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o turn the pages of this slim booklet is to begin to know some of the most distinguished legal scholars in the world. Among these members of the TMichigan Law faculty are leaders in constitutional. international. tax. envi­ ronmental, and business law. and in many other areas of scholarship, as well. For students hoping to build a world-class legal education. there is no better foundation.

But these printed pages exist in only two dimensions. while legal education, like the real world. exists in three. Stepping inside the magnificent buildings of the University of Michigan Law Quad brings these photographs and stories to life. Tw o-dimensional biographies become three-dimensional professors Here. beneath the vaulted ceilings of Hutchins Hall, an internationally renowned intellectual property expert who testified before Congress yesterday will exchange views on Internet file sharing with a passing student. Here. profes­ sors with experience hard-won as advisers to presidents or advocates before the Supreme Court now turn their remarkable minds to preparing members of our extraordinary and diverse student body for a life in the law. It's the heart of a Michigan Law education. Welcome.

Evan H. Caminker Dean and Branch Rickey Collegiate Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School (

AIicia Alva rez Reuven Avi-Yonah

licia Alvarez. who teaches in the Urban Communities Clinic, has euven S Avi-Yonah, the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of developed numerous clinics both as a faculty member at De Paul the International Tax LL.M. Program, specializes in international taxa­ AUniversity College of Law in Chicago and as a consultant. in El Salvador. tionR and international law. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury for the National Center for State Courts and DPK Consulting, Inc. She was and DECO on tax competition. and is a member of the Steering Group of a Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of El Salvador. the DECO's International Network for Tax Research. He is also chair of the where she also co-coordinated a Central American Clinical Conference, as American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on Consumption Taxes. well as a visiting professor of clinical education at Boston College. Professor His teaching interests focus on various aspects of taxation and interna­ Alvarez has worked with Business and Professional People for the Public tional law. Professor Avi- Yonah is currently a fellow of the American Bar Interest and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. She served on the Association and a member of the board of trustees of Diritto e Practica National Steering Committee of the Association of American Law Schools' Tributario lnternazionale. He is also an honorary research fellow at the conference on law schools and equal justice issues and was chair of the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University and poverty law section. In addition, she chaired the Legal Aid Committee of the an international research fellow at Oxford University's Centre Chicago Bar Association and served on for Business Taxation. In addition to prior teaching the board of directors for the Society appointments at Harvard (law) and Boston College of American Law Teachers. Professor (history). he has practiced law with Milbank, Tweed, Alvarez received her B.A., magna Hadley & McCloy, New York; with Wachtel I. Lipton. cum laude, from Loyola University of Rosen & Katz, New York; and with Ropes & Gray, Chicago and her J.D., cum laude. from Boston. After receiving his Boston College Law School. B.A., summa cum laude. from Hebrew University, he earned three addi­ tional degrees from Harvard: an A.M. in history, a Ph.D. in history, and a J.D. . magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. "As a person interested 1n Michael S. Barr representing start -up com­ Laura Beny panies and venture capital

firms. pursumg a JD./MBA ichael S. Barr. who co-founded the International Transactions Clinic, ince joining the University of Michigan Law School in 2003, Assistant at M1ch1gan IS the best edu teaches Financial Institutions, International Finance, Jurisdiction and Professor Laura Beny has taught Corporate Finance, Enterprise M cat1onal decis1on I've ever Choice of Law. and Transnational Law Professor Barr also conducts large-scale OrgSanization, International Finance (with Professor Michael Barr). the Public made The formal trammg empirical research regarding financial services and low- and moderate-income Corporation. and an advanced seminar in law and finance. Her research inter­ I've rece1ved 1n accountmg households and writes about a wide range of issues in financial regulation. He ests are wide ranging and include law and economics, finance, institutions. and finance at the busmess is past chair and a current member of the executive committee of the Section political economy, development. and the Sudan. Recently, she conducted school ennched my course- on Financial Institutions of the Association of American Law Schools. He is also research and advised the newly formed Government of Southern Sudan work at the Law a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a non-resident senior (GOSS) on corporate governance and transparency in Southern Sudan's School tremendously, and fellow at the Brookings Institution. Professor Barr recently co-organized the nascent private sector. Professor Beny is a research fellow at the William was highly regarded by law World Bank's conference on financial access. From 1994 to 2001, he served in Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School firms and clients dunng my various senior positions in the U.S. government. including special assistant to of Business and a member of the American Law and Economics Association. summer clerksh1ps Exposure Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and special the Law and Society Association, and the New York Bar. In September 2006, to a vanety of learnmg adviser to the President. Among his latest publi­ she testified about insider trading before the Senate Judiciary Committee. enwonments cations are Building Inclusive Financial Systems Before coming to Michigan, she practiced law at Debevoise has also been mvaluable (Brookings Press 2007, co-edited with Kumar & & Plimpton. an international law firm based in New Beyond sharpenmg my skills Litan) and Insufficient Funds (Russell Sage 2008, York City, where she represented both private 1n doctrinal analysis. legal with Blank). He earned his B.A., summa cum and pro bono clients. Professor Beny earned her M.A. wntmg, and negot1at10n. I laude. from Yale University; an and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard had opportunities to mteract M. Phil. in international relations University, her J.D. at Harvard Law w1th venture capitalists, and from Magdalen College, Oxford. School, and her B.A. in economics even drafted and pitched as a Rhodes Scholar; and his J.D. at Stanford University. a busmess plan lor a l1fe from Yale Law School. Professor sciences company seekmg Barr clerked for Justice David H. Senes A financing " Souter of the Supreme Court of the United States. and for Judge Benjamin Potter, '06 Pierre N. Leva I. then of the Associate Southern District of New York. Latham & Watkins Silicon Va lley 3 Eve Brensike-Primus Evan H. Caminker

ve Brensike-Primus joined the faculty in 2006 as an assistant professor "Law does not exist in a van H. Caminker, the Branch Rickey Collegiate Professor of Law and

of law. Her research and teaching interests include criminal law, criminal vacuum. The advantage of dean of the Law School since 2003, writes, teaches, and litigates about

procedure,E evidence, and habeas corpus. Professor Brensike-Primus received a Michigan education is the vaErious issues of American constitutional law, focusing on individual rights,

her B.A., magna cum laude, from Brown University and, before entering law ability to temper your legal federalism, and the nature of judicial decision making. A recipient of the school, worked as a criminal investigator for the Public Defender Service in studies w1th practical ACLU Distinguished Professors Award for Civil Liberties Education, he has

Washington, D.C., as well as a property subrogation paralegal for the Law wisdom from the realms of taught constitutional law, civil procedure, and federal courts, and has lectured

Offices of White and Williams in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned business. sc1ence. politics. widely before professional, scholarly, and student audiences. His scholarship her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, and the arts. Michigan Law has appeared in the Michigan Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law where she was an articles editor on the Michigan Law Review as well 1s scant yards from one Review, Stanford Law Review, and the Supreme Court Review. Prior to taking as a board member on the Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Board. During of the nation's top-ranked on his responsibilities as dean, he served as associate dean for academic

law school, she volunteered with a number of public business school and only affairs. Dean Caminker came to Michigan from UCLA Law School, where he defender and capital defense organizations in addi­ a few blocks from top ten taught from 1991-99. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from tion to working in the Civil Rights Division of the engineering, medical, nurs- UCLA and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

United States Department of Justice. Following mg, musiC, public health, Dean Caminker clerked for Justice William law school, Professor Brensike-Primus clerked and public policy programs. Brennan at the Supreme Court and for for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt on the In today's interconnected Judge William Norris of the Ninth

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in world, an interdisciplinary Circuit. He also practiced law with the both the trial and appellate divisions of the approach to the law IS a Center for Law in the Public Interest

Maryland Office of the Public Defender. necessity, and Mich1gan Law in Los Angeles and with Wilmer,

provides its students w1th Cutler & Pickering in Washington,

an environment that enables D.C. From May 2000 through

them to meet that need." January 2001, he served as deputy assistant attorney Ellisen S. Turner, '02 genera I in the Office of Associate Legal Counsel, U.S. lrell & Manella LLP Department of Justice. Los Angeles, California

4 Sherman J. Clark Edward H. Cooper

herman J. Clark. who joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1995, teaches dward H. Cooper joined the Law School faculty in 1972 and was named courses in torts, evidence, and sports law. His current research examines the Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law in 1988. He is the coauthor, with theS ways in which certain legal rules and institutions can serve as fora for theE late C.A. Wright and A.R. Miller. of the original. second, and new third the construction and articulation of community meaning and identity. In this editions of Federal Practice & Procedure: Jurisdiction, a leading multi-volume vein, he has written about institutions and practices ranging from direct treatise on federal jurisdiction and procedure, and his articles have con­ democracy to the jury to criminal procedure. Another line of research focuses tributed to legal scholarship for 40 years. From 1991-92, Professor Cooper on the nature and normative status of persuasive legal argument. In addition served as a member of the United States Judicial Conference Civil Rules to his teaching and research interests, Professor Clark served as an adviser Advisory Committee. He has also served as reporter for the committee since to lawyers for Wayne County, Michigan. and the City of Detroit in their 1992. In addition, he has been a member of the Council of the American Law efforts to hold gun manufacturers liable for allegedly negligent distribution Institute since 1988 and has served as adviser on several of its projects. practices. The legal theory he articulated, known as the "willful blindness" Professor Cooper graduated from Dartmouth College theory, focused on the manufacturers' alleged knowing with an A.B. and earned his LL.B. at exploitation of a thriving secondary market in the Harvard Law School. He served indirect sale of firearms to felons and minors. as a law clerk to the Hon. Clifford Professor Clark is a graduate of Towson State O'Sullivan. U.S. Court of Appeals for University and the Harvard Law School. Before com- the Sixth Circuit. and later practiced ing to Michigan, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., in Detroit. He was an associate pro­ with the firm of Kirkland & Ellis. fessor at the University of Minnesota Law School for five years before join­ ing the Law School faculty. Susan Crawford Stephen P Croley

usan Crawford joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law "At the University of teven P. Croley teaches and writes in the areas of administrative School in July of 2008. She teaches internet law and communica- Michigan. legal study is law, civil procedure, regulation, torts, and related subjects. He began tionsS law In the 2007-08 academic year, she was a visiting professor at a process that acquaints hisS teaching career at the Law School in 1993 and was associate dean both Michigan and at Ya le Law School (spring 2008). A former member students w1th the world for academic affairs from 2003-06. He has served as a consultant to the of the board of directors of ICANN, Professor Crawford is the founder of at large, not only the Administrative Conference of the United States, the U.S. Department of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the Internet that takes place each Sept. legal world. Professors Labor, and the Michigan Law Revision Commission. He also litigates on 22. In just three years, OneWebDay has grown from a modest grassroots are constantly evaluating behalf of individual clients. His scholarly research appears, among other effort to a series of activities in major urban centers across the globe. Its how other fields of study places, in the Administrative Law Journal, the Chicago Law Review, the leading supporters include Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and FCC enhance, affect, contnbute, Columbia Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review. His latest work, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Professor Crawford, a violist. received and change the way we Regulation and Public Interests, is published by Princeton University Press. her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and J.D. from Yale look at the law This method He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Michigan bars. Professor Croley University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U S. makes for an exciting pro­ received an A.B. from the University of Michigan, where he was a James B. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at cess that enables students Angell Scholar. He earned his J.D. from the Ya le Law School, where he was Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until to not only learn the law articles editor for the Yale Law Journal,a John M. the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter but allows us to better Olin student fellow, and winner of the John M. the legal academy. Following the 2008 presiden­ apply it to reality. It is truly Olin Prize and the Benjamin Scharps Prize. He

tial election, Professor Crawford was chosen 1 a legal education that goes also earned a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton to lead the Obama-Biden Transition Team's beyond the bounds of the University. Following law school, he served as review of the Federal Ccommunications legal world!" a law clerk for Judge Stephen Williams of Commission. During the 2009 winter term, the U S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Grace Aduroja, 3L Professor Crawford will be on leave Circuit. A.B , Wayne State serving as a consultant to the new University Chairman of the FCC.

6 AIicia Davis Evans Donald N. Duquette

ince joining the Michigan Law faculty in the fall of 2004 as an assistant "Michigan's opportunities for s a clinical professor of law. Donald N. Duquette directs the Law professor. Alicia Davis Evans has taught enterprise organization and 1nterd1Sc1plmary study are School's Child Advocacy Law Clinic and manages the Bergstrom Child mergerS s and acquisitions. Her current research includes projects in the secu­ unparalleled. In my short WelfareA Law Summer Fellowship in Child Welfare Law. In addition to rities regulation area. Before coming to Michigan. Professor Evans practiced time at the Law School. I developing the first and one of the most respected child advocacy programs law at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington. D.C .. where she represented took courses 1n busmess. in the country, Professor Duquette launched the Law School's first mediation public and private companies and private equity firms in mergers and acqui­ econom1cs. and natrual clinic in 2004. His publications include Advocating for the Child in Protection sitions and leveraged buyout transactions. Her professional experience also resource management. Proceedings. which formed the conceptual framework for the first national includes five years as an investment banker. first with Goldman. Sachs & Co. My Law School professors evaluation of child representation as mandated by the U.S. Congress. and in New York. where her clients included Fortune 100 companies pursuing regularly drew on those Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children. Parents and State equity and debt financings, and later with Raymond James & Associates in disciplines to communicate Agencies in Abuse. Neglect and Dependency Proceedings (with Marvin St. Petersburg. Florida. where she most recently served as a vice president the s1gn1ficance of a legal Ventrell). which defines the scope and duties of a new. ABA-accredited spe­ and represented public and private companies in middle market mergers opinion-a practice that cialty in child welfare law and prepares lawyers for the national certifying and acquisitions transactions. Professor Evans is a member of the Florida made my mterdisc1pl1nary examination. A graduate of Michigan State University. Professor Duquette and the District of Columbia bars. She earned her B.S. in business adminis­ education at Michigan was a child protection and foster care social worker prior to earning his JD. tration. summa cum laude. from Florida holistic and interconnected." at Michigan. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1976. he was assistant A&M University. her MBA from Harvard professor of pediatrics and human develop- Stephen Higgs. JD/M S '05 Business School. and her JD. from ment at Michigan State University. In 1997- Associate Ya le Law School. 98. he managed an expert work group for Perkins Coie the U.S. Children's Bureau and drafted Portland. Oregon Permanency for Children: Guidelines for Public Policy and State Legislation as part of President Clinton's Initiative on Adoption and Foster Care.

7 Rebecca S. Eisenberg Phoebe Ellsworth

ebecca S. Eisenberg, the Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of hoebe Ellsworth, the Frank Murphy Distinguished University Professor of Law, has written and lectured extensively about the role of intellectual Law and Psychology, has conducted pioneering scholarship in the field of propeR rty in biopharmaceutical research. She has also played an active psycP hology and law She has published widely on the subjects of person per­ role in policy debates concerning intellectual property in research science. ception and emotion, public opinion and the death penalty, and jury behav­ Professor Eisenberg teaches courses on patent law, trademark law, FDA law, ior. Her most recent articles have appeared in Th e Handbook of Affective and conducts workshops on intellectual property and student scholarship. Sciences; Personality and Social Psychology Bu lletin; and Psychology, Public She has previously taught courses on torts, legal regulation of science, and Policy, and Law. She holds a joint appointment in the Psychology Department legal issues in biomedical research. She currently serves on the Panel on at the University of Michigan. Professor Ellsworth is a fellow of the American Science, Technology and Law of the National Academies of Science and is Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Lecturer a past member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National (2002-04). In 2001, she was honored by Mount Saint Mary's College with the Institutes of Health and the board of directors of the Stem Cell Genomics creation of the annual Phoebe Ellsworth Psychology and Justice Symposium, and Therapeutics Network in Canada. Professor Eisenberg is a graduate of in recognition of her contributions to the areas of law and psychology. Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Professor Ellsworth is a graduate of Harvard and Stanford Universities Berkeley). where she was articles editor of the California Law Review. Following law school. she clerked for Chief Judge Robert F Peckham on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She joined the Michigan Law School faculty in 1984. Richard D. Friedman Bruce W. Frier

ichard Richard D. Friedman. the Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law. is an The University ruce W. Frier is the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law as well as the expert on evidence and Supreme Court history and is the general editor of Michigan Law Frank 0. Copley Collegiate Professor of Classics and Roman Law. He is ofR Th e New Wigmore, a multi-volume treatise on evidence. In addition to School is a leader theB author of numerous books and articles on economic and social history, having written numerous law review articles and essays, he is the author of in the study of focusing especially on Roman law. His publications include Landlords and the well-known textbook. Th e Elements of Evidence. now in its third edition. international law Te nants in Imperial Rome. The Rise of the Roman Jurists. A Casebook on In Crawford v. Washington. 541 U.S. 36 (2004). the Supreme Court radically and institutions. the Roman Law of Delict. A Casebook on Roman Family Law. and, most transformed the law governing the right of a criminal defendant to confront It was the first recently, Th e ModernLaw of Contracts. written with law faculty colleague the witnesses against him by adopting a "testimonial" approach, which top American law J.J. White. In addition to his Law School professorship, he served in 2001-02 Professor Friedman had long advocated. He now maintains the Confrontation school to offer a as the interim chair for the Department of Classical Studies at the University Blog, www.confrontationright.blogspot.com, to comment on related issues course on European of Michigan and holds a joint appointment in that department. He is also and developments, and has successfully argued a follow-up case. Hammon community law and a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American v. Indiana. in the Supreme Court. Professor Friedman earned a B.A. and a to establish the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Frier received a B.A. from Trinity J.D. from Harvard. both magna cum laude. subject as a field of College and a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University. He was a fellow of and served as an editor of the Harvard study in the United the American Academy in Rome and taught Law Review He also earned a D.Phil. in States. and the first at Bryn Mawr College before joining the modern history from Oxford University. top law school to Department of Classical Studies at the He clerked for Judge Irving Kaufman of require completion University of Michigan in 1969. He has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second of transnational law taught at the Law School since 1981. Circuit, and later practiced law in New as a condition for York City. He joined the Michigan graduation. Law School faculty in 1988 from Cardozo Law School. Philip M. Frost "I can't say enough about Thomas A. Green what a tremendous hilip M. Frost joined the Law School faculty in 1996 and serves as advantage my Michigan homas A. Green, the John P. Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law and clinical professor of law and director of the Law School's Legal Practice Law degree has given me in Professor of History, teaches English and American legal history both ProgP ram. From 1974 through 1996, Professor Frost practiced with the Detroit­ my international practice. toT law students and to students of the College of Literature. Science, and based law fi rm of Dickinson. Wright. Moon. Van Dusen & Freeman. now In addition to providing an the Arts. His primary research interest is the history of criminal law Within Dickinson, Wright PLLP, in the areas of commercial litigation. antitrust. and excellent background for that field, he emphasizes the cultural foundations of law and legal institu­ bankruptcy He was a partner with the firm from 1981 to 1996 and chaired practicing law abroad. be1ng tions. with a particular focus on the social and intellectual history of the its hiring and pro bono committees. In addition to his Law School activities, a Michigan alum also made criminal trial jury and ideas regarding criminal responsibility. Professor Professor Frost has served as a commercial panel arbitrator for the American me part of the expansive Green is the author of Verdict According to Conscience.· Perspectives on the Arbitration Association and has presented before the Michigan Academy and fiercely loyal Michigan English Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, and editor of Studies in Legal History, of Science, Arts & Letters and the Legal Writing Institute. He has also Family. Whether I've been sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. He is also co-editor of served as Chair of the Survey Committee of the Association of Legal Writing 111 England or China, it On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne, Directors and as an editor of Legal Writing. The Journal of the Legal Writing has been rare not to find and Twelve Good Men and True: The Institute. Professor Frost received his BA in history from Ya le University and another Michigan grad (if not Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800. He several) workmg across from later earned his J . D., magna cum laude is currently at work on a history of and Order of the Coif. at the University or alongside me. My fnends the American criminal trial jury and of Michigan Law School. He served as and colleagues with JD.s criminal responsibility. Professor a law clerk to the Han. Philip Pratt of from other prestigious insti­ Green is a graduate of Columbia the U S District Court for the Eastern tutions do not seem to share University He received a Ph.D. District of Michigan. the same instant rapport in history from Harvard with their fellow alumni. and University and a J D. from I consider this to be a unique Harvard Law School. Prior advantage that M ichigan has to joining the Michigan to offer." Law faculty, he taught medieval and English his­ Jonathan Barkey, '04 tory at Bard College. Associate

Herbert Smith

Hong Kong

10 "Michigan's support Samuel R. Gross 1n building a career 1 Monica Hakimi 1nternat1onal law goes far

beyond the classroom. Stnce amuel R. Gross. the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law. onica Hakimi teaches and writes on public international law. interna­ I graduated. my farner teaches evidence. criminal procedure. and courses on the prosecution, tional human rights law. the law of armed conflict. and U S. foreign professors and Deans have conviction.S and exoneration of innocent defendants. He has published works reMlations law Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which inter­ g1ven me seemly endless on false convictions. the death penalty, racial profiling, eyewitness identi­ national actors manage the international legal process and achieve their assistance It was through fication. the use of expert witnesses. and the relationship between pretrial ends within it-particularly in the contexts of human rights. armed conflicts. Michigan's connections that bargaining and trial verdicts. In recent years. Professor Gross has focused on and the use of force. Professor Hakimi's publications include articles in the I obtatned an Internship at studying wrongful convictions. In 2004-05, he conducted a major investiga­ Yale Journalof InternationalLaw, the Duke Journalof Comparative and the South African Humar tion that uncovered persuasive evidence that an executed defendant was International Law. and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She has Rights Comm1ssion and innocent of the murder for which he was put to death. Professor Gross been an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School, a visiting a Stage at the European graduated from Columbia College and earned a J.D. from the University of assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. and a volun­ Court of Just1ce. As 1f that California at Berkeley. He later worked as a criminal defense attorney in San teer English professor with WorldTeach in Ecuador. Professor Hakimi earned weren't enough, M1chigan Francisco for several years. as an attorney with the United Farm Workers her J D. in 2001 from the Yale Law School. and her B.A., summa cum laude, also prov1ded the financ1al Union in California and the Wounded Knee Legal Defense Committee in from Duke University. Following law school. she clerked for Judge Kimba support that enabled me Nebraska and South Dakota, and as a cooperat­ Wood on the Southern District of New York and later served to take advantage of these ing attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal ternfic opportunities. Many Educational Fund in New York. He has been a Adviser at the U.S. Department of of my current colleagues at visiting lecturer at Yale Law School. a visiting State. She also served as counsel the International Crtm1nal professor at Columbia Law School, and taught for the United States before the Tribunal for the former for several years at the Stanford Law School. Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Yugoslavia have expressed and worked on cases before amazement and envy at the U.S. federal courts and level of support I cont111ue to administrative agencies. rece1ve from Michigan."

Dana Kaersvang, '06

Fulbright Fellow

International Criminal

Tribunal for Rwanda

' The Hague 11 Daniel Hal berstam "I spent the second half of David M. Hasen my childhood abroad and aniel Halberstam. the Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law. is direc­ have always been inter- avid M. Hasen joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty tor of the European Legal Studies Program at the Michigan Law ested m globalization. the as an assistant professor in the fall of 2002. His research and teach- SchooD l. He was also the founding director of the European Union Center development of emerging inDg interests focus primarily on taxation. jurisprudence. and administrative at the University of Michigan and is now a member of its advisory board. markets. and the role that law. and his current research projects include an analysis of the taxation of In addition. Professor Halberstam serves on the advisory editorial board U.S.-trained lawyers can advance payments and an examination of legal transition relief. Professor of Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy (Cambridge University have 111 cross-border transac­ Hasen is also interested in expanding access of the poor to legal services Press). An internationally recognized expert on federalism. his research and tions Over the past two and and in using the law to promote social justice. He has worked with members teaching focus on European Union law. constitutional law. globalization. and a half years. I have been of the Law School's clinical faculty and staff to establish and help fund the comparative public law and legal theory. A graduate of Yale Law School. able to pursue th1s mterest Law School's Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. Professor Hasen received a B.A. Professor Halberstam was articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor 111 the classroom through in history from Reed College, a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University, of the Journal of Law and the Humanities. He earned his B.A.. summa cum courses and semmars. and and a J.D. from Yale Law School. where he served as a notes editor for the laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in mathematics and psychology from Columbia even gain valuable hands-on Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge College and obtained his Abitur at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Wiesbaden. experience through the Maxine Chesney in the Northern District Germany. Professor Halberstam served as International Transactions of California, he worked as an associ­ for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Clime. Michigan's emphas1s ate in the tax departments of Orrick. Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals on mternat1onal law IS one Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. and Wilson for the D.C. Circuit. and as judicial fellow for Judge of the many reasons that I Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. PC .. where Peter Jann. European Court of Justice. chose to come back to Ann his practice focused on corporate He also served as attorney-adviser Arbor for law school and I taxation and the taxation of in the Office of Legal Counsel at know that I wouldn't have financial products. the U.S Department of Justice. had as rewarding an experi­ . and as attorney-adviser to ence anywhere else .. Chairman Robert Pitofsky Joydeep Dasmunshi. 3L of the U.S. Federal Trade B BA. U of M Ross School Commission. of Business

12 James C. Hathaway Scott Hershovitz j ames C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law. is "Not only does cott Hershovitz teaches and writes on jurisprudence. tort law. and a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly M1ch1gan attract top S national security law. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, he cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is director of faculty m mternat1onal clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and the University of Michigan's Program in Refugee and Asylum Law. senior vis­ law. but 1t also hosts Judge William A. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit. In between these clerkships, iting research associate at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Programme. mfluential practitioners. he was a member of the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. and president of the Universidad lnternacional Menendez Pelayo's Cuenca When I studied opmions Department of Justice. Professor Hershovitz is admitted to practice law

Colloquium on International Refugee Law. He has also held visiting profes­ of the International Court in Georgia. His publications include "Two Models of Tort (and Ta kings)" in sorships at the universities of Cairo. California. Macerata. Melbourne. and of Just1ce. my professor the Virginia Law Review. 'legitimacy, Democracy, and Razian Authority," To kyo. Among his more important publications are a leading treatise on the was a s1ttmg ICJ Judge. in Legal Theory, and "Wittgenstein on Rules: The Phantom Menace" in the refugee definition. The Law of Refugee Status (1991). and most recently When I researched the Oxford Journalof Legal Studies. He is also the editor of Exploring Law's an analysis of the nature of the legal duty to protect refugees. The Right of United Nat10ns' response Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

Refugees Under International Law(2005). Professor Hathaway founded and to terrorism. I had the help (2006) Professor Hershovitz graduated now directs the Refugee Case Law Site of a former pres1dent of summa cum laude from the University of

(www.refugeecaselaw.org). is an editor the Security Council " Georgia with an A.B. in political science of the Journal of Refugee Studies and philosophy and an M.A. in philosophy. Brandon Reavis. '06 and the Immigration and Nationality In addition to a J.D. from the Yale Law Associate Law Reports, and sits on the board of School, he holds a D.Phil. in law from the King and Spalding directors of both Asylum Access and University of Oxford. where he studied Washington. D.C. the U.S. Committee for Refugees as a Rhodes Scholar. and Immigrants. He earned his J.S.D. and LL.M. at Columbia University, and an LL.B. (Honors) at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.

13 Don Herzog James R. Hines Jr.

on Herzog is the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law. His main teach­ "The M1ch1gan Law School n addition to his appointment in the Law School, James R. Hines Jr. is the D ing interests are political, moral, legal, and social theory; constitutional afforded me opportunities I Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics in the University interpretation; torts; and the First Amendment. He is the author of Without could not have gotten ofI Michigan Department of Economics. He also serves as research direc-

Foundations: Justification in Political Theory, Happy Slaves: A Critique of anywhere else. wh1ch were tor of the business school's Office of Tax Policy Research. His research is

Consent Theory, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders, and Cunning. mvaluable towards my focused on various aspects of taxation. Professor Hines taught at Princeton

Professor Herzog holds an A.B. degree from Cornell University and an A.M. pursuit of legal work and Harvard prior to moving to Michigan in 1997, and has held visiting and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he studied government. He joined 1n 1nternat10nal human appointments at Columbia, the London School of Economics, and Harvard the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan in 1983 and nghts. The faculty works Law School. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic holds a joint appointment with that department and the Law School. hard to prov1de the Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, co-editor of

best resources and experi­ the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, and

ences for the1r students once, long ago, served as an economist in the United States Department of

Courses in transnational, Commerce. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Ya le

human rights, comparative University and a Ph.D. from Harvard, all in

European. and 1nternat1onal economics.

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top of each field, prepared

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14 J iII R. Horwitz "One of the mam reasons I Nicholas C. Howson decided to attend M1ch1gan ill R. Horwitz. the Louise and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor Law was 1ts strong interna­ icholas C. Howson specializes in Chinese law and legal institutions. j of Business and Law. teaches health law, nonprofit law, and torts. tional externsh1p program. and in corporate law and securities regulation. He joined the Michigan She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic wh1ch helps students apply LawN faculty in 2005 after being a partner at Paul. Weiss. Rifkind, Wharton & Research. and her empirical research on hospital ownership and medi- the knowledge they gam Garrison LLP, with postings in New York. London. Paris. and a period as man­ cal service provision has garnered several awards. Professor Horwitz has from focused 1nternat1onal aging partner of the firm's China practice in Beijing. As a transactional attor­ been a post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, course work. For example, my ney, Professor Howson participated in several precedent-setting transactions, public affairs director for the Planned Parenthood Association of San Mateo Constitutionalism 1n South including the first Rule 144A offering from Europe and the first SEC-registered County, and a teaching fellow in history at Phillips Academy. In addition. Africa course was co-taught IPO on the New York Stock Exchange by a Chinese issuer. He publishes she has served as a visiting professor at the University of Victoria (Faculty by a South Afncan law widely on the subject of Chinese corporate and capital markets developments of Law and School of Public Administration) in British Columbia. Professor professor and the first black and on China's ongoing legal reform. He is a member of the University of Horwitz graduated from Northwestern University with an honors B.A. in female justice on the South Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Executive Committee. history and went on to receive an M.P.P.,J.D., magna cum laude, and Ph.D. in Afncan Constitutional Court. an arbitrator for the China International health policy, all from Harvard University. The course campi imented Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Following law school, she served as my Transnational Law course (CIETAC). immediate past chair of the Asian a law clerk for Judge Norman Stahl and thoroughly prepared me Affairs Committee of the Association of the of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the for my externsh1p w1th the Bar of the City of New York. and a mem- First Circuit. As a doctoral student. South African Human Rights ber of the Council on Foreign Relations. Horwitz held graduate fellowships Commission. Applymg that Professor Howson graduated from at the Harvard Hauser Center for classroom knowledge w1th Williams College and the Columbia Nonprofit Organizations and the real-life practice was one Law School. and from 1983 to Harvard Center for Ethics and the of the most enr1chmg expe­ 1985 was a graduate fellow at Professions. She is a member of nences of my law school Shanghai's Fudan University In the bar of the Commonwealth career late 1988, he completed research of Massachusetts. Maya D. Simmons. '07 on Chinese imperial penal law at

Associate Beijing University and the China

Alston & Bird LLP University of Politics and Law

Atlanta. Georgia under a Ford Foundation grant.

15 Douglas A. Kahn Ellen D. Katz

ouglas A. Kahn, the Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law, teaches courses "From human rights to lien D. Katz teaches and writes in the areas of property, voting rights and that include Tax Planning for Business Transactions, Taxation of mternat1onal trade, the elections, legal history, and equal protection Prior to joining the Law InDdividual Income, Corporate Taxation, Partnership Tax, and Legal Process. course select1on and SchoolE faculty in 1999, she practiced as an attorney with the appellate sec­ He is the co-author of two case books, one on corporate taxation and one faculty at Michigan are tions of the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources on taxation of transfers of wealth, as well as several textbooks on those truly excellent 1n the field Division and its Civil Division. Her work includes a detailed empirical study of subjects and on individual income taxation. A co-authored book, Taxation of international law In my litigation under the Voting Rights Act as well as articles published in numer­ of Subchapter S Corporations, was published in 2008. His recent articles work as a clerk at the ICJ ous law reviews, among them the University of Pennsylvania Law Review have included "Tax Consequences When a New Employer Bears the Cost of I constantly draw upon the and the Michigan Law Review. Professor Katz earned her BA in history, the Employee's Terminating a Prior Employment Relationship" (co-authored). breadth and depth of the summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale College and her J.D. from published in the Florida Tax Review, "Prevention of Double Deductions of a mternational legal traming Yale Law School, where she served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Single Loss Solutions in Search of a Problem" (co-authored). published in I rece1ved at M1ch1gan. I Journal. She was a judicial clerk for Justice David H. Souter of the Supreme the Virginia Tax Review, and "Is the Report would recommend to any Court of the United States, and for Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Lazarus's Death Premature? A Reply to prospective lawyer inter­ of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Postlewaite and Cameron," published in ested 1n a career shaping the Florida Tax Review. Prior to begin­ the global legal order to ning his academic career, Professor place Michigan at the top of Kahn practiced in Washington, D.C., their list." and served as a trial attorney with Ted Kill . '07 both the civil and tax divisions University Tra inee of the U.S. Department International Court of of Justice. A graduate Justice of the University of The Hague North Carolina and of George Washington University Law School, he joined the Law School faculty in 1964. 16 Vikramaditya S. Khanna Madeline Kochen

ikramaditya S. Khanna joined the Law School faculty in the fall of 2004. adeline Kochen's research and teaching interests include property, the­ His areas of research and teaching interest include corporate law, ories of justice and obligation. Ta lmudic law, and constitutional law. Vsecurities regulation, corporate crime, corporate and managerial liability, SheM earned her B.A., magna cum laude, and her JD. from Yeshiva University corporate governance in emerging markets, law in India, and law and (Cardozo Law School). In addition. she holds an A.M. in Near Eastern lan­ economics. Professor Khanna's papers have been accepted for publica- guages and civilizations and a Ph.D. in religion and political philosophy from tion in the Harvard Law Review,Bo ston University Law Review, and the Harvard University Following law school, Professor Kochen worked in New Georgetown Law Journal, among others. He has also presented papers York as a criminal appeals attorney with the Legal Aid Society and as staff at Harvard Law School. Columbia University School of Law, the annual attorney and legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union. She meeting of the American Law & Economics Association, the University of also founded and directed the NYCLU Women's Rights/Reproductive Rights Michigan Law School, the University of California at Berkeley Law School, Project. Before attending Harvard, Professor Kochen taught at Stanford Law the National Bureau of Economic Research, Indian Institute of Management School, where she was director of Public Interest Law and assistant dean Bangalore, the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad). Ts inghua University of students. While working on her dissertation, she was a fellow (Beijing). Wharton Business School, Stanford Law at Harvard's Center for Ethics and the Professions. School, and Ya le Law School. Professor Khanna taught Ta lmud and Jewish law to faculty and earned his S.J.D. at Harvard Law School. He has students at Harvard Law School, and spent three served as a visiting faculty at Harvard Law School, years at the Institute for Advanced Study in a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School, Princeton, New Jersey. and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. He was also a recipient of the John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship for 2002-03. James F. Krier Douglas Laycock

ames E. Krier, the Earl Warren Delano Professor of Law, has taught rofessor Douglas Laycock, the Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law, j courses on contracts, property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and joined the Law School faculty in 2006. He is one of the nation's leading economics, and pollution policy. His research interests are primarily in the authoritiesP on the law of remedies as well as the law of religious liberty. fields of property, contracts, and law and economics, and he is the author Professor Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued or co-author of several books, including Environmental Law and Policy, many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author Pollution and Policy, and Property (6th edition). Professor Krier's most recent of the leading casebook Modern American Remedies; the award-winning articles have been published in the Harvard Law Re view, the Supreme Court monograph, The Death of th e Irreparable Injury Rule; and many articles in Economic Review, and the UCLA Law Re view.A professor of law at UCLA the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Re view, and Stanford before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1983, he has been the Supreme Court Review, and elsewhere. He is also a member of the a visiting professor at both Harvard University Law School and Cardozo Council of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow of the American School of Law Professor Krier earned his B.S. with Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Laycock earned his B.A. from honors and his J.D. with highest honors from the Michigan State University and his J.D. from University of Wisconsin, where he was articles the University of Chicago Law School. editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. After Before joining Michigan Law, he was graduation from law school, he served for one associate dean for research and held year as law clerk to the Han. Roger J. Traynor, the Alice McKean Young Regents Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtof California. Chair at the University of Texas He then practiced law for two years with Law School, Austin. Prior to the Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. UT appointment. he was professor of law at The University of Chicago. "One of my favorite

aspects of the University of Jessica Litman M1ch1gan IS the tremen­ Kyle D. Logue dous efforts made by the

faculty to become personally

efore rejoining the Michigan Law faculty in 2006, Jessica Litman was involved 1n the lives and yle D. Logue, associate dean for academic affairs. teaches in the areas professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she of tax, torts, and insurance. His scholarly interests include tax policy, B educat1on of their students. K taught copyright law. Internet law, and trademarks and unfair competition. I had the opportun1ty to take compensation and insurance arrangements. products liability, risk regulation.

She was also a professor at the University of Michigan Law School from a 'mm1-seminar' 1n which disaster policy, legal transitions. distributive justice, and the economic analy­

1984-90 as well as a visiting professor at NYU Law School and at American a prominent professor and sis of law Professor Logue's articles have appeared in numerous journals. F. University Washington College of Law Professor Litman. the John Nickol I seven students met on a including the Chicago Law Review. the CornellLaw Review. the Michigan

Professor of Law, is the author of Digital Copyright and the co-author. with monthly basis to discuss Law Review. the Tax Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He has also

Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin. of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair upcommg Supreme Court presented papers at many academic conferences and scholarly workshops

Competition Law: Cases and Materials. She has testified before Congress cases. The min1-seminar around the country. Professor Logue earned his BA, summa cum laude, from

and federal administrative agencies. Professor Litman is a trustee of the was mcredible It was Auburn University, where he was a National Harry S. Truman Scholar. and

Copyright Society of the USA and. in 2007. was chair of the American fascinating to read the his J.D. from Yale Law School. where he was an Olin Scholar and an articles

Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. In addition to transcnpts of Supreme Court editor for the Yale Law Journal. Before coming serving on the advisory board for the Public Knowledge oral arguments and then to the University of Michigan. he served as a

organization. she is a member of the Intellectual discuss the prominent policy law clerk to the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham

Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU. the 1ssues involved in these on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth

Advisory Council of the Future of Music Coalition. and cases. But the fact that the Circuit and worked as a lawyer for the law the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts. She professor held the semmar firm of Sutherland. Asbill & Brennan in

graduated from Reed College, earned meetings in her home and Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Logue

an MFA at Southern Methodist baked for us was what is the Wade H. McCree, Jr.,

University, and holds a J.D. really made the seminar Collegiate Professor of Law from Columbia Law School. special."

William D. Pollak. '08

Law Clerk to the Honorable

Henry Pitman

U.S. District Court for the

Southern District of

New York 19 Catherine A. MacKinnon Bridget M. McCormack

atharine A. MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, special­ "The faculty at M1ch1gan n addition to serving as associate dean for clinical affairs, Bridget M. izes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. 1s so accessible it's easy to I McCormack is a clinical professor of law with the Michigan Clinical SheC pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea forget that the professor Law Program, where she teaches a criminal defense clinic, criminal law,

Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights viola­ who just saw you at the a domestic violence clinic, and a pediatric advocacy clinic. Prior to joining tion. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual cafe on Sunday morning the Law School faculty, she worked as a staff attorney with the Office of atrocities, Professor MacKinnon won with co-counsel a damage award of and sat down at your table the Appellate Defender and was a senior trial attorney with the Criminal

$745 million in August 2000 in Ka dic v Ka radzic, which first recognized rape to g1ve you (sol1c1ted and Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society, both in New Yo rk City. Professor as an act of genocide. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted her unsolicited) feedback on McCormack has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech. In addition to schol­ your latest paper, I ife plan. Review and wrote, with Andrea Lyon, the Criminal Defense Motions Manual arly works that include Sex Equality (2001), Toward a Feminist Theory of th e and resume ai slegend Ill for the State Appellate Defender's Office. Her current clinical practice, as . State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women s Lives, Men s Laws (2005), and her field .. well as her research and scholarship, focuses on criminal charging issues, Are Women Human ? (2006), she has published widely in journals and the specifically the issues surrounding women charged with crimes against their Adam Mandel. '05 popular press. Professor MacKinnon holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. partners and issues surrounding terror­ Associate from Ya le Law School, and a Ph.D. in politi- ism prosecutions. Professor McCormack Sloss Eckhouse Brennan cal science from Ya le. She has taught earned her law degree from New York LawCo LLP at Yale, Chicago, Harvard, Osgoode University School of Law, where she New York. New York Hall, Stanford, Basel, and Columbia, was a Root-Tilden scholar, and her and spent a year at the Institute for B.A. with honors in political science Advanced Study. Professor McKinnon and philosophy from Trinity College, practices and consults nationally Hartford, Connecticut and internationally, and works with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women. She was recently appointed as special adviser on gender crimes by the International Criminal Court

20 Nina M. Mendelson William I. Miller

rofessor Nina Mendelson teaches and conducts research in the areas of illiam I. Miller, the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, has been a administrative law, environmental law, statutory interpretation, and the member of the Michigan Law School faculty since 1984. Originally, legislaP tive process. Her work is published in prominent law reviews, includ­ hisW research centered on saga Iceland, from whence the materials studied ing the Columbia Law Review, the N. YU. Law Review, and the Michigan in his blood feuds class and his book, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Fe ud, Law Review. She currently serves as one of three U.S. special legal advisers Law. and Society in Saga Iceland (1990). He has also written about emo­ to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation and is a member tions, mostly unpleasant ones involving self-assessment. and select vices scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. Prior to joining the Michigan and virtues. Thus his books: The Mystery of Courage (2000). The Anatomy faculty in 1999, Professor Mendelson served for several years as an attorney of Disgust (1997). Humiliation (1993). and Fa king lt (2003). the last of which with the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources deals with anxieties of role, identity, and posturings of authenticity. The Division, litigating and advising with other federal agencies on legislative Anatomy of Disgust was named the best book of 1997 in anthropology/ matters and environmental policy initiatives. She also participated exten­ sociology by the Association of American Publishers. In his most recent book, sively in federal legislative negotiations. Professor Mendelson earned her Eye for an Eye (2006), he returns to matters of revenge and retribution in A.B. in economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard an extended treatment of the law of the University. Her JD. is from Ya le Law School, tal ion. Professor Miller earned his where she was an articles editor of the Ya le BA from the University of Wisconsin Law Journal. Following law school, she and received both a Ph.D. in English clerked for Judge Pierre Leval in the Southern and a J.D. from Yale. He has also District of New York and for Judge John been a visiting professor at Ya le, the Walker Jr, '66, on the Second Circuit. University of Chicago, the University She later served as a fellow to the of Bergen, the University of Tel Senate Committee on Environment Aviv, and Harvard, and in and Public Works and practiced 2008 was the Carnegie law with Heller, Ehrman, White & Centenary Trust McAuliffe of Seattle. Professor at the University of St. Andrews. David Moran Edward A. Parson

n 2000, David Moran, who is a member of the board of directors of the "One of my professors held a dward A. Parson joined the Law School in 2003 in a joint appoint- Michigan Innocence Project helped draft legislation to allow imprisoned special class session on how E ment with the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE). criI minal defendants to petition for testing of DNA evidence in their cases. to find a summer job and His interests include environmental policy, particularly its international

At Michigan, he and Professor Bridget McCormack have co-founded a new another sat down with me dimensions; the political economy of regulation; the role of science and

Innocence Clinic to litigate claims of actual innocence by prisoners in cases individually to help me find technology in law, policy and regulation; and the analysis of negotiations, where DNA evidence is not available. In addition, he teaches courses in that JOb. I e-mailed another collective decisions, and conflicts. His book, Protecting the Ozone Layer·

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Professor Moran has argued five times professor with questions Science and Strategy, won the 2004 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award before the United States Supreme Court. Among his most notable cases are about a research assignment of the International Studies Association. With co-author A. E. Dessler,

Halbert v. Michigan, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Michigan and Within hours I had a Professor Parson is now preparing a second edition of his newest book, law that denied appellate counsel to assist indigent criminal defendants response w1th suggestions The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change Recent articles have who wished to challenge their sentences after pleading guilty. Professor for further research My appeared in Science, Climatic Change, Policy Sciences, Issues in Science

Moran earned his B.S. in physics at the University of experience with the and Technology, and the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment.

Michigan, a B.A., M.A., and a CAS. in mathemat­ Michigan Law faculty has Professor Parson holds degrees in physics (Toronto) and management science ics at Cambridge University, an M.S. in theoretical been exceptional." (British Columbia) as well as a Ph.D. in public physics at Cornell University, and a J.D., magna policy from Harvard. Formerly a professional Poonam Kumar, '07 cum laude, at the Michigan Law School. He classical musician, he has worked for the Associate clerked for the Han. Ralph B. Guy Jr. of the U.S. United Nations Environment Program, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, then served the U.S. Congress Office of Technology New York, New York for eight years as an assistant defender Assessment the Privy Council Office at the State Appellate Defender Office of Canada, and the White House (SADO) in Detroit. Prior to joining Office of Science and Technology Michigan Law in 2008, he was an Policy. In addition, he served on associate professor and the associ­ the NAS Committee on Human ate dean for academic affairs Dimensions of Global Change at Wayne State University Law and on the Synthesis Team School. for the U.S. National Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change 22 Sal lyanne Payton John A. E. Pottow allyanne Payton. the William W. Cook Professor of Law. came to "One of my professors j ohn A. E. Pottow is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Michigan in 1976 from Washington. D.C.. where she was chief counsel collaborated with a group of bankruptcy and commercial law whose scholarship concentrates on the forS the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the US DOT. Prior to us on a unique research issues involved in the regulation of cross-border insolvencies. A frequently that. she served as staff assistant to the President on the Domestic Council project-to help us learn invited lecturer. he has presented his works at academic conferences around staff. In the private sector. she practiced law with Covington & Burling. about the Vot1ng Rights Act the world and has published in prominent legal journals in the United States

Professor Payton's industry specialty is health law. and she has been active and contribute mformation and Canada. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty in 2003. Professor in the effort to reform federal health care financing and regulation. She eventually used by Congress Pottow worked at several bankruptcy firms. including Wei I, Gotshal and currently teaches administrative law and has served as a public member in legislative hearings Manges of New York and the former Hill & Barlow of Boston. His practice and senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States on reauthomat10n. By focused on debtor representation in complex Chapter 11 restructurings. He as well as chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of encouragmg us. connecting was also an active pro bono litigator whose cases included representing a

American Law Schools. Professor Payton holds both B.A. and LL.B. degrees us w1th lawyers in the fi eld, gender-based asylum seeker from Afghanistan in U S Immigration Court and from Stanford University. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public and translating our findings a small bankruptcy party before the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Pottow

Administration and LL.B. degrees from Stanford University for the public. she has trans­ holds an A.B. in psychology, summa cum laude. from Harvard College and formed the meaning of legal a J.D . magna cum laude. from Harvard Law

education for many of us " School. where he served as treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. Pottow clerked for Emma Cheuse. '06 the Rt. Han. Beverly McLachlin, Chief Associate Attorney Justice of Canada. and the Han. Guido Earthjustice Calabresi. U S. Court of Appeals for Washington. D.C. the Second Circuit He is licensed as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario and as an attorney in Massachusetts. In 2005, he received the L. Hart Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching.

23 James J. Prescott Richard Primus

he research and teaching interests of James J Prescott include criminal ichard Primus teaches the history, theory, and law of the United States law, sentencing law and reform, employment law, and torts. Much of his Constitution. His book, The American Language of Rights, shows how workT is empirical in focus. He was a research fellow at Harvard Law School theR concept of rights has changed in response to different conditions at in 2003-04, a special guest at the Brookings Institution (Economic Studies) different times in American history Professor Primus has also written on in Washington, D.C , in 2004-05, and a research fellow at Georgetown equal protection, democratic theory, and the relationship between law and public opinion. His current work explores the role that history and historical University Law Center from 2004 to 2006. Professor Prescott received a argument play in constitutional decision making. Professor Primus graduated double B.A., with honors and distinction in economics and public policy, from from Harvard College with an A.B., summa cum laude, in social studies, then Stanford University in 1996. He earned his J.D , magna cum laude, in 2002 earned a D.Phil. in politics at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and, at from Harvard Law School, where he was treasurer (Vol. 115) and an editor Balliol College, the Jowett Senior Scholar. After graduating from law school of the Harvard Law Review After clerking for Judge Merrick B. Garland at Yale, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit and for on the U.S. Court of Appeals for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Before joining the Law the D.C. Circuit, he went on to School faculty in 2001, he practiced law at the Washington, earn a Ph.D. in Economics at D.C., office of Jenner & Block, where his work included the Massachusetts Institute of voting rights litigation. He has also taught Technology in 2006. at Columbia Law School and at New York University School of Law. Adam C. Pritchard Margaret Jane Radin

dam C. Pritchard, the Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law, argaret Jane Radin, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, teaches teaches corporate and securities law. His research focuses on the role Contracts, Internet Commerce, Patent, and other courses and semi­ ofA class action litigation in controlling securities fraud. Widely published, narsM dealing with property theory, the interaction between property and he is the author of Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis (with Stephen contracts, and the evolution of property and contract in the digital era. She is J. Choi). In addition, his articles have appeared in the Business Lawyer, the author of two books exploring the problems of propertization, Contested Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journalof Finance, Journal of Law, Commodities (Harvard University Press 1996) and Reinterpreting Property and Economics & Organization, along with various law reviews. Professor (University of Chicago Press 1993), as well as co-author of a casebook, Pritchard has been a visiting professor at the Northwestern University School Internet Commerce: the Em erging Legal Fr amework (Foundation Press 2d ed. of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Iowa 2005) Professor Radin has taught at the University of Southern California School of Law. He has also been a visiting scholar at the SEC and a visiting and at Stanford University, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, fellow in capital market studies at the Cato Institute. UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and NYU. During 2006-07, she was the inaugural Professor Pritchard holds B.A. and J.D. degrees Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where from the University of Virginia, as well as an she developed a course in patent law and innovation M.P.P. from the Harris School of Public Policy at policy for engineers and students of public policy. the University of Chicago. After graduation, he In 2008, she became a fellow of the American clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson Ill of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Radin United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth received her A.B. from Stanford, where she Circuit and served as a Bristow Fellow in majored in music, and her M.F.A. in music the Office of the Solicitor General at history from Brandeis University. She the U.S. Department of Justice. was advanced to candidacy for the After working in private practice, Ph.D. in musicology at UC Berkeley he served as senior counsel before she changed her career in the Office of the General path to law and received her J.D. Counsel of the Securities from the University of Southern and Exchange Commission. California in 1976. She remains an avid amateur flutist. "There's nothing quite like Steven R. Ratner learning a legal subject from Donald H. Regan a professor who's helped to

shape it. At the Law School, I teven R. Ratner came to the University of Michigan Law School in 2004 onald H. Regan, the William W. Bishop Jr.Colle giate Professor of took a course on Religious from the University of Texas School of Law. where he was the Albert Law, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the Liberty from Professor SidSney Burleson Professor in Law. In his teaching and research, he focuses UnDiversity of Michigan. He teaches and writes on international trade law, Laycock. probably the on public international law and on challenges facing new governments particularly core issues such as the national treatment obligation and Article nation's leading scholar on and international institutions after the Cold War. including ethnic conflict, XX of the GATI; moral and political philosophy, with a special interest in the religion clauses. You territorial borders. implementation of peace accords, and accountability couldn't help but notice that the theory of the good; and constitutional law, concentrating on federalism for human rights violations. Professor Ratner has written and lectured he was one of the characters issues. Professor Regan has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts extensively on the law of war. and is also interested in the intersection in the story he was telling. and Sciences since 1998. His book, Utilitarianism and Co-operation. shared of international law and moral philosophy and other theoretical issues. In As a lawyer, he argued some the Franklin J Matchette Prize of the American Philosophical Association 1998-99, he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to a three­ of the leading Supreme for 1979-80. Professor Regan is a graduate of person group of experts to consider options for bringing the Khmer Rouge to Court cases 1n the field and justice. A member of the board of editors of the Harvard and the University of Virginia Law helped draft the American Journalof International Law, he was School. He was also a Rhodes Scholar most important a Fulbright Scholar at The Hague There. he at Oxford University, where he earned piece of legislation worked in and studied the office of the OSCE a degree in economics, and he holds a protecting religious freedom. High Commissioner on National Minorities; Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of And as a scholar. his articles served as attorney-adviser in the Office of Michigan. Regan began his academic were cited by judges in the the Legal Adviser. U.S. State Department; teaching career at Michigan in cases we read. " and was an International Affairs 1968. He has been a visiting '08 Fellow at the Council on Foreign Matthew Owen, professor at the University of Relations. Professor Ratner Judicial Clerk to California, Berkeley, the University holds a J.D. from Ya le. an M.A. Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of Virginia, and the University of (dipl6me) from the lnstitut U .S. Court of Appeals for the Zagreb Universitaire de Hautes Tenth Circuit

Etudes ln ternationales Bristow Fellow (Geneva). and an A.B. U.S. Solicitor General's Office from Princeton. 2009-2010

26 Paul D. Reingold Nicholas J. Rine

aul D. Reingold is a clinical professor of law and director of the Michigan "The faculty bnng life to s an experienced trial lawyer. Nicholas J. Rine has tried cases in a

Clinical Law Program's Civil Litigation Clinic. Prior to joining the Law their scholarship by bemg wide variety of state and federal courts and agencies. Since joining

SchoolP faculty in 1983. he served as a legal services attorney, specializing mvolved m the I ife of the theA clinical faculty in 1989. he has taught in the General Civil Clinic. the in cases against the state and federal governments. His primary interests law. One torts professor Child Advocacy Clinic. the Urban Communities Clinic. the Asylum Clinic. the include civil rights litigation. appellate practice, prisoners' rights. and civil managed a tort su1t agamst Women and the Law Clinic. and the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic. He has also procedure. Professor Reingold teaches trial advocacy, litigation ethics. the Michigan Department of taught ethics and negotiation courses. In 2004, he developed a new course negotiation, and clinical law. and is a past recipient of the L. Hart Wright Corrections; one c1vil rights on Law and Development, which connects with students' volunteer work teaching award. He has also taught as a visiting professor of law in Japan professor IS a as interns in developing nations. In addition. he frequently provides training and in Spain. and as a visiting clinical professor at the Boston College Law volunteer attorney for the for new lawyers beginning practice in Legal Services programs. Currently,

School. He has served on the board of directors of the Clinical Law Section of ACLU. one constitutiOnal Professor Rine directs the Law School's Cambodian Law and Development the American Association of Law Schools and was a founding member of the law professor regularly Program in which U-M students, from the Law School and other gradu- editorial board of the Clinical Law Re view Professor Reingold attended Gerry writes am1cus briefs in ate programs. work in Cambodia as interns with human rights NGO's and

Spence's Trial Lawyers College in Wyoming, constitutional law cases. government ministries. He himself has worked in Cambodia as a consultant and has been recognized as a fellow of the The Michigan faculty's for a human rights NGO and has taught at the Royal University of Law and

Michigan State Bar Foundation. He has multi-faceted experience Economics and the Community Legal Education Center in Phnom chaired and is currently a member of the projects mto the classroom Penh on a Fulbright grant. While resident in Cambodia. executive committee of Michigan's and makes for a more he pub I ished a textbook on legal ethics in English

Institute of Continuing Legal comprehensive legal and Khmer. Professor Rine earned bachelors

Education, and he has trained educat1on " and law degrees from Wayne State University. to become a court-approved He served as president of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Amy Y Liu. '02 mediator for alternative dis­ Association in 1985-86. Director. External Relations pute resolution. Professor Public Policy Office of Reingold earned his B.A. at Chairman Amherst College and his Freddie Mac J.D. at Boston University Washington. D.C. Law School.

27 Vivek Sankaran David A. Santacroce

ivek Sankaran is a clinical assistant professor in the Child Advocacy Law avid A. Santacroce, a clinical professor in the Michigan Clinical Law Clinic whose research and writing focuses on the due process rights of Program. teaches in the General Civil Clinic. His primary interest is parentsV and children in child abuse and neglect cases. After law school, impDact litigation focusing on civil rights, particularly healthcare issues. He is Sankaran joined The Children's Law Center (CLC) in Washington. D.C , as a chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Clinical Legal Skadden Fellow to represent child witnesses to domestic violence. becoming Education and serves as a board member of the Clinical Legal Education a permanent staff attorney with the CLC in 2003. He directed the Center's Association. He is also former senior staff attorney for the Sugar Law Center Pro Bono Guardian Ad Litem Project. which recruits and trains volunteer for Economic and Social Justice in Detroit While there. he managed a attorneys from local law firms to represent children in domestic violence and programmatic worker's rights campaign under the Worker Adjustment and child custody cases. Professor Sankaran also carried his own caseload, rep­ Retraining Notification Act in trial and appellate courts throughout the United resenting children. parents. and caregivers in abuse, custody, and domestic States. Professor Santacroce is a founding member, director, officer of, and violence proceedings. His work earned him recognition as the 2004 Michigan general counsel to Equal Justice America, a Law School Public Interest Alumni of the Year and the 2003 South Asian national, nonprofit corporation that provides Bar Association Foundation Outstanding Public Service grants to law students who vo lunteer to Advocate. He has been certified as a child welfare work with organizations providing civil specialist by the National Association of Counsel for legal services to the indigent Professor Children. Professor Sankaran earned his B.A., magna Santacroce received an LL.M. from cum laude, from the College of William and Columbia University School of Law, where Mary and his J.D., cum laude, from the he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone University of Michigan Law School, Scholar. a J.D., cum laude, from where he was an associate editor Pace University School of Law. on the Michigan Law Review. where he was managing editor of the Pace Law Review, and a B.A. from Connecticut College. Carl E. Schneider Anne N. Schroth

arl E. Schneider. the Chauncey Stillman Professor for Ethics. Morality, '"Throughout my years ince joining the Law School in 1997. Clinical Professor of Law Anne and the Practice of Law and a professor of Internal Medicine. teaches as a law student, I was Schroth has been the principal faculty liaison to the Michigan Poverty coursesC on law and medicine. the sociology and ethics of the legal profes­ consistently impressed by LawS Program, the state-supported legal services office operated jointly by sion. family law, and property. He has written extensively in several fields. the diverse interests and the Law School and Legal Services of South Central Michigan. She has among them bioethics. professional ethics. professional education, family activ1t1es of the faculty taught in a variety of clinical settings, including the Poverty Law Clinic, law. and constitutional law. Professor Schneider's more recent publications From drafting restatements the Civil Clinic. and the Domestic Violence Clinic. Most recently, Professor include a casebook (with Marsha Garrison) titled The Law of Bioethics: to argu1ng 111 front of the Schroth has developed a new clinical course. the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic. Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation. He is also the author of The Supreme Court, my profes­ in which students work in a medical/legal collaboration with pediatric health Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors. and Medical Decisions (Oxford sors act1vely shaped the law care providers to develop interdisciplinary strategies for improving the health University Press. 1998) and, with Margaret F. Brinig, an innovative family law The1r mftuence resounds not outcomes of low-income children. She has also taught several non-clinical casebook, An Invitation to Family Law (West. 1996). the second edition of only in the academic realm. courses at the Law School, including the Domestic Violence Litigation which was published in 2000. Professor Schneider was educated at Harvard but also in the day-to-day Seminar and Access to Justice. Prior to joining . College and the University of Michigan Law School. lives of the public .. the Law School faculty, Professor Schroth was where he was editor in chief of the Michigan Law a staff attorney with AYUDA in Washington, Katie Krajeck, '07 Review. He served as law clerk to Judge Carl D C.representing immigrant and refugee Associate McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the victims of domestic violence. She earned Cooley Godward Kronish LLP District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice her BA at the University of Chicago, Phi New York. New York Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Beta Kappa. and served as a student Court. A member of the Law attorney and executive director of School faculty since 1981 . he the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau while has been a visiting professor earning her J.D. at Harvard Law at Cambridge University, the School, cum laude. After clerking University of Tokyo, and for the Hon. Mary Johnson Lowe Kyoto University, and of the U.S. District Court of the has taught for Southern District of New York, many years in she practiced as an associ- Germany. ate with Bernabei & Katz in Washington, D.C. 29 Rebecca J.Scott Gil Seinfeld

ebecca Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of "On any g1ven day, you'll rofessor Gil Seinfeld teaches and writes in the areas of federal courts History and Professor of Law, teaches a seminar on the law in slavery p1ck up the newspaper and and jurisdiction. Immediately prior to joining the Law School faculty, andR freedom as well as a course on the boundaries of citizenship in histori­ read about something mem­ heP was an associate at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & cal perspective. Her book, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba afte r bers of the law faculty have Dorr, where he focused on appellate litigation. Professor Seinfeld's pub­ S/avery (Harvard University Press, 2005). received the Frederick Douglass accomplished From having lications include "The Possibility of Pretext Analysis in Commerce Clause Prize and the John Hope Franklin Prize. Among Professor Scott's recent the1r scholarship cited Ill Adjudication," 78 Notre Dame L. Rev 1251 (2003). and "Waiver-in-Litigation: articles are "Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of Supreme Court opimons to Eleventh Amendment Immunity and the Voluntariness Question," 63 Ohio the Plessy Challenge," the Michigan Law Review, "The Atlantic World and helping w1th community St. L. J 871 (2002). He was the 2006 recipient of the Law School's L. Hart the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson," in the Journalof American History and legal services, you would Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Seinfeld holds an A.B. "Public Rights and Private Commerce: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole be hard pressed to find a in government from Harvard College and earned his J.D., magna cum laude, Itinerary," in Current Anthropology. She is co-author of "Writing Freedom: faculty member who has from Harvard Law School. where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law An African Woman and Her Children in the Era of the Haitian Revolution," not had a significant 1mpact Review He served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Geneses (Paris); "The Right to Have Rights: The far beyond the walls of Scalia of the U.S Supreme Court and Judge Guido Claims-Making of Former Slaves in Cuba," Hutchms Hall." Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Annates (Paris); and "Property in Writing, Circuit. In between these clerkships, he was a tel­ Joshua Deahl, '06 Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land low in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton Appellate Attorney and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, University He is admitted to Public Defender Service for Cuba, 1880-1909," Comparative Studies in the District of Columbia Society and History 44. Professor Scott received Law Clerk to the Honorable an A.B. from Radcliffe College, an M. Phil. in Sandra Day O'Connor economic history from the London School United States Supreme of Economics. and a Ph.D. in history Court 2009 - 2010 from Princeton University. She is a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

30 A.W. Brian Simpson Kimberly Thomas

n expert on the European Convention and on human rights, A. W. Brian For over 30 years rior to joining the Michigan Law School faculty in 2003, Clinical Assistant Simpson is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law. His primary the Law School Professor Kimberly Thomas served as a major trials attorney with the Ainterest is in the historical development of law and legal institutions. In has offered clinical DefenderP Association of Philadelphia. During law school, she worked for the addition to lecturing throughout Europe and the United States, he serves as a programs that NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and spent time with Legal Aid pro bono consultant in cases before the European Court of Human Rights. At focus on the of Cambodia and the Justice Committee of Parliament in Cape Town, South the Law School, Professor Simpson teaches Property, English Legal History, development Africa. Professor Thomas' research, teaching, and practice are focused on and The Boundaries of the Market at the Law School. His books include of expertise in criminal law, especially on sentencing law and practice, indigent persons Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European client counseling, accused of crimes, and prisoner re-entry into the community. Within the Convention; A History of the Common Law of Contract, A Bi ographical discovery, nego­ Michigan Clinical Law Program, she teaches Criminal Law. Professor Thomas Dictionary of the Common Law, Cannibalism and the Common Law: A History tiation and media­ is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland and Harvard Law of the Land. Law. Legal Theory and Legal History, In tion, legal writing, School, where she was editor in chief of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law the Highest Degree Odious. Detention Without and trial skills. Review She clerked for Judge R. Guy Cole at the Sixth Circuit Trial in Wartime Britain; and Leading Cases in Our clinics allow Court of Appeals. In addition to practicing law, she has the Common Law Professor Simpson earned students to assume worked as a newspa­ per reporter, a high school math an M.A. and a Doctorate of Civil Law from the role of prac­ teacher, and taught an undergraduate seminar in Oxford University. He is a fellow (honorary) of ticing attorneys, the economics department while at Harvard. Lincoln College, Oxford, and a fellow of representing real the American Academy of Arts and clients in matters of Sciences and the British Academy. great significance In June 2001, Professor Simpson to the clients' lives. became Honorary Queen's Counsel. He has held profes­ sorships at the University of Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and the University of Ghana.

31 Frank Va ndervort Joseph Vining

rank Vandervort is a clinical assistant professor of law whose primary inter­ oseph Vining, the Harry Burns Hutchins Professor of Law. practiced in ests include child protection. juvenile delinquency, and interdisciplinary j Washington. D.C., and has served with the Department of Justice and practice.F Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, he was program manager with the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of the Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center. In addition. he has served of Justice. He has lectured and written in the fields of legal philosophy, as legal consultant to the University of Michigan School of Social Work's administrative law. corporate law. comparative law, animal law. and Family Assessment Clinic since 1997 and has been a consultant on three fed­ criminal law. Professor Vining is the author of Legal Identity, on the nature erally funded interdisciplinary training programs for child welfare profession­ of the person recognized and constituted by law; The Authoritative and the als: the Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Training Program. the Training Program Authoritarian. on the nature of the person speaking for law and the relation for Public Child Welfare Supervisors. and. currently, the Curriculum for between institutional structure and the real presence of authority; From Recruitment and Retention of Child Welfare Workers. Professor Vandervort is Newton's Sleep, on the legal form of thought and its general implications; a member of the Michigan Child Death Review State Advisory Committee and and The Song Sparrow and the Child. on the place of law and the human the Citizen Review Panel on Child Death. He has served as a consultant to the individual in the modern scientific enterprise. A graduate of Yale University Michigan Judicial Institute. the Office of the Children's Ombudsman. and the and Harvard Law School. Professor Vining also State Court Administrative Office's Permanency holds a degree in history from Cambridge Planning Mediation Program. Professor University. In 1983. he was a senior fellow of the Vandervort received a BA from Michigan National Endowment for the Humanities and. in State University and a J.D. from Wayne State 1997, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. University Law School. Prior to joining the He is a member of the American Academy Michigan faculty, he served as an of Arts and Sciences. adjunct professor of law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where he taught courses in family law and juvenile justice Lawrence W. Waggoner Mark D. West

awrence W. Waggoner. the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at "The M1ch1gan Clinical Law ark D. West. the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Nippon LMichigan. is active in law reform in the field of wills. trusts. and future Program provides client M Life Professor of Law. is the director of the Japanese Legal Studies interests. As the director of research and chief reporter for the Joint Editorial contact experience. an Program at the Law School. His current research focuses on love. sex. and Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts. he was the principal drafter of the mtimate understandmg of marriage in Japanese case law. and on comparative fraud and con artistry.

Uniform Probate Code revisions completed in the 1990s. and is currently c1vil procedure. confidence Professor West is the author of Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, drafting another round of revisions dealing mainly with the treatment of 1n front of a Judge and jury. and Statutes (2005) and Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal children of assisted reproduction. Professor Waggoner currently serves as and close supervision from in Japan and the United States (2006). and serves as editor of The Japanese reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Property (Wills and Other Donative experienced faculty For me. Legal System: Cases, Codes, and Commentary (2006). He has studied and Transfers). an ongoing project. Volume 1 of the new Restatement was pub­ the true benefit has been taught at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, and has been a lished in 1999, and volume 2 appeared in 2003. He is also the co-author of a comb1n1ng these pract1cal Fulbright Research Scholar. an Abe Fellow. and a fellow of the Japan Society casebook and several articles in these fields. Professor Waggoner graduated lessons w1th the opportunity for the Promotion of Science. From 2003-08. he was director of the University from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan Law School. to 1mpact the lives of people of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Professor West earned his B.A.. As a Fulbright Scholar. he earned a doctor of 1 who have traditionally been magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Rhodes College, and philosophy degree from Oxford University. defenseless before the law his J.D. with multiple honors from Columbia University

He later practiced law with Cravath. Swaine -to protect the1r freedoms School of Law. where he was notes and comments editor .. & Moore in New York City, and served as and vindicate the1r rights . for the Columbia Law Review. He clerked for the a captain in the U.S. Army from 1966-68. Han. Eugene H. Nickerson of the U.S. District Court Ryan Roman. '06 Professor Waggoner came to Michigan for the Eastern District of New York. and practiced in the Associate from the University of Virginia in law firm of Paul. Weiss. Rifkind. Wharton Akerman Senterfitt 1974. & Garrison in New York and Tokyo. Miami, Florida

33 James J. White Christina B. Whitman

ames J. White. the Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law. has written on "'The International hristina B. Whitman is the Francis A Allen Collegiate Professor of Law j many aspects of commercial law. His book. Uniform Commercial Code Transaction Clinic is an and a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her (with Summers). is considered to be the most widely recognized treatise on opportunity for hon1ng researchC interests include federal courts. constitutional litigation. torts. and the subject. He is also the author of several casebooks on commercial. bank­ my communication and feminist jurisprudence. with a particular focus on questions of responsibility ruptcy, and banking law. Professor White has served as the reporter for the language skills. applying my and justice as they arise in cultural conflicts. and in the use of legal language Revision of Article 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code and is a member of the knowledge from prev1ous to conceal and reveal responsibility. From 1997 to 2001. Professor Whitman National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He has also law school courses l 1ke served as associate dean for academic affairs for the Law School. In 2008, served on several American Law Institute and NCCUSL committees deal- Contracts and Transnational she was appointed Special Counsel to the Provost for the Policy on Conflicts ing with revision to the Uniform Commercial Code. He received the L. Hart Law. and learnmg how to of Interest/Conflicts of Commitment. A former editor in chief of the Michigan Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2001-02 and the Homer Kripke conduct negotiations and Law Re view. Professor Whitman holds three degrees from the University Achievement Award. given by the American College of Commercial Finance draft cruc1al documents of Michigan. including a law degree and a graduate degree in Chinese Lawyers. Professor White earned his B.A.. needed 1n cross-border literature. She joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1976, after magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, transactions. " serving as law clerk to Judge Harold Leventhal from Amherst College and his J D .. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Nicole Lonsway, 3L Order of the Coif. from the University and to Justice Lewis Powell of the Supreme A.B .. University of Michigan of Michigan Law School. He prac­ Court of the United States. ticed privately in Los Angeles before beginning his academic career at the University of Michigan in 1964.

34 Christine M. Chinkin

hristine Chinkin is a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and an inter­ nationaC lly respected scholar of public international law, alternative dispute resolution, international criminal law, human rights, especially women's human rights. and the intersection of feminist jurisprudence and interna­ tional law. She is the author of Third Parties in International Law (OUP.19 93) and co-author of Dispute Resolution in Australia (Butterworths, 2nd edition 2002) and The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (MUP, 2000). which was awarded the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. In 2006, she received the Hilary Charlesworth the Galer T Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law for services to human rights. Professor Chinkin received an LL.B. with honors from the University of London; an LL.M. from the University of London; a second LL.M. from Yale University; and a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. Formerly dean of the law faculty at the University of Southampton, she has lectured on international law and international human rights at the National University of Singapore. Hong Kong University Law School, the International Law Institute of China, the European University Institute, Columbia University, and the University of Southhampton. J. Christopher McCrudden Bruno E. Simma

verseas Affiliated Professor of Law J Christopher McCrudden is a fellow "The affiliated overseas nternational Court of Justice Judge Bruno Simma first came to the Law 0 and tutor in law at Lincoln College, Oxford; a professor of human rights faculty program bnngs School in 1986 as a visiting professor. From 1987 to 1992. he held a joint law in the University of Oxford; and a non-practicing barrister-at-law (Gray's preeminent i nternational­ faI culty appointment while also serving on the UN Committee on Economic, Inn) Specializing in human rights (international. European and compara- law figures to Ann Arbor, Social and Cultural Rights, and as vice president of the German Society of tive). he concentrates on issues of equality and discrimination as well as where they are accessible International Law. In 1995, Simma was both a visiting professor at the Law the relationship between international economic law and human rights. At to students. When I was School and a lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law Since the Michigan Law School. Professor McCrudden teaches in the areas of looking for a human rights 1997, he has been a member of the Law School's Affiliated Overseas Faculty. international, European, and comparative human rights. He is the author mternship, Professor Simma Professor Simma has served as dean of the Munich Faculty of Law, as a

of Buying Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2007). a book about the put me m touch w1th the member of the UN International Law Commission, and as director of the relationship between public procurement. and serves on the editorial boards High Commiss1on for Human Institute of International Law at the University of Munich. He has also been of several journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the R1ghts 1n Geneva, and I co-agent and counsel in cases before the International Court of Justice and International Journalof Discrimination and the Law, secured a position; when has provided expertisefor conflict prevention activities of the UN Secretary and the Journalof International Economic Law. I was writing my student General. A member of the Court of Arbitration A co-editor of the Law in Context series, he note, Professor McCrudden in Sports of the International Olympic serves on the European Commission's Expert talked to me about potential Committee, Professor Simma is co-founder Network on the Application of the Gender topics for over an hour At and co-editor of the European Journalof Equality Directives and is a scientific director of many schools, 1t IS difficult InternationalLaw as well as co-founder the European Commission's network of experts to spend five minutes w1th of the European Society of International on nondiscrimination. Professor professors of that caliber." Law In 2003, he was admitted McCrudden holds an LLB. from to the prestigious lnstitut de Jason Morgan-Foster, '05 Queen's University, Belfast, an Droit International. Associate Leg a I Officer LLM. from Ya le, and a D. Phil. International Court of from Oxford In addition, Queen's Justice University, Belfast, awarded him The Hague an honorary LLD. in 2006.

36 Edward R. Becker

rior to joining the academy, Edward R. (Ted) Becker was a litigator with Dickinson Wright in Lansing, specializing in telecommunications arbitra­ tionsP and other administrative agency proceedings. He also has substantial appellate experience in general corporate litigation, both with Dickinson Wright and as a sole practitioner. Before joining the Law School faculty as a clinical assistant professor in the fall of 2000, he served as an adjunct professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, teaching an upper-level course in litigation skills, including discovery and motion practice, as well as the practical business aspects of law firm operation. Professor Becker has contributed to articles published in the Michigan Defense Quarterly and the Public Corporation Law Quarterly, ranging in subjects from employment liability insurance to a continuing survey of statutory devel­ opments in the area of municipal finance. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and an articles editor of the University of Illinois Law Review. Howard Bromberg Rachel Croskery-Roberts

award Bromberg teaches in the Legal Practice Program. where he also "The Legal Practice acheI Croskery-Roberts is the assistant director of the Law School's Legal

taught from 1996 to 2000. Prior to returning to the Michigan Law School, Program at Michigan Practice Program. which she joined in 2002. Prior to that. she worked heH was associate professor of law and director of Clinical and Professional developed my writing skills asR an associate in the Labor and Employment Department with Baker Botts Skills Programs at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor. He has by teaching me how to be LLP in Dallas. She is an associate editor for the Journal of the Legal Writing published over 50 articles and entries on subjects in law, legal history, clear and concise-two Institute. In July 2007, Professor Croskery-Roberts presented "Telling Stories and biography. From 2001-03, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law qualities that are highly to a Jury" with Grace Tonner at the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference

School, where he helped establish the university's new First-Year Lawyering valued by Judges and law in London. England. Her article on the theory and practice of using teaching

Program and served as its associate director. Professor Bromberg has also firms. Comb1ned w1th the assistants in law school, co-authored with Professor Ted Becker. appeared taught at Chicago and Stanford Law Schools. Before entering the academy, trammg I rece1ved 1n legal in the Journalof the Legal Writing Institute. She is a member of both the he practiced law as an assistant district attorney in the Appeals Bureau of research and analysis. I State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association. Professor Croskery­ the New York County District Attorneys Office and as legislative counsel was well prepared for my Roberts earned her BA at the University of Oklahoma. summa cum laude to Congressman Thomas Petri of Wisconsin. Professor Bromberg received judicial clerkship and life and Phi Beta Kappa, and received her JD. from the University of Michigan. his B.A and JD. degrees from Harvard Law School and his J.S.M degree as an associate." magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. graduating in the top five percent of from Stanford Law School. He serves on her class. While in law school. she served as note editor for Eric R. Goodman, '02 the advisory committee of the State of the Michigan Journal of InternationalLaw and was Associate Michigan Moot Court Competition. a member of the Michigan Journalof Gender and Baker & Hostetler. LLP which he chaired in 2005-06 when he Law She clerked for the Han. Janis Graham Jack Cleveland, Ohio directed the annual competition. of the U.S. District Court. Southern District of Texas.

38 Paul H. Falon Mark Osbeck

efore joining the Legal Practice Program in August 2005 as a clinical "My Legal Pract1ce efore accepting a faculty position with the Michigan Law School in assistant professor. Paul H. Falon worked in private practice for more professor provided spec1fic 2001. Mark Osbeck litigated sophisticated commercial cases for a thanB 20 years. As a partner at Fried. Frank. Harris. Shriver & Jacobson. in feedback on each paper numB ber of years. first in Washington. D.C .. and later in Denver. Colorado. Washington. D.C. and New York. and. before that. at Manatt. Phelps & that covered everything Formerly a partner with two major law firms. he has extensive trial and Phillips in Washington. he represented insurers. reinsurers. agents and from Citation format and deposition experience and has argued before a number of state and federal brokers. Internet markets. investment banks and other financial institutions. word cho1ce to how I had courts. including the U.S. Court of Appeals (1Oth Circuit). Professor Osbeck's holding companies. creditors. commercial insureds. nonprofit organizations. structured an argument or most recent publication is "Damage Caps: Recent Trends in American To rt state insurance regulators. and other participants in the insurance industry arguments I had failed to Law." which appeared in the Comparative Law Yearbook of International in a broad variety of regulatory, corporate. financial. litigation. administra­ address. This kind of sus­ Bu siness (Kiuwer Law Int. 2005). His research interests include legal writing, tive. and legislative matters. Professor Falon is admitted to practice in tained personal feedback legal research. and tort reform. Professor Osbeck New York. the District of Columbia. and before the U.S. Supreme Court and has greatly improved my received an A.B.. with high distinction. from other federal courts. He is a member of the facility in legal thinking and the University of Michigan. an MA (in phi­ editorial review board of The Journal of argument. as well as in losophy) from the John Hopkins University, Insurance Regulation. He received his legal writing " and a J.D .. cum laude. from the University B.A.. M.A.. and J.D. degrees from the of Michigan Law School. While attending Melina K. Williams. '07 University of Michigan. In addition to Johns Hopkins. he received a University Associate classes in legal practice. he has taught Fellowship. the top departmental Faegre and Benson a mini-seminar on insurance issues for award. In law school. he was Minneapolis. Minnesota corporate lawyers. awarded certificates of merit for Former Law Clerk to Judge legal writing and political phi­ Diana E. Murphy losophy, and was a note editor U S Court of Appeals for the Michigan Journal of for the Eighth Circuit Law Reform. Following his Minneapolis. Minnesota graduation from law school. 2007-2008 he served as a judicial clerk for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles L. Levin.

39 Thomas H. Seymour Beth Wilensky

n experienced mediator and commercial arbitrator, Thomas H. Seymour "The Legal Practice profes­ eth Hirschfelder Wilensky is a clinical assistant professor in the Law has practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Csaplar & Bok in Boston. sors at the Law School are School's Legal Practice Program. Prior to joining the faculty, she spent AHe has also served as editor of the American Bar Association's Dispute emmently qualified. My fiveB years as an associate in the litigation section at Akin Gump Strauss Resolution Magazine and was a law faculty scholar at the Straus Institute summer employers were Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, D.C. Her practice consisted primarily of for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor stunned at the qual1ty of the appellate work and administrative law matters, and included appeals before Seymour has been a Continuing Legal Education presenter on legal practice work I did, pnmarily because the D.C. Circuit and the Federal Circuit. Actively engaged in pro bono work, and has served as editor of Legal Writing: the Journalof the Legal Writing they did not expect th1s cali­ she served as lead trial counsel in a successful four-day termination of a Institute. His published works include articles on scope-of-employment ber of work from a first-year parental rights case in D.C. Superior Court. Professor Wilensky earned her standards, the proper use of legal citations, and the treatment of student student I kept a notebook of B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was loans in bankruptcy. Prior to joining assignments and examples a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. She received her J.D., cum laude, at Harvard the Michigan Law School faculty in from the class and took 1t to Law School, where she served as articles editor for the Harvard Journalon 1996 as a clinical assistant pro­ work. At some point dunng Legislation. While in law school, fessor within the Legal Practice the summer, I used each she worked as a teaching fellow Program, he was a member type of wntmg we had cov­ in Harvard College and was of the faculties of the Harvard ered in class. Other summer among the top 15 percent of Business School, Boston College associates, not from the teaching fellows recognized Law School, and Suffolk University of M ichigan, even with the Harvard University University Law School. borrowed my notebook and Certificate of Distinction Professor Seymour used it to help them write in Teaching.

holds a B.A. from the the1r ass1gnments." University of Nebraska, Michael A. Satz, '00 an M.A. from Simon Associate Professor Fraser University, and a University of Idaho College J.D. from Harvard Law of Law School.

40 Saul A. Green

au I A. Green is the Deputy Mayor of the City of Detroit. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Mayor he was senior counsel and member ofS Mi ller Canfield's Criminal Defense Group, and Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group, with a specialty in alternative dispute resolution. white collar crime and high profile litigation. Professor Green was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan by former President William J. Clinton. and served in that capacity from May 1994 to May 2001 . During his many years of public service. he has held the posi­ tions of Wayne County Corporation Counsel; Chief Counsel. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Detroit Field Office; and Assistant United States Attorney. He completed service as the Independent Monitor overseeing implementation of police reforms in Cincinnati. Ohio. He received his law degree in 1972 from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. in pre-legal stud­ ies in 1969, also from the University of Michigan. Alison Hirschel Sal ly Katzen Dyk

lison Hirschel serves as the elder law attorney at the Michigan Poverty "As a b1ologist, I've stud1ed ally Katzen Dyk served for almost eight years in the Clinton administra­ Law Program, a statewide back-up center for legal services programs, at many of the world's 'pre­ tion, first as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory whereA her practice includes litigation, legislative and administrative mier' institutions. McGill, AffairsS in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), then Deputy advocacy, and professional and community education efforts. In addition, Harvard, University of Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the Professor Hirschel is counsel to and statewide coordinator of the Michigan Edinburgh, Columbia-and National Economic Council in the White House, and finally as the Deputy Campaign for Quality Care, a grassroots consumer group seeking better yet, at Michigan Law, I've Director for Management at OMB. Before that, Professor Katzen Dyk was quality and choices in long term care, and also serves as counsel to the found a scope and detai I of a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program She is president of the National discourse unparalleled to specializing in regulatory and legislative matters. While in private practice, Consumer Vo ice for Long Term Care in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the anywhere I have been or, she was also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center as well as Michigan Law faculty in 1997, she worked at Community Legal Services perhaps, will go to yet" president of the Federal Communications Bar Association and president of in Philadelphia as a staff attorney, co-director of the Elderly Law Project, the Women's Legal Defense Fund. She is a fellow in the National Academy Jake Sherkow, 3L and finally as deputy director. From 1991-97, she taught elder law at the of Public Administration. Professor Katzen Dyk graduated magna cum laude AB , McGi ll University University of Pennsylvania. Professor from Smith College and magna cum laude from the University MA, Columbia University Hirschel received her B.A. from the of Michigan Law School, where she was the first woman University of Michigan and her J.D. editor in chief of the Michigan Law Review. Following from Yale Law School. She clerked graduation, she clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the for the Hon. Joseph S. Lord Ill United States Court of Appeals for the District of in the U S District Court for the Columbia Circuit. She also served in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Carter administration for two years as general counsel of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President.

42 Judith E. Levy Mark D. Rosenbaum

udith E. Levy is director of the Law School's Public Interest/Public Service "I knew when I decided to ark D. Rosenbaum. the Henry J. Gunderson Professor from Practice, j Faculty Fellows and an assistant United States attorney in the Eastern enroll at Mich1gan Law that is legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Los Angeles. District of Michigan. where she has worked since 2000. She also served as I was givmg up (or at least whereM he has worked since 1974. His areas of expertise include race, a trial attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in postponing) an exciting gender. poverty and homelessness. education. voting rights, workers' rights. Detroit before assuming a position with the Department of Justice. Professor career as a JOurnalist at immigrants' rights, the First Amendment. and criminal trials. He has argued Levy specializes in large civil rights cases. including fair housing. fair lend­ CNN When I was decidmg on three occasions before the U.S. Supreme Court. and has frequently ing, police misconduct. juvenile justice, and disability law. She has received between law schools. 1t appeared before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. the California Supreme numerous awards from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division for was important for me to Court. and the Court of Military Appeals. Professor Rosenbaum began teach­ her work on fair housing cases and was a 2004 recipient of a Department find a place where I could ing at Michigan in 1993. He has also taught at UCLA Law School. University of Justice Director's Award for work on other civil rights investigations and study the law not as an of Southern California Law Center. and Loyola Law School. and has lectured cases. At the Law School, she team-teaches seminars on Selected Problems 1solated subject. but rather at Harvard and Duke. The recipient of in Policing, Fair Housing, and Diversity Professor Levy received her B.S. in connect1on with my numerous awards and commendations. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the Michigan Law School. other interests and pas­ he is regularly selected as one of the Following her clerkship with U.S. District Judge Sions. M 1ch1gan. with its most influential lawyers in California. Bernard A. Friedman in Detroit, Michigan, she was outward-looking approach and recently was named as California an elected union official and chief negotiator for and Interdisciplinary fac­ Attorney of the Year in the area of the service and maintenance employees at the ulty, course offenngs, and civil rights. Professor Rosenbaum University of Michigan for eight years. student groups, offered me received his BA from the that opportunity. It's a b1g University of Michigan and a J.D. reason why I'm here. " from Harvard Law School. where he was vice president of the Stefan Atkinson. 3L Harvard Legal Aid Bureau AB . Harvard University

43 David M. Uhlmann Mark Va n Putten

avid M. Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and the ark Van Putten has 25 years of experience in environmental inaugural director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program. His policymaking and nonprofit organization leadership at the interna­ research,D writing, and advocacy interests include criminal and civil enforce­ tional,M national, regional, and local level. He is founder and president of ment of environmental laws, Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act jurispru­ ConservationStrategy® LLC, an environmental strategy and organizational dence, international environmental treaties, and efforts to address global development consulting firm based in the Washington, D.C., area. The firm's climate change. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Uhlmann served for client list includes the Federal Highway Administration, The Aspen Institute, seven years as chief of the U.S Department of Justice Environmental Crimes the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment, the Section, where he was the top environmental crimes prosecutor in the Wege Foundation, and other national foundations with significant environ­ United States. In that capacity, he led an office of approximately 40 prosecu­ mental grant making programs. Prior to founding ConservationStrategy in tors responsible for the prosecution of environmental and wildlife crimes 2003, Professor Van Putten spent over 20 years on the staff of the National nationwide, coordinated national legislative, policy, and training initiatives Wildlife Federation (NWF). America's largest membership-based environ­ regarding criminal enforcement, and chaired the Justice Department's mental group, including nearly eight years as president Environmental Crimes Policy Committee. and CEO. Earlier, he founded and led NWF's Great Previously, he served for seven years Lakes regional office and the University of as a trial attorney and senior trial Michigan's Environmental Law Clinic. Professor attorney and for three years as an Van Putten graduated magna cum laude from assistant chief in the Environmental the Michigan Law School. He has taught Crimes Section. He was the lead pros­ courses and seminars on environmental law ecutor in United States v. Elias, as and policy at the University of Michigan chronicled in Th e Cyanide Canary Law School and the School of Natural (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Resources & Environment On the 30th Professor Uhlmann received a anniversary of the Clean Water Act, BA in history with high honors he was named one of 30 American from Swarthmore College and "Clean Water Heroes," and a J.D. from Ya le Law School. was recently selected to serve He clerked for U.S. District Court on President Barack Obama's Judge Marvin H. Shoob in Atlanta, transaction team. Georgia. Barry A. Adelman

s a senior partner at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP. New York. New York. Barry A. Adelman represents and counsels domestic and Ainternational clients in a broad range of activities, including mergers and acquisitions, issuances of equity and debt securities (both public and pri­ vate placements). formation and structuring of domestic and international corporations. partnerships. limited liability companies and joint ventures. project financings, secured loan transactions. agreements for the acquisi­ tion, construction, and maintenance of communications systems. He has represented various clients in the formation of joint ventures for telecom­ munications transactions (and the subsequent acquisitions and dispositions of telecommunications systems) in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia. Africa. Iceland. South America, and the Caribbean. He also represents and advises individuals and families in connection with business and financial transactions as well as personal matters. Professor Adelman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received his law degree from the University of Michigan. Deborah Burand Timothy L. Dickinson

eborah Burand directs the Law School's International Transactions "I did soc1al JUStice work for imothy L. Dickinson is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Paul, Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty, she worked for seven years in the many years before returnmg Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.where his practice is devoted pri­ micrDofinance sector, most recently as executive vice president of strategic to school, so I know how Tmarily to international commercial matters. Previously, he practiced with services at Grameen Foundation, a global microfinance network. In addition 1mportant it is to have good Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, also of Washington, D.C., and for two years was to co-founding Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM) International, she guidance and support. The partner-in-charge of the firm's office in Brussels. As an adjunct professor he sits on the investment committee of a $75 million microfinance investment Public Interest Fellows teaches the International Transaction Clinic as well as Transnational Law fund managed by Deutsche Bank, and on the advisory council of MicroVest. program offers students and International Commercial Transactions, and also serves on the board of a specialized fund investing in microfinance. Earlier in her career, Professor access to experienced men­ the Center tor International and Comparative Law. Professor Dickinson has Burand worked as a senior attorney in the international banking section tors, as well as to different chaired the ABA Committees on European Law and Foreign Claims and the of the Federal Reserve Board's legal division, and at the U.S. Treasury strategies for effective ABA Section of International Law and Practice. He has served on the execu- Department, first as senior attorney/adviser for international monetary advocacy. It's great to be tive council of the American Society of International matters and later as senior adviser for international financial matters. She around people with energy, Law and is currently on the advisory board of the also spent nearly seven years as an international well-articulated viewpoints, International Law Institute. He also chairs the corporate attorney at Shearman & Sterling, a law and commitment to public ABA's worldwide technical legal assis­ firm in New York. She is a member of the bars interest work." tance activities with the UN Development of New York and the District of Columbia. Programme. Professor Dickinson received Jennifer Hill, '07 In 1993-1994, Professor Burand was an both his B.A. and J D. from the University of Staff Attorney/ International Affairs Fellow of the Council Michigan. Following law school, he earned Skadden Fellow on Foreign Relations and is currently a his LL.M. as a Jervey Fellow at Columbia Florida Immigrant Advocacy member of the Council. She earned her University. He also studied at the Center B.A., cum laude, from Depauw University Hague Academy of International Miami, Florida and a joint graduate degree. J.D/ Law in the Netherlands and M.S.F.S. with honors. from Georgetown L'Universite d'Aix-Marseille University. in France, and spent a brief period as an extern in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

46 Karl E. Lutz

arl E. Lutz was formerly a senior partner with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, but now focuses on teaching and other outside interests. While at Kirkland,K he practiced corporate law, specializing in private equity, venture capital. leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions. debt and equity financings, and board representations. He also served on the firm's senior management committee for a number of years. Professor Lutz has lectured on numerous occasions at graduate law and business schools. including Northwestern Law School, and has served as general counsel of a public company. At the Law School, he has taught courses in business transactions, private equity and entrepreneurial transactions. law firms and legal careers. and professional responsibility. Professor Lutz is a graduate of Ya le College and the University of Michigan Law School.