Georgetown Law Magazine (2019 Fall-Winter)
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FALL/WINTER 2019 The Vision for Georgetown Law GEORGETOWN LAW Fall/Winter 2019 ANN W. PARKS, Esq. (G’14, LL.M.’16) Editor BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design INES HILDE Associate Director of Design MIMI KOUMANELIS Executive Director of Communications TANYA WEINBERG Director of Media Relations and Deputy Director of Communications RICHARD SIMON Director of Web Communications JACLYN DIAZ Communications and Social Media Manager BEN PURSE Senior Video Producer JERRY COOPER Communications Associate CONTRIBUTORS Julie Bourbon, Barbara Grzincic, Melanie D.G. Kaplan, Greg Langlois, Sara Piccini, Abby Reecer, Mark Smith, Anna Louie Sussman MATTHEW F. CALISE Director of Alumni Affairs GENE FINN Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations WILLIAM M. TREANOR Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs Front and back cover photos: Brent Futrell Contact: Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 [email protected] Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2019, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved. Orientation 2019 During Orientation 2019, faculty and staff guided some of Georgetown Law’s new first-year students to many locations around the city including the Washington, D.C., offices of Microsoft, the Library of Congress and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Professor Robert Thompson, above, led 1Ls on a jog around the National Mall. Photo Credit: Brent Futrell. 2019 Fall/Winter 1 INSIDENEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE / 6 / 12 Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Welcomes 1Ls Know Your Power Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg came to Georgetown House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Law to address the newest entering class — and received a t-shirt Gates Jr. addressed some of Georgetown Law’s 2019 graduates in from the Class of 2022. Hart Auditorium in the week leading up to Commencement. /23 /30 State Courts Matter Superblock! The Vision for Georgetown Law Georgetown Law’s Center for the Constitution hosted the inaugural Georgetown Law is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2020 with a Cooley Lecture and awarding of the Cooley Book Prize in April. fabulous new purchase — a building to expand the existing campus. 2 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS / 38 / 66 Going Global: 21st Century Legal Questions Commencement 2019 Since its first class in 1870 — which included student Joseph I. At the Law Center’s 147th Commencement on May 19, New York Rodrigues, from Cuba — Georgetown Law has evolved as the place to Solicitor General Barbara Underwood (L’69) and Judge Emmet G. be for international law. Sullivan received honorary degrees. 04/ Thoughts from the Dean 06/ News 30/ Feature: Superblock! The Vision for Georgetown Law 38/ Feature: Going Global: 21st Century Legal Questions 62/ Campus 88/ Alumni 100/ Class Notes / 77 Faculty Georgetown Law’s annual Teaching & Scholarship Luncheon honored the full-time and adjunct Law Center faculty who are making an impact. 2019 Fall/Winter 3 NEWSTHOUGHTS / CONVINCING FROM THE DEAN EVIDENCE \ Superblock! The Vision for Georgetown Law As we approach our 150th The other major development on our campus is that we Anniversary next year, have renamed our “Tower Green” to honor longtime Georgetown now has a law Georgetown Law Professor and Representative Elea- campus of a size and beauty nor Holmes Norton (D.-D.C.). Representative Norton is that was unimaginable a giant in the law and a personal hero of mine. I was when McDonough Hall joined by the Congresswoman, Mayor Bowser and opened in 1971. This issue of President DeGioia as we re-dedicated the Green as the the magazine highlights two Eleanor Holmes Norton Green in a wonderful ceremony exciting developments in that paid tribute to the Congresswoman’s path-breaking the evolution of our campus. career. You can read about the dedication on page 34. The recent $10.5 million I am also pleased to let you know that “Library Quad,” gift of Scott K. Ginsburg (L’78) — the largest gift in the the green space between McDonough and the Edward Law Center’s history — supported the University’s Bennett Williams Law Library, will soon be dedicated purchase of the building at 500 First Street, NW. With to the late Dean Paul R. Dean. Dean Dean has a preem- this acquisition, the campus now encompasses an entire inent place in the history of our school and, in addition superblock: from Massachusetts Avenue to New Jersey to his other achievements, he was primarily responsible Avenue and First Street, to E Street and back to Massa- for bringing the Law Center from E Street to the Mc- chusetts Avenue. This great campus is a superb home Donough Building. You will be able to read about the to our 2800 students, more than 140 full-time faculty, rededication of the Library Quad in his honor in a future and more than 700 adjunct faculty. The new building will issue. This issue, however, discusses another part of contain centers and institutes from Georgetown Law as Dean Dean’s legacy: the academic chair that was estab- well as from other parts of the university. Their place- lished to commemorate him. At the end of her historic ment in the same building will allow interdisciplinary tenure, Dean Judy Areen was named the first holder of work on a scale we have never seen at Georgetown, the chair, and I was recently honored to be named the and I am particularly delighted by the shared work in second. In the future, the incumbent dean of the Law the technology area that the building will facilitate. The Center will hold the Dean Leadership Chair. You can read Law Center now has 19 faculty who work in the tech- about the announcement on page 8. nology area and offers more than 70 courses, a depth unmatched in legal education. In 500 First, our faculty In addition to the campus developments, as we prepare will be working with computer scientists, as well as to celebrate our 150th, we are mindful of the continuities philosophers and public policy faculty who are address- in our scholarship and mission that have shaped our ing critical new issues raised by technological change. history. One is our commitment to understanding law in The new building will make possible vitally important a global context, and our scholarship continues to tackle interdisciplinary work in a host of areas, and you will be the most important global challenges of our time. A able to learn more when you see our story on page 30. snapshot of some of the issues that are currently being The acquisition of the new building and the planning for addressed by our international faculty — from human the interdisciplinary work that will take place there are rights and migration, to climate change and trade — ap- signal achievements in our history. pears in a story on page 38. 4 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS The successes reflected in this issue of the magazine would not be possible without Georgetown Law continues your support. Each of the past four years has been one of the four most successful to grow and thrive at its in our history, and this past year was the best ever — as our alumni community, downtown location, just foundations and friends contributed a record-breaking $40 million in gifts and pledg- blocks from the U.S. Capitol es, shattering the previous year’s record of $30 million. In addition to the Scott Gins- and the Supreme Court. burg gift and the historic support we have received for our faculty, we received an The campus now includes, outpouring of support aimed at providing access to a Georgetown legal education to from left, the Eric E. Hotung International Law Building; all students, regardless of their ability to afford tuition. Our Opportunity Scholarship the Scott K. Ginsburg Program has raised $17.8 million in just four years, in support of high merit-high Sport & Fitness Center; the need students, and our Annual Fund raised an unprecedented $9.4 million in cash Edward Bennett Williams gifts and pledges this past year, almost all dedicated to financial aid. Law Library; the Bernard S. and Sarah M. Gewirz Our entire community should take pride in what we’ve accomplished. The 2020-21 Student Center; the Bernard academic year will kick off Georgetown Law’s 150th Anniversary celebrations. We P. McDonough Hall; and the will be ramping up our fundraising efforts as we prepare to celebrate 150 years of new building at 500 First excellence and continue to build on our deep commitment to service and social jus- Street. tice. Our motto, “Law is but the means, justice is the end,” guides us as we prepare for a future of even greater impact. I am proud of our historic successes and look forward eagerly to what we will achieve in the years ahead. William M. Treanor Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs 2019 Fall/Winter 5 NEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE / NEWS Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped to welcome Georgetown Law’s 1L class in September. She also visited the Law Center in July. Photo Credit: Hilary Schwab. 6 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS SUPREME COURT Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Welcomes 1Ls From left: Nina Pillard, Katie Gibson, Joan Biskupic (L’93, H’14), Elizabeth Wydra (LL.M.’09), Fatima Goss Graves. Right: Justice Ginsburg. or the fourth year in a row, Su- start a legal career, or a more inspiring H’14) moderated a panel that included preme Court Justice Ruth Bader way, than to hear from Justice Ginsburg.” Judge Cornelia (“Nina”) Pillard of the Ginsburg came to Georgetown Law The justice spoke of some of the U.S.