law may involve itself with protecting animal species, beautiful vistas or aquatic resources, the best experts in environmental law have to be expert lawyers — because what an environmental case comes down to usu-ally has to do with federal courts, civil procedure or even First Amendment law (as in the case of an ugly billboard that destroys the beautiful vista).

Outsiders who have come to the Law Center recog-nize and appreciate this tapestry of legal and nonlegal thought. Susan Heinzelman — an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin who delivered this year’s Ryan Lecture at Georgetown Law on October 28 — says that the Law Center is a model of the kind of law school that produces practitioners who understand the complex-ity of ‘real world’ lawyering.

“The institution long ago recognized that the law must be studied not merely as a collection of laws or rules but as a living product of and producer of our political, economic and social worlds,” Heinzelman says. “Interdis-ciplinary faculty not only reach beyond the strict limits of legal analysis for the benefit of their law students; they bring to the study of literature, culture and the political a rich and textured approach that opens up possibilities for

those of us not formally trained in the law.” Students, too, appreciate the “value-add” that comes

from interdisciplinary study — even as they take ad-vantage of everything else that the school has to offer. “There are clinics and experiential learning courses and I have taken advantage of a lot of those … all of that is incredibly valuable and important, but it doesn’t take away from the need for a more intellectual focus,” says Hagner, who enjoyed, among other things, reading Her-man Melville in West’s Law and Humanities seminar. “I wouldn’t say there needs to be a formula for every law student, but for me the different kinds of courses inform each other. I’ll probably be a better attorney because I’ve pondered what “Bartleby the Scrivener” tells us about the role of lawyers.”

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Top: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and President Jimmy Carter; the first group of Chinese boys selected by the Qing government to study in the United States; the seven-foot-six Chinese-born professional basketball player Yao Ming; President Jiang Zemin meets with President Bill Clinton; the Chinese table tennis delegation visits the U.S. in 1972; Mao Zedong meets with President Ford, his wife Betty, and his daughter Susan in Beijing in 1975; Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009.

Middle: Chairman Mao Zedong meets with President Nixon; Chinese delegation headed by Premier Zhou Enlai arrives in Geneva; President Jiang Zemin welcomes President George W. Bush in 2001; Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with Chinese officials; the American table tennis team visits China; and the historic handshake of President Richard Nixon and Premier Zhou Enlai on February 21, 1972.

Bottom: American pilots in China; first group of Chinese students who studied in the U.S. as boys; President Richard Nixon with first Chinese Liaison Office Chief Huang Zhen; President George H. W. Bush and wife, Barbara; President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, visit the Xi’an Terra Cotta Army Museum.

Credit: Historic photos courtesy of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations and the U.S. State Department.

a forum in Beijing, the asian Law alumni advisory Board, classes, partnerships and a conference celebrating 30

years of U.s.-sino relations — the sum of Georgetown’s Law asia is much more than its parts.


Di wu knew about Georgetown Law long before she applied to be an

LL.M. student in the class of 2010. an alumna of Tsinghua University’s law school in Beijing, she chose Georgetown for a sec-ond LL.M. because of the O’Neill institute for National and Global Health Law. Her law school at home had established the first research center for health law in China; what’s more, Tsinghua had recently agreed to partner with Georgetown Law on its health law initiatives. “Georgetown has the most prestigious program in global health law and is so famous in that field,” says wu, who received a full scholarship to pur-sue her studies in global health law here.

stories like wu’s will undoubtedly become more common in the future — thanks to the Law Center’s commitment in recent years to strengthen its ties to asia. whether sponsoring a “Global Georgetown Forum” in Beijing to examine critical is-sues of international law, teaming up with Georgetown University at a conference to celebrate 30 years of U.s.-sino relations, bolstering Georgetown Law’s asian Law alumni advisory Board, offering classes on asian law and society, or partnering with

Tsinghua University to draft health reforms in China — Georgetown Law is doing all it can to further some truly global relation-ships.

“scholarly communication with the countries is really our most important goal,” says susan Roosevelt weld, who serves as executive director of the Law asia program here along with its co-directors, Professors James Feinerman and Viet Dinh. Law asia strives to ensure that Georgetown students and graduates have all the tools they need to practice with their asian counterparts: whether in the public or private sectors, in law or in business, at home or abroad. Not far behind, of course, is the goal of bringing Georgetown Law’s expertise to bear on a continent whose economic growth has surpassed that of Europe in recent years: expertise in areas such as health care, envi-ronment, human rights and trade.

Jesuit missionaries have been travel-ing to China since the 1500s, introducing a wealth of western ideas in areas like science and astronomy, Feinerman says. But Law asia’s exchanges are completely modern.

“what we want to get away from is the sense that the U.s. has the answers,” weld says. “we want to have lots of communica-tion back and forth so if people adopt the methods seen here and elsewhere in the world, it comes from within, rather than from without.”

Global GeorGetown Law asia’s spotlight is focused on China — and Beijing was the place to be when the Law Center held its Global George-town Forum there in October. alumni from across asia joined Georgetown Law profes-sors and representatives of Chinese univer-sities, government and business at Beijing’s historic Legation Quarter, the former site

of the U.s. embassy. The site, just steps away from Tiananmen square in the heart of the city, now houses a development of fine restaurants and shops operated by real estate developer, entrepreneur and lawyer Handel Lee (L’88).

why Beijing — other than to bask in the city’s 2008 Olympic glory? “China is on everyone’s radar screen,” says Feinerman, who notes that while Law asia will also focus on other countries including Japan, Korea and Vietnam, “China is a big part of it.” [see page 45 for an interview with Feinerman.]

Christine washington, special assistant to Georgetown’s international Law alumni advisory Boards, notes that as a world capital, Beijing is a natural counterpart to washington, D.C., and a logical place for the global Georgetown community to meet. The timing was fortuitous too, as the Forum, held on October 9, followed closely on the heels of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. “China’s on the move and its business and legal communities are thriving,” washing-ton says. “so it was an exciting time to be there.”

while Dean alex aleinikoff, the former chair of the Obama administration’s immi-gration transition team, provided attendees with a glimpse of our nation’s capital in the first heady months of the new administra-tion, associate Dean of Graduate Programs wendy Collins Perdue led a discussion on current U.s.-China dynamics. several prominent trade and antitrust experts, in-cluding Zhang Yuqing (L’86), former direc-tor general of the Treaty and Law Depart-ment of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in China, discussed critical issues in international trade law and relations. alums also explored global health law and policy issues with Professor

Above: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao with President George W. Bush in 2003.

Opposite: 1. A reporter talks to Li Xiaolin, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. 2. Father Dennis McNamara speaks at the November 9 dinner at the Law Center celebrating 30 years of Sino-American relations. 3. Di Wu (LL.M.’10) 4. Liu Shiyu, vice governor of the People’s Bank of China. 5. Zhou Wenzhong, China’s ambassador to the United States. 6. Georgetown University Professor James Feinerman and Interim Dean Judith Areen with Handel Lee (L’88) and representatives of the Central Party School at the Law Center in October 2008. The two schools have agreed in recent years to sponsor academic exchanges for their faculties as well as annual conferences in Washington and Beijing.

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“Having one of the highlight topics be health law was important because it’s obvi-ously an area that both countries are focus-ing on this year,” explains Ho. “You can see countries coming together as they confront H1N1, and China ‘post-saRs’ has begun trying to think quite strategically about the positive role that it might be able to play.”

The Beijing event also marked the fourth successful meeting of George-town’s asian Law alumni advisory Board (aLaaB), first convened by aleinikoff, Feinerman and Vice President of strate-gic Development Kevin Conry (L’86) in December 2007 in shanghai to coordinate with the opening of Georgetown Uni-versity’s liaison office at the Center for american studies at Fudan University in shanghai. (aLaaB members have also met in seoul, Korea, and washington, D.C., in subsequent years.) Each meeting has fea-tured an educational component, to spot-light the depth and breadth of Georgetown Law’s faculty and alumni while providing opportunities for continuing education. [ see www.law.georgetown.edu/alumni/aLaaBFall08Meeting.htm.]

President George H. W. Bush meets with Deng Xiaoping in Beijing in 1989.

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia speaks at the November 9 photo exhibit at the Law Center celebrating 30 years of Sino-American relations.

Members of the Georgetown Law community gather in Beijing for the 2009 Global Georgetown Forum. Left to right: Susan Roosevelt Weld, executive director of Law Asia; Assistant Dean Nancy Cantalupo (F’95, L’03); Matt Calise, director of alumni affairs; Winston Zee (L’81, LL.M.’84); Handel Lee (L’88); Dean Alex Aleinikoff; Law-rence Okinaga (L’72); Associate Dean Wendy Collins Perdue; Kevin T. Conry (L’86), vice president for strategic development and external affairs; Christine Washington, special assistant to Georgetown’s International Law Alumni Advisory Boards; and Lili Dong, director of the University’s liaison office in Shanghai.

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James Feinerman, the James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies and co-director of Law Asia, has been at Georgetown Law for 25 years. In 1979, he was among the first cohort of scholars to study in the People’s Republic of China after it was reopened to the west. Feinerman and other China experts spoke last fall at a panel celebrat-ing 30 years of Sino-American diplomatic relations. Here, Feinerman discusses how he came to learn Chinese, what it was like to study in a country closed to Americans for three decades and how China has changed since then.

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Have you always had a facility for lan-

guages?

I didn’t know until I got to Loyola (a college

preparatory school outside Chicago) that

I was interested in or good at languages.

Everyone took Latin in Jesuit schools, and

after my freshman year people who’d done

the best on the freshman Latin exam were

selected to take Chinese class. We also took

Latin, Greek and Spanish.

Did people think you were crazy to study

Chinese in 1965?

To focus on Chinese at that time was very,

very odd. My parents’ friends would ask,

“You’re studying Chinese; what’s that all

about?” All through the 1960s the joke

among academics was that the optimists

studied Russian and the pessimists stud-

ied Chinese. By the time I got to Yale as a

freshman, I’d taken the equivalent of all the

undergrad Chinese classes so I took gradu-

ate-level classes. I became interested in Tang

Dynasty poetry during college and studied it

in graduate school.

How did you become interested in law?

Ironically, it was the study of Asia that

led me to the law and not the other way

around. I went to law school because one

of my college classmates at Yale who went

directly to Harvard Law called me when I was

in graduate school and said, “There’s this

guy here who teaches Chinese law. If you

came to law school you could get a real job.”

The academic job market in the mid 1970s

was very poor, so I thought maybe going to

law school wasn’t such a bad idea. My par-

ents were quietly cheering on the side.

Did you think you’d be selected to study in

China in 1979?

You’ve got to realize that this was the first

time in 30 years Americans were being al-

lowed to study there, so there was a lot of

pent-up demand. I saw very distinguished

scholars, already tenured at major uni-

versities, being interviewed along with us

students. Just to see all those people sweat-

ing nervously made me think my chances

were slim. I thought they were interested

in serious academics and not a law student.

Also, I was finishing up my Ph.D. and my

law degree the same year [Feinerman was

awarded a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages

and Literature from Yale in 1979, the same

year he earned a J.D. from Harvard with a

specialty in East Asian Legal Studies] and

I thought they might be more focused on

people earlier in their careers, people who

were just starting their dissertations. But of

the 30 people who went to China from the

U.S., five were law students or law school

graduates, two were medical doctors, one

was a soil agronomist and the others were

historians and students of literature and

philosophy.

What did you study in China?

When we got to Peking University we were

told that law wasn’t available as a course

of study because it was an extremely secret

discipline. So I studied language and litera-

ture. Ironically, when I went back to China

to teach three years later, my supervisor said

the only secret about the law then was that

there wasn’t any. The Chinese were embar-

rassed by how backward they were.

What were the living conditions like?

The dorms were new and had recently been

earthquake-proofed. But even so, there

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“Many pressing problems we face today — global warming, the collapse of the financial system, terrorism — are global in nature,” says board member winston Zee — explaining why he participates in aLaaB. “while international institutions such as the U.N. and the world Bank will be instrumental in resolving these prob-lems, they are by themselves insufficient … we will need a new generation of profes-sionals, including lawyers, who are skilled in developing cross-border and cross-cul-tural solutions.”

cross-cultural solutionsOne of Law asia’s most important initia-tives is taking place back home in wash-ington. in the wake of China’s adoption of a comprehensive health reform plan in the spring of 2009 that promised universal cov-erage, the O’Neill institute has launched a China Health Law initiative — a plan that will not only help Chinese and other government officials share information on researching and drafting rules and laws re-lating to health but will help to strengthen the development of health law in China.

“This debate over health reform, you see that happening in many other countries as well, and it is fortuitous that both the U.s. and China are thinking about this at the same time,” says Ho, who serves as director of the initiative.

The O’Neill institute will be work-ing with Tsinghua University law school’s

Health Law Resource Center as well as hospitals and NGOs in China. situated in the Chinese capital of Beijing and connect-ed to policymakers, “Tsinghua [is] an excel-lent place to have a health law initiative,” weld explains. “we’re going to help draft regulations and perhaps legislation to make their new health reform actually come true. … it seems to me like a very natural sort of partnership between Tsinghua and Georgetown.”

and as President Barack Obama prepared for his first-ever visit to asia last November, Georgetown University was bringing asia to washington. On No-vember 9-10, the university celebrated the 30th anniversary of sino-american diplomatic relations with a photo exhibit at the Law Center, followed by a confer-ence on Georgetown University’s main campus organized by Feinerman. The photo exhibit, scheduled to appear next at the Carter Center in Georgia, chronicled the diplomatic and educational relations between the United states and the People’s Republic of China from 1972 to the pres-ent. “we have a saying in China that past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future,” Zhou wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United states, said at a reception at the exhibit’s opening. “The 300 photos here show it is possible for China and the United states to come together and to work together and to expand their common interests. … if the two countries

can continue to handle the relationship in this way, i’m sure the relations will have an even brighter future.”

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia recalled how the first delegation of 52 Chinese exchange students arrived in the United states in December 1978, when he was a student at Georgetown. Thirty-six of those students came to Georgetown — and the student newspaper soon reported them to be “virtually indistinguishable” from the rest of the community. “The more our nations engaged each other, the more we grew and deepened our understanding of one another,” DeGioia said.

buildinG the bridGesin keeping with Law asia’s goal of schol-arly communications, the Law Center is strengthening its ties with a number of universities in addition to Tsinghua. Georgetown University established a formal partnership with Beijing’s Renmin University in October 2006 to foster an exchange of ideas between the two schools; the agreement allows for up to 10 Renmin graduate law students to study at George-town Law each year. a similar agreement has been signed with Fudan University in shanghai, though these agreements have yet to be fully implemented.

Even without the agreements, the Law Center welcomed 59 LL.M. students from asian countries in 2009 — almost double the 31 students enrolled in 2002. These

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students hailed from india, Japan, the Phil-ippines, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Thailand in addition to China.

“There’s a growing interest in China in education outside of its borders, so since 2002, China has changed a great deal,” Perdue explains. “The number of interna-tional firms in China has increased, and economic and legal activity has increased dramatically. … some of the students are in government; others are lawyers who want to have an international practice in China. so, many of them are likely to want an experience outside of China.”

and the opportunities for asian students aren’t limited to Georgetown’s washington, D.C., location. The Center for Transnational Legal studies in London has partnerships with the National Univer-sity of singapore and the National Law school of india University in Bangalore, for instance.

students at Georgetown, meanwhile, can take advantage of Law Center-spon-sored exchange programs at the National University of singapore and Tsinghua

were rats and you had to walk to another

building for the shower, which had hot

water only one hour a day six days a

week. There was very little maintenance;

paint was peeling off the walls. The roof

in one whole wing of the third floor had

collapsed and they didn’t fix it. Birds were

flying back and forth, there were insects

and trash — and they just roped it off.

There were rumors about American citi-

zens that we wouldn’t be able to survive

in such primitive conditions so we brought

washing machines and dishwashers! What

would I have done with a dishwasher in

that dormitory? We ate in a dining hall,

but students from the poorest countries

cooked in the hallways. One student had

a hot plate that was almost always on. If

you were walking down the hall at night,

there was this glowing red thing and you

realized you were about to step on a hot

plate.

Could you travel within the country?

As foreign students we had more freedom

than most citizens, but travel restrictions

were still quite tight. We had to get travel

permits. We’d go to the foreign students’

office and say, I want to go to the follow-

ing six cities, and they’d say, OK, right now

you can go to three of those six. Then I’d

have to go to a public security building

and get them to endorse that request so

I could get an internal visa. And these

visas were strictly enforced. If you tried to

get off at a different place, the first thing

they’d ask would be to see your papers. It

was difficult.

Was there surveillance or other restrictive

measures?

We received mail once a day that came

to us through the foreign students’ office

and there were several hilarious episodes

where letters had obviously gotten mixed

up when they were opened and read.

You’d get somebody else’s mail, somebody

else’s photo, of the wrong race. And of

course, they always denied that they’d

done it.

One time we almost created an inter-

national crisis. When we first got there,

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Opposite page: American pilots in China; South Korean Justice Dong Heub Lee (LL.M. ’86), center, visits the Supreme Court moot courtroom during his tour of the Law Center in December 2008. Lee, who has served as a justice on Korea’s Constitutional Court since 2006, was in Washington, D.C., for an official visit to observe oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. Accompanying Justice Lee during the Georgetown visit were Judge Hanseung Kang (left), a judge of the Seoul High Court and counselor for judicial affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea; Lee’s daughter, Ju Won Lee (right), Professor Steve Goldblatt and Professor James Feinerman.

Above: Law Center administrators, faculty and guests at a May 2009 dinner to further the dialogue between Georgetown University and the China Central Party School.

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we were told we had to have injections

and chest x-rays. So we went in, and the

x-ray machine was a fluoroscope, which

can expose you to more radiation than

you should be exposed to in your whole

life. As for the injections, they said, “We

have ten needles, one per country.” So I

swallowed real hard and said, “Teacher,

the American doctors tell us that the

American students shouldn’t do this, so

we’ll have to respectfully decline.” And

this official just went ballistic and said,

“You’re going to be sent back to the

United States,” and I said, “OK, I’ll call the

embassy. But this is something I’ve been

told by experienced medical people we

shouldn’t do.” Then, because we didn’t

do it, the British didn’t do it. The Germans

didn’t do it. And I realized what an enor-

mous embarrassment this was. But we

weren’t required to have the shots and

x-rays and we weren’t sent back.

You went to China three years later on a

Fulbright. How had the country changed?

There was a new building for foreign

students, and it was a palace compared

with where I’d lived just a few years ear-

lier. On the other hand, we’d had Chinese

roommates in the dorm before, but once

we moved back all the foreign students

lived together. So I think that was a loss

actually. And while there was a superficial

openness a lot of the same practices car-

ried on. Our mail was still censored.

When did you come to Georgetown Law?

I came here on a one-year visit in 1985

and never left. I had practiced law at

Davis Polk and had most recently been

administrative director of the East Asian

Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law. My

wife, a tax lawyer, had been living in New

York when I was living in Boston, and

Washington made a lot of sense for her.

University in Beijing. Eight students did just this last fall, including Rebecca Feil (L’10), who enjoyed visiting the Great wall as she learned the Chinese version of torts, civil procedure, civil law, constitutional law and law and society.

andrew Oja (L’10) was so impressed with his recent semester at Tsinghua that he decided to take Feinerman and weld’s seminar in Chinese law upon his return to Georgetown. and while he’s planning to work in the D.C. office of a law firm doing litigation after graduation, the experience did help him to broaden his career outlook.

“if there’s going to be one country that has the most impact on this century, it’s go-ing to be China, no doubt,” Oja says. “My firm does work in China, so part of why i wanted to go there was to assess the viabil-ity of doing that, as an american attorney working in China.”

among the faculty, Visiting Profes-sor Lucille Barale, a specialist in the legal aspects of doing business in China, teaches at the Law Center in the fall and Renmin University in the spring. and assistant Dean Nancy Cantalupo (F’95, L’03) spon-sors a class that introduces students to legal issues affecting Chinese women — such as employment and trafficking — and then takes them to China to research the problems firsthand.

“actually going to China to study women’s issues rather than just doing it in the classroom gave us the invaluable op-

portunity to interact with Chinese culture,” says Jennifer wedekind (L’11), a 2009 participant. “Because culture is such an integral part of how women are treated and perceived, there is no way we would have gotten a complete picture just by reading about it.”

Pioneersand the ties will only multiply. Law Center faculty, including Feinerman and weld, have actively participated in Georgetown-sponsored exchanges with China’s Central Party school, a training academy and policy think tank for mid-level and high-level government officials in China, carrying out a university-wide agreement signed by Georgetown and CCPs in May 2006.

Law asia is also seeking funding for a project to parallel the Law Center’s Leadership and advocacy for women in africa Program, which would provide more asian women the opportunity to earn an LL.M. here. weld further hopes to partner with the Nature Conservancy to develop a Chinese national parks law, perhaps enlist-ing the help of Georgetown Law’s environ-mental law professors. and in January, an administrative law delegation — including representatives of Chinese law schools and legislatures in shaanxi, Gansu and Jiangsu provinces — came to the Law Center for several weeks to work on a project in ad-ministrative law with the asia Foundation.

Law asia, certainly, is just one more way that students at Georgetown, and al-ums around the world, stay connected and proud of their school. “Georgetown Law has been, and continues to be, a pioneer in this global approach to problem-solving,” says winston Zee. “it provides an invalu-able forum to bring together legal scholars and practitioners from around the world.”

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Below: Law Center Dean Alex Aleinikoff (left), Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia (center), Professor James Feinerman (right) and guests celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sino-American relations with a photo exhibit at the Law Center on November 9.

You’ve continued to visit China, returning in

2006 and at one point directing the commit-

tee that sent you over in 1979.

I was the penultimate director of that com-

mittee just before it ended in 1996. When

they asked me to take the position, I was

already a tenured member of the faculty

here and I’d just spent a year at the Wilson

Center working on a project about China

and international law. China was more open

and there was so much you could do. My

predecessor was also from Georgetown, Jim

Reardon-Anderson, dean of the School of

Foreign Service.

What are your current research projects?

I’ve been working for the last several years

on Chinese corporate governance, which sort

of bled into the financial crisis and financial

reform and China’s role in the international

aspects of that, as well as domestic corpo-

rate governance in financial systems. I’m

also studying something that’s long been an

interest of mine and that’s central provin-

cial local relations in China. A lot of the

problems that have surfaced in China have

to do with this. Although China looks very

authoritarian, with everything flowing from

the central government down, the president

of the United States actually has more power

to make sure things happen in the lower

levels of government than the top ruler in

China does. I’m trying to understand the

legal, social, economic and cultural reasons

why this is the case. The Chinese call it “local

protectionism,” and they don’t seem to think

there’s anything they can do about it. But

when local protectionism imperils the drink-

ing water of a city of five million for a week

because a factory is dumping toxic chemicals

into the stream, there should be a long-term

strategy.

What’s on the agenda for Law Asia?

We had a group here for two weeks in Janu-

ary working on an administrative law project

with the Asia Foundation. We’re hoping to

have an event celebrating the 60th anni-

versary of the People’s Republic of China. In

some ways we’ve been hiding our light un-

der a bushel. One interesting aspect of our

connection to China is our Jesuit heritage,

which goes back hundreds of years. Matteo

Ricci, for instance was a Jesuit priest and

one of the first Catholic missionaries to go

to China in the 16th century, and the Jesuits

became various advisers to Chinese emperors

in the Ching dynasty. As the country’s oldest

Jesuit university we’ve always had people

here with Chinese missionary experience,

and those people have kept alive a tradition

going back centuries.

For more interviews and information on

Georgetown and China, visit

https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/

projects/uschina

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In Class:

by Anne Cassidy

The first of an occasional feature in which we sit in on classes currently offered at Georgetown Law.

In Class


It’s a sunny Wednesday in September, and inside Mc-Donough Hall’s Room 492, a dozen students in the Bioeth-

ics and the Law Seminar are thinking their way through some of society’s pricklier problems.

Patricia King, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics and Public Policy, directs students’ attention to the readings for the day, in particular an article on eugenics and state-sponsored sterilization. The article quotes Harvey Ernest Jordan, who was dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1912 when he argued that eugenics should be part of medical school curriculums.

“Medicine is fast becoming a science of the prevention of weakness and morbidity … Eugenics, embracing genet-ics, is thus one of the important disciplines among the future medical sciences,” King reads. Then she asks the class: “Do you agree that the role of medicine is to get rid of disease and certain kinds of weakness? Are you willing to embrace genet-ics to achieve this purpose?”

The responses are as varied as the students in the room: “How do you define weakness?” asks one. “Should we let science decide who cures the ills of soci-

ety?” queries another. At this point King makes a few points about eugenics and

how it can be accomplished through incentives or by prohibit-ing certain people from reproducing. Some states have laws al-

lowing sterilization of the mentally incompetent with parental consent. “Should such statutes be allowed?” King asks.

One student immediately says no, enforced sterilization is off the table. Another says there are times it might be ap-propriate for medical reasons.

“What are the legal roots of procreative choice? You’re all second- and third-year law students now,” King says. “This is deeper than choice. The protection of bodily integrity goes way back to common law, to rules against mayhem and the infliction of disfigurement.”

In a matter of minutes, King has guided the conversation across the shoals of controversy to the still, deep water of historical-legal analysis. It’s not that students check their opin-ions at the door, far from it; instead, they plunge deep enough into a topic that surface distinctions are erased. “We go to the core — that’s what bioethics does — we go to the core of who we are as human beings,” King says.

King first thought about these issues when she was deputy director of the Office of Civil Rights of the Equal Employ-ment Opportunity Commission (part of what was then called the Department of Health, Education and Welfare). At the time, HEW was dealing with the controversy over the infa-mous Tuskegee Experiment, a Public Health Service study of syphilis in black men in Alabama. The experiment lasted from 1932-1972 — a time period that included the invention

“We go to the core — that’s what bioethics does — we go to the core of who we are as human beings,” King says.

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of penicillin, which was withheld from the infected men. King served on the first national commission established to recom-mend ways to protect human subjects and is a pioneer in the field of bioethics. King has been at Georgetown Law since 1973 and has been teaching this class since the mid 1980s.

The class syllabus for Bioethics and the Law reads like a list of subjects not to discuss at cocktail parties — contraception, abortion, stem-cell research, genetic testing and more. “We will be discussing some of the most contentious issues in American life,” King tells her students. “I realize these are issues people feel passionate about. Our number one goal is to be respectful. But that means civility, not silence. People can express whatever they want to express.” And they do.

“One of the things I like about the class is that I hear from people with different points of view,” says student Erin Helling

(L’11). She realizes that class topics “can be hot-button issues for a lot of people, but [the conversations] have been very academic; people haven’t gotten into any heated rhetoric. Everyone is respectful of each other’s views.” This is important to Helling because she says a lot of the people she interacts with — she’s on the board of Law Students for Reproductive Justice — think about issues the same way that she does, “so it’s nice to hear different points of view.”

Catherine Foster (L’11) has one of those different points of view. She comes at bioethics “from a baseline that recognizes the implicit value of each human life,” she says. Foster, who is vice president of the Progressive Alliance for Life on campus, knows her views diverge from those of many Georgetown Law students. “It’s one of the reasons I applied here. I wanted to see what the other side had, the other arguments. I wanted to jump into the deep

end to see if I could swim.” Foster finds the class topics “absolutely fascinating, ripe for debate because there are so many different perspectives.”

Robert Berlin, a part-time LL.M. student in the seminar, says teaching the subject matter of Bioethics and the Law requires a special touch, because “any one of the classes could turn into someone crying or leaving the classroom. It’s an art, for sure.”

It’s a few weeks later now, halfway through the semester. Students have

settled on the spots where they want to sit in the seminar room — by the windows, against the wall or in the back. King always sits in front, by the blackboard, which she uses often to illustrate a point.

Today’s topic is assisted reproduction. “Why would people want to clone another human being?” King asks, and then throws

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“Is it ethical to use parental genetic diagnoses to create a donor sibling?” King asks. “What would Kant say?”

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“We will be discussing some of the most con-tentious issues in American life,” King tells her students. “I realize these are issues people feel passionate about. Our number one goal is to be respectful. But that means civility, not silence. People can express whatever they want to ex-press.” And they do.


out a few possible answers: “The death of a child, wanting to have a child with a genetic connection to one of the parents or perhaps even creating someone like them-selves. Let’s start with this question: Would it be appropriate to stop cloning from com-ing into existence?”

“Conducting clinical trials affects two people, not just the parent but also the new child,” says one of the older students in the class. “Is there a safer, more proven option? What does cloning achieve?”

“A genetic connection,” says a student who’s usually quiet in class.

“Cloning shouldn’t be prohibited due to fear of other motives,” says a young man who sits in the back of class.

“What’s that motive?” This question comes from one of the more frequent class participants.

“Narcissism,” the back-of-the-class student says.

“What’s wrong with that?” answers the frequent participant.

King enters the discussion: “What about the first point, that there are two people in this endeavor and one of them has no say about this until 18 years later?”

“Why is cloning that much different from a natural birth? None of us gets to choose whether we’re born,” says the fre-quent participant.

“Do we enable technologies just be-cause they imitate something that occurs in nature?” King asks. “How far do we go in acceding to parental interests?”

“Parents must accept the obligations and the responsibilities. It’s obligation lan-guage, not rights language.” This from the older student again.

“That’s a wonderful way to raise the question,” King says. “As you can see, get-ting us to look at it from the perspective of the child raises a lot of issues.”

“Could children know they were brought into the world for some purpose and that their genetic makeup was chosen for them?” asks the student in the back.

“You’re raising an interesting question,” King says. “There’s a history in common law of treating children as the property of the father. The way we describe it now is as an extension of the parents. That’s a consider-ation to put on the table.”

“But we have to weigh all these costs against nonexistence,” says another stu-dent. As the full impact of this statement sinks in, King notices that it’s almost time for a break. She decides to take a vote. Seven members of the class are for some sort of regulation against cloning; four are against it. King points out that today’s discussion has raised questions about the interests of the yet-to-be-born child. In Britain, children conceived by donor sperm now have the right to know who their father is when they turn 18, but as a result of this new British law, sperm donations have dropped considerably. “I think you’ll hear more about this kind of thing because of increasing concerns about the human rights of children,” King says. Similar con-cerns are surfacing about prenatal genetic diagnosis, which began as an aid to embryo implantation but is used for sex selection and more. “Is it ethical to use parental ge-netic diagnoses to create a donor sibling?” King asks. “What would Kant say?”

“He would say we’re using humans as a means, not an end,” says one student.

“But what if the parents are willing to provide for the child?” King counters.

“It’s hopeless to commodify a human in this way,” says another.

“Parents have children for all sorts of reasons, to save failing marriages, for example,” adds a third student.

By the end of the class, the day’s readings have been dissected and interest-ing cases given a shout-out (“Read North Coast Women’s Care,” King says). The room is buzzing. No minds may have been changed, but students have grappled with the issues.

Richard Atkins (L’11), one of two doctors in the bioethics class, was often called on to provide a medical perspective, requests he viewed with some trepidation because, “I know enough that I don’t want to dominate and I know so little that I don’t want to look stupid!” Still, Atkins came to appreciate the way King made people “think beyond the reading … to really think about life issues.”

James Burnett (L’11) says that one of the class discussions actually made him change his opinion on an issue. When he listened to the doctors in the class discuss assisted suicide it helped him understand “how a hospital might not want to continue funding futile treatment. … That was one of the classes where I walked out and said, I’ve never thought of that.”

By November 4, the deadline for drafts of the seminar’s required paper is only

a week away, but there’s still a good turnout for class, which is being taught today by Natalie Ram, a Greenwall fellow. (The



Greenwall Fellowship in Health Policy and Bioethics gives young scholars a chance to research, teach and study at the Law Center.) “We’ll start by thinking about the duty to warn, the obligation to inform other family members of a health risk. Does the duty to warn fit into a genetic context?” Ram asks. “What do you think?” She looks out hopefully at the class. She waits for what seems like a very long time, though it is only a few seconds. And then students jump into the discussion. One talks about privacy concerns, another about the re-sponsibilities placed on doctors. Soon Ram has a lively discussion on her hands.

“I’m very uncomfortable with long silences,” Ram says later, describing what it was like to lead the class. “In law school I was always the one who raised my hand first. So when I was teaching I had to make sure that I waited. Professor King also told me to include some kind of class activity, like small groups.”

During the second hour of each semi-nar, King often breaks students into three or four groups and has them work together to provide an opinion on a specific case or issue. It’s something new she tried this semester. “I think the danger when you’ve been teaching a long time is you don’t stay up with your students in terms of how they learn and what they expect.” King thought small group sessions worked well (quieter students admitted they felt more comfort-able talking in them) and called Ram’s class “terrific.”

King has two goals for the seminar — to introduce students to developing law and to help them express their own points of view (“because most people can’t do that,” she says). As for her own opinions, King keeps those to herself. In fact, she thinks students would be surprised if they knew her beliefs, “because I am a moderate and that means seeing both sides of issues far more than students think I do.”

For the last class, King has arranged for a breakfast buffet to be served in

the back of the seminar room. There are bagels, muffins, fruit and coffee. On the syllabus the final class is marked TBD, but King has decided to cover race, health and justice.

“When I talk about race and health I’m talking about justice. … I want the class to end with a subject that points toward the future,” King says — and though she is speaking to students at the time, a later, out-of-class conversation makes it clear she’s talking about her own future as well: “There are going to be a lot of distributional questions [coming up in the health care field] and I want to deal with them in the context of race and justice.”

Students have prepared for the last class by reading, among other things, a Hastings Center report by Norman Daniels entitled “Equity and Population Health.”

“Health care is only a part, and some would say not even a big part, of the health of people in a population,” King

says, introducing the day’s subject matter. Environmental and social issues — hous-ing, employment, language, the quality of education and many other variables — determine the health of a population.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in public areas. Hospitals were included under Title VI of the Act. “Should we reconsider individual physi-cians’ offices under the 1964 amendment to the Civil Rights Act? Does a physician’s office fall within the boundary of public accommodation?” King asks.

The class is quiet today. Students are tired. They’re still polishing their papers for this seminar and are studying for finals in other classes. King is trying to engage them this last day, to leave one final impression.

“Come on,” she says to the silent bunch. “Build on all the things you brought to this class. Imagine the conflicts between cultures, the poverty and inadequate access to health care. If it’s not due to the doctor then look at the opposite explanation.”

A quiet student tentatively raises her hand. “Patients bring their own precon-ceived notions about health care,” she says. King is pleased that someone has moved the conversation forward and that the class is beginning to recognize that if it’s not bias on the part of the doctor then it must be what the patient brings to the encounter. No one argues that there is a discrepancy in care, King says. “They only debate what to call it — whether to use a neutral word like ‘difference’ or a judgmental word like ‘disparity.’”


Greenwall Fellow Natalie Ram conducted class on November 4.


One of the main questions being asked here, King says, is “are vulnerable groups deserving of special attention?” It was 1993 when a congressional statute said that minorities and women must be included in clinical trials. But recruiting women and minorities for research studies has had sev-eral unintended, negative consequences. It’s made conducting research more costly and slower and it has reinforced gender and racial differences. Next year, King says she’ll include a reading from the New Eng-land Journal of Medicine on this topic. This is the first time she’s taught this subject in this particular way, and you can see her mind working during the class.

After the break, which is short, King references the Norman Daniels article again and asks students to wrestle with one of its central questions — whether it’s better to equalize health care (spend our resources bringing everyone up to the same level, even if that level is low) or maximize health care, striving for the best even with greater disparity.

A student by the window says he’d go for a maximizing approach, “because if you

throw out a larger net, you’ll catch more fish.” King asks the class who would speak up for the other side. No one seems willing to for a few minutes. Finally the quiet stu-dent says, “That might be the most efficient way to allocate resources, but it’s not the most equitable.” King asks for an example. “A kid who gets a tooth infection and dies from it creates a moral imperative to equal-ize care,” the student responds.

The second hour is winding down. This last class hasn’t caught fire the way some earlier sessions did. But King takes this in stride: “It’s almost 11 and you’re looking puzzled,” she says to the students. “That’s better than looking sleepy. But I urge you to look at the social determinants of health — housing, food, work, education; to focus on health, not health care.” King had noted earlier in class the politicization of bioeth-ics, how conservative and liberal think tanks have their own bioethicists, and with her final class she seems to be trying to counter that, at least as much as she can.

“My regret is — and I’m still worrying about this — that I introduce students more to questions of individualism and

autonomy, but we don’t spend as much time as I’d like to on the justice issues,” King says later, after the class is over. “It’s a principle that’s difficult to teach in a class-room — maybe because it’s the principle that’s the most difficult to apply in our ordinary lives. So in the future I’m hoping to isolate even more the issues that deal with justice.”

But at this point, the future can wait. As the 2009 version of Bioethics and the Law ends that cold and rainy Wednesday, King lingers, talking to a few students. Eventually, the classroom empties. King is the last one to leave, so she takes the fruit tray with her. There is a little bit left, and she doesn’t want it to go to waste.

“We’ll start by thinking about the duty to warn, the obligation to inform other family members of a health risk. Does the duty to warn fit into a genetic context?” Ram asks. “What do you think?” She looks out hopefully at the class.


1950Matthew G. Galligan writes that he still misses the old “Red School House” at 5th and E Streets. [See page 26 for a picture of this building.] “I am 86 years of age and still practice law part time,” he says via e-mail. “I will never give it up! Georgetown Law is, and has always been, a prize educational opportunity.” Galligan has had multiple connections to George-town. His father-in-law, Edward L. Reynolds, graduated from the law school in 1923; his uncle, William A. Gordon, graduated from the School of Foreign Service the same year.

1961Martin Holleran (C’58) continues his mediation practice in Martin, Palm Beach and St. Lucie Counties, Fla. He enjoys participating in nu-merous bar functions as a member of the Martin County Bar Association.

1963Robert L. Parks co-chaired the judicial reception for Legal Services of Greater Miami’s “Together We Must Campaign” on November 5.

The organization provides free civil legal services to needy individuals throughout Miami-Dade County. He was also honored in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialties of personal injury litigation and product liability litigation. Parks

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listed in Florida Super Lawyers from 2006 to 2009 and named as one of the “Best Business Litigators” in complex commercial litigation and real estate litigation by South Florida Legal Guide from 2005 to 2009. Payton is also a leader in the Law Department Consortium, a historic movement to improve the way corporate law departments manage business.

1968Alan Kasper has been named presi-dent of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), assuming the office in October at the close of the annual AIPLA confer-ence. He is a senior partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Sughrue Mion, heading the firm’s international department.

J. Dominic Monahan practices law with Luvaas Cobb in Eugene, Ore.Three of his five children are Georgetown graduates and are also lawyers: Michael (C’94), a partner at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury in Chicago; Amy Reischauer (L’99, G’99), assistant general counsel at Drugstore.com in Seattle; and Chris-topher (L’08), an associate at Reed & Smith in Washington, D.C. (Their sister is studying for the LSATs and their brother is a paralegal.) “It seems to run in the family,” he writes.

1969In May 2007, John (“Jack”) J. Long Jr. (B’66) was appointed director of the Southeast District Office of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which has responsibil-ity for environmental regulatory matters in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Okeechobee counties. In the 1980s, he served as Vermont’s chief environmental enforcement attorney and later as Vermont’s environmental commissioner.

Karl Milde Jr. has joined Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott as a member of the intellectual property group. He practices in the firm’s White Plains, N.Y., office.

1970Bill Jarblum, the chief executive officer of Jarblum Entertainment Group, has co-produced a film called “The Little Traitor,” a coming-of-age story starring Alfred Molina and set at the eve of Israel’s independence in 1947. The movie, based on the Amos Oz novel Panther in the Basement, won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature at the Palm Beach Film Festival and at the Los Angeles Jew-ish Film Festival.

Charles W. Jirauch was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of intellectual property law. He is a partner in the Phoenix office of Quarles & Brady.

is principal of the Law Offices of Robert L. Parks in Coral Gables, Fla.

William E. Thomson Jr. has joined Brooks Kushman as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office, helping to expand the

intellectual property litigation and patent practice. Thomson was recently a partner at Hogan and Hartson. He also served as the mayor of Pasadena, Calif., from 1988 to 1990 and a member of the Pasadena City Council from 1981 to 1997.

1966John A. Gaberino Jr. (C’63) has been named to the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of energy law. He is a shareholder in the

Tulsa office of GableGotwals.

Harry A. Payton is managing member of Payton & Associates in Miami, Fla., certified in both business litigation and civil trial

work. He serves on the state bar’s Judicial Administration and Evaluation Committee and is former chair of the Board of Legal Special-ization and Education. Payton was

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John F. Butler (C’01, L’06) a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was awarded the Defense Meritori-ous Service Medal in November for his role as the Command/Staff Judge Advocate for the United States National Command Element (US NCE) Task Force Anzio at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, from May to November 2009. The medal is awarded “for non-combat meritorious achievement or service that is incontestably exceptional and of magnitude that clearly places the individual above his peers while serving in one of the assignments for which the medal has been designated.” Butler returned to the United States in January and is now a prosecutor in the Naval Legal Services in San Diego. His article “A Rosary in Kandahar” appeared in America magazine in November 2009.

Catherine Chess Chen (C’98, L’01), assistant general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has received the Attorney Gen-eral’s Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Employee.

Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education has honored James R. DeGiacomo (L’56) with a scholarship fund in his name. “It is the hope of MCLE that creating this fund in Jim’s name will help train lawyers who represent underprivi-leged or traditionally underserved populations and give voice to some of the most vulnerable members of our society in a meaningful and appropriate way to demonstrate our admira-tion for this remarkable man,” said a release. DeGiacomo is of counsel in the Boston office of Murtha Cullina.

Michael Delaney (L’94) was sworn in as New Hampshire’s attorney general in August. His priorities as chief law enforcement officer and chief legal counsel of the state include improv-ing child protection, strengthening the state’s prosecution of white collar crime, and protect-ing consumers from financial exploitation and fraud. Delaney joined the attorney general’s office in 1999 and served as deputy attorney general from 2004 to 2006, when he became legal counsel to Governor John Lynch (L’83).

N. Lynn Hiestand (F’75, L’80) was chosen as the “2009 Woman of the Year in Restructur-ing” by the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. She is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in London and co-head of the firm’s Eu-ropean Corporate Restructuring Practice. The award in turn garnered Hiestand, a member of the Law Center’s Board of Visitors, an article in the December 11 Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review as the “Mover of the Week.”

Lauri Mälksoo (LL.M.’99) is professor of international law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. In September, he was the first scholar from Estonia to win a prestigious grant by the European Research Council. For five years, he researched the Russian Federation’s under-standing of international law and human rights from the perspective of liberal interna-tional relations theory.

Roderick H. Morgan (L’78) assumed the of-fice of president of the Indiana State Bar Asso-ciation for 2009-10, the first African-American ever elected to the role. Morgan, a partner at

Bingham McHale, leads the firm’s diversified business solutions team and is a member of the business services advisory department.

Gretchen Nelson (L’83) was honored by Loyola Law School in September as a Cham-pion of Justice, an award given to “individuals whose distinguished legal careers are marked by professional excellence, technical profi-ciency and uncompromising integrity.” Nelson is managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Kreindler & Kreindler, specializing in the litigation of complex class actions involving securities, antitrust and consumer claims.

Robert Eugene Richardson (C’72, L’75), first director of Georgetown University’s Office of Affirmative Action Programs (now known as the Office of Diversity) and senior e-discovery litigation counsel at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was inducted into the Wash-ington Bar Association’s Hall of Fame last June.

Marvin E. Schlosser (L’60, LL.M.’63), a retired New Jersey Superior Court judge currently on recall, is a 2010 recipient of the Martin L. Haines Award — given by the Burlington County Bar Association to those who best exemplify and display the qualities of personal and professional integrity, devotion to the legal profession and legal scholarship, and dedication to the justice system and the people of Burlington County. It is the associa-tion’s highest award.

Gretchen Nelson (L’83) receiving the Champion of Justice award; New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney (L’94); Catherine Chess Chen (C’98, L’01) with Attorney General Eric Holder; and Robert Eugene Richardson (C’72, L’75), left, being congratulated by Washington Bar Association President Ronald C. Jessamy Sr., after Richardson’s induction into the Washington Bar Association’s Hall of Fame.

Alumni AwArds, recognitions And Appointments

Adjunct Professor Bradley J. Bondi (LL.M. ’09) has been appointed assistant director and deputy gen-eral counsel of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a 10-member bipartisan commission created by Congress and charged with examining the causes of the finan-cial crisis. Bondi was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where he investigated and litigated complex financial and securities cases. Bondi serves as an adjunct professor at the Law Center, teaching a class called “Rethinking Securities Regulation and the Role of the SEC.”

On January 23, Richard Callahan (C’69, L’72), previously a circuit court judge in Cole County, Mo., was sworn in as U.S. attorney for eastern Missouri.

On February 25, the Hartford Cou-rant and the Blog of Legal Times reported that President Obama has nominated Judge Robert N. Chatigny (L’78) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

George H. Cohen (LL.M. ’60) was nominated to be director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and was confirmed by the Senate October 5.

Victoria Espinel (F’89, L’92), was nominated as U.S. intellectual prop-erty enforcement coordinator at the Office of Management and Budget and was confirmed in December.

Bryan Hayes (L’74) has been nominated to the National Labor Relations Board.

Mary Jacksteit (L’75) has been named chair of the Federal Services Impasses Panel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

Adjunct Professor Timothy Lynch (L’95) has joined the U.S. Securi-ties and Exchange Commission as assistant chief litigation counsel in the trial unit.

Jennifer A. Manner (LL.M. ’92) has been appointed deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at the Federal Com-munications Commission.

Paul Martin (L’90) was nominated inspector general of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-tion and confirmed by the Senate in November.

Patrick K. Nakamura (L’78) was nominated to be a member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Re-view Commission. As senior partner in the firm of Nakamura, Quinn, Walls, Weaver & Davies in Birming-ham, Ala., he has represented

clients in both civil and administra-tive labor, employment and health and safety litigation in federal and state courts and agencies, including the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor.

William C. Ostendorff (LL.M.’91) was nominated to be a commis-sioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December.

Michael Robertson (LL.M.’11) White House liaison at the General Services Administration, has been appointed chief acquisition officer and associate administrator in the Office of Government Policy at the General Services Administration.

Kathryn Ruemmler (L’96) has been appointed a deputy coun-sel to President Obama. She was appointed to the post of principal associate deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice in 2009.

Lillian Sparks (L’01) was nomi-nated to be a commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Miriam Vogel (L’01) has been named counsel to the deputy at-torney general at the Department of Justice.

OTHER NEWSMAKERS:

The Daily Times Herald (Iowa) reported on January 22 that Matt Campbell (L’98) announced his entry into the Democratic race for Iowa’s 5th Congressional District.

“NAACP’s Interim Top Lawyer Fights the Good Fight,” a profile of Angela Ciccolo, (L’92), interim general counsel and secretary at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), appeared in the January 6 National Law Journal.

Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline (L’86) announced his intention in February to run for Congress in Rhode Island’s 1st Dis-trict, according to an article in the Providence Journal.

“Sizing Up Wall Street Sheriffs,” an article appearing in the Wall Street Journal January 23, spotlighted po-tential candidates for the attorney general of New York — including John P. (“Sean”) Coffey (L’87). Coffey, a former senior partner at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, retired from the firm in October to focus on the attorney general race.

David Fogel (F’93, G’96, L’97) is executive vice president and founder of IndexIQ, a developer of index-based alternative investment


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George H. Cohen (LL.M. ’60), Richard Callahan (C’69, L’72), Patricia McGuire (L’77), David N. Cicilline (L’86), John P. (“Sean”) Coffey (L’87), Paul Martin (L’90), Jennifer A. Manner (LL.M. ’92), Seth Williams (L’92)

Georgetown Law professors, alumni and even students continue to accept government roles. New appointees and nominees include:

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solutions. An article on IndexIQ’s Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker Exchange-Traded Fund appeared in the September 17 New York Times.

NBC News White House Correspon-dent and MSNBC Anchor Savannah Guthrie (L’02) was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as a “2010 Face to Watch” on Decem-ber 27. [See related story, p. 71.]

Kristine Minami (L’05) was featured in an Associated Press article in February 2009 about the detention of 120,000 Japanese-Americans in the U.S. during World War II. Minami’s father, grandmoth-er and uncle were among those detained in the camps.

Beverly Perry (L’81), senior vice president for government affairs and policy at Pepco, and Patricia McGuire (L’77), president of Trinity Washington University, were named among the “100 Most Powerful Women in Washington” in the Oc-tober 2009 issue of Washingtonianmagazine. A profile of McGuire en-titled “The Devoted: She Spent Her Life Transforming Trinity. So Where Does Pat McGuire — and the University She Rebuilt — Go From Here?” appeared in the Washington Post Magazine on February 14.

“Swimmer Aims for Long-Distance Trifecta,” coverage in the San Diego Union-Tribune in September, fea-tured Todd Robinson (L’93), who broke the men’s world record on his first attempt to swim the 21-mile Catalina Channel to Palos Verdes.

“A D.C. Activist with Humble Roots Has Powerful People Adopting Her Cause,” a profile of Malika Saada Saar (L’01), co-founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, appeared in the Washington Poston December 24.

The Philippine Star reported on January 9 that Val Antonio B. Suarez (L’89) has been named chief operating officer of the Philip-pine Stock Exchange.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on January 5 that R. Seth Williams (L’92) was inaugurated as Philadel-phia’s first African-American district attorney.

For more information see “Alumni in the News” at www.law.georgetown.edu/news/ain and for up-to-date administra-tion appointments, see www.law.georgetown.edu/news/ appointees.html.

Newsmakers

There was a whole lot of “tweeting” going on at George-town Law’s annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute

November 12-13 — and it wasn’t just the person sitting next to you in Hart Auditorium.

Georgetown Law’s Continuing Legal Education program has stepped up its social media program — tweeting, for example, more than 200 times during the two-day E-Discovery Institute for people unable to attend. Alerts like “Up next: Judicial panel w/Judges Grimm, Facciola, Fitzger-ald, Nolan, Peck, Scheindlin & Waxse” and “Going on now: Breakout sessions on project management, bankruptcy issues & federal investigations” not only let people know what they were missing but encouraged registration for future programs.

“We are definitely considered a thought leader in e-discovery, the leading annual conference on e-discovery in the United States, so this is just an extension of that,” says Larry Center, assistant dean for academic conferences and continuing legal education. “We want to show people that even though we are a law school, we can be modern, and we can be cutting edge in our communication about what we do.”

Georgetown Law CLE also bears the distinction of being the first CLE program to use the “hash tag” — and is encouraging others to use it. Adding this identifier (in this case, “#edi09”) to a Tweet allows users to search on every message sent by every person that relates to the 2009 Institute, something that would be virtually impossible otherwise.

“Tweetmaster” and CLE Marketing Director Nicole Steckman (pictured above “tweeting” at a recent CLE conference) said people not on site found the information so helpful that they passed it on to others; and several called to request materials. The Institute was the top hit on a law blog called “The Posse List” for weeks; Georgetown Law also has its own “e-discovery” blog at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/cleblog/ (written by members of the CLE advisory board). “It’s led to a lot of buzz,” Steckman says.

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in memoriAm:

Robert B. August (L’50)

Kevin M. Byrne (L’78)

Louis Carusillo (L’27, LL.M.’28)

Robert Capuano (L’76)

Henry Contee Bowie Clagett (L’47)

George W. F. Cook (LL.M. ’52)

Thomas G. Conway (LL.M.’62)

Stephen H. Gore (L’70)

Jacquelyn M. Gray (L’03)

Michael Hodge (L’90)

Theodore Murnick (L’64)

John J. Musewicz (L’75)

John “Jack” Petrich (L’49)

Kathryn W. Patch (L’61)

Kent Ronhovde (L’74)

Robert Rines (L’47)

Susan Schaefer Sauntry (F’65, L’75)

Kelvin Scott (L’87)

John J. Stanton Jr. (L’58)

Peter J. Strauss (L’69)

Robert B. Williams (L’69)

Fred Zacharias (LL.M.’80)

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Jack Waddey was named one of “Tennessee’s Best 150 Lawyers” on an annual list compiled by BusinessTN magazine,

recognized for his work in the area of alternative dispute resolution. Waddey practices at the intellectual property law firm of Waddey & Patterson in Nashville, Tenn.

1971Edward A. McDonald was recently recognized for his performance as himself in the 1990 Oscar-nomi-nated film

“Goodfellas.” Film Comment Magazine’s November/December issue rated McDonald’s reenactment of his true-life dealings with former mobster Henry Hill as the No. 3 all-time performance of someone playing himself. (McDonald recreated his real-life role as the prosecutor.) Rated above Ed were the Beatles (“A Hard Day’s Night”) and former Republican Senator, lawyer and actor Fred Dalton Thompson (“Marie”). McDonald, who is currently a litigation partner in the New York office of Dechert, also played Father Flanigan in “The Sinatra Club,” a James Quattrochi film expected to be released in 2010.

James J. Restivo Jr. was named the “Pittsburgh Insurance Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers. He is a mem-ber of the insurance recovery group at Reed Smith.

1973Joseph Alarid retired from the New Mexico Court of Appeals after 25 years; he served as chief judge from 1992 to 1995. Alarid

was awarded the Montgomery Distinguished Judicial Service Award by the New Mexico Bar Association at its annual convention last year.

Paul Foldes is co-founder and chief operating officer of New Paradigm Reading (www.newparadigmread-ing.com), whose mission is to help millions of students, including adults,

improve their reading skills. The programs are designed to help both left and right brain learners; those diagnosed with dyslexia and ADD; and English-as-a-second-language learners. Foldes is establishing an affiliated nonprofit organization as a vehicle for donations. He can be reached through the New Paradigm Web site.

Robert Falsani received the Minne-sota Association for Justice’s highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2009. The award, given only 15 times since 1985, recognizes the recipient’s excellence as an at-torney and commitment to the asso-ciation. Falsani has also been named to the “Minnesota Top 40 Personal Injury Law Super Lawyer” (Minnesota Law & Politics), “Minnesota Top 40 Worker’s Compensation Lawyer” (Minnesota Law & Politics) and “Best Lawyers in America” lists for more than 10 years in a row.

Christian J. Hoffmann III (B’69) was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of securities

law. He was also listed in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA for his corporate/mergers and acquisitions work. Hoffman is a partner in the Phoenix office of Quarles & Brady.

1974 Charles P. Adams Jr. (B’71) is in his 10th year as managing partner of Adams and Reese in Jackson, Miss. He writes, “My wife Becky and I are approaching our 39th anniversary this year. Our daughter, Kate (N’98), graduated from [Georgetown Univer-sity School of Nursing], lives in New York and works for a private wellness company. Our son, Chad (C’02), graduated from the College in 2002. After working on the Hill for four years, he returned to school and is in his last semester at Loyola [University College of Law] in New Orleans. In August 2008 he married Leah Wil-liams, also C’02.” Adams enjoys golf-ing, flying, hunting and spending time at the family’s condo in Destin, Fla. He has also served as president of the Catholic Foundation of the Diocese of Jackson for the past 20 years.

1970 robert Krakow

robert Krakow, an author, playwright and documentari-

an, recently chaired an event commemorating the 70th an-

niversary of the MS St. Louis, also referred to as the SS St.

Louis. The passenger ship, containing Jewish refugees from

Nazi Germany, was denied permission by the Roosevelt ad-

ministration to land in Miami in June 1939 and was forced

to return to Europe — where hundreds of the passengers

later died at the hands of the Nazis. The December 2009

event in Miami Beach assembled 33 surviving passengers

to sign Senate Resolution 111, the first-ever U.S. acknowl-

edgment of the tragedy.

“When I attended Georgetown, one of my first impres-

sions was the law school’s commitment to an idealistic

vision for its students,” writes Krakow, who is currently

creating a film of the December event. “I embraced that

vision.” According to the SS St. Louis Project Web site,

Krakow’s interest in and knowledge of Judaic history and

religion drive his approach to theater and film; he strives

“to inform and educate audiences about historical justice

and the need to look beyond conventional wisdom to find

the root causes of anti-Semitism and racism.”

Photo credits: © United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Dr. Liane Reif-Lehrer; © United States Holocaust Museum, courtesy of Julie Klein, photo by Max Reid

Photos used by permission of the museum.The views or opinions expressed in this publication, and the context in which the images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, nor imply approval or endorsement by, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Joseph C. Basta was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of environmental law. He practices complex commer-cial litigation in Dykema’s Ann Arbor office.

Catherine A. Gallagher, former presiding judge of the Santa Clara County (Calif.) Superior Court, has joined JAMS, The Resolution

Experts, a private provider of mediation and arbitration services. She was named the 2008 Trial Judge of the Year by the Santa Clara Trial Lawyers Association and received the Michael Patiky Miller Luminary Award from the Silicon Valley Bar Association in 2007.

George Haas was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of intellectual property law. He is a partner in the

Milwaukee office of Quarles & Brady.

1975Hunton & Williams partner Terence Connor (LL.M., C’64) was ranked among the nation’s top 100 employ-ment lawyers by Human Resource Executive Magazine in May 2009. Connor, co-head of the labor and employment practice of the firm’s Miami office, focuses his practice on all aspects of labor and employment matters.

1976Robert Wyld was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litigation. He is a partner in the

Hartford, Conn., office of Shipman & Goodwin.

1977Peter J. Boyer, a partner in the Philadelphia office of McCarter & English, has been elected a member of the American Law Institute. Made up of approximately 4,200 lawyers, judges and law professors, ALI is the leading independent organization in

Dear Fellow Alumni,

We have all been the recipient of a strang-

er’s act of kindness. Everyone has had

someone open a door or hold the elevator,

and it is amazing how such a small gesture

brightens your whole day.

Imagine the impact, then, of a gesture

that changes someone’s entire life. Investing in education does

just that. Think about the doors that have opened to you

because of your Georgetown Law degree and the path you

have taken as a result.

Last year, over 5,000 alumni contributed to the Law An-

nual Fund. Together, we helped ensure that today’s students

enjoy that same top-notch education and the possibilities

that it brings. We provided grant assistance to students with

demonstrated financial need; funded summer public-interest

fellowships; and supported important campus resources like

student organizations, journals, Campus Ministries and the

Office of Career Services.

Making a donation to the Law Annual Fund takes only

a moment, but for the students who benefit, the effect is

immeasurable. I ask you to show Georgetown Law students

that kindness and to encourage a classmate, a firm colleague

or other Law Center graduate to do the same.

You may give online via the Law Center’s secure website

at www.law.georgetown.edu/giving. Contributions can also

be made by calling (202) 662-9500.

With gratitude for your generosity and continued loyalty,

Sincerely,

Sarah E. Cogan (L’81)

National Chair, Law Annual Fund

updAte on the AnnuAl fundthe United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and other-wise improve the law.

Anthony DeCusatis has been named to the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of energy and water law. DeCusatis is of counsel in the Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

Paul Sanson was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litigation. He is a partner in the

Hartford, Conn., office of Shipman & Goodwin.

J. Jonathan Schraub was named to The Best Lawyers in Americafor 2010 in the area of legal malpractice law and professional

malpractice law. He is the managing partner of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller’s McLean office and is a member of the business and professional litigation practice group as well as the health care and employ-ment practice groups.

Linda A. Striefsky has been named a “Woman of Influence” by Real Estate Forum magazine. The list recognizes women across the country who are helping to shape the commercial real estate industry. Striefsky is a partner in Thompson Hine’s real estate practice group.

1979Lela P. Love was honored by the New York-based nonprofit Network for Peace through Dialogue in No-vember for her “long-term, creative commitment to the development and use of mediation, and for her success in creating ways to transform this means of settling conflict into study at law schools.” She is a professor at Cardozo School of Law.

1980John Collen has joined Tressler as partner in the firm’s Chicago office, working in its bankruptcy and credi-tors’ rights practice.

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Members of the Georgetown Law community didn’t have to walk to a bookstore on De-

cember 1 to get a copy of American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009); they could find one in Room 206 of McDonough Hall. Author Joan Biskupic (L’93), USA Today’s Supreme Court correspondent (pictured above, left, with Pam Harris), was on hand that day to tell her own stories about the biography and the man it portrays. Pam Harris, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute, acted as moderator.

Biskupic, who has covered the Supreme Court for more than 20 years, said that Scalia initially declined to be interviewed for the book — until she happened to run into him at a wedding. That led to a series of interviews in which Biskupic was able to delve into the mind, work and life of the Supreme Court justice (even learning that Scalia was conceived when his father, an academic, was pursuing a fellowship in Italy). “All the research in the world wouldn’t have given me that,” said Biskupic, who wrote a book about retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2006.

To those writing the obituary of small town America, Richard E. Wood (L’68) says not so

fast. In his book Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests (University Press of Kansas, 2010), Wood chronicles many Kansas towns, some dying and some not, in an attempt to discover what stems the tide of population loss. Plainville, Kansas (population 1821), for example, was losing residents at a rapid rate but was revi-talized after native Chuck Comeau, an architect and designer who traveled the country before starting the home furnishings company Dessin Fournir in Los Angeles, moved the company to his hometown. He wanted to raise his family there,

he said, and “people in Plainville have a great work ethic.” Skeptics thought Comeau was crazy, but Dessin Fournir and Plainville have been good for each other. Wood, a Denver attorney, is also the author of Here Lies Colorado: Fascinating Figures in Colorado History (Farcountry Press).

Rebecca Cook (L’82) has co-authored Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspec-

tives (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) with Simone Cusack. Drawing on domestic and inter-national law, as well as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, the book offers perspectives on ways gender stereotypes might be eliminated through the transnational legal process in order to ensure women’s equality and the full exercise of their human rights. Cook is professor of law and faculty chair in internation-al human rights at the University of Toronto.

Daniel Eller (L’69) is the author of Rogue’s Gallery: A Novel (North Star Press of St.

Cloud, 2003) and In the Interest of Justice (Hol-lyhock Publishing, 2008). He continues to practice law in central Minnesota.

Barry Friedman (L’82), who is a professor and vice dean at New York University School of

Law, has published The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (Far-rar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). Marshaling sources including newspaper editorials, diaries, public debates, private letters and countless court cases, the book shows how the American public came to embrace judicial power, and in so doing, helped shape the meaning of the Constitution itself.

John Lawrence Hill (L’88), a professor at the Indiana University School of Law, has written

The Political Centrist (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009). The book briefly traces the trajectory of the liberal and conservative traditions, arguing that modern liberalism is an unprincipled fusion of classical liberal and socialist ideals, while modern conservatism is an untenable hybrid of economic liberalism and social conservatism. It offers a cen-trist approach to many of the most contentious contemporary political and social issues, including abortion, the death penalty, gay marriage, illegal immigration and more.

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Oliver A. Houck (L’66) is the author of Tak-ing Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases

that Changed the World (Island Press, 2009). The book documents the rise and remarkable results of environmental litigation around the globe, beginning with Storm King Mountain on the Hudson Highlands and “a titanic fight against the largest power company in Ameri-ca.” Houck notes in the book, “I have chosen to tell the stories of these cases because they opened the way, and because they involved extraordinary places and things. But I am also writing to celebrate their major actors who had the courage to speak truth to power and then to take it on, for pieces of the mosaic of our natural world whose adequate description is difficult and whose value is beyond measure.” Houck is a professor of law at Tulane Univer-sity, where he has received numerous teaching honors.

In January 2010, Erica (Cohen) Lyons (L’98) launched the magazine Asian Jewish Life

— a journal of spirit, society and culture. The magazine is a nonprofit, registered charity that focuses on the lives of Jews connected to Asia. It is a celebration of diversity as well as an exploration of the values and experience that link Jews together. In addition to its print distribution, Asian Jewish Life is available online at www.asianjewishlife.org.

In her book A Country Called Amreeka (Free Press, 2009) Alia Malek (L’00) profiles the

lives of a dozen Arab Americans and, through them, tells a much larger story. There are an estimated 3.5 million Arab Americans living in the United States today, yet little is known or understood about them. Malek introduces us to a refugee putting himself through school as a hotel bellhop in Chicago during the time of the Iran hostage crisis and to a Marine who enlists after 9/11 and finds himself sent to Iraq instead of Afghanistan. Each story dramatizes a pivotal event in the lives of Arab Americans. “With deli-cate cues from Malek, the reader begins to see how the image of Muslims has hardened over time,” wrote Jina Moore in the Christian Science Monitor. “This is an excellent book, one certain to put right some of the wrongs it catalogues,” said Publishers Weekly in a starred review.

In a new book entitled Biotechnology & Nanotechnology: Regulation Under Envi-

ronmental, Health, and Safety Laws (Oxford University Press, 2009), environmental attorney B. David Naidu (L’98) examines whether the laws formulated primarily in the latter half of the last century are adequate to protect us from the risks associated with new technologies — yet permissive enough to allow us to reap their benefits. He addresses this fundamental ques-tion by reviewing the major laws and regula-tions that govern biotechnology and nanotech-nology, providing a concise understanding of the regulatory framework as it exists today and suggesting the direction that it may take in the future. Naidu is a partner at K&L Gates.

David A. Wylie (L’59) is the author of City, Save Thyself! Nuclear Terror and the Urban

Ballot (Trueblood Publishing, 2009). Wylie is a Boston lawyer who has worked in various local and state government posts, including the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Mas-sachusetts Housing Finance Agency.

An essay by student Andrea Yang (L’10) entitled “Ethics Codes for Mediator Con-

duct: Necessary But Still Insufficient” was the winning entry in the American Bar Association’s James Boskey ADR [Alternative Dispute Resolu-tion] Writing Competition. The competition’s purpose, according to the ABA Web site, “is to promote greater interest in and understanding of the field of dispute resolution and collabora-tive decision-making among students enrolled in ABA accredited law schools and also graduate programs in the United States and abroad.”

WAIT, WAIT ... DON’T TELL HERsophia heller (l’11) has many goals she’d like to accomplish, including these three,

which are unrelated to her life as a Georgetown Law student. One: Get a dog. Two: Write

a book. Three: Win a recording of NPR personality Carl Kasell answering her voice mail. In

August, Heller achieved Goal Number 3 when she became a call-in contestant on the NPR

radio show “Wait. Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” In true lawyer style, she correctly answered all

three questions, and as a winner, she got to compose a message for Kasell to record on

her phone. Now when you call her number, you hear: “At this moment, Sophia Heller is

unavailable to take your call. It’s not clear when she will be available, but chances are it will

be soon. Suspicions that this is not Sophia’s voice mail are unfounded, so callers can leave a

message or try again later. From NPR News in Washington, I’m Carl Kasell.”

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Stephen M. Goodson was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of employee benefits law and in

the 2010 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers in the area of employee benefits/ERISA. He is a partner in the Cincinnati, Ohio, office of Keating Muething & Klekamp.

James Jimenez, a Los Angeles busi-ness and real estate attorney, has been named by Southern California Super Lawyers as one of the top attorneys in California. Jimenez is the founder and president of Pacific Business Law Group.

James E. McNair (LL.M.’85) was officially honored as a “Top Lawyer” in the area of trusts and estates by the Washington Business Journal in September. He is a partner at Patton Boggs.

Thomas Vaughn (B’77) was named in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of corporate law and securities law. He practices in the Detroit office of Dykema.

1981Dana Bisbee (L’81) was named a top attorney in the state of New Hampshire by Business NH Magazine. Bisbee is the head of the

environmental practice group at Devine Millimet and is also a member of the firm’s energy and regu-latory affairs practice group.

Linda D’Onofrio was elected a trustee of the Citizens Budget Com-mission, a nonpartisan nonprofit civic organization devoted to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government.

Edward F. Donohue III has joined Hinshaw & Culbertson as a partner in its San Francisco office, focusing on business litigation. He previously served as a partner with Carlson, Cal-ladine & Peterson.

1982Joel Horowitz (LL.M.) is the managing partner of the Philadelphia office of McCarter & English. He concentrates his practice in

employee benefits and executive com-pensation.

Tom O’Neil was named one of 2009’s “Attorneys Who Matter” by Ethis-phere Magazine, under the category of top general counsel. He is vice chair-man of WellCare Health Plans.

New York trial attorney Richard Solomon appeared on “The Justice Hour,” hosted by Lisa Macci on WPBR, 1340 AM, in Florida, to discuss current legal issues and his own business radio show on WCWP in New York (http://www.tcbradio.com/). The WPBR show can be heard at www.lisamacci.com/thejusticehour/archives.html#2010.

Martha Jo Wagner, a senior member of Venable’s employee benefits and executive compensation group, was elected to the board of governors of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in November.

Jonathan Young was named senior vice president and chief claims officer of Harleysville Insurance in 2009. He was previously the managing partner of the New York office of Sills Cum-mis & Gross in New York.

1983Lawrence A. Larose has joined the New York office of Winston & Strawn as a partner in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group.

Peter Marlette, managing partner of Damon Morey and a senior partner in the firm’s litigation department, was elected to the board of directors of the American Law Firm Association (ALFA) International.

Keith Ann Stiverson has been named chairman of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, an organization of more than 100 academic and state law libraries and other organizations

concerned with the preservation of born-digital and print legal informa-tion. She is director of the law library and senior lecturer at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

1984Michael J. Anderson, a partner with AndersonTuell, was named one of “Gaming’s 10 Most Influential People” in the September 2009 edition of Global Gaming Business Magazine. He represents Native American tribal governments before Congress and the executive branch and his practice includes casino development counseling.

Douglas A. Blaze, dean of the University of Tennessee College of Law, has been elected one of nine American Bar Foundation fellows from the state of Tennessee. Fellows are lawyers, judges and legal scholars whose careers “have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the high-est principles of the legal profession.”

J. Robert Carr (LL.M. ’84) was named executive director of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest national network of African-American lawyers and judges. Carr has served in various execu-tive leadership positions at several Washington, D.C., area organizations including the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).

David J. Fisher has joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel as a partner in the banking and finance group. He focuses his practice on all aspects of secured and unsecured commercial finance.

Ilene Knable Gotts has been named chair of the American Bar Association’s antitrust law section. She is a partner at

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.

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Georgetown Law. These gifts — designated for scholarship sup-

port, endowed professorships, capital building projects, or any

number of vital needs — provide the financial longevity necessary

to ensure that Georgetown Law remains an elite institution of

legal education. The Law Center community is grateful for the

lasting commitments of proud alumni and friends and has created

the Law Legacy Society to show our gratitude. Including George-

town Law in your will or living trust (or creating a life-income or

other deferred gift) can provide substantial income-tax deductions,

reduce or eliminate estate taxes, and significantly decrease capital

gains tax on appreciated assets.

Should you wish to learn more, please contact

Robert Sweet, Director of Gift Planning, at 202-662-9502 or

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Anne Joseph Minteer recently joined CareFusion as vice president, associate general counsel, labor and employment. CareFusion is a

global medical technologies company headquartered in San Diego with over 15,000 employees worldwide. In 2008, Minteer was honored as one of San Diego’s top 10 in-house counsel and is a former past president of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s San Diego chapter.

Robert G. Sanker was included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and the 2010 edition of Ohio Super Lawyers in

the area of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law. He is a partner in the Cincinnati, Ohio, office of Keating Muething & Klekamp.

Olivia Shay-Byrne (LL.M.) was named one of the Washington, D.C., area’s top legal professionals for 2008-2009 by the Washington Busi-ness Journal. She is a partner in Reed Smith’s finance/real estate practice group.

The North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly recently selected Ken Hammer as one of ten “In-House Leaders in the Law” for his pro

bono work with low-income entrepreneurs. Hammer is currently general counsel of DataFlux Corporation, a leading provider of data quality and data management software products and services.

James J. McDonald Jr. was named in the 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Southern California Super Lawyers and in Who’s Who Legal 2009 in the area of labor and employment law. He is a partner in the Irvine, Calif., office of Fisher & Phillips.

1986Vanessa Cohn, a partner in the Tampa office of Arnstein & Lehr, was appointed to the board of managers for Weinberg Village,

a senior living community and 501(c)(3) organization that is part of the Tampa Bay Jewish Federation.

James S. Rosenfeld was inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in November. Rosenfeld is an attorney and share-holder with Butzel Long and is based in the firm’s Detroit, Mich., office.

1987Mario Thomas Gaboury has been appointed associate dean of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic

Sciences at the University of New Haven. Gaboury, a tenured professor of criminal justice, also holds the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation Endowed Professorship.

Paul J. Gitnik (LL.M.) of Paul J. Git-nik and Associates chaired the 56th Annual Diamond Horseshoe Ball opening the Pittsburgh Opera’s 2010-2011 season. (The name “Diamond Horseshoe” is derived from the first tier of box seats in the old Metropoli-tan Opera in New York — U-shaped, slightly elevated from the stage and filled with the wealthiest patrons.)

1988 Sanford Watson is an elected director of the Federal Bar Association, Northern District of Ohio chapter, having been sworn in by U.S. District

Court Judge Dan Polster in October. Watson is counsel in the Cleveland, Ohio, office of Tucker, Ellis & West and a member of the firm’s trial department.

1989Bart Cohen has been named to Law360’s Competition Advisory Board. Cohen is a shareholder at Berger &

Montague in Philadelphia, where he represents plaintiffs in complex litigation, including antitrust litigation and class actions. He lives in Villanova with his wife and three children.

Oliver M. Johnson II has been named senior vice president and general counsel for MedStar Health in Columbia, Md. Johnson previously served as counsel, global marketing services; counsel, vaccine division and chief privacy officer for Merck & Co. in Philadelphia.

Mary Mazzio, an award-winning filmmaker, has created a documen-tary on teen entrepreneurship called “Ten9Eight.” The film chronicles the inspirational stories of a diverse group of teenagers who are finalists in an annual business plan competition run by the Network for Teaching Entre-preneurship. The film was released in seven major markets (including Washington, D.C.) and around the world on November 13 as a centerpiece of Global Entrepreneur-ship Week, sparking discussions of the potential of entrepreneurship to transform lives by engaging students who might otherwise drop out of high school.

1989 howard srebnick

howard srebnick defended three-time Indy 500 Champion (and Dancing with the Stars win-

ner) Helio Castroneves and his sister against criminal tax fraud charges. They were acquitted on

April 17, 2009, after a seven-week jury trial. Srebnick and his wife, Sharon, are pictured with

Castroneves (center) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 24, 2009, the day he won his

third Indy 500.

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Georgetown Law continues to receive

financial support from its alumni, friends and

foundations. The following generous donors

are providing assistance to students through

the Law Center’s financial aid programs:

Donald (L’59) and Anna Waite provided an additional six-figure gift to the James L. Waite Endowed Scholarship Fund honoring Don’s brother. Since its inception in 2001, the Waite Scholarship Fund has provided more than $550,000 in grant assistance to 14 students.

Development News

John Patrick (Sean) Coffey (L’87) estab-lished the John (NMN) Coffey Endowed Scholarship Fund to honor his father.

The Honorable Robert M. Kimmitt (L’77) made a gift to the law scholarship that honors the memory of Jeanne A. Carpenter (L’77). Other members of the Class of 1977 continue to support this scholarship.

Robert A. Dufek (L’76), James D. Howard (L’84) and E. Robert Lupone (L’84) each made gifts to the Opportunity Scholar-ships Program. Opportunity Scholarships are three-year awards that enhance economic diversity within the student body.

Mark Howe (L’84), Antonia Ianniello (L’80), Frederick Joyce (L’84), Cynthia Keliher (L’84), Donald Korb (L’77), Mary Helen Medina (L’84), Mark Schneider (L’84) and Mark Yeager (L’89) joined the Class Partners Program. This year, the program supports financial aid for the Class of 2012.

In November, members of the Georgetown Law alumni community attended a fundrais-ing event in support of the African-American Endowed Scholarship Fund. The event raised more than $50,000.

The Starr Foundation contributed $60,000 to the C.V. Starr Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Two major gifts will support faculty positions

at the Law Center:

An anonymous donor provided $2 million to support Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute and to establish the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professorship. Professor Richard Lazarus was installed as the Bren-nan Professor in a ceremony on February 3. [See related story page 6.]

A gift from the estate of Charlotte Sandy — honoring Albert Brick (L’34) — will be used to create an endowed professorship.

The following generous donors have provid-

ed gifts and grants to support Georgetown

Law’s academic programs:

Yoshiki and Isako Takada joined with Mr. Takada’s sister, Kyoko Takada Neff, to honor their parents by establishing the Chiyoko and Yoshiyuki Takada Transnational Law Fund. Takada family members are long-time supporters of the Law Center’s Asian law program. Their gift will enable Georgetown to prepare students for practice in a global legal environment.

After only two years, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law has made great strides in matching the generous seed gift from Linda (NHS’77) and Timothy (L’77) O’Neill. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made a $3,488,924 grant for a project on Global Preparation for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Prevent the Transmission of HIV, which builds on outcomes and directions of the Institute’s Gates Foundation-funded Planning for PrEP Conference that was held last summer in London. The goal of the PrEP project, carried out in partnership with University College London, is to develop a coordinated, evidence-based, global strategy that will rapidly translate data from the PrEP clinical trials into safe, targeted and maximally effective delivery programs to ultimately decrease the number of individu-als living with HIV.

The O’Neill Institute also received a $586,226 grant from the MCJ Amelior Foundation to support the implementation of the United Nations secretary-general’s 2010 malaria control goals. In particular, the O’Neill Institute will collaborate with the special envoy of the secretary-general for malaria to provide both scholarly and programmatic support to its implementation strategy by managing relationships between the various actors playing roles in global malaria control.

Top: Don Waite (L’59), second from right, a 2009 Paul R. Dean Award recipient and a generous supporter of Law Center scholarships, enjoys the Reunion Gala with Kevin T. Conry (L’86), vice president of law strategic development and external affairs, Dean Alex Aleinikoff and Stephen F. Arcano (L’88), chair of the Law Alumni Board. Bottom: Paul R. Dean awardee E. Robert Lupone (L’84), center, with Robert J. Ridge (L’84), left, and James D. Howard (L’84). Lupone and Howard each made gifts to the Opportunity Scholarships Program.

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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids made a $315,189 renewal grant to the O’Neill Institute. This will continue their partnership with the Bloomberg Initiative work on revers-ing the global tobacco epidemic by building strategies to carry out litigation in low- and middle-income countries and drafting reports to United Nations human rights bodies.

At its one-year anniversary, the State-Federal Climate Resource Center is also celebrating receipt of more than $2 million in grants. One of its founding funders, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, awarded the Center a renewal grant of $500,000 to continue its efforts to link states and the federal government on climate change issues. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, another of the Center’s founding funders, made a $30,000 grant enabling the Center to take a coalition of governors and senior state officials to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a pioneer in long-term commitment to workplace flex-ibility through its Workplace, Work Force, and Working Families program, and it has been a long-time funder of the Law Center’s Workplace Flexibility 2010 project. The Foundation made a $341,435 grant to WF 2010 in support of hosting a conference that will highlight and celebrate the Foundation’s and its grantees’ contributions to objective and rigorous academic research, effective and creative business practices and public policy changes that benefit employees and employers alike.

The Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy received a $48,000 grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation as ongoing support for its efforts to provide a forum in which researchers, policymakers and others can explore and develop effective public policy responses to poverty and inequality in the United States.

If you’ve seen Joey graziano (c’97, l’12) on the Georgetown Law campus, you

might have wondered why this likeable law student wears a jacket from the New

York Fire Department. He’s not a fireman, but those emblems on the jacket have

everything to do with how he got here and where he’s headed.

According to Graziano, his father Joe Sr., a firefighter on September 11, 2001, was

the last person to leave either of the Twin Towers alive. Though he survived — with

injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder — the rest of his firehouse died.

As a result of this tragedy, Graziano transferred to Georgetown University from

Davidson College a few days after the start of his sophomore year to be closer to his

family in New York. He also launched himself into the study of veteran care — the

responsibilities that the U.S. government has to its veterans.

“It’s my passion,” says Graziano, who wrote an undergraduate thesis looking at

how wars impact the American family and the American veteran. He runs his own

nonprofit organization, the Academy for Veterans, and spent the summer of 2009

clerking for the National Veterans Legal Services in Washington, D.C. “Growing up

within the family of the FDNY I have always felt a connection and desire to serve

those that have bravely served our country.”

In November, Graziano was named one of nine students nationwide to receive a

George J. Mitchell Scholarship. The scholarship — established in 1998 by the U.S.-

Ireland Alliance in honor of former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell (L’61) —

means that Graziano will spend next year studying Irish veteran care at the National

University of Ireland in Galway. Says Graziano, who hopes to become a Marine after

graduation, “There may be a solution there that we haven’t thought of.”

— Ann w. parks

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1990Daniel S. Brennan recently opened Laurie & Brennan, a boutique construction law practice in Chicago, after spending more than five years as a partner at DLA Piper. Brennan also practiced in the Chicago office of Schiff Hardin for 14 years.

John M. O’Connor joined Epstein, Becker and Green in April 2009 as a member of the labor and employment practice in the firm’s Newark, N.J., office. He focuses on employment litigation and employee benefits.

1991Mary Burke is a senior vice president in the labor relations department at Sony Pictures Entertainment. She started at the company in 1998 after seven years with Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles.

Timothy H. Gillis was elected to the board of directors of KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm. He is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, responsible for heading the subnational tax practice. He also teaches global indirect tax as an adjunct professor at the Law Center.

Lisa Pensabene led a team of her colleagues from Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto in successfully defending the Daiichi Sankyo

Co. in an intellectual property case involving the drug Benicar. She is a partner in the firm’s New York office.

Tracy N. Retchin has joined the Uni-versity of Richmond School of Law as director of career services.

1992John D. Singer, a partner and co-founder of Singer Deutsch, a securities and employment law firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, has been named a 2009 “Super Lawyer” for the New York City metro area. John co-founded his firm with Michael C. Deutsch (C’88, L’92) in 2003. John also announces his engagement to Jennifer Zeller, a 1994 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Jennifer runs video promotion for Interscope Geffen Records. John can be reached at [email protected].

1993Rick St. Hilaire, a former Grafton County Attorney (New Hampshire) was awarded a special commendation by New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (L’83) for his 15 years of service as a prosecutor. (New Hampshire Attor-ney General Michael Delaney (L’94) was present at the ceremony.) St. Helaire recently stepped down from his elected post to form a private law practice.

Christine Zebrowski (C’88) is the owner of Overbrook Law in Washing-ton, D.C., where she provides advice and counsel on employment law and human resources issues for small and medium-sized businesses and execu-tive-level employees with operations in the D.C. metropolitan region and New York. Zebrowski also conducts EEO investigations and mediations for federal government agencies and private employers. She was recently selected to serve as a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitra-tion Association.

1994Rosemary (DeLeone) Becchi (LL.M.) has joined the Washington, D.C., office of Patton Boggs as a part-ner, providing counsel on developing federal and state policy initiatives, developing strategic relationships and long-term planning. She also counsels clients on financial service and tax issues.

Dan Brescoll (G’94) is on the found-ing team of “PondIGo,” an “online dating destination for single alumni from the country’s top colleges, universities and graduate programs.” The site was officially launched Janu-ary 30.

Richard J. Erickson (LL.M.) was elected president of the General Richard Montgomery Chapter of the Sons of the

American Revolution. He was also elected to a two-year term as Alabama State Council of Chapters Treasurer, Military Officers Association of America, and he is a director of both the Alabama Blue Star Salute Foundation and the Alabama National Cemetery Support Committee.

Joseph P. Williams was named in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of environmental law and was also

recently appointed to the board of directors of the Glastonbury (Conn.) Education Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to promote excellence, innovation and creativity in education for children and the community. He is a partner in the Hartford, Conn., office of Shipman & Goodwin.

1995James P. Wehner was promoted to membership in the Washington, D.C.-based firm Caplin & Drysdale. He joined the firm’s litigation group in 2005.

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Savannah Guthrie (L’02) wasn’t a typical full-time law student — if there is such

a thing. True, she did many of the things that Georgetown Law students do: inter-viewed for law firm jobs and clerkships, served as a law fellow and spent a summer at Akin Gump.

But Guthrie, who was a television an-chor in Arizona and Missouri before com-ing to Georgetown Law, wanted to keep her foot in the broadcasting door — so she also became a freelance reporter for WRC-TV in Washington. From 2000 to 2002, while her classmates were in the library on evenings and weekends, she was covering homicides, fires and the September 11 aftermath at the Pentagon.

“It was a gamble to quit this television career and start a new path and go to law school full time, because I wasn’t sure I was done with TV,” Guthrie says. “On the other hand, I felt like it was worth the risk … I thought, well, I’m going to walk down

this path and see where it leads me. Of course, I’m thrilled at how it ended up.”

The gamble paid off, and in Septem-ber 2007, Guthrie was named a national news correspondent at NBC, filing stories for programs like “NBC Nightly News,” “Today,” and the cable news channel MS-NBC. She was named NBC’s White House correspondent in December 2008 and also co-anchors a new MSNBC program called “Daily Rundown.”

She’s not the first Georgetown Law graduate to use her law degree in this way. Mary Fulginiti (L’89) left a white collar criminal defense practice at Jones Day in October 2006 to become a national cor-respondent for ABC News, contributing to shows like “PrimeTime,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”

“I had always intended to go to law school and become a courtroom attorney, which is ultimately what I did,” says Fulg-initi, who nevertheless majored in com-

munications at Boston College and briefly considered journalism school. “It was the Perry Mason in me; I always wanted to try cases.”

Try cases she did — first as a part of Georgetown Law’s criminal justice clinic and later as a federal prosecutor in California. While at Jones Day, she began doing commentary for CNN’s Larry King, alongside noted criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos; not long afterwards, ABC called. She spent three years in front of the ABC cameras before leaving in late 2009, though she plans to stay in the field.

“I prosecuted the cases, then defended the cases,” Fulginiti says. “I thought this might be interesting, to do stories about them in a different way and be able to highlight the issues that were important to me. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do it.”

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1997Douglas K. Chia, senior counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Johnson & Johnson, was named to the 2009 Directorship 100, which annually recognizes the 100 “most influential people in corporate gover-nance and the boardroom.”

Ngozi Okaro has recently accepted a position as director of major gifts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of the City University of New York.

Shirley Cassin Woodward is a part-ner in the Washington, D.C., office of WilmerHale. She practices in the firm’s litigation/controversy depart-ment and is also a member of the ap-pellate and Supreme Court litigation practice group.

1998Michael E. Burke (F’93), a partner at Williams Mullen, was elected vice chair of the American Bar Associa-tion’s Section of International Law. In this role, he will oversee a section of

over 24,000 legal professionals from more than 90 countries. At the firm, he focuses his practice on advising U.S. companies on the structure and operation of investments in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia.

Gali Schaham Gordon was named a “Rising Star 2009” in Northern Cali-fornia Super Lawyers. She practices immigration law at the Law Office of Gali Schaham Gordon in San Francisco.

Luis E. Vazquez-Rodriguez (LL.M.) and his wife, Rosa M. Cruz-Niemiec, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their San Juan, Puerto Rico, law firm, Cruz Niemiec & Vazquez, in Novem-ber. He focuses his practice on labor and employment law.

Dineen Wasylik earned Florida Bar board certification in the area of intellectual property law in 2009. She is an attorney at Conwell Kirkpatrick in Tampa.

1999Chris Fedeli wrote an article on net neutrality entitled “Carpool Lanes on the Internet: Effective Network Management,” which appeared in

the July 2009 issue of Communica-tions Lawyer, a publication of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law. He is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Davis Wright Tremaine.

Benjamin D. Pergament was elected partner at Baker & Hostetler. He is a member of the litigation group in the firm’s New York office.

2000Rebecca Donnini (LL.M.), a partner in the trusts and estates department of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, was elected to the Founders Junior Council Board of Directors of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Council is a group of young profes-sionals dedicated to making the DIA more accessible to more people.

Michael D. Hatcher is a partner in the Dallas office of Sidley Austin, working in the firm’s intellectual property litigation practice.

Tom Holmberg has been elected partner at Baker Botts. He works in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, representing clients with regard to oil, natural gas and liquefied natural gas projects both in the United States and internationally.

Bridget Johnsen is a partner in the real estate and complex commercial litigation practices in the Los Angeles office of Sidley Austin.

Mark Vlasic (B’96) completed his appointment as head of operations of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) Secretariat at the World Bank. He is currently a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and a partner at Ward & Ward — where he heads the firm’s international practice. Colleague Daniel S. Ward (C’96, L’99), also a partner at Ward & Ward, “is one of my best friends from Georgetown undergrad and law,” Vlasic writes. “We met running for office [for the Georgetown University Student Association] 17 years ago!”

2001Katy E. Koski was elected partner at Sherin and Lodgen. As a trial attorney, she represents pharmaceuti-cal and medical device manufactur-ers, national retail chains and other businesses in product liability and complex business disputes. She also defends large law firms and individual practitioners against legal malpractice claims.

Michael O’Shaughnessy has been promoted to partner at Finnegan, Hender-son, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. He practices in

the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, focusing on patent trials and appeals, as well as the licensing of intellectual property.

Andy Szygenda (F’98) has left Hunton & Williams with two partners and opened the litigation boutique of Lillard Wise Szygenda in Dallas, Tex.

2001 lisa barclay

lisa barclay has been named partner at Zuckerman Spaeder. She

practices in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, working in the areas

of complex civil litigation, professional responsibility and legal ethics,

and food and drug law.

1996Gina Cavalier has been selected by Nightingale’s Healthcare News as an “Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyer” for 2009. The annual award recognizes 12

exceptional lawyers practicing health care law who are 40 years old or younger. She is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Reed Smith.

Albert Lin (LL.M.), a partner at Brown McCarroll, has been named to the board of directors of the organization Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center of Austin. Lin was previously an adviser to Children’s Hearing Aid of Texas, which merged with Any Baby Can in 2008. He will continue to advise the organization in nonprofit/exempt organization tax and governance issues.

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They focus on complex commercial litigation, energy-related disputes, employment matters and ERISA litigation.

Nina S. Tallon is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilm-erHale. She practices in the firm’s litigation/controversy department and its intellectual property litigation group.

Charmaine Yu has joined Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass in San Fran-cisco as an associate. Her practice focuses on litigation in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Yu was previously an attorney for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.

2002Jennifer Carmassi (C’97) married John Doyle on April 25, 2009; Gabri-elle Thompson (C’97) was Jennifer’s maid of honor. Jennifer and John live in Los Angeles, where she is a litigator. John owns a construction business and is a real estate agent.

Christine Cochran was promoted to president of the Commodity Markets Council, a competitive markets association. She was previously vice president of government relations. Cochran also serves as a section co-chair for Women in International Trade and coordinator for the Alli-ance for Agricultural Growth and Competitiveness.

Kristina Fausti (B’02), director of legal and regulatory affairs for Fiduciary360, has joined the board of the Financial Planning Association of Pittsburgh as director of government affairs.

Stephanie Kosta, an associate in Duane Morris’ trial practice group in Philadelphia, has been appointed to the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (Pennvest) by Gov. Edward G. Rendell. Pennvest is responsible for funding sewer, storm water and drinking water projects throughout the commonwealth and represents an important part of Pennsylvania’s environmental improvement and economic develop-ment efforts.

2003Kevin M. Bolan has been promoted to partner at McDermott Will & Em-ery. He is based in the firm’s Boston office and is a member of the trial department.

David Eisner (L’03) was named president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, an independent, nonpartisan non-profit dedicated to increasing public understanding of the U.S. Consti-tution and the ideas and values it represents. He was formerly CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Lisa Hagan (LL.M.), an associate in the Ann Arbor office of Miller Canfield, has been elected to a two-year term on the Young

Lawyers Section executive council of the State Bar of Michigan. Hagan represents issuers and underwriters in a broad range of traditional and complex tax-exempt financings, with a focus in the areas of health care and housing.

Gregory R. Jones has been promoted to partner at McDermott Will & Emery. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office and is a member of the trial department.

Anne Newton McFadden has been recognized with a “Graduate of the Last Decade” (GOLD) award from Indiana State University, her un-dergraduate alma mater. McFadden is a trial attorney with the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Joshua D. Rogaczewski has been promoted to partner at McDermott Will & Emery. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office and is a member of the trial department.

2004Aman Badyal has joined Farella Braun and Martel as an associate in the San Francisco office, working in the firm’s tax practice group.

2005Gayle I. Horwitz has been named a 2010 “Ohio Rising Star.” Horwitz is an attorney at the Cleveland office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease.

2006Jessica Berman has joined Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein as an as-sociate in the firm’s bankruptcy and business reorganization practice.

Vidhya Prabha-karan has joined Davis Wright Tremaine’s national energy practice, focusing on regulatory issues facing

utilities in the energy and telecom-munications industries. In December, Prabhakaran received the Bar Association of San Francisco’s award of merit, based on his work with the association’s technology committee.

Spencer Schulten (LL.M.) has joined Apollo Management, a private equity firm in New York City.

2007The Virgin Islands Bar Association has started a memorial scholarship in honor of the late Gabriel Lerner (L’07), who died in October 2008. Donations may be made at www.vibar.org.

2009Neal A. Fisher has joined the Irvine, Calif., office of Fisher & Phillips. His practice includes all areas of labor and employment law.

Niloufar Khonsari (F’06, C’09) was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study law in Sierra Leone during 2009-2010. Her plans include con-ducting research with paralegals in agricultural and mining regions, using the data to assist in litigation, teach-ing a labor rights course, and drafting policy recommendations.

gloria roces (f’59, g’62), alumni coordinator for the Georgetown

Club of Austria, wrote in November: “Six months ago, Kiril Klaturov

(ll.m.’08) of Bulgaria and deepesh Aneja (ll.m.’08) of India imag-

ined a Georgetown Law reunion in Vienna, Austria. Their idea materi-

alized the weekend of September 18-20, 2009, when approximately

30 Law Center classmates and their guests reunited in Vienna. It was

great fun to meet again and renew friendships and ties with Law

Center alumni from as far away as Argentina, India, Israel, Turkey, the

Philippines (actually from the Philippine Embassy in Stockholm) and

Washington, D.C. From Europe, alumni came from Austria, Bulgaria,

Croatia, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal

and Spain. This successful reunion weekend will hopefully inspire

future annual reunions in cities with a Hoya presence!”

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By Paul Secunda (L’97)

Students and colleagues often ask me what law school person or class has

had the most profound impact on me as a law professor. Unlike other people, who can point to a great professor or a defining

class (not that I didn’t have a few of each), I always respond with the following answer: Section 3.

That’s right: the greatest influence on me was, in fact, the course of study that I chose to pursue in my first year of law school.

During the time leading up to the start of my legal education at Georgetown Uni-versity Law Center in the summer of 1994, I received a form from the Law Center that asked whether I would consider enrolling in a unique first-year curriculum at the school. This curriculum sought to combine the traditional topics of the first-year course with other social science and humanities topics, like philosophy, political science, sociology, literature and economics. Having

been a political philosophy major as an undergraduate, and still fancying a teach-ing career some day, I decided to take the plunge.

I did have concerns about Section 3. For example, I was not sure how future employers would look upon these non-tra-ditional classes. Would they be considered as “serious” or rigorous as the traditional curriculum? Apprehension also existed from the standpoint of being a “guinea pig” in a relatively new venture where there had not been much empirical evidence about how former Section 3 students had fared.

But these were minor concerns. I was glad that while most 1Ls were taking the traditional classes in torts, contracts and property, I was treated to a different group of classes that included First Year Seminar; Bargain, Exchange and Liability; Property in Time; Legal Justice; Process; Democracy and Coercion; and Government Processes. Professor L. Michael Seidman taught me in a small 1L Seminar on the different schools of legal thought, including Critical Race Theory, Legal Process, Law and Econom-ics, Feminist Legal Theory, and Critical Legal Thought. In addition, Visiting Profes-sor Dennis Patterson taught us a jurispru-dence in a class called Legal Theory, where we read books like Anthony Kronman’s Lost Lawyer, Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire and Patricia Williams’ The Alchemy of Race and Rights.

Now I’m sure there are skeptics read-ing this essay wondering when Section 3 students had the time to learn the more basic topics that lawyers face every day in practice. (Sections 1, 2, 4 and 7 folks, you know who you are.) To be honest, there were many of us in Section 3 who had similar worries and concerns. Yet the professors who taught the curriculum that year (including Professors Michael

Gottesman, Daniel Ernst, Wendy Perdue and Mark Tushnet) had the idea that many of the traditional first-year courses could be combined. So, for example, Bargain, Exchange and Liability, taught by Profes-sor Michael Gottesman, consisted of both torts and contracts. The entire course was five credits, and it was divided evenly be-tween contracts and torts. Learning about the commonality in traditionally distinct topics meant that time and credit hours were saved for more theoretical academic pursuits.

The combined Section 3 experience had a peculiar way of binding not only the students together with each other, but also the students together with the profes-sors. For instance, a group of students put together a farcical newsletter, The Daily Crumpet, describing the section’s happen-ings. We also had student-professor lunch-es during the semester. It is no surprise, then, that two of those professors (Seidman and Gottesman) are mentors of mine and were good enough to be recommenders for me when I went through the Association of American Law Schools “meat market” for faculty hiring (though, of course, I hold them responsible for none of the subse-quent scholarship that I have produced).

But it was more than that. As a group, Section 3 students affirmatively opted into this experience, and most believed in the value of learning the law this way. It is true that I may not have the same depth in con-tracts and torts as some of my colleagues who took six credits in these areas, but that deficit was more than made up by the abil-ity to have substantial classes in adminis-trative law, jurisprudence and legal history during my first year. It taught me early on to think in an expansive way about the law and what roles law might play in a society. Now in my eighth year as a law professor, I

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recognize the importance of the skills that these Section 3 professors taught us all. It is not about getting the right answer or even always about thinking about the right legal issues; rather, it is about developing the skills to think critically about problems and bringing an expansive approach to that end based on knowledge about law and related topics.

Georgetown Law still offers this alter-native, and whenever I have the chance, I encourage students to sign up for this in-novative curriculum. I think I can honestly say that without the curriculum — and the professors who taught that curriculum, who drove us to look at the law from this unique perspective — I would not be sitting where I am today. And I believe it is no small coincidence that at least two of my Section 3 classmates from the Class of ’97 (Erica Hashimoto and Nancy Hogshead-Makar) have also found their way into the legal academy.

Does Section 3 create stronger bonds among students? It certainly did during 1994-1995, my 1L year — and I’m happy to report that I still keep in touch with a number of my classmates. The Section 3 experience seems to have served them well in many ways — from large law firm environments to politics to the JAG corps. Section 3 provided them, and me, with the tools that we needed to take our legal learning to the next step and become proud Hoya Lawyas.

Paul M. Secunda (L’97) is an associate professor of law at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, teaching in the areas of labor, employment and education law. He is the author of nearly four dozen books, treatises, articles and shorter writings and is a founding and contributing editor to the Workplace Prof Blog.

Dear Fellow Alumni,

It seems as if every year sees significant change at Georgetown Law, and this year is no exception. Most notably, Dean Alex Aleinikoff has left the Law Center to accept a position as United Na-tions Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees. Alex’s vision and dynamism have been tremen-dous assets to the Law Center, and his contribu-tions to Georgetown significant. I know that we all wish him well in his new endeavor. Fortunately, the leadership of the Law Center remains in good hands. Interim Dean Judith Areen brings superb experience and expertise to her role of temporary

steward, as the search for a permanent dean takes place.Since Alex became dean in 2004, Georgetown Law has witnessed an un-

precedented expansion of its global reach — from the creation of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London to the establishment of alumni advisory boards in Europe and Asia. Back in Washington, the Law Center has created pro-grams that could have hardly been imagined a decade ago: the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, the Center on National Security and the Law, the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, the Human Rights Institute and the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center. Most recently, the Law Center announced the creation of its Justice Agenda. Today’s law students have available to them a model public interest program, an enhanced Loan Repayment Assistance Program, and the guarantee of summer public interest fellowships to over 350 first- and second-year law students. Georgetown Law continues to thrive because of the dedication of all its community members — students, faculty and alumni.

Alumni are immensely important to the Law Center, and, fortunately, we have demonstrated a continuing desire to stay connected to Georgetown. In October, alumni turned out for a “Global Georgetown Forum” in Beijing, China, accompanied by the fourth meeting of the Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board. We also saw some of the greatest attendance numbers ever for reunion weekend, with a terrific lineup of events culminating in the gala at the Smithsonian Institution’s Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. This active involvement is as important to the institution as it is rewarding for its alumni.

Your unwavering support has been integral to the strength and evolution of Georgetown Law. There are many ways to stay involved: Participating in regional alumni events or on-campus programs and mentoring law students are only a few ways to engage. We all have something to contribute to the Law Center, and we all gain from our collective contributions.

Sincerely yours,

Stephen F. Arcano (L’88)Chairman, Law Alumni Board

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Early Interview Week

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Reunion Weekend

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Paul Dean Awards

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BLSA Reunion Brunch

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exclusive Alumni invitation

We invite you to try out the club and see for yourself what we have to offer. To set up an appointment for your complimentary workout and tour of the facility, please contact us at 202-662-9294.

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Alumni and students watching the hit CBS television series “The Good Wife”

may have noticed that they share some-thing in common with two key characters on the show — the same alma mater.

The show stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, the wife of a disgraced politician who returns to the practice of law and picks up the pieces of her life. Will Gardner, played by Josh Charles, is a friend of Alicia’s from Georgetown Law and a partner at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner.

“We made Alicia and Will [pictured above] Georgetown Law alums for a couple of reasons,” Michelle King, co-creator and executive producer of the show with her husband, Robert King, wrote to Georgetown Law. “We wanted to highlight that they were smart, highly successful people without falling into the every-bright-fictional-character-went-to-Harvard-or-Yale trap. The fact that Georgetown [University] was in the national conscious-ness because of remarkable alums like Bill Clinton was also a plus.”

The Kings also happen to be longtime friends of Thomas Odell (L’10), a George-town Law 3L who hails from Los Angeles. Though Odell says he’s not feeding his fa-mous friends insider information about Keg on the Quad or the notable “Quotables” in the latest issue of the Georgetown Law Weekly, he did fill the Kings in on the hap-penings in his life when he returned home to L.A. over the holiday break last year. But it wasn’t until he saw a promo for the new show this fall that he discovered he was responsible, at least in part, for the Kings’ choice of law schools.

“The Georgetown connection was a surprise to me,” Odell said. “I sent Michelle an e-mail saying thanks for the ‘shout-out,’ and she said, ‘I know, we put that in there because of you.’ It was that simple. … It’s fun for me and my family to speculate about which scene, line or idea came from which one of them, but they don’t call me up and say what is the first-year curriculum like or what are these courses, or anything like that.”

“The Good Wife”and Georgetown Law

Georgetown Law launched the Law

Firm Challenge 13 years ago as a

friendly competition among firms to

increase alumni participation and sup-

port of the Law Center.

Today the Law Firm Challenge includes

53 law firms and corporations and

reaches more than 2,300 alumni who

work at these participating offices.

Last year, thanks to the dedication of

alumni agents, the effort reached new

heights by raising over $1,025,000.

The Challenge plays a crucial role in

supporting the excellence and mission

of Georgetown Law.

If you would like to learn more about

the Law Firm Challenge, please

contact Melissa McCullough at

[email protected].

Meet the Law Firm chaLLeNge

Julianna Margulies with Josh Charles on the CBS television show “The Good Wife.”

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new YorK Alumni eVent

Professor Christopher Brummer, featured

speaker, chats with Edward Maluf (L’90), Lloyd

De Vos (L’73) and John Vasily (L’82).

Alumni weeKend: deAn’s reception

Kim D. Ringler (L’79) enjoys the Dean’s Recep-

tion during 2009 Reunion Weekend; Francis

Sexton (L’74) and John Blazer (C’71, L’79) chat

with Dean Alex Aleinikoff; Bryan Stevenson

(L’99) catches up with Paul Christenson (L’99).

Alumni weeKend: golden YeArs luncheon

Mary Catharine O’Connell (L’59, M’86),

Gerald Malia (L’58, LL.M’59), Vincent

Pepper (L’51) and Mary Hatch (L’59) share

their stories.

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Alumni weeKend: oKtoberfest

Left: Members of the LL.M. Class of 2004:

Girgis Abd El-Shahid, Luis Martin, Leon Lopez,

Abelardo Acosta, Gabriela Nassa, Jacobo

Alter; (sitting) Carmen Santibanez, Rodrigo

Constandse (not a class member) and Ignacio

Jauregui. Center: Thomas McGowan (L’84),

Georges Lederman (L’84), Rudyard Whyte

(L’84), Don Davis (L’84) and friends; Right:

John Gladstone Mills (LL.M. ’94, LL.M.’99, SJD

’05) with Donald Waite (L’59).

Alumni weeKend: gAlA

Georgetown Law Alumni and their guests so-

cialize at the 2009 Reunion Gala, held at the

Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art

and Portraiture; Mark and Sara Sigrist (L’84);

Brian Armstrong (L’84) and Rafael DeLeon

(L’84) seize a photo opportunity with Chief

Justice John Roberts and Jane Sullivan Roberts

(L’84); Nick Christakos (L’82), Bren Howard,

Mike Considine (L’84) and Susan Cook (L’84);

and Paul R. Dean Award winners Donald

Waite (L’59), Robert Lupone (L’84), Pascal

Chadenet (LL.M.’88), Judge Cheryl Long (’74)

and Barbara Moulton (L’89).

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Even those Georgetown Law students and alums choosing to go the law firm

route seem to have an unusually strong commitment to public service — due in part to the extraordinary opportunities they’ve had to participate in internships, clinics and experiential learning courses while in school. Perhaps no group better illustrates this phenomenon than a handful of alums of the Juvenile Justice Clinic — members of the Classes of 2005 and 2006 — who opted to continue helping D.C.’s youth even as they began to build careers in private firms doing such things as antitrust, torts and employment law.

“We were all very much inspired by Professors Wally Mlyniec and Kristin Hen-ning, and so we just began asking, how can we stay involved?” says Eduardo Ferrer (B’02, L’05), an associate in the antitrust group at Howrey. Ferrer and some of his fellow clinic alums began getting together over pizza in the fall of 2006 to brainstorm ideas about how they could stay connected to public service; the result was D.C. Law-yers for Youth, a nonprofit organization that strives to improve the local juvenile justice system through advocacy, direct service and the dissemination of information. Ferrer served as executive director of the DCLY from 2007 to 2010.

“Usually, when you think about public interest people coming through a clinic, you think about people who go on to public

interest jobs, and [many in] this group didn’t,” says Professor Wally Mlyniec. As members of the organization’s board of mentors, Mlyniec and Henning provide advice and guidance to the group about how to run an organization of this nature. (The group is incorporated as a nonprofit in the District of Columbia and is currently applying for 501(c)(3) status.) “I was a little skeptical as to whether it would keep its cohesion, but they did it right, they realized the power of electronic communication and they realized if they incorporated they would have more credibility in the world when they went to talk to people.”

And they’ve been doing a lot of talking. In the three years since the organization was launched, the 11 members of its board of directors have testified at hearings before the D.C. City Council on youth issues such as curfews and juvenile justice reform. In 2007, they filed an amicus brief in Palacio v. United States, arguing to the D.C. Court of Appeals that judges, not prosecutors, should have the power to determine whether a youth is tried in the adult system. They’ve worked to get youth who are tried as adults out of D.C. jails and into age-appropriate facilities. They’ve participated in a “Know Your Rights” cam-paign, teaching young people what to do if they are arrested. And most recently, they have created a comprehensive handbook for parents trying to navigate the juvenile justice system.

“When I was in the juvenile justice clinic, I had one client whose mom went to city agencies for help with her child, and she was basically told, you make a little too much money for some of these programs, you should just wait until he gets arrested,”

says Donald Sherman (C’02, L’06), who serves as the chair of the organization’s board of directors. (He’s also a counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Com-mittee on Standards of Official Conduct — the House Ethics Committee.) “And he did get arrested, and he got great services, but my main impetus for joining DCLY was that parents shouldn’t have to wait for their kids to get in trouble.”

In February, the group received its first grant, which will be used to organize community groups to advocate for juvenile justice reforms in the District of Columbia.

Others involved in D.C. Lawyers for Youth include Crystal Barnes (L’06); Daniel Engelberg (L’05, LL.M.’10); Molly Gaston (L’09); Courtney Jean (L’05); Paul Lee (L’06); Daniel Okonkwo (L’05), who took over the role of executive director from Ferrer in January; Sara Peters (L’06); Anika Simmons Gzifa (LL.M.’10); Marya Torrez (L’06); Michelle Tupper (L’05); and Jesse Winograd (L’05). Most are alumni of Georgetown Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic, though a few chose to participate in the Criminal Justice Clinic.

Ferrer credits the organization’s staying power to the fact that all of the members of the founding group — most of whom still constitute the board of directors — have worked fantastically as a team. When some members of the group have to scale back their participation due to work demands, for example, the others are right there to pick up the slack.

“Everyone’s very passionate about these issues … and I really enjoy working with all my other DCLY teammates,” Ferrer said. “It’s something to look forward to at the end of the day, instead of something that needs to get done.”

For more information, see www.dcly.org.

D.C. Lawyers for YouthIn the Public Interest

Back Row (Left to Right): Jesse Winograd, Donald Sherman, Daniel Okonkwo, Crystal Barnes, Paul Lee Front Row (Left to Right): Michelle Tupper, Eduardo Ferrer, Marya Torrez, Tiffany Benjamin

Spotlight: Ted Burke (L’86)

After Ted Burke (L’86) graduated from George-

town Law in the mid-1980s, he decided to celebrate with a trip to France, Italy, Germany and Austria. He’d never been to Eu-rope before; he had a job lined up with a firm in New York and wasn’t sure when he’d get the chance to do some international travel.

As it turned out, the trip was good training for his future role — and strangely prophetic. Today, as the London-based chief executive of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Burke travels to the firm’s 28 offices all over the world, in cities like

Moscow, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Beijing and Hanoi. The day he caught up with Georgetown Law, he was heading to Hong Kong for a conference with the firm’s Asian partners.

It’s a rewarding job for a former Georgetown Law student who once had no inkling that he’d ever be working outside of the United States. “When I was at Georgetown Law, which I really loved, I thought it was exotic enough to go to New York City,” he says, adding that in the mid-1980s, New York seemed to be the place for young lawyers to go. But as globalization evolved, so did Burke. “Now, to find my-self living in London and being a partner in a firm that has offices in 16 countries — my career has taken a direction I could not anticipate.”

After 12 years at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy working in finance, energy law and a wide range of other ar-eas, Burke joined the New York office of Freshfields in 1998 — attracted by the opportunity to help build up the New York and Washington, D.C., offices. He became managing partner of Freshfields’ U.S. offices in 2002.

In 2005, Burke was asked to go to the United Kingdom to lead the entire firm — making him the first American in a leadership position at one of the so-called “Magic Circle” (top five) firms. It was a distinction that prompted the Financial Times, in December, to call Burke “a symbol of the internationalisation of the sector” (note the British spelling). Is that an exaggeration?

“That was very unusual, to have anyone outside of London be a leader at one of those firms at the time,” he explains modestly. “Now there’s a Belgian lawyer who is a managing partner of another Magic Circle firm, so it’s open-ing up a bit.”

As an American lawyer in London, Burke seems to have adapted well. He was named to the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1,000 most influential people of 2009 — a list that also includes the Royal Family, Baroness Hale of the U.K. Supreme Court, Sirs Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, and anyone connected to Harry Potter. Not bad for a Yankee. And as the head of the firm that’s been chosen as the official legal services provider to the London 2012 Olympics, he’s looking forward to attending some of the sporting events.

While it all sounds like fun, Burke takes his role seri-ously — after all, he’s chief executive of a firm that has been advising the Bank of England since 1743. It’s an interesting challenge for any leader: to remain faithful to the organi-zation’s history while at the same time keeping it on the cutting edge.

“The firm is older than the United States. We are very conscious of the legacy that we have inherited and very con-scious of what partners of the future will inherit,” he says. “One thing I will say is that I think it’s a sign of very good client service, to keep the same client for 267 years.”

He shows that same kind of commitment to George-town Law — since, he says, the education he received here played a tremendous role in his life. Georgetown’s diverse environment, he says, still helps him today as he leads a 2,400-lawyer firm where 95 percent of the attorneys are not Americans. A member of the Law Center’s Board of Visitors, Burke is a staunch supporter of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London as well as the European version of the Corporate Counsel Institute, held this year in April in the same city.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for Georgetown; it has a very good international reputation,” he says of CTLS. “I think that providing this sort of international opportunity for students from various countries to learn in an international setting is an idea whose time has come.”

When he’s not traveling for work, Burke likes spending time with his wife Terri and his sons Teddy, Matt and Tristan — and traveling with them to some of the cities he didn’t get to cover on that post-graduation trip. So his career path, while diverging far from New York, has served him rather well.

“I get to know and become friends with so many people around the world that I might not have encountered had I not been at Freshfields,” he says. “That’s an incredible privilege for me.”

By Ann W. Parks

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