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22 42 SHOULD LAW FUTURE, TENSE SCHOOL AT BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK COLUMBIA BE Columbia Law School’s THREE YEARS? Center for Climate Change BY DAVID M. SCHIZER Law, and its Environmental Yes, but only if the second Law Clinic, provide and third years of law upper-year students with school are done right. At an opportunity to be at Columbia Law School, the the forefront of efforts upper-year curriculum to ensure that the city, benefits from unmatched country, and world are connections to the legal better prepared for future profession, interdisciplinary disasters caused by the expertise, and a focus effects of climate change. on comparative and international law. The result 46 is a wealth of opportunities DEEP DIVISIONS that makes a three-year BY PAULA SPAN law school education the Richard R.W. Brooks, who best option for students. joined the faculty this past summer, brings to 26 Columbia Law School a THREE MOVES unique blend of scholarly AHEAD interests and fields of BY AMY FELDMAN expertise. His latest work, Upper-year students which examines the studying corporate and history and lasting impact business law at Columbia of racially restrictive Law School benefit from covenants, picks up on an array of innovative and a theme that appears creative course offerings again and again in his that reflect the specific scholarship: how people demands placed on interact around differences. modern practitioners. 36 HOW MUCH SHOULD WE KNOW? BY ELISE JORDAN At Columbia Law School, upper-year students examining the legal dimensions of government secrecy and transparency quickly come to realize that this is one area of the law where easy answers are extremely hard to come by.

KEEPING FOCUS BY ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN Students working with Professors James S. Liebman, Katharina Pistor, and Susan P. Sturm become experts in using their legal training and problem-solving skills to improve previously intractable situations. 32 14 departments

5 14 18 19 20 NEWS & EVENTS SEE ALSO SETTING THE BAR FACULTY FOCUS PROFILES IN Roxane Cassehgari, Lori Fisler Damrosch First Amendment, SCHOLARSHIP Rohan Grey, Lelise Philip Hamburger David Pozen Gobena, Matthew Lemle Amsterdam

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54 THE DIFFERENCE 60 HYDRAULIC 92 MAKER FRACTURING IN MEMORIAM BY AISHA LABI BY THOMAS W. Throughout the course MERRILL AND 96 of a wide-ranging and DAVID M. SCHIZER QUESTIONS distinguished legal A sound regulatory PRESENTED career, Minna Schrag ’75 strategy will be MICHAEL A. CARDOZO ’66 has shown that private critical to managing practice and public environmental risks in service are anything the process of achieving but mutually exclusive. the economic and geopolitical benefits 56 THE MULTITASKER associated with BY PETER KIEFER hydraulic fracturing. For litigation expert Edward Soto ’78, the practice of law has helped open up doors for meaningful philanthropic work in the Miami community.

58 THE INNOVATOR BY SETH STEVENSON TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers ’79 has turned a lifelong THE EDUCATOR love for television into BY TIM FERNHOLZ a personal mission to Eric Eisner ’73, the ensure that TV viewing founder of the Young becomes a more Eisner Scholars program, enjoyable experience. is helping students from the roughest neighborhoods reach their full potential.

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“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas extends a 35-year string of cases, starting with Bakke and extending through Gratz and Grutter, in which the Court has upheld or refused to invalidate diversity as a compelling state interest in college admissions.” —Professor Theodore M. Shaw Exclusives 12 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINe fALL 2013 READ ADDITIONAL 509_txt 12 8/14/13 11:11 AM WEB-ONLY PROFILES AND ARTICLES Listen In DOWNLOAD PODCASTS OF LAW SCHOOL EVENTS

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DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR. AND MORTON L. JANKLOW Verrilli & Janklow Receive Medal

PROFESSOR ANTHEA ROBERTS for Excellence Law School Literary agent Morton L. Janklow ’53 and U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Welcomes Verrilli, Jr. ’83 received the Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence, the Law School’s highest honor, at the 2013 Winter Luncheon. More than 300 graduates, Anthea Roberts faculty, and friends—including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. ’76 and to Faculty Judge Jack B. Weinstein ’48, both past recipients of the award—gathered at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City for the ceremony. The Medal for Excellence is given annually to graduates and faculty International law members who embody the qualities of character, intellect, and professional expert Anthea Roberts responsibility that the Law School strives to instill in its students. David M. joined the Columbia Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law; Harvey R. Miller Law School faculty this past summer. Professor of Law and Economics, praised this year’s honorees for being “Anthea’s scholarship powerful examples of the Law School’s influence on the world. in investment treaty Janklow co-founded the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 1977. law and arbitration, and international dispute He also endowed the Morton L. Janklow Chair in Literary and Artistic Property resolution, has been Law at Columbia Law School and founded the Morton L. Janklow Program recognized by ASIL, for Advocacy in the Arts at Columbia University. Upon accepting his award, The Starr Foundation, Janklow discussed how the Law School prepared him for his future career. and the Fulbright Scholar Program,” “I quickly learned the lessons of self-discipline and hard work, and the said Dean David M. joy of achievement derived there from,” he said. “And I have never lost that Schizer. “Her expertise sensibility, which has served me so well.” broadens our strength Medal for Excellence co-honoree Donald Verrilli is the 46th Solicitor General in international public law.” Roberts spent the of the United States. He serves as the federal government’s chief litigator. Before 2012–2013 academic joining the Obama administration, Verrilli led the Supreme Court practice at year at the Law School Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. His time at the Law School, he said, greatly as a visiting professor. influenced his career. “The most important thing Columbia Law School has given Graduates honored She is also a senior at Law School’s lecturer in law at to me,” he noted, “was an enduring inspiration—the belief that I could live a life in the London School the law that means something, and that I could be happy and fulfilled doing it.”• 64th of Economics. • WINTER See photos from the 2013 Winter Luncheon. view more law.columbia.edu/mag/excellence-13 LUNCHEON

“Beyond the traditional barriers to U.S.-EU free trade, including tariffs and quotas, negotiators working on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will need to address today’s real obstacles to transatlantic commerce: divergent or duplicative regulatory policies.” —Professor Anu Bradford

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 5 news & events Center on Corporate Governance Hosts Conference on Insider Trading THE EVENT HONORED FORMER SEC CHAIRMAN AND COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR WILLIAM L. CARY, WHO, IN 1961, LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE COUNTRY’S CURRENT INSIDER TRADING LAWS.

Scholars, judges, prosecutors, and defense counsel convened at Columbia Law School for a daylong conference examining the past, present, and future of the country’s insider trading laws. The event was Rivera Begins hosted and sponsored by the Law School’s Center Service at New on Corporate Governance, which is directed by John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of York Court Law. Panelists explored shifting insider trading of Appeals standards in the U.S. and abroad, discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current view

on insider trading, and shared the perspectives of PROFESSOR JOHN C. COFFEE JR. AND PANELISTS AT THE CONFERENCE judges and lawyers who participate in these cases. The New York State Senate recently The conference coincided with the 50th anni- “Five decades after the publication of Cady, Roberts, confirmed Jenny versary of the 1961 Cady, Roberts decision, which the decision endures as among the most fundamental Rivera ’93 LL.M. set the precedent that individuals with insider in securities fraud enforcement,” Seligman said. as a judge on the information must disclose it or abstain from Other panels throughout the day focused on New York Court of Appeals. Rivera, who buying or selling stock. Attendees also honored judicial scrutiny, insider trading incentives and previously served longtime Columbia Law School professor William deterrents, the pros and cons of wiretapping, and as a professor at L. Cary, former SEC chairman and author of that how the evolution of insider trading laws can cre- the City University of New York School landmark administrative opinion. ate the potential for defendants to win on appeal. of Law, founded Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist James B. Law School graduates attending the gathering the CUNY School Stewart served as the conference’s keynote speaker. included, among others, Judge Denise L. Cote ’75 of Law Center on His lunchtime address was preceded by a speech of the Southern District of New York; Richard J. Latino and Latina Rights and Equality. from Rochester University President Joel Seligman, Holwell ’70, a former Southern District of New York Upon announcing who detailed the history of insider trading law and judge; and Gary P. Naftalis ’67 LL.M., head of Kramer her confirmation, discussed Cary’s continuing legacy. Levin Naftalis & Frankel’s litigation department. • New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo praised Rivera for dedicating her career to social ABDUS-SALAAM EARNS SEAT ON NEW YORK justice issues. “Her extensive experience COURT OF APPEALS in civil rights law and her passion for This past June, Sheila Abdus-Salaam ’77 was sworn in as the newest member of the New York making our state a Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. Abdus-Salaam is the first African-American woman fairer and more just to serve on the Court of Appeals. She previously served as an associate justice of the First place will greatly Department of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court. Several Law School benefit New York,” graduates, including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. ’76, attended Abdus-Salaam’s he said. • swearing-in ceremony in Albany. •

“The United States v. Windsor opinion reaffirmed the primacy of state law in marriage-related matters, tax and non-tax. So state law governs. But which state? The ultimate resolution of this uncertainty will probably take another date with the Supreme Court. Stay tuned.” —Professor Alex Raskolnikov

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PROFESSOR GILLIAN E. METZGER

MARY JO WHITE Center for Constitutional Governance White Takes Over Holds First GRAETZ TO Annual RECEIVE as SEC Chair TAX HONOR Conference THE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK WAS CONFIRMED BY THE U.S. SENATE IN APRIL. Columbia Law School Professor Michael J. Columbia Law Columbia Law School graduate Mary Jo White ’74 was named Graetz will receive School’s Center chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this the National Tax Association’s Daniel for Constitutional year, filling the vacancy left by former Chairman Mary L. Schapiro, M. Holland Medal this Governance hosted its who stepped down in 2012. White, the former U.S. Attorney for the November. The award, first annual conference Southern District of New York, was nominated by President Barack which is given annually, this past spring. Obama in January, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April. recognizes outstanding Scholars, government “You don’t want to mess with Mary Jo,” the president told contributions to the officials, and other experts attending the reporters after announcing White’s nomination, acknowledging study and practice of public finance. Graetz, daylong symposium her background as a longtime federal prosecutor. For 10 years, the Columbia Alumni explored key issues White directed many high-profile cases, first as the chief assistant Professor of Tax Law facing the Obama U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and then as and the Wilbur H. administration in the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Her successful Friedman Professor of president’s second prosecutions include the convictions of those charged with the Tax Law, is a leading term. Panels highlighted expert on the topic President Barack 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as well as that of former Obama’s fiscal and Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. and has written extensively on national budgetary challenges; After stepping down from her U.S. Attorney post in 2002, and international tax his domestic policy; White rejoined Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, where law, including several national security and she was a litigation partner from 1983 to 1990. Upon her return, works dealing with foreign policy issues; White served as chair of the firm’s litigation practice, focusing the value-added and election law and voting rights. Featured on major business litigation disputes and white-collar criminal tax. His most recent panelists included defense cases. She has also served on the board of directors of article, “Technological Innovation, International current FBI Director the NASDAQ stock exchange. Competition, and James B. Comey, After the announcement of her nomination, White said she the Challenges Cabinet Secretary looked forward to fulfilling the agency’s mission to protect of International Danielle Gray, and New investors and ensure the strength, efficiency, and transparency of Income Taxation,” York Times columnist the country’s capital markets. was published in the Eduardo Porter, among many others. Professor “The SEC, long a vital and positive force for the markets, has a Columbia Law Review this past March. • Gillian E. Metzger ’95, lot of hard and important work ahead of it,” she added. the center’s faculty White is a 1998 recipient of the Columbia Law School Medal director, moderated the for Excellence, the Law School’s highest honor. She returned discussion focused on to campus in 2012 to discuss national security issues and the the administration’s domestic programs prosecution of terrorism cases. • Follow Us and policies. • on Twitter Watch a video of White’s nomination. @ColumbiaLaw view more law.columbia.edu/mag/mjwhite

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Law School Launches Blue Sky Blog THE WEBSITE IS A FORUM WHERE LAWYERS, SCHOLARS, AND REGULATORS CAN INTERACT ON MATTERS RELATING TO CORPORATIONS AND CAPITAL MARKETS.

STEVE BULLOCK Earlier this year, Columbia Law School debuted The CLS Blue Sky Blog, the Law School’s online source for news, commentary, and Bullock Begins discussions on corporations and capital markets. The blog also offers analysis of important developments in financial reform, Service as LEONEN securities regulation, and corporate governance. Montana APPOINTED Professor John C. Coffee Jr., director of the Law School’s Governor TO SUPREME Center on Corporate Governance, originally conceived of the COURT idea to create this forum for corporate and financial analysis. OF THE The blog is managed and edited by corporate and securities PHILIPPINES law expert Jason W. Parsont ’07, a post-doctoral research Columbia Law School scholar and lecturer-in-law at the Law School. The editorial graduate Steve Philippines President board consists of many of the blog’s regular contributors, Bullock ’94 was Benigno Aquino III has including Coffee; Lecturer-in-Law Edward F. Greene, senior sworn in as Montana’s named Marvic counsel at Cleary Gottlieb and a former general counsel of the 24th governor Leonen ’04 LL.M. an U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Professor Robert earlier this year after associate justice of that J. Jackson Jr.; and Professor Kathryn Judge, whose research serving four years as country’s Supreme the state’s attorney Court. Leonen, a examines financial institutions and markets. general. During his former dean of the The name of The CLS Blue Sky Blog is a play on the title given campaign, Bullock, University of the to state securities laws, or “blue sky laws.” In addition, the name who was born and Philippines College of is meant to suggest a spirit of transparency and the possibility of raised in Montana, ran Law, was appointed to open discussion. on a platform urging fill the seat vacated by “We are hoping for interactive dialogue among the bar, educational innovation, Maria Lourdes Sereno, academia, and regulators that can range from technical issues to the resurgence of the who was named agricultural industry, chief justice. Leonen broader theoretical issues that may rise into the blue sky,” said and clean energy previously served as Coffee when announcing the blog’s launch in January. initiatives. As the state’s the Philippines’ chief Since its debut, The CLS Blue Sky Blog has become a platform top lawyer, Bullock peace negotiator, and for discussion on the effectiveness of SEC enforcement, and one established stricter laws he is credited with of Coffee’s first posts, “SEC Enforcement: Rhetoric and Reality,” against drunk driving brokering a peace was chosen as a best column of the week by Compliance Week. and prescription drug agreement between abuse. Earlier in his the government and The new website also includes a section called “The Filter,” where career, he represented the Moro Islamic the blog’s editorial staff gathers links to the web’s most up-to-date labor unions, consumer Liberation Front, a and relevant news on corporations and capital markets. • organizations, and religious separatist small-business owners group with strongholds as a practicing attorney in parts of the country’s Visit The CLS Blue Sky Blog website. view more law.columbia.edu/mag/blue-sky in Montana. • southern region. •

“In June, the Supreme Court decided that the usual rules of competition apply in so-called ‘pay-for-delay’ settlements of patent litigation in the pharmaceutical industry. This is likely to curb anticompetitive settlement by drug makers, but may channel delays of competition into other forms.” —Professor C. Scott Hemphill

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Bharara Urges Class of 2013 to Take Up Public Service THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW DEAN YORK ASKED GRADUATES TO DEDICATE FIVE YEARS OF THEIR EXTENDS CAREERS TO PUBLIC SERVICE. TIES WITH PEKING During their careers, Columbia Law UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL School graduates will be placed at RON PROSOR the pinnacles of power and will be Columbia Law School presented with leadership opportu- Dean David M. Schizer Israeli nities available to no one else, said and Peking University Ambassador Preet Bharara ’93, the U.S. Attorney Law School Dean Zhang Shouwen signed Visits for the Southern District of New a memorandum of York, during his keynote address understanding earlier Law School at Graduation 2013 this past May. this year to extend the longtime partnership Once in these roles, he added, between the two graduates should consider working schools. Since 2006, Ron Prosor, Israel’s on behalf of the public good. Columbia Law School ambassador to the “The virtues of serving the public, and Peking University United Nations, Law School, which is I think, cannot be overstated,” presented his views on based in Beijing, have the country’s role as PREET BHARARA said Bharara, who challenged hosted study-abroad a Jewish state as part members of the Class of 2013 programs at their of the Law School’s to dedicate at least five years to public service, no matter what their career respective campuses, Milbank, Tweed, and in 2011, the aspirations. “Not only does the world benefit, but you benefit. You grow, Hadley & McCloy two schools began Faculty-Student and you gain, and the world gains, too.” a faculty exchange Intellectual Life Series. The J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. candidates gathered on the South Lawn of program. The new Prosor, who has also Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus for Graduation 2013 agreement encourages served as Israel’s collaboration on hailed from 42 states and 23 countries; some were teachers, servicemen, ambassador to the mutually agreed upon United Kingdom and engineers, and Olympic athletes before coming to the Law School. Dean research, as well as as director general of David M. Schizer acknowledged the different paths the graduates will take in cooperation in the the country’s Ministry their careers, while highlighting the new opportunities that have arisen in the training of international of Foreign Affairs, law students. It also legal field since he graduated from law school two decades ago. Dean Schizer was named Israel’s allows for future joint 16th permanent encouraged the graduates to take advantage of these opportunities, and to get publications, seminars, representative to the most out of the training they have received. and forums. • the U.N. in 2011. Professor Conrad Johnson, this year’s recipient of the Willis L.M. Reese His presentation was followed by a Prize for Excellence in Teaching, also urged graduates to use their legal edu- question-and-answer cation to make a difference in the world. session with students “Your contributions are real, and we trust that you will carry the knowledge Follow Us and faculty members. • that you can make a difference wherever you go,” said Johnson, co-director of on Twitter the Law School’s Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic. “Don’t let anyone tell @ColumbiaLaw you differently.” •

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JACK B. WEINSTEIN Weinstein and New Center Buchman Receive Will Promote Public Alumni Medals Integrity JUDGE WEINSTEIN HAS SERVED AS A DISTINGUISHED JURIST ON THE FEDERAL BENCH FOR MORE THAN 45 YEARS. In August, Columbia Jack B. Weinstein ’48, a U.S. District Court Judge alongside fellow Law School graduate Stephen L. Law School and the New York City for the Eastern District of New York, was recently Buchman ’62 LL.B., who serves as ombudsman and Department of awarded an Alumni Medal from the Columbia attorney adviser at Chadbourne & Parke, and as assis- Investigation launched Alumni Association. Weinstein, one of 10 Columbia tant director of career advising at the Law School. the Center for the graduates who received this year’s medal, was Weinstein was appointed to the federal bench by Advancement of Public Integrity. The honored by Columbia University President Lee President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. During the main mission of this C. Bollinger ’71 during the University’s 2013 past 46 years, he has presided over thousands of center, which is based Commencement exercises this past May. cases and has set many of the country’s mass torts at the Law School, is to help government First awarded in 1933, the Alumni Medal recog- precedents. Weinstein served as chief judge at the officials identify, nizes graduates for their distinguished service to Eastern District from 1980 to 1988, and he now deter, and respond Columbia University’s schools, alumni associations, maintains a full caseload as a senior judge. He is a to internal corruption regional clubs, and University-wide initiatives. past recipient of the Columbia Law School Medal at all levels. Rose Gill Hearn, commissioner Weinstein, who served as a member of the for Excellence and the Law School’s Lawrence A. of the Department Columbia Law School faculty for several decades, Wien Prize for Social Responsibility. of Investigation, was recognized for his outstanding volunteer This year’s Alumni Medal winners will be serves as chair of work on behalf of the University. He is a for- recognized again in October at the Columbia the center’s advisory board, which also mer director of the Columbia Law School Alumni Alumni Association Leaders Assembly Gala, includes Law School Association, as well as a former member of the Law which will be held during the Columbia Alumni Professors Daniel C. School’s Board of Visitors. Weinstein was honored Leaders Weekend. • Richman and Richard Briffault. The center will develop an active peer-to-peer referral network and will hold SANGER PRESENTS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE regular conferences for inspectors general and ON POST-ADOPTION RIGHTS other anti-corruption practitioners. It will Columbia Law School Professor Carol Sanger recently discussed the evolution of post-adoption also provide new visitation rights during her Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture in Family opportunities for Law at Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law. Sanger, the Law School’s Barbara Columbia Law School Aronstein Black Professor of Law, focused specifically on the open adoption process, and how it has students to participate become more prevalent in modern society. Sanger’s lecture, “Bargaining for Motherhood: Post-adoption in the development of Visitation Agreements,” is slated to appear in the Hofstra Law Review. • anti-corruption work. •

“Bankruptcy filings fell from 95,000 in May to about 86,000 in June. The sharp decline reinforces the now-regularized dropoff from the high rates of 2010. Looking over a longer scale, the filings so far this year are down 14 percent from the first half of last year.”Professor — Ronald Mann

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PROFESSOR SARAH H. CLEVELAND Law School Cleveland Helps Tunisia Draft Hosts Prominent Constitution

National Security JANOW TO Constitutional law SERVE AS expert Sarah H. NEW DEAN Cleveland spent OF SIPA two days in Venice Law Scholars helping the National

Constituent Assembly Columbia Law School recently welcomed current FBI Director Merit E. Janow ’88 was named dean of of Tunisia draft its James B. Comey, former U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter, and Columbia University’s constitution. Cleveland former Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State Harold School of International serves as the U.S. Hongju Koh to Morningside Heights to share their vast experience and Public Affairs observer on the and scholarship with the Law School community. (SIPA) this past spring. European Commission Comey, who was named director of the FBI this past summer, Janow, a professor of for Democracy through practice at SIPA and Law (also known as the joined the Law School as a senior research scholar, Hertog Fellow, Venice Commission), and lecturer-in-law earlier this year. While on campus, he focused an affiliated faculty member at the Law which functions as a on intelligence surveillance, privacy law, and legal decision making School, is an expert constitutional advisory as it pertains to national security. Comey served as deputy in international trade board for countries attorney general of the United States from 2003 to 2005 and and investment. She that are in the process worked as general counsel at Bridgewater Associates before currently serves of building democratic governments. Tunisia arriving at the Law School. as co-director of has been working Munter, who joined the Law School faculty as a visiting professor Columbia’s APEC Study Center, as on creating a new during the autumn of 2012, served as the U.S. ambassador to chair of the faculty constitution since Pakistan from 2010 to 2012. He has held numerous positions in the oversight committee 2011. Cleveland, the Foreign Service and served as the U.S. ambassador to Serbia from of Columbia’s Global Louis Henkin Professor 2007 to 2009. While at the Law School, Munter led a variety of Center East Asia, in Human and national security and foreign policy discussions for students and and as a member Constitutional Rights, was appointed to the faculty members. of the University’s Weatherhead East commission by the Koh joined the Law School as a visiting faculty member this Asian Institute. Janow White House in 2010. • past January. He served as the legal adviser for the U.S. State is also chair of the Department from 2009 until earlier this year and is an expert in international affairs human rights law, international law, and national security law. Koh fellowship committee recently worked with Professor Sarah H. Cleveland and two other of the Council on Join Columbia Law colleagues to draft and submit an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Foreign Relations. • School Alumni Court case regarding same-sex marriage in California. The brief on Facebook. urged the Court to examine the precedents of other democratic law.columbia.edu/ mag/fb governments when considering its decision. •

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JAN ELIASSON PROFESSORS JANE M. SPINAK AND PHILIP M. GENTY U.N. Deputy Secretary- General Conference Discusses the Rule of Law GINSBURG ELECTED TO Honors Clinics’ NATION’S OLDEST United Nations Deputy LEARNED 30th Anniversary Secretary-General Jan SOCIETY THE LAW SCHOOL’S FAMILY LAW CLINICS INVITED GRADUATES Eliasson visited the AND EXPERTS TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS TO DISCUSS Law School to deliver Columbia Law School CHANGES IN CLINICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY ADVOCACY. a lecture on promoting Professor Jane C. peace, development, Ginsburg was recently Columbia Law School’s Child opportunity to provide their feedback and human rights elected as a member through the rule of of the American Advocacy, Prisoners and Families, through moderators, as various law. “When adhered Philosophical Society. and Family Advocacy Clinics hosted participants presented a summary of to, the rule of law The organization, a daylong conference at Jerome their sessions. Afterward, everyone at the international which is the oldest level makes the learned society in Greene Hall in late April to discuss celebrated with a closing reception. conduct of member the United States, how their work and the needs of Spinak initially began the Child states predictable was founded by families have changed during the Advocacy Clinic in 1982 to provide and legitimate and Benjamin Franklin past three decades. much-needed representation to provides a means to in 1743 to promote peacefully resolve any scholarship in a wide At the conference, Professor Jane children voluntarily placed in foster disputes,” Eliasson range of scientific and M. Spinak and Professor Philip M. care by their parents. That mission told the crowd. humanities-driven Genty brought together experts has evolved along with shifting “It is the anchor subjects. Ginsburg, from a range of fields for panel needs. The clinic’s Adolescent and foundation of the Morton L. Janklow international peace Professor of Literary discussions covering six topics: Representation Project currently and security.” The and Artistic Property scholarship; clinical legal education; focuses on helping children as they lecture was hosted Law, is an expert on policy and practice; criminal justice age-out of foster care and other by Columbia Law intellectual property and prisons; interdisciplinary work; institutional settings. School’s Center on law, comparative law, Global Governance. • private international and professionalism. Panelists In 1989, the program expanded law, and legal methods. included graduates who shared to include the Family Advocacy She serves as faculty how the Law School’s clinical Clinic, which was founded by director of the Law programs influenced their work Genty to represent parents in School’s Kernochan web Center for Law, Media and career choices. administrative court proceedings. exclusive and the Arts. • In the afternoon, conference Less than a decade later, he helped Read Jan Eliasson’s remarks to students. participants met in small groups to establish the Prisoners and law.columbia.edu/ designated by class years. The Families Clinic to address the legal mag/eliasson attendees were then given the needs of incarcerated parents. •

12 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 news & events

Graduates JAMES B. COMEY Selected for BRIFFAULT Deanships at AND LIEBMAN Top U.S. Law Comey Tapped NAMED TO Schools COMMISSION ON PUBLIC CORRUPTION to Lead FBI Trevor W. Morrison ’98 Columbia Law School and Mark D. West ’93 Former Columbia Law School Lecturer-in-Law James B. Professors Richard each recently earned Comey was recently named director of the Federal Bureau of Briffault and Lance deanships at top-tier Investigation. Comey, who also served as a Hertog Fellow in Liebman were recently law schools. Morrison, National Security Law and as a senior research scholar at the appointed by New who previously served Law School earlier this year, was nominated by President Barack York Governor Andrew as Columbia Law M. Cuomo to serve on School’s Liviu Librescu Obama for the position in June. the state’s Commission Professor of Law, was Comey served as deputy attorney general of the United States to Investigate Public named the 15th dean from 2003 to 2005. He chaired President George W. Bush’s Corruption. The of New York University Corporate Fraud Task Force, as well as the Presidential Board on commission, created School of Law this Safeguarding Americans’ Civil Liberties, during that time. Comey earlier this year, will past spring. He is an is also the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New have broad authority expert in constitutional to investigate law, federal courts, York, and, in that role, he oversaw the prosecutions of many corruption in state and national security terrorism and financial fraud cases. government, political law, and the 2011 During his time in Morningside Heights, Comey worked closely campaigns, and state recipient of Columbia with Professor Matthew C. Waxman to further enhance the Law elections. It will have Law School’s Willis School’s national security program. The pair created two new the power to subpoena L.M. Reese Prize for courses focused on national security law. • and question witnesses Excellence in Teaching. under oath, and West, a renowned will be responsible Japanese law scholar, for reviewing state became the 17th dean laws and regulations of the University of involving misconduct Michigan Law School MILLSTEIN CENTER HOSTS FORUM by public officials. this September. He ON GOVERNANCE Briffault, the Joseph P. previously served as Chamberlain Professor an associate dean at Columbia Law School’s Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and of Legislation, is an the school, as well Corporate Ownership hosted the 8th annual Millstein Governance expert in state and as director of the Forum this past summer in Morningside Heights. More than 200 local government law, University of Michigan investors, corporate executives, regulators, and academics—as well as well as election Center for Japanese as representatives from companies such as Microsoft, Estée Lauder, law. Liebman, the Studies. West also and Pepsi—gathered for the two-day conference, which explored the William S. Beinecke directed Michigan impact of new corporate ownership patterns. The forum was followed Professor of Law, Law School’s Center by a gala dinner and reception honoring seven “Rising Stars of serves as director of for International and Corporate Governance.” • the American Law Comparative Law, Institute and is a and he continues former assistant to to serve as the Explore Millstein Center projects. New York City Mayor school’s Nippon Life web exclusive law.columbia.edu/mag/millstein-projects John Lindsay. • Professor of Law. •

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 13 SeeColumbia Law School students excel outside the classroomAlso: BY KELLY CARROLL AND JOY Y. WANG Roxane Cassehgari GAINING PERSPECTIVE

While serving as an intern at the International Organiza- tion for Migration (IOM) in Bogotá, Colombia, Roxane Cassehgari ’13 LL.M. received a life-changing opportunity. As the only French-speaking person working for IOM—a nonprofit organization that provides support to internally displaced populations—the Paris-born Cassehgari was called to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to assist in recovery efforts after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake of January 2010. Cassehgari worked with women who had experienced violence while receiving aid in various relief camps and helped to educate victims on their rights. After spending more than a year in Haiti, she moved to New York City to pursue an LL.M. “I wanted to get an American perspective on human rights,” says Cassehgari, who previously studied law in the U.K. and France. “New York and Columbia Law School gave me a big window on international organizations, the U.N., and NGOs.” At the Law School, Cassehgari studied the legal issues that dictate the rights of individuals forced to flee their homes due to civil war, natural disasters, and other factors. Now that she has supplemented her fieldwork with newly broadened legal expertise, Cassehgari says she will be better equipped to advocate on behalf of vulnerable groups. “Having that added legal background gives you the tools to best address these issues,” she says.

14 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALLSPRING 2013 2012 PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID YELLEN Rohan Grey VALUABLE CHANGE

This past winter, pundits penned numerous articles about the possibility of the federal government minting a platinum coin to generate funds and avoid raising the debt ceiling. That idea was already old news to Rohan Grey ’14, who had, months before, organized an event addressing the issue as part of an interdisciplinary seminar series he created at Columbia Law School. That discussion brought together some of the economists who had first touted the financing solution back in 2010. Though the Obama administration ultimately rejected the platinum coin idea, Grey explains that its legal viability illustrates a larger point about macroeconomics. “The spending constraints on currency-issuing governments are not the same as the constraints on households,” he notes, adding that the government does not have to balance its budget the way a family might. “It doesn’t work that way.” Grey says he created the eight-part series, titled Modern Money and Public Purpose, to dispel such basic myths about the relationship between law and macroeconomics. He organized the events with the help of M. Jonathan Brice ’14. The Workers’ Rights Student Coalition, a new social justice group at the Law School, signed on as a co-sponsor and, soon, so did 10 more student groups. International organizations have also taken notice. Members of Greece’s Syriza political party visited the U.S. recently and asked Grey to host an event discussing their economic platform. The Sydney native hopes the series will foster discussion on timely economic issues for years to come. He even created online tutorials to accompany each seminar. “The goal,” Grey says, “is to eventually turn this into a massive, permanent, free digital learning network.”

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 15 Lelise Gobena RIGHT AT HOME

Bay Area native Lelise Gobena ’13 admits that living on the East Coast took some getting used to at first. But after only a few weeks on campus, the University of Southern California graduate had joined a number of student groups that helped ease the transition. One that stands out as particularly supportive, Gobena says, was Columbia Law School’s student-run California Society, which sponsors panel discussions, career fairs, social gatherings, and other events geared toward those with links to the West Coast. “I found a wonderful community of people,” Gobena says. “It was nice to have an organization that brought us together socially, and it allows students to stay connected to West Coast firms and resources.” In her second year at the Law School, Gobena served as the California Society’s co-president and became a mentor to incoming students from the West Coast. At the same time, she also began to put down some roots in New York City. Gobena pursued legal internships with both the New-York Historical Society and the National State Attorneys General Program in Manhat- tan. In the fall semester of her second year, she worked as an intellectual property law intern at Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy in Midtown. It was not until this past year that Gobena returned to California—to work as a summer associate in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. “New York has become the baseline I compare all other cities to,” says Gobena, who joined Manatt after graduation and requested to be placed in the firm’s Manhattan office. “I’ve really found a home here.”

16 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRINGFALL 2013 2012 Matthew Lemle Amsterdam HOMETOWN PRIDE

Upon meeting Matthew Lemle Amsterdam ’13, his allegiance to Columbia immediately becomes apparent. Amsterdam’s smart-phone case, scarf, and lapel pin are all Columbia blue. He is quick to point out that school and family pride blend together in this instance—Amsterdam’s father and grandfather both attended the Law School, and the Columbia College graduate says he practically grew up on the Morningside Heights campus. Amsterdam remained close to home while amassing an impressive background in public interest law. After his first year of law school, he interned at the Bronx Supreme Court, a mere three blocks away from Yan- kee Stadium. Amsterdam, who has been a Yankees season-ticket holder since 1998, assisted a judge with research for jury charges and benefited from broad access at the court. “I was specially cleared to sit in on a search warrant hearing for a case handled by an undercover police officer investigating drug crimes,” he recalls. Amsterdam broadened his experience to the federal level by serving as an intern in the public defender’s office at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He assisted defendants with plea negotiations and helped represent a young man who he believed had been falsely accused of robbery. “It was very rewarding to help clients through what is often the hardest time in their lives,” he says. Amsterdam is committed to staying in the city to pursue a public interest legal career, but the avid Yankees fan confesses that there is one other path he might consider. “I’m still also pursuing my lifelong dream of working in professional sports,” he says with a grin.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 17 setting the bar COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL INNOVATIONS

Leading the Way professor lori fisler damrosch seeks to engage a new generation of international law scholars

BY JOY Y. WANG

THIS PAST JANUARY, Professor Lori Fisler Damrosch traveled Adviser at the U.S. State Department, working on many legal to Columbia’s Global Center in Amman, Jordan. The expert in aspects of the crisis involving more than 50 U.S. diplomatic and international law returned from the trip with an impressive plan consular staff held hostage in Iran until January 20, 1981. (The film in mind. Damrosch envisioned a major conference at the center Argo depicts an incident that occurred while the hostage crisis was that would bring together teachers, students, and practitioners of in progress.) Her efforts during that time contributed to the cre- international law in the Middle East. She foresees experts analyzing ation of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, a groundbreaking crucial and timely topics, including how international law affects international arbitral organization. countries undergoing profound political transformation. Now, as the next head of the ASIL, Damrosch aims to support The idea took on a new dimension this spring when the Amer- and engage a new generation of international law scholars who can ican Society of International Law (ASIL) named Damrosch its one day lead the way in resolving global crises. president-elect. The yearlong position will be followed by a two-year “I would like the ASIL to sponsor curriculum development in term as the organiza- international law at the undergraduate level,” Damrosch says. tion’s president, and the “Many undergraduates are interested in international affairs, and conference, which will many are interested in law, but as of now, very few colleges offer likely be held in 2015, courses to draw these interests together.” As a starting point for will now also serve as one this new effort, she will call on the help of Columbia Law School highlight of that time. graduates throughout the world who are currently teaching and “I proposed taking practicing international law. advantage of Columbia Even amid her new responsibilities, Damrosch remains University’s network engaged in legal scholarship on multiple fronts. Her most recent of Global Centers as a work focuses on how constitutional democracies control deci- platform for cooperative sions to use military force, and how those decisions relate to activities between ASIL international law. She has also spent the past 10 years serving as and partners in one or the co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International more of the areas where Law, the ASIL’s quarterly publication that dates back to 1907. Columbia already has As the forthcoming president of the organization, Damrosch a presence,” says Dam- joins the ranks of nearly a dozen Columbia Law School graduates rosch, the Law School’s and faculty members who have held the office—past ASIL presi- Hamilton Fish Profes- dents include two of her mentors, Oscar Schachter ’39 and John sor of International Reese Stevenson ’49. (Damrosch worked with Stevenson at Sullivan Law and Diplomacy, and the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law & Cromwell after her time at the State Department, and he encour- and International Organization. “The Middle East presents sig- aged her to join the faculty at the Law School.) She also takes over a nificant opportunities for developing relationships in the field of position once held by beloved Columbia Law School professor, and international law.” founding scholar of human rights law, Louis Henkin. Damrosch is particularly well positioned to understand the com- “I hope that my time as ASIL’s president will lay the groundwork plex legal relationships at play in that region of the world. During to cultivate interest in international law among the generation the Carter administration, she served in the Office of the Legal coming of age in a globalized world,” Damrosch says.

18 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN EVANS faculty focus FIRST AMENDMENT

Historic Speech for first amendment scholar philip hamburger, analysis of legal history serves to illuminate modern-day truths

BY KAITLIN BELL BARNETT

AS AN UNDERGRADUATE at Princeton, Professor Philip Hamburger Hamburger’s interest in IRBs also led to related research on the issue cultivated an interest in freedom of speech. While poring over of unconstitutional conditions on speech—for instance, when the fed- centuries-old cases on a university-subsidized trip to conduct eral government requires radio and television broadcasters to avoid research in a London archive, he became intimately acquainted with profanity as a condition to their use of public airwaves. In a recent arti- one of the most egregious historical examples of speech suppression: cle, he asserts that, although the federal government may impose con- England’s Star Chamber, which, during the 16th and 17th centuries, ditions on the benefits it gives out, it cannot make an end run around mandated that all publications receive governmental approval. constitutional limitations on its power, even when a beneficiary of gov- During the decades that followed his Star ernment assistance has given consent. Churches Chamber research, Hamburger has become and other charitable, educational, and religious a prominent constitutional scholar and legal organizations enjoy tax-exempt status on the con- historian, with two award-winning books to his dition of not engaging in overt political lobbying credit and a well-honed expertise in freedom of or campaigning. But, Hamburger argues, such speech. In recent years, he has grappled with a an arrangement still constitutes censorship. modern-day Star Chamber problem. Beginning The relationship between religion and in the early aughts, fellow academics started government happens to be another subject of contacting Hamburger and reported being profound interest to Hamburger. His 2002 unable to publish their research because it book, Separation of Church and State, used lacked a university stamp of approval. painstaking historical research to argue that, Federal regulations state that anyone contrary to the assumptions of most Americans, with a university affiliation who wishes to there is no language that enshrines “separation publish research involving human subjects of church and state” in the Constitution. That must receive approval from the relevant contention raised a few eyebrows, which was just school’s Institutional Review Board, or IRB. fine with Hamburger—who, in almost every case, Failing to do so can jeopardize federal research funding. refuses to join the political fray. When his Separation of Church and Hamburger, Columbia Law School’s Maurice and Hilda Friedman State book was published the same week that two high-profile court Professor of Law, says he was flabbergasted upon learning of these decisions on religion and the First Amendment had been decided, for limitations. “My immediate reaction was, ‘Wait a minute—that’s example, he declined comment to The New York Times. unconstitutional,’” he recalls. “‘It’s prior licensing, and prior licensing is “I’m interested in intellectual debate—the principles,” Hamburger what the Star Chamber did, and that’s banned by the U.S. Constitution.’” says. “Whether someone wins or loses on one thing or another IRB approval is meant to protect human subjects from harm, but matters less to me.” Hamburger argues in two law review articles that the process can delay crucial medical discoveries. “It’s the most systematic and widespread KAITLIN BELL BARNETT has written for The Boston Globe and violation of freedom of speech in the nation’s history,” he says. Parents magazine, among other publications.

“I’M INTERESTED IN INTELLECTUAL DEBATE—THE PRINCIPLES,” SAYS PHILIP HAMBURGER, WHO TENDS TO AVOID THE POLITICAL FRAY.

ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX NABAUM LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 19 profiles in scholarship DAVID POZEN

Triple Threat public law expert david pozen has dedicated his career to understanding the complex workings of american government

BY JOY Y. WANG

THEIR NAMES MAY BE noticeably different for Stevens when the Supreme Court ruled on on paper, but more than one acquaintance has Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. asked public law expert David Pozen if he is “I virtually lived at the Court that year.” related to Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit His experience in the executive branch Court of Appeals. In law school, Pozen became proved no less demanding. As a special adviser accustomed to explaining that, no, they are not to U.S. State Department Legal Adviser Harold related, but that he was a fan of the well-known Hongju Koh from 2010 to 2012, Pozen ana- legal theorist’s writings on jurisprudence. lyzed legal issues involving national security During his third year, Pozen unexpectedly and immigration, among other matters. received a similar compliment from Posner. The soccer aficionado remembers rushing “I got an email from him saying that he liked home one evening to catch a much-anticipated something I had written about tax expenditures match, only to be sidelined by a string of emails and foreign aid,” says Pozen, who joined the from his boss about an emergency brief that Columbia Law School faculty in July of 2012. needed his attention. “I was told to take my time, The piece that caught Posner’s eye was published don’t rush,” Pozen recalls, “just to get it in by 4 by the Yale Law Journal, and the judge gra- a.m.” He turned off the television and got to work. ciously acknowledged that both men had independently made the “David has a razor-sharp insight into intragovernmental dynam- same point about the issue, though Pozen had published first. ics, and a capacity to frame and analyze problems that is deeply Posner’s kind words provided Pozen with an auspicious start theorized, highly creative, and pragmatic,” says Professor Sarah to an impressive legal career that would quickly span all three H. Cleveland, who worked with Pozen at the State Department. branches of American government before leading to academia. She predicts that he will be the leading constitutional governance Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in the suburbs of Boston, scholar of his generation. Pozen served as a special assistant to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy Pozen’s most recent scholarship, a law review article examining during the George W. Bush administration. The senator’s AS A SPECIAL ADVISER AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT, POZEN office would often respond to policy speeches given by the ANALYZED NATIONAL SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION ISSUES. president, and, among his other duties, Pozen drafted some of those retorts. “Working with why the government criminalizes the leaking of classified informa- Senator Kennedy during the Bush administration really refined my tion, yet does little to prosecute leakers, drew the notice of prominent polemical skills,” he recalls. national security expert Ben Wittes, who cited it as “the single best Pozen then gained an insider’s perspective on the judicial article about leaks I have ever read.” The piece has also garnered branch through clerkships with D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals coverage in The New Yorker and on NPR, among other media outlets. Judge Merrick B. Garland and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John “My career path has been a combination of wanting to work in Paul Stevens, who was then serving his final year on the bench. public service and learn how the law works in practice, and wanting “It was fun to be with a justice at a time when he was really com- to grow as a lawyer,” Pozen says. “I always had a sense that it would mitted to getting everything on paper,” says Pozen, who clerked make me more interesting as a scholar and teacher.”

20 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN GARDNER student-faculty ratio 8:1An Enduring Legacy Our success is measurable, and our gratitude is deep

Thank you for your continuing commitment to Columbia Law School. Your gifts have allowed us to create many new opportunities for our students and faculty, including:

• 66 scholarships to bring the brightest young legal minds to Columbia, regardless of financial need.

• 22 professorships and 12 faculty research funds to help attract 36 new faculty and establish the lowest student-faculty ratio—8:1— in our history.

• Increased financial aid to support students through the economic downturn and guaranteed summer funding for all first-and second-year students. • An array of upper-year curricular initiatives that are closely connected to 36the new faculty profession, interdisciplinary, and international, giving students the broad-based perspective required of leaders in a global society.

• Enhanced loan repayment assistance and fellowship opportunities for recent graduates working in the public sector.

• Physical and technological improvements to our campus that support the rigors of our teaching and learning. thank you!

sig 2 ad 1 8/29/13 3:31 PM 22 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 Every day, most stories on the front page of the newspaper cover issues that are closely connected to the Columbia Law School curriculum, including financial regulation, national security, marriage equality, tax and budgetary policy, criminal justice, energy policy, human rights, climate change, and intellectual property, to name just a few. At the same time, though, a prominent theme in the news has been the challenges facing the legal profession and the legal academy. There are questions about the job prospects of young lawyers, as well as about how effectively they are trained in law school. A common question is whether law school should be two years instead of three. . . .

By David M. Schizer

Illustration by Dominique Falla

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 23 As Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Yet it is possible to imagine regulatory changes that would allow schools more flexibility to offer programs of varying lengths. Shorter My view is that programs might offer a way to reduce the debt loads of graduates who cannot find jobs, which is especially important the J.D. program at schools where a substantial percentage of graduates are in this position. Indeed, President Obama recently observed at Columbia should the cost-reducing advantages of two-year programs, and urged schools to think about implementing them. Perhaps regulators be 3 years, as long will decide to allow this, while requiring the degree to carry a different name, so that potential employers and clients can as we use the second distinguish two- and three-year programs. What would these sorts of regulatory changes mean for Columbia? Fortunately, and third years our job placement is extremely strong, so that a third year of tuition, although significant, is not burdensome in the same way. Yet it the right way. is still worth considering whether Columbia should have a third year of law school and, if so, what it should look like. This question is the focus of this issue of our magazine. My view is that the J.D. program at Columbia should be three years, as long as we use the second and third years the right way. These upper years should not be replicas of the first, but with different casebooks. The In pursuing these goals, we recognize that build on it further. As a result, a two-year legal reason the first year is so challenging and excit- our students have a broad range of interests. education could not offer students the same ing is that students are struggling to master They come here to train for different types of rigorous immersion in these initiatives that not just new information, but also new skills leadership. So although these three themes becomes possible in three years. and insights: learning to “think like a lawyer,” are relevant to every student, no single course to understand what questions to ask, to focus of study is right for everyone. To offer a suf- OUR CONNECTIONS TO THE more precisely on what facts are needed to ficiently wide range of advanced curricular LEGAL PROFESSION make a judgment, to recognize the impact of offerings, we have hired 36 new faculty since A central focus of this curricular innovation process on outcomes, to present their views 2004. At the same time, our J.D. program is has been our close connections to the legal more persuasively, and much more. Applying smaller than it was when I began. In this way, profession, which enable us to provide a the Socratic method to appellate court opin- we have achieved our goal of dramatically vital bridge between theory and practice. We ions is an effective way to teach these skills. reducing our student-faculty ratio: 8:1 com- have developed a wide range of new intensive In the upper-year curriculum, we broaden pared to 13:1 in 2004–05, a reduction of 39 courses and programs that combine legal their experience by introducing them to percent. This additional capacity—financed doctrine with close study of the surrounding new areas of law—from corporations and by our record fundraising in recent years—has business, regulatory, institutional, political, criminal procedure to federal courts and family allowed us to explore an exciting range of new or social settings within which law develops. law—and also to journal work and other extra- curricular initiatives for upper-year students. These courses also expose our students to curricular experiences. This is quite valuable. These advanced offerings are open to both “real-world” documents, transactions, or But in my view, if that is all we do, we second- and third-year students. Yet if law legal, business, or policy actors, and field are not doing enough. The upper-year school were only two years, students could take research. Covering a wide variety of sub- curriculum, therefore, has been the focus of advantage of them only in a very limited way. jects, these offerings enable students to see Columbia’s curricular innovation since 2004, It wouldn’t be possible to pursue more than firsthand the many different roles lawyers when I began serving as dean. We have built on a handful, if any, given the extensive list of can play, while also sharpening different three core strengths of the Law School, which traditional courses that students also should analytical, theoretical, and practical skills. are especially relevant to the third-year curric- take. With a third year, moreover, students For example, our Roger Hertog Program ulum: our connections to the profession; our who take an advanced offering in their sec- on Law and National Security fields more interdisciplinary expertise; and our strength in ond year can develop a clearer sense of their than a dozen advanced offerings and draws comparative and international law. interests, and then can use their third year to on the deep expertise of a number of

24 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 chief justices of Japan and Ireland, and a former prime minister of Italy, as well as prominent leaders of industry, the bench, the bar, and the legal academy throughout the world. While the focus of a large cohort of faculty is predominantly comparative or international, a further strength of our School is that the international and comparative perspective is not limited to this group of specialists. Most of our faculty engage with comparative and These upper years international issues in their research and teaching, and this continues to be a particular source of Columbia Law School’s should not be replicas strength and influence in an increasingly interconnected world. of the first, but with To build on these strengths, we field a broad array of regional centers and programs on European, Japanese, Chinese, Israeli, different casebooks. and Indian law. We have also partnered with leading universities all over the world to enable third-year students to study abroad. Last year, we launched a new program in which professors from other parts of the world join us to spend two to four weeks co-teaching with full-time faculty. This short-term visitors program enhances the international expertise of our full-time faculty, who learn from their co-teachers, while also enriching a faculty members who have worked in and Public Policy is a research and teaching dozen offerings with a sophisticated com- senior national security positions in the partnership with Columbia Business parative or international perspective. So White House, the State Department, and the School. We also have a new J.D.-M.B.A. whether our students spend their second Defense Department. Although the setting program that awards both degrees in three and third year in Morningside Heights or is different, we offer comparably deep and years (instead of four) and has inspired in another part of the world, they develop rigorous instruction in our Charles Evans the two schools to create courses taught valuable expertise about global dimen - Gerber Transactional Studies Program and jointly by both faculties. Our Center for sions of the law. our many advanced business law offerings. Climate Change Law has close ties to the With this three-pronged strategy—enhanc- We have a number of courses that are scientists and economists at Columbia’s ing our connections to the profession, our taught jointly by full-time faculty and Earth Institute. Likewise, our Center for interdisciplinary expertise, and the inter- expert practitioners, as a way to har- Public Research and Leadership works with national scope of our curriculum—we ness the complementary expertise of both. Teachers College and Columbia Business ensure that our upper-year curriculum Students can also choose from a broad range School to train education professionals. is rigorous and fulfilling, and that our of externships and clinics. In addition to our students are better prepared for the wide offerings in Morningside Heights, second- and OUR INTERNATIONAL AND range of opportunities awaiting them third-year students can spend a semester COMPARATIVE LAW EXPERTISE when they leave us. In so doing, we advance participating in our Externship on the Because many of the most pressing chal- our School’s core mission: to train leaders Federal Government in Washington, D.C. lenges of our time are global in scope, across the world who will strengthen the enhancing this institutional strength is rule of law and leave an enduring legacy OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY more vital than ever. We offer an array of of freedom, justice, and prosperity for EXPERTISE courses in comparative and international generations to come. Our upper-year curriculum also draws on law. Because of our vibrant LL.M. program, I invite you to learn more about some of the resources of one of the world’s great approximately one-quarter of our students the innovative and unique opportunities research universities. Many members of come from outside the United States. available to upper-year students at Columbia our faculty have Ph.D.s, and we have a These international students extend the Law School. In the pages that follow, we growing number of joint initiatives with global impact of the Law School. For highlight a number of courses, clinics, other schools. For example, the Richard example, LL.M. alumni now include the programs, and initiatives that reflect the Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, president of the Republic of Georgia, the three themes I discussed above. •

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At Columbia Law School, upper-year students interested in corporate and business law learn from some of the nation’s most renowned practitioners and judges. Casebooks, Socratic exchanges, and traditional final exams are giving way to innovative teaching approaches that focus on interdisciplinary learning, global perspective, real-world strategy determinations, and lining up all the pieces necessary for a successful career. BY AMY FELDMAN • ILLUSTRATION BY DOUGLAS FRASER

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 27 n the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark school, and the third year taking classes in both disciplines—yet enter 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that the workforce one year earlier than otherwise would be possible. the First Amendment prohibits the government The upshot is an increasingly real-world education at a time from restricting certain political expenditures by when global business, economic policy, and financial regulation are I corporations and unions, Professor Robert J. on everyone’s minds. Jackson Jr. embarked on a mission. His goal: “A lot of the teaching that happens in the corporate law area, persuade securities regulators to mandate that public companies broadly defined, is heavily interdisciplinary,” saysJeffrey N. Gordon, disclose such spending to their shareholders. Investors, he con- the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law and co-director of the tended, often know little-to-nothing about such corporate political Richman Center. “There’s a lot of economics in the classes. I tell spending, particularly when it occurs through intermediaries. And my students to follow the money. Part of the effort to train really without that knowledge, they have no way of deciding whether it great lawyers, who can play a leadership role in the public debates, fits with their objectives. involves an interdisciplinary focus for students.” “Corporate rules treat the decision to spend money on politics like any other decision,” says Jackson, who researched the subject with the help of Columbia Law School students after the Citizens United decision. “There’s no shareholder approval, and companies are not required to disclose this spending.” “This is a chess game,” Coffee says Jackson co-chaired a group of 10 prominent legal academ - ics—including three others from Columbia Law School—who, about corporate litigation, and with the help of student researchers, petitioned the Securities and how best to understand the paths Exchange Commission in the summer of 2011 to issue new rules requiring public companies to disclose such spending. Since then, large, complex cases take. “If you the petition has received nearly half-a-million comments—including move your pawn to king 7, what supporting letters from heavyweight institutional investors—and the SEC is expected to propose a new disclosure rule soon. While it is not happens three moves later?” yet clear whether a new rule will pass, Jackson has succeeded in raising an important issue in a very public way, with his crusade landing on the front page of The New York Times in late-April. “Ours is the most-commented-on petition in the history of the SEC,” he says. Opponents of the proposal include many Republican legislators, as well as business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, which argue that securities regulators lack the authority and expertise to issue rules about political spending. Supporters—including large shareholders, pension funds, and several ne afternoon in early spring, John C. Coffee Jr., Democratic elected officials—assert that investors have every right to the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, and Delaware learn about the political spending of publicly traded companies. Supreme Court Justice Jack B. Jacobs, who is The looming battle, sparked by a young professor, could transform also an adjunct professor at the Law School, a significant piece of the wild world of campaign spending, and that O were preparing for a session of Corporations in type of activism is one sign of a major shift that has taken place at Court, a course they have co-taught for the past Columbia Law School in the five years since the financial crisis. four years. Each week, the seminar focuses on one important court Across numerous areas of corporate and business law, there has case, bringing in the participants—lawyers and judges—to discuss been a fundamental rethinking of what legal education in those how it played out and what it meant. fields should consist of—with the Law School taking even greater That day, the case under discussion would be Scully v. Nighthawk advantage of its unmatched ties to the business law community, while Radiology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware Court of Chancery case that focusing more than ever on the benefits of interdisciplinary learning raised several thorny issues relating to jurisdiction shopping. The and global proficiency. That rethinking has played out in the courses, plaintiffs in Nighthawk brought a class-action lawsuit challenging the approaches, and the breakdown in barriers between related fields. a merger in Delaware and in Arizona state court. When the Delaware The Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public court declined to expedite the case, the plaintiffs moved on to Arizona, Policy formalizes an interdisciplinary focus, particularly on impor- where they won a so-called “disclosure-only” settlement, prompting tant public policy issues. The Center on Global Legal Transformation, the Delaware court to appoint a special counsel to investigate. meanwhile, is a new multidisciplinary venue set on examining The complex case is overflowing with twists and turns, and major issues raised by globalization. Upper-year seminars have in Coffee’s office on the eighth floor of Jerome Greene Hall that an increasingly interdisciplinary feel, with Columbia Law School afternoon, two participants in it—Delaware Chancery Court Vice and Business School faculty teaching together, or tenured faculty Chancellor J. Travis Laster and Gregory Williams, chairman of the tag-teaming with high-profile practitioners. Those students par- corporate department at Richards, Layton & Finger, who had been ticularly inclined toward business may choose the Three-Year appointed special counsel—brainstormed about how best to talk J.D./M.B.A. Program, an accelerated dual degree program with about it candidly with the students. special upper-year courses. Students in that program gain a deep “We have today,” Coffee later told the two dozen students seated knowledge of both business and law—spending one full year at each around the conference room table, “an issue of dueling class actions.”

28 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 For the next few hours, the conversation would delve into In their Corporations in Court class, Professor John C. Coffee Jr. and scores of questions: What happened when the plaintiffs filed Justice Jack B. Jacobs regularly invite lawyers and judges to discuss multiple class-action claims? Was forum shopping distorting the how complex, real-world cases progress from start to finish. judicial process? And could the broader systemic issues raised by the Nighthawk case be fixed? at the Law School and was formerly a litigation partner at Fried, The idea behind the innovative class, Coffee explains, is to prod Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, focuses on corporate scandals students to understand how these complex cases actually proceed, of the past 30 years—Ivan Boesky, Enron, and others—to help from start to finish. Lawyers in the real world necessarily make students understand how conflicts of interest can trigger crimes. decisions under uncertainty, he says, but, in the classroom, this is Meanwhile, Financial Institutions and Financial Crises, which Jeffrey obscured because of a basic hindsight bias that comes from learning Gordon teaches with Business School professor Patrick Bolton, asks law through appellate decisions. The results in real-world cases students to examine the most recent global economic downturn in depend on both sides making decisions as best they can under con- context. “We look at the pattern of financial crises, plural, which have ditions of uncertainty, and in light of many moving pieces. “This been recurrent over a long period of time,” Gordon explains, “and is a chess game,” says Coffee, who recently came up with the idea also at the pattern of regulatory reforms, which, in trying to address to launch The CLS Blue Sky Blog, a wide-ranging online forum the causes of the immediate crisis, may set frameworks in which the focused on corporations and capital markets. “If you move your next crisis may occur.” pawn to king 7, what happens three moves later?” The course analyzes the legal issues at play in financial regula- The Corporations in Court seminar is one of a number of classes tion, as well as the economic and historical underpinnings of finan- at Columbia Law School that veer from more traditional law school cial instability. Such an approach, Gordon says, offers students a norms—where casebooks are primary and the law can seem far way to understand the recent crisis, and the resulting Dodd-Frank removed from real-world complications and regulations that came out of it, but it goes deeper missteps. Several other upper-level seminars than that. “It’s really about bringing this interdis- offer students insight into current business law ciplinary perspective to bear to see deeper into developments from multiple perspectives. web exclusive how the system works,” he says. “It’s fun to teach.” Black Letter Law/White Collar Crime, which Read Professor Jackson’s work A related seminar on financial institutions, is co-taught by Coffee and U.S. District Court on political spending disclosure taught by Adjunct Professor Margaret Tahyar ’87, and public companies. Judge for the Southern District of New York Jed a partner in Davis Polk’s financial institutions law.columbia.edu/mag/jackson Rakoff, who is currently an adjunct professor group, looks at systemic financial risk, both in the

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 29 U.S. and internationally, and at the regulations designed to increase With the help of Law School students and colleagues, Professor stability. Gordon, who previously co-taught the course with Tahyar, Robert J. Jackson Jr. petitioned the SEC to issue new rules says that this year he is sitting in on it, instead. “It’s a good way for requiring public companies to disclose political spending. me to stay in touch with what practitioners regard as cutting-edge questions,” he says. to the SEC explaining how it should develop some aspects of Robert Jackson, who previously worked at Wachtell, Lipton, the executive compensation rules in Dodd-Frank. “They work in Rosen & Katz, and Zack Friedman ’06, of the global advisory and groups, and develop consensus about the right choice,” Jackson investment firm Henley Partners, co-teach an investment banking says. “If I learned anything about policymaking in Washington, it course that would seem equally at home in a business school as at was that you have to make compromises.” the Law School. Drawing on their backgrounds in the corporate Finally, in the Deals course, an especially popular offering devel- world, Jackson and Friedman use specific transactions to illumi- oped by Professors Ronald Gilson and Victor P. Goldberg, students nate the investment banker’s role in deal-making, capital-raising, and get an inside look at deal-making. After learning how to analyze corporate restructurings. There is no final exam. The professors mergers, acquisitions, financings, and the like, they plow through evaluate students on problem sets that reflect an investment documents from five recent transactions, and class discussions banker’s actual work. often include guest appearances by the attorneys involved. The Jackson also teaches a course on executive compensation that class is part of Columbia Law School’s innovative Charles E. Gerber makes good use of what he learned in his role as deputy to Kenneth Transactional Studies Program, which is co-chaired by Professors R. Feinberg, the Obama administration’s former special master Ronald Mann and Alex Raskolnikov. Students enrolled in recent on executive compensation. “Before I went to Washington, I Deals courses have examined movie financings, acquisitions in wasn’t focused on policymaking, and I saw this enormous gap China, and pharmaceutical joint ventures. During one session, between what’s required to regulate financial institutions and the lawyers for Kirk Kerkorian came in to talk about his unsuc - the skills that lawyers have,” Jackson says. “I experienced a cessful effort to take over Chrysler. fundamental shift in the way that I looked at A cornerstone of Columbia Law School’s the world. Those divisions between public and transactional studies program, the Deals course private law, to the extent they were ever real, has been taught not just by Gilson and Gold- they aren’t anymore.” web exclusive berg, but also by Mann and Avery W. Katz. An In the executive compensation class, Jackson Watch videos and explore offshoot of the Deals class, the Deals Work- pushes students to take part in the regulatory materials from the Law School’s shop, gives upper-year students a more detailed innovative business courses. process: Instead of requiring them to submit a look into deal structuring and negotiation. The law.columbia.edu/mag/business final academic paper, he asks students to write high-profile practitioners who currently teach

30 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 it include Arthur S. Kaufman ’71, of counsel at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; James B. McHugh, formerly of counsel and associate general counsel at Goldman Sachs; and Melissa Sawyer, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, whose practice focuses on M&A work and private equity matters. The idea behind all these courses is to provide Law School graduates with the background and experience they will need to succeed in a more difficult economy, where the ability to understand the economics of a deal, as well as its legal structure, will set them apart. “We can show that transaction structure creates value,” Gilson says, “and we can give students a set of skills to do that.”

earning to add value to domestic transactions Professor Jeffrey N. Gordon encourages his students to think of is critical, but so too, in an increasingly global corporate law as a heavily interdisciplinary field that requires world, is understanding the issues—and oppor- knowledge of business, economic, and legal issues. tunities—abroad. Global trade has increased, L as have cross-border investments. A U.S.-based Professor Anu Bradford, who joined the Law School faculty in company may operate in dozens of nations, 2012, brings an expertise in European Union law and international subject to the financial regimes of each one of them. And the global economic law. “Given my international background, I teach much financial system faces risks—as became abundantly clear during the more globally,” Bradford says. She previously practiced antitrust financial crisis and the ongoing European economic crisis—that could law and EU law at Cleary Gottlieb in Brussels, and served as an not have been foreseen a generation ago. All of these global trends raise adviser on economic policy in the European Parliament and in the legal issues that students are exploring at Columbia Law School. Parliament of Finland, her native country. Numerous faculty members focus their work globally. Katharina A new course Bradford created for the fall will examine interna- Pistor, the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, is a world-renowned tional economic migration—the movement of people across state scholar specializing in how legal and sovereignty issues influence boundaries, often for economic opportunity—and the ways in the global financial system. Petros C. Mavroidis, the Edwin B. which legal institutions can maximize economic gains and mitigate Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law, is an expert on risks associated with economic migration. “I believe that it will trade issues with a background as an attorney at the World Trade provide a fascinating conversation on a very topical issue,” she says. Organization. And George A. Bermann ’75 LL.M., the Jean Monnet For students interested in global economics, the resources go Professor of EU Law and the Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, is beyond those available in Jerome Greene Hall. Those who want to a leading authority on international arbitration. delve into international business law can earn a J.D. and a certificate in global business law and governance in association with the University of Paris I and Sciences Po, for example, while students interested in law and *CONNECTIONS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION finance can study at Oxford through a joint program during the third year of law school. The Deals course often includes guest Ronald Gilson, who is currently writing a paper on reform of the European takeover regime, sees the appearances by the attorneys involved in comparative, cross-border, and multidisciplinary transactions being studied. The class has work going on at Columbia Law School as reflective of a certain institutional mindset. “One of the examined movie financings, acquisitions hallmarks of the business group at Columbia is in China, and pharmaceutical joint that pretty much everybody does comparative work,” he says. “That allows them to begin to ventures. During one session, the lawyers see connections between things that might not for Kirk Kerkorian came in to talk about otherwise be apparent.” his unsuccessful effort to take over Chrysler. AMY FELDMAN has written for The New York Times and Time, among other publications.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 31 Upper-year students honing their public leadership skills are learning new approaches for addressing complicated, previously intractable situations at school systems, within public interest organizations, and in the global arena By ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN Photographed by CARDONI

32 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRINGFALL 2013 2012 N THE AUTUMN OF 2011, Excel Bridgeport, a small, nonprofit I education organization in Bridgeport, Conn., hired a team consisting of two Columbia Law School students and three Columbia Business School students to help the city’s parents re-engage with its public school system. The academic performance of city schools was so abysmal that the state board of education had ordered a takeover from the district board in 2011, and parents wanted a greater say in how their children’s schools were being run. For years, parent engagement had been on a losing streak in Bridgeport. The district’s existing policy on the issue was so irrelevant as to be archeological. Maria Zambrano, the executive director of Excel Bridgeport, had never even heard of it until a board of education member exca- vated the document from a file cabinet where it had collected dust for eight years. Everyone agreed that parents should play a larger role in holding schools accountable for providing a quality education, but with so much failure in the rearview mirror, the parents doubted improvement was possible. “You’re trying to break the hold of a lot of adult interests that have controlled aspects of the school system in ways that aren’t good for the kids,” observes Professor James S. Liebman, who supervised the Columbia students during their work with Excel Bridgeport. Liebman understands all too well how the best of intentions often bump into the worst of bureaucracy. A former school desegregation lawyer who joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 1986, he began working on education reform in 2007 during a three-and-a-half-year stint as chief accountability officer at the New York City Department of Education. In that role, he quickly realized that meaningful institutional change would stall if basic problem-solving skills—data gathering, getting buy-in from stakeholders, and deter- mining how to implement agreed-upon solutions—were in short supply. After returning to Columbia Law School in 2010, Liebman created the Cen- ter for Public Research and Leadership, as well as related courses, to train students in leadership, organizational change, Mae Ackerman-Brimberg ’13 and problem-solving. The students come

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 33 from Columbia Law School, Columbia Business School, Teachers Col- *INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE lege, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. They are grouped in teams of five and report to an engagement manager at the Sturm sees the inherent value center who matches them with institutional clients. Through classroom learning in a yearlong seminar, and consulting of interdisciplinary approaches projects such as the one with Excel Bridgeport, Liebman is building a cadre of what he calls “skilled generalists”—those who can analyze to effecting change and seeks data, use research to spur change, and lead a team in executing, not just designing, solutions that put those most affected at the center. to train students in the art of “School systems,” he says, “are recognizing that you can’t just have people who used to be teachers and principals doing this work.” wearing many hats. Lawyers, Liebman’s center represents just one of several opportunities upper-level Columbia Law School students have to learn public she says, should think broadly leadership skills they can use to improve and reform school systems, public interest organizations, and international institutions. Profes- and dream big. sor Susan P. Sturm, the Law School’s George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and director of the Center for Institu- tional and Social Change, teaches students to use an “architectural approach” to effect big-picture change—like Liebman, she teaches experiential, non-clinic courses focused on methods for reform- ing established institutions. And Katharina Pistor, the Michael I. Bruns ’13, says Liebman’s center afforded him an opportunity to dive Sovern Professor of Law and director of the Law School’s Center on into a field that he truly enjoys. As a high school athlete in a small rural Global Legal Transformation, trains her students to analyze how law town in Ohio, Bruns says he was struck by the wide disparities between operates to facilitate or hinder economic and social development in the underfunded urban and rural schools and the well-resourced countries around the world, as well as how they can best position suburban schools he visited with his basketball team, an observation themselves to implement change in the global legal arena. that eventually led him to focus on education reform during law school. “Working on education reform means using my legal education to ACK IN BRIDGEPORT, the parents recruited by Excel get involved with something I’m passionate about,” he says. “It’s a nice began convening each month, filming their meetings, and change [from more traditional legal fields] and can have a big impact.” B sending the videos to the center’s student-consultants—who Following his work with parents in Bridgeport, Bruns was engaged chose to work remotely at first to ensure that parents felt full auton- through the center during his last semester of law school to assist Con- omy. The students, meanwhile, provided parents with the research necticut’s state education board. He helped create a peer networking they needed to make decisions: parent-engagement best practices program to match schools in the state based on shared strengths, culled from all over the country; exercises that helped parents trace weaknesses, and needs, in an effort to benefit from best practices. their disenfranchisement to its root causes; lesson plans challenging In addition to the Bridgeport project, the Center for Public Research parents to think through strategies for achieving desired outcomes. and Leadership has successfully partnered with Newark’s public school By May of 2012, the parents had drafted a new engagement policy. system, the Connecticut State Department of Education, and, on more By August, they convinced the Bridgeport school district to adopt it. than one occasion, New York City’s Department of Education. Liebman The new policy brims with the parents’ ideas for helping their children grow through meaningful engagement with the school system and provides detailed instructions on how to make that happen. The policy requires schools to inform parents each year of a student’s learning objectives. It mandates regular communication with parents via a variety of methods—including text messages and social media—and it calls for using Google Translate to interact with each parent in his or her preferred language. Most importantly, it received support from every relevant stakeholder, including teachers and principals. Amanda Meyer ’13, a student-consultant on the Excel Bridgeport project, saw how “skilled generalists” could help work toward solutions to problems that, as a teacher in the Bronx and Brooklyn prior to attending law school, she had wanted to address. “[The parents said] they felt so much agency—that for the first time their voices mattered,” she says. “And they were articu- lating ideas in a powerful way.” Meyer’s Excel Bridgeport teammate and fellow co- Amanda Meyer ’13 chair of the Education Law and Policy Society, Andrew

34 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 of the most cutting-edge ideas out there, and to use that to identify the right field research project for them.” web exclusive For recent graduate Mae Learn more about the centers led by Professors Liebman, Ackerman-Brimberg ’13—who Sturm, and Pistor. worked on children’s rights law.columbia.edu/mag/3-centers issues after college and is pursuing a joint degree at the Law School and Columbia University’s School of Social Work—that meant investigating why public institutions so often fail the young people who rely on them. As an intern with an in-home family therapy program for youth involved with the juvenile justice system who are struggling with substance abuse, she worked to bridge the gap between the legal and social services systems to serve young people. Sturm sees the inherent value of such interdisciplinary Andrew Bruns ’13 approaches to effecting change and seeks to train students in the fine art of wearing many hats. Lawyers, she says, should think says he receives regular requests from school boards at the federal, state, broadly and dream big. Her students are following that lead. and district levels looking to recruit Columbia Law School students for “Aside from learning the skills,” says Ackerman-Brimberg, “she wants projects. “People call me all the time, desperate,” he says. “There’s a huge us to open our minds about what people with law degrees can do.” need for professionals, who are trained and flexible, to do this work.” PENING STUDENTS’ MINDS to new ways of thinking USAN STURM IS ALSO TRAINING multifaceted profes- about how lawyers can operate more effectively, both in sionals to help drive change. Sturm introduces her students O the U.S. and abroad, is a specialty of sorts for Professor S to a nuanced theory of multidimensional systems change she Katharina Pistor. has been developing since her undergraduate years, and then chal- The native of Freiburg, Germany, and 2012 Max Planck lenges them to connect it to their own lives and goals. The idea, Research Award winner trains students to situate law within a spelled out in Sturm’s 2006 article “The Architecture of Inclusion: matrix of other disciplines to understand how legal structures Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education,” is to remove interact with other, more diffuse norms. In her upper-level Law the obstacles precluding what she calls “institutional citizenship,” and Development course, students examine how different countries’ or the full participation of all members of an institution. legal systems have impacted economic and social development, and Sturm takes as her starting point lawyers’ roles in structuring how multilateral organizations can, and must, pick up where networks and institutions, and then highlights the features of suc- state sovereignty ends. cessful institutional transformation. These include mapping and “I see this as a training in being able to deal with a more globalized diagnosing the dynamics that underlie structural inequality, identifying world,” Pistor says. “We teach our students how to ask the right individuals with the leverage and commitment to work across networks, questions, so if they go to negotiate a transaction, or into an arbitra- and focusing on issues that offer the most opportunity for impact. tion, they can see where the other side is coming from.” In Sturm’s yearlong, upper-level Diversity and Innovation course, Rodd Izadnia ’12 describes Pistor’s courses as “in the vein of critical students apply those theories while working on supervised field legal theory.” But instead of examining law’s role in shaping constructs research projects with the Ford Foundation–funded Center for Insti- like race or gender, they interrogate how law interacts with political tutional and Social Change. One recent student, with support from economy. “She points to transnational institutions and discusses how the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, they’re creating law, and what impact that is having developmentally,” conducted participant-researcher work with a coalition of community Izadnia says, noting the increasing importance of these entities as groups advocating for public school reform. She interviewed the lawyers globalization limits the autonomy of state actors. and activists involved to find out how they frame their problems, and to That analytical framework, he adds, has given him a deeper determine what they believe people with legal training bring to the table. understanding of his role as a dispute settlement lawyer at the Amanda Meyer, meanwhile, applied the knowledge she learned in both World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where member Liebman’s and Sturm’s seminars in collaborating with the Center for nations raise arguments over matters of international trade. And, as Institutional and Social Change on a program that helps women with is the case with the students working alongside Professors Liebman criminal records access higher education and graduate from college. and Sturm, Izadnia sees the potential for positive change that goes Another former student received a Skadden Fellowship to further hand-in-hand with the approaches he has learned. “The belief I pursue a project he began in Sturm’s course. He is examining how higher gained from her class and that is affirmed here [at the WTO],” he education institutions can partner with surrounding communities and says, “is that this organization and the kind of cooperation and com- use university resources to address issues such as failing public schools. munication that it facilitates is all driving towards development goals, “We meet individually and I ask [students], ‘What is your burning economic prosperity, and human rights.” question?’” Sturm says. “‘What is it you really want to do in the world?’ They’re asked to think that through in a highly theorized but also deeply ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN has written for The Atlantic and The New personal way, to connect their own experience and ambition with some York Times, among other publications.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 35 For upper-year students examining the issue of governmental transparency during an era marked by terror alerts and Twitter rumors, Columbia Law School offers access to a plethora of experienced practitioners and an international focus that is second to none *** BY ELISE JORDAN ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM VOORHES

36 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 t 2:49 p.m. on Monday, April While first responders performed admi- The Tsarnaev family is Chechen, and the 15, four hours, nine minutes, and rably, over the course of the next four brothers emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. 43 seconds into the 2013 Boston days, the investigatory framework estab- The criminal justice system has now taken Marathon, the first of two homemade lished to handle terrorist attacks post-9/11 center stage, but there is much to be gleaned bombs exploded near the finish line. showed signs of strain. The investigation, from those first days after the blasts. Even con- Twelve seconds later, a second bomb deto- which unfolded in real-time on social media sidering the extent to which many Americans nated on the course. The explosions killed networks and cable TV, evidenced tensions have near-immediate access to newsworthy three spectators and wounded 264 others between the obligation of the government information, the investigation into the Boston in what was the most devastating terrorist to be transparent, while at the same time bombings seemed different from other mod- attack on American soil since September 11, safeguarding information that needed to ern manhunts. “This was a hunt that was in 2001. Within seconds of the blasts, thou- remain secret in order to locate the sus- large part helped rather than hampered by sands of individuals set about responding pects. Government officials attempted to the cooperation of the public,” says Daniel to the disaster. balance the public’s desire for news with C. Richman, Columbia Law School’s Paul J. Medical workers at first aid tents orga- operational security secrecy—the FBI Kellner Professor of Law. “The kinds of infor- nized makeshift triage units. Emergency held press conferences, the Boston Police mation coming in from victims and bystanders room doctors and nurses learned via Twitter Department posted to its Twitter account, seem to suggest that there was a net-positive and text messages what had happened, and and both worked to combat misinformation contribution from the public.” prepared operating rooms to accommodate spread by the media and over the Internet. Not everything went according to plan, the wounded. The FBI took the lead on the Ultimately, four days after the race, America though. Millions watched as CNN, two days investigation, opening its first large-scale received some conclusive answers. One sus- after the bombing, reported an arrest that had crowdsourced operation by requesting video pect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed during a never taken place. Citizens tuned into police and photos from witnesses, and using social shootout with police, and his younger brother, scanners and tweeted what they heard, and media to gather information. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody. amateur sleuths flocked to the Reddit website

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 37 to comb over publicly available photos of Professor Matthew C. Waxman, who served Pakistan. After taking photos of the dead men, people attending the race—ultimately ID-ing at the State Department and the Depart- Davis fled the site, but Pakistani police soon “prime suspects” who proved to be ordinary ment of Defense before joining the faculty, captured and imprisoned him. Although he spectators uninvolved in the bombing plot. frequently uses formerly secret information was not an entirely sympathetic figure, Davis’ The New York Post published a cover photo of that has leaked in the press as a starting clandestine work in black ops meant the two supposed suspects who ended up having point for conversations in his upper-level American government had a clear interest in nothing to do with the attack. National Security Law class. He discusses tar- getting him out of the country—both quickly geted killing, interrogation policies, and sur- and without too much publicity. veillance in the course. “Especially in the cases As protests over the killings erupted across f the issue of governmental of interrogation and surveillance, there’s often Pakistan, State Department officials insisted transparency had somehow a concern about broadcasting to the enemy our Davis was entitled to diplomatic immunity managed to elude the atten- intelligence-gathering techniques,” Waxman under the Vienna Convention on Diplo- tion of everyday Americans says, “yet the details of these programs are also matic Relations. Reporters were pressured following 9/11, the Boston matters of great public concern.” not to publish his covert status. Following Marathon bombings certainly This past fall, when Professor Sarah H. two months of negotiations, Munter helped served as a wake-up call. Not Cleveland welcomed former U.S. Ambas- broker a deal that resulted in Davis’ release. surprisingly, the legal dimen- sador to Pakistan and Law School Visiting It was an important breakthrough. U.S. sions of transparency—the Professor Cameron Munter to her Interna- officials worried that, if held longer, Davis extent to which government information tional Lawyering for Governments class, he could have been tortured by the Pakistanis, can or should be made public in an effort highlighted several transparency-related revealing secrets to an untrustworthy ally. to ensure accountability and prevent cor- judgment calls. Munter dealt with some of the Munter told the students that the diplo- ruption—are being examined by Columbia most difficult problems of national security matic and legal tightrope illustrates the Law School faculty and students on a daily law during two years as the U.S. envoy in that balancing act modern government officials basis. At the Law School, classes dealing war-torn region: America’s top-secret drone navigate in an effort to square secrecy and with issues of government transparency are war, NATO’s cross-border strike that killed transparency interests. strengthened by the School’s strong con- Pakistani soldiers, and extrajudicial killings Cleveland notes that transparency was nections with national security law practi- by Pakistani forces. He told the class about the the focus of several robust discussions dur- tioners, its international focus, and faculty case of Raymond Davis, an undercover CIA ing her International Lawyering course, members who have wrangled with these contractor who killed two armed men as they which is part of the Law School’s increas- issues while working in government. allegedly attempted to rob Davis in Lahore, ingly internationally focused curriculum preparing students for careers in national security law, public law, and government *CONNECTIONS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION service. Cleveland, who served as a coun- selor on international law in the Obama Upper-year students have learned the State Department from 2009 to 2011, headed the legal team that advised Munter ins and outs of governmental transparency on some of the trickiest flashpoints of international law. She views transparency from faculty members who have served in and secrecy as especially relevant topics in the post-9/11 world. “Government legal the federal government, as well as from the analysis may be protected by attorney-client new head of the FBI and the former privilege and may be classified for other reasons, but it’s important to know the gov- U.S. ambassador to Pakistan. ernment’s legal thinking,” Cleveland says. “It’s very hard to criticize and challenge the government’s legal system if you don’t know it.”

s the former principal deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning and the Department of Defense’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, Professor Matthew Waxman crisscrossed the globe negotiating agreements and visiting war zone prisons. He says the study

38 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 of transparency inherently poses a challenge: “How do you teach about things that remain secret?” Waxman has seen an evolution in the perception of government secrecy. “When I arrived here six years ago, during the Bush years, and would teach secrecy, I think many students thought high levels of secrecy was a Bush administration approach,” he explains. “Now, teaching those same issues under the Obama administration, one sees how consistent some secretive practices are, regardless of who is occupying the White House.” This coming spring, Waxman will teach a Law School seminar with Michael Farbiarz, co-chief of the terrorism and international Professor Daniel C. Richman narcotics unit at the U.S. Attor- ney’s Office for the Southern District of ated a lot of conversation about information in presenting Senate testimony on drone New York, on intelligence and surveillance security policy. That conversation was still usage earlier this year. A second report law in the 21st century. Waxman also plans ongoing in 2012, when I left the government.” found that widely disseminated estimates to co-teach a seminar in the spring with on drone-strike casualties could be inaccu- former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman that will rate and misleading, garnering the atten- focus on national security and Congress. ust as Professors David tion of several news outlets, including The Public law scholars Philip C. Bobbitt and Pozen, Philip Bobbitt, New York Times. This spring, a coalition David Pozen, two of Waxman’s faculty col- Matthew Waxman, and expressing shared concerns regarding U.S. leagues, are also uniquely positioned to teach Sarah Cleveland wrestled drone strikes, led by HRI, prompted a about issues relating to transparency. Bobbitt with issues related to trans- White House response reiterating the presi- served in the Carter, George H.W. Bush, and parency while working dent’s commitment to greater transparency. Clinton administrations, and he helped write in the executive branch, The clinic also submitted written testimony the charter for the CIA. His time in govern- Columbia Law School stu- to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ment coincided with some of the nation’s most dents are working through drone strikes, and HRI has hosted meetings historic transparency predicaments, including similar complexities—sometimes in the con- for advocates and experts in the field, fur- those relating to hostage negotiations during text of a governmental office. The Law School’s ther enhancing its reputation as a signifi- the siege of the American Embassy in Tehran, Externship on the Federal Government in cant resource on transparency issues. the Iran-Contra affair, and war powers issues Washington, D.C., for instance, enables Former federal prosecutor Daniel Richman during the run-up to the Gulf War. upper-level students to spend a semester says that outside-the-classroom opportu- Pozen, meanwhile, became special working full time at government agencies such nities can be invaluable to assuring that assistant to then State Department Legal as the FBI general counsel’s office, the Justice the early part of one’s career is marked by Adviser Harold Hongju Koh just days after Department, and the State Department’s legal success. “Too many students think their Wikileaks released more than 250,000 office. “It’s an opportunity for students to put formal legal education is running out by classified State Department cables as part their classroom knowledge to work and see the third year,” he says. “Particularly if you of the largest unauthorized publication of what it’s like to practice law within the machin- want to be federal prosecutors, nothing classified documents in history. “There was ery of government,” Waxman says. is more wrong than that attitude.” In the a lot of activity of varied kinds [as a result Back in Morningside Heights, students third year, Richman encourages students of] Wikileaks,” he recalls. “It was a period of participating in the Human Rights Clinic who have a particular interest in public significant anxiety.” and working with Columbia Law School’s law to drill down in their specialization. Cables revealing secret—and in some cases, Human Rights Institute (HRI) engage in Columbia Law School students interested snarky—diplomatic analysis, doings, and high-profile work on the topic of transparency in national security law or public service dealings were out in the open, available to the and targeted killing. careers who are looking to take Richman’s world in an unprecedented security breach. In September 2012, the clinic published advice have the opportunity to learn from and “Some foreign relationships were implicated,” the first systematic study of the government’s meet an array of visiting legal heavyweights Pozen adds, “and the Department had to covert drone program and its impact on who supplement the law school experi- attend to those relationships. Some cables civilian populations. Retired General James ence. Prominent speakers such as Daniel raised discrete policy concerns that had to be E. Cartwright, former vice chairman of the L. Glaser ’93, the U.S. Department of the dealt with. More broadly, the episode gener- Joint Chiefs of Staff, quoted from this study Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 39 *INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE International Lawyering for Governments, recently co-taught by Professor Sarah H. Cleveland and visitor Daniel Bethlehem, examined scores of thorny transparency problems—from drones to hacking.

financing, and Brigadier General Mark and examine issues as a government lawyer engaging these questions,” Pozen says. “I Martins, the country’s chief prosecutor for would. During Pozen’s upper-level Law of urge my students to assess critically the claims military commissions, have delivered recent Government Secrecy course, he asks stu- made by secret-keepers and open-government lectures, the latter as part of the Roger dents to do a close reading of the Freedom advocates alike.” Hertog Program on Law and National of Information Act, which allows for the Students in his class review cases and Security speaker series. release of requested information from statutes, but also news articles on scenar- Through the Center on Global Governance, government agencies in an effort to serve ios such as the CIA’s refusal to turn over which they co-direct, Professor Michael W. the public’s right to know. He wants them records dealing with the drone program. Doyle and Professor Emeritus Richard N. to think about how the law constrains gov- “I try to push students to get beyond the Gardner have organized guest lectures with ernmental actors who are looking to keep loose, popular association of bureaucratic invited diplomats and international officials, information from the public, and what ‘transparency’ with light and truth and such as U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan balancing approaches they might take if all things desirable in government, to see Eliasson, who spoke about international presented with similar circumstances. His the complexity in the issues,” Pozen says. development. And a spring conference held course covers a range of topics, including “Transparency is a fundamental public by the Center for Constitutional Governance the classification system used to categorize value, but it is far from an unalloyed good.” drew practitioners and scholars, includ- the secrecy of national security informa- Richman asks his Federal Criminal Law ing former White House Counsel Robert tion, executive and state secrets privilege, class to think not just about how statutes, Bauer and Harold Hongju Koh, for dis- whistleblowing, and theoretical and con- like that criminalizing the material support cussions of the constitutional challenges stitutional debates over the existence and of terrorism, are interpreted, but how they facing the Obama administration in its scope of a “right to know.” should be written, and how prosecutions second term. “I want to immerse students in both should be timed. In the classroom setting, meanwhile, general theory and the practical consid- “The notion of how and when elected pub- students are pressed to push past theory erations of being a government lawyer lic officials get prosecuted is an interesting transparency question,” he says. Professor Sarah H. Cleveland “What happens when an election is coming up, even as an investigation is being pursued with respect to a public official? To what extent should the timeline of the political process play a part in the decisions made by prosecutors? There’s no right answer across all cases.” To give students a sense of how decisions in the often opaque world of federal criminal enforcement get made, Richman has brought in FBI agents and former colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office, including Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald—who visited while he was serving as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago—and James B. Comey, the new FBI director, who talked to students about his management role

40 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 the “constitutional character” of world treaties like the Peace of Westphalia, the U.N. Charter, and the WTO agreements. Combining equal parts political philosophy, political science, and constitutional law, the course focuses on the study of global governance and how law can promote cooperation around the world. Here again, transparency issues underlie many of the topics at hand. “We don’t have an international democracy, but we are deeply influenced by what happens in other countries,” Doyle says. “Transparency comes in at the global level as a norm that could enhance the degree of legitimacy Professor Michael W. Doyle for decisions that will never in the foreseeable future be democratic. as deputy attorney general under President And what is the best way to facilitate trans- If we can find a way to make decisions at George W. Bush. Earlier this year, Comey came parency in financial reporting related to the WTO, or the U.N., or the EU, or other to Columbia Law School to be in residence as international trade? bodies that are more transparent and are a senior fellow in the Roger Hertog Program For the past two years, Professor Sarah subject to review, we are more likely to get on Law and National Security and, until his Cleveland has co-taught International Lawyer- legitimate global governance than if deci- nomination intervened, was preparing to ing for Governments with Daniel Bethlehem, sions are made in secret by a small elite teach this fall. the former principle legal adviser of the United group that doesn’t listen to other parties Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office. that might be affected.” The first year, the seminar dealt with law- Doyle’s overarching point is especially aniel Richman’s asser- yering for the U.S. government, and, in the relevant in light of the Boston Marathon tion that there are no second year, the seminar focused on com- bombings and their aftermath. One of the blanket answers that parative approaches to international gov- chief national security lessons reaffirmed by cover all cases is a ernment lawyering—with former British that tragedy relates to the continued impor- sentiment that comes Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, among tance of international, cross-border coopera- up again and again others, offering his insights as a guest tion in efforts to curb and counter terrorism. for those who teach speaker. Instead of assigning independent Since as early as 2001, Kremlin sources courses focused on research papers, Cleveland and Bethlehem have leaked information aimed at convinc- issues of transpar- asked students to work in teams, analyzing ing the U.S. government that Chechen ency. In most instances, there simply are not and proposing solutions for thorny trans- groups were responsible for terrorist attacks cut-and-dry-type solutions. “Many students parency problems, such as how government in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. After come in thinking of transparency and secrecy actors should respond if hackers attack U.S. Boston, those assertions are being seen in a as a black-and-white issue,” Waxman says. computer systems and how the American gov- new light. “The interaction between Ameri- “Things are either secret, or they are open. ernment should attempt to self-regulate efforts can intelligence agencies and the Russians as But you see many examples where we have to target terrorism suspects using drones. they try to work through what these guys were tried to strike a balance down the middle. While Cleveland and Bethlehem focused doing when they went back home, and who There are many ways systems can be set on international law in relation to sover- they were dealing with, is where interesting up to try to find a middle ground between eign nations, Professor Michael Doyle’s action will happen, or not,” says Richman. And complete public openness and total execu- upper-level Global Constitutionalism finding the appropriate balance between tive secrecy.” course examines what Doyle refers to as transparency and secrecy will be key to the Transparency dilemmas, of course, are not investigation’s ultimate success. “There has limited to the domestic sphere. Under interna- to be a mix of public input and government tional law, for instance, what did the Pakistani secrecy, and it’s hard to say what that balance public legally have the right to know about join the conversation is,” he adds. “But what you do see [in the Raymond Davis’ activities in their country? Should current national security policies Boston example] is that both are important More abstractly, what transparency standards be more or less transparent? to successful counterterrorism operations.” should guide international tribunals that meld Vote, see results, and leave a comment. law.columbia.edu/mag/ the laws of several nation-states in an attempt natsec-vote ELISE JORDAN has written for The Atlantic to moderate cultural and legal differences? and The Daily Beast.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 41 42 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2012 In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, upper-year students at Columbia Law School are working with scientific experts and governments near and far to ensure that the city, country, and world are more prepared for the climate- and weather-related disasters of the future

BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK ILLUSTRATION BY C.J. BURTON

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 43 hen Superstorm Sandy made landfall this past October, inundating lower Manhattan and devastating coastal areas throughout the Northeast, it left aftershocks that have outlasted the headlines about wrecked homes, destroyed gas lines, and flooded streets. As much as the 117 lives it claimed, the historic 900-mile-wide storm will be remembered for effects not immediately evident in the chaos and suffering caused by its collision with the tri-state area. Eleven months later, the storm’s most important legacy is a shift in climate consciousness. Sandy left in its wake an acute awareness—among the public, inside corporate executive suites, and under rotundas in D.C. and Albany—that a “new normal” has arrived, requiring different and more urgent modes of planning for, and thinking about, extreme weather, ones requiring large investments in everything from updating zoning codes to preserving wetlands. This new openness to hardening, rezoning, and relocating infrastructure in anticipation of climate change, known as “adaptation planning,” is a welcome but not unexpected shift for Professor Michael B. Gerrard, Columbia Law School’s Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and director of the Cen- ter for Climate Change Law. Gerrard, who trains upper-level students in cutting-edge adaptation-related legal work each semester via his seminars and center projects, had been theorizing about and advocating for adaptation planning since long before the post-Sandy media picked up on buzzwords like “coastal retreat” (the techni - Professor Michael B. Gerrard cal term for abandoning vulnerable coastal areas to rising seas). He has long been regarded as perhaps the world’s leading envi - sat there. At the urging of a lawmaker, I enlisted one of our students ronmental legal theorist working in the future climate tense. working on flooding and sea level rise,Katee Kline ’14, to write legis- And the students Gerrard works with learn from top climate lation [that mandates] adaptation planning by state agencies. It’s too scientists, expert practitioners, and leaders in international early to say whether I expect it to pass. It might be opposed by real efforts to address climate change. estate interests, which could be concerned that designating certain “It’s been clear for some time that climate change poses areas as flood hazard areas would lower their value.” exceedingly complex legal challenges,” says Gerrard, a former Columbia Law School students are also engaged in efforts to chair of the American Bar Association’s section of environment, help state agencies and private utilities begin planning for climate energy, and resources. “The idea behind the center is to prepare change–related stresses on New York’s grid. For example, this past our students to be leaders in effecting and implementing the [new year the center submitted a petition to the New York Public Ser- thinking and new laws] that these challenges will require.” vice Commission that would require utilities to prepare climate Gerrard, and the scores of Columbia adaptation plans. It also intervened Law School students who work with in a rate proceeding involving Con him, are not sitting around waiting Edison, which has proposed spending for the requisite political will nec- *INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE $1 billion during the next four years. essary to pass sweeping legislation. “We’re not sure Con Ed has allocated They are at the forefront of munici- Columbia Law School enough, or that they’re putting [the pal, state, national, and international money] in the right place,” says efforts to prepare the legal groundwork students are engaged Gerrard. “Climate change isn’t just for litigating in what scientists predict in efforts to help about hurricanes. It’s also about will be a century of rising tempera- inland storms and heat waves that tures and sea levels. In New York, state agencies and have a major impact on electrical sys- Gerrard and the center are contrib- private utilities begin tems. What Con Ed does will [set a] uting to the city’s and state’s early precedent for other utilities regulated adaptation efforts—nudging, guid- planning for future by the Public Service Commission.” ing, and sometimes drafting adaptation legislation. climate change–related “A few years ago, I became a mem- stresses on AS CLIMATE CHANGE is a quint- ber of the Sea Level Rise Task Force essentially global crisis, the Center created by the state legislature,” says New York’s grid. for Climate Change Law’s vision is Gerrard. “We issued our report in late necessarily global in scope. Gerrard 2010, but the recommendations just has co-edited (with Katrina Fischer

44 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 Kuh) the first comprehensive book advisory documents. Students on adaptation law, The Law of Adap- participating in the clinic are cur- tation to Climate Change: United *INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE rently working with the center on States and International Aspects. a managed retreat project focused He has also linked the center with Columbia Law School on how best to use federal Sandy several small island countries of the reconstruction aid money. Pacific that already face existing students have “How can communities rebuild threats from rising seas caused by drafted a treaty to themselves while minimizing climate change. “Threatened nations harms in the future?” asks Lloyd, must prepare themselves legally for coordinate the climate who, like Gerrard, is also on the a future without habitable territory,” efforts of several faculty of Columbia University’s says Gerrard. Earth Institute. “We’re looking at To address the legal questions at small island nations in municipal and state government the heart of their crisis—where are strategies regarding flooding—from the populations to be relocated? the South Pacific Maine to Mississippi—to come up Who is responsible for the reloca- facing rising with a handbook for government tion process?—the center recently officials. Should we rebuild the hosted a conference co-sponsored sea level threats. dunes? Should we rebuild the first by the government of the Marshall two blocks near the ocean? What Islands. That country is dealing with has worked before? We want to the possibility of having to completely give state officials the tools others evacuate its population due to rising seas, and Columbia Law School have used. Sandy represents an enormous opportunity. The bil - students have drafted a treaty to coordinate the climate efforts of lions in community block money coming into New Jersey alone several small island nations in the South Pacific facing similar threats. is the equivalent of 300 years’ worth of block grants.” These efforts, explains Gerrard, involve “diplomatic and political steps Like graphs of global temperatures from the past 50 years, stu- each nation [can] pursue to strengthen its legal standing into the dent interest in climate-related legal issues reflects an upward future.” The center also keeps a close eye on high-level international trend. Course and clinical offerings led by Gerrard and Lloyd are climate negotiations. In 2010, it sent third-year student Claire often oversubscribed. “Student interest is growing,” says Gerrard. Woods ’11 to observe and report back on the U.N. negotiations in “There was a rise when it appeared there was going to be a mas - Cancun, a major event on the U.N. climate calendar that brought sive new regulatory program in Waxman-Markey [a bill that together the parties to the Kyoto Protocol. would have capped emissions and created a market for trading The new field of adaptation law, whether at the local or emissions quotas], then something of a drop after the climate international level, requires extrapolating from a body of estab- legislation died. But the continued accumulation of scien - lished environmental law. “There are no adaptation statutes,” tific studies is reviving interest, as are recent administration explains Gerrard. “But there are existing laws that can be used to actions. The energy side of the equation will lead to a lot of encourage adaptation efforts—both U.S. environmental laws and employment prospects. [The center attracts students] who international environmental policy. For example, the Endangered have an environmental commitment, as well as those who see Species Act is relevant. The Law of Adaptation looks at how insur- it as a business and practice area.” ance, agriculture, and forestry laws apply, and asks, ‘What new Lloyd expects that Sandy and superstorms to come will result in laws do we need that don’t yet exist?’ We’ve been pushing for the even more student interest. “For the past decade, climate and energy approval process for new infrastructure to explicitly think about have been huge issues, but the storm really brought it home,” he says. how to mitigate risks from climate change. If you’re planning a There are, of course, still those who deny climate change is hap- highway or sewer, how do you design it so that it can withstand pening. Those working on center and clinic projects encounter [climate pressures]?” this diminishing population of skeptics in the policy arena. Some students also work directly opposite them, defending Columbia climate scientists from scurrilous and politically motivated attacks. PARTNERING WITH THE CENTER for Climate Change Law on “Some of the groups opposed to climate regulation attack Columbia’s much of its work is the Environmental Law Clinic, which is run by climate scientists, which has led to legal actions,” says Gerrard. Edward Lloyd, the Law School’s Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor “Our students help them defend themselves.” in Environmental Law, and Lecturer-in-Law Susan J. Kraham. The skeptics, though, are fighting an increasingly rear-guard A former executive director of the New Jersey Public Interest and losing battle, with neither science nor time on their side. Research Group, Lloyd brings “All the projections are that higher seas, warmer temperatures, the perspective of grassroots and more extreme weather will lead to a range of global security organizing and advocacy and humanitarian challenges,” says Gerrard. “The world that our to joint projects of the cen- view more students will be facing in the middle and latter parts of their careers ter and the clinic. His stu - Watch experts discuss will be profoundly different from the one we have today.” dents draft amicus briefs legal issues relating to managed coastal retreat. in climate-related lawsuits law.columbia.edu/mag/mcr ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK is a journalist who has written for The New and help write government York Times, Wired, and Details, among other publications.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 45 46 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 DEEP DIVISIONS With his most recent book, new faculty member Richard R.W. Brooks examines the sordid history and lasting impact of racially restrictive covenants

hen new Columbia Law School faculty while she attempted to establish a place for them in the member Richard R.W. Brooks dedicated United States. By working several jobs, she had finally W his latest book to his mother, paying trib- saved enough to become a homeowner and was able to ute to her as “a pioneer and game-changer,” he had leave the grittier part of Norwalk for a leafy, pleasant, in mind the modest, white, Cape Cod–style house and, as it happens, nearly all-white neighborhood. “It she bought in 1981 on a suburban street in East was strictly middle class, but for us it felt like a huge Norwalk, Conn. leap,” says Brooks, who was 7 when he followed his Trudy Travers had emigrated from a small Jamaican mother to the U.S., and was just finishing the ninth town, leaving her two sons with their grandmother grade when they moved into their new home.

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ILLUSTRATION BY JAMES STEINBERG LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 47 Though his mother tried to shield him from their rooks’ latest book, Saving the Neighborhood, neighbors’ hostility, Brooks felt it anyway. “They is briskly written, with a cast of characters left intimidating phone messages and notes on the Bthat includes jurists and activists, NAACP front door,” he recalls. Others complained to the litigators and racially steering realtors, idealists, zoning board because a family friend had moved Brooks’ new hustlers, the developer of Levittown, and playwright into a spare bedroom and helped pay the mortgage. Lorraine Hansberry’s father. It analyzes how Some neighbors even called the health department. book required racially restrictive covenants emerged as a lawful “It continued like that for years,” Brooks says. “My him to way to prohibit African-Americans (as well as mom was somewhat of a block-buster.” Jewish people and other minorities) from mov- The experience—growing up in Connecticut with function as ing into white neighborhoods after the Supreme brown skin and “a funny accent”—left him “curious Court outlawed racial zoning in the 1917 case of about the way people interact around differences,” a historian, an Buchanan v. Warley. he says. That curiosity led, among other things, to Covenants forbidding sales or rentals to his latest book, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially anthropologist, African-Americans became extremely common Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms, in great swathes of Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, which Brooks co-authored with Carol M. Rose. and a game and other cities during the first half of the 20th The work teems with in-depth research, as century. Following decades of extensive use, the the authors trace the rise of racially restrictive theorist, as provisions reached the point of being an estab- covenants—deed restrictions that governed to well as a legal lished element in American real estate transac- whom an owner or developer might sell his or tions, before the Supreme Court, in Shelley v. her property—and how these clauses served scholar. Kraemer, ruled them unenforceable in 1948. But if to legitimize segregated neighborhoods. They such covenants held legal sway for a limited period, argue that, to this day, such covenants have a Brooks and Rose argue that they continued to have lingering impact on housing patterns and race relations. influence because they reflected and solidified social norms. “They Beyond his work on the history of American housing discrimi- were creating a custom of discrimination, normalizing discrimina- nation, Brooks brought along several other scholarly projects tion,” he says. “They guided behavior.” investigating differences when he joined the Columbia Law School And while the book deals mostly with practices and legal mecha- faculty this summer—including explorations of race and class in nisms of the past, housing discrimination persists, Brooks notes. In many aspects of American life. He specializes in applied game theory, June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contract theory, and empirical analysis of law. (HUD) released the results of a study that dispatched white and “Rick is one of our nation’s preeminent legal academics,” saidDavid minority “testers” to visit thousands of real estate agents and other M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law; Harvey housing providers requesting information on available places to R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics, in announcing Brooks’ live. Though the most overt form of discrimination, known as appointment as the Law School’s Charles Keller Beekman Professor “door-slamming,” had receded since HUD first began these peri- of Law, “and we are delighted to welcome him at Columbia.” The odic surveys in 1977, the study found that African-Americans are still fourth faculty member recruited from Yale Law School in the past five shown fewer available homes and rental units than whites—who also years, Brooks, who is 47, holds degrees in economics from Cornell and receive more favorable financial terms. the University of California, Berkeley (where he earned his Ph.D.), Brooks is quick to point out that the influence and lasting impact of and he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. racially restrictive covenants would never have been possible without the consistent backing of allies and supporters—individuals and entities that Brooks and Rose refer to as “norm entrepreneurs”—who conspired to discourage integration. These included developers, real FACULTY estate brokers, and the New Deal’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which warned about “inharmonious racial groups” in its MATTERS underwriting manual. “The FHA thought its mission was to increase home ownership and neighborhood property values, and integrated The Columbia Law School faculty has grown by 19 percent neighborhoods was not a strategy to accomplish that,” Brooks says. since the arrival of Dean David M. Schizer in 2004. The “It rationalized its clearly discriminatory policy.” recent addition of Richard R.W. Brooks and international Arrayed against these forces were those the authors dubbed law expert Anthea Roberts brings the number of full-time “norm breakers,” a category that included NAACP lawyers, the voting faculty members to 88, compared to 74 in the fall of African-American press, and integrationists such as Carl Hansberry, 2004. As the Law School faculty grows, the number of students a black Chicago businessman. Hansberry managed to buy a house in a remains relatively steady, increasing by approximately 3 percent covenanted neighborhood through a straw buyer—a cooperative white during the same nine-year span. The combination has led intermediary who posed as the new owner, then sold it to him—and to the lowest student-faculty ratio in the School’s history. took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. (His daughter, Lorraine, This shift has been part of a concentrated effort to dramatized these issues in her now-classic play, A Raisin in the Sun.) promote curricular innovation at Columbia Law School In a less obvious way, “blockbusters,” real estate brokers and expand existing programs. who fanned racial fears for personal gain, also played a role in undermining covenants. While Brooks describes some as

48 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 Professor Richard R.W. Brooks

“undoubtedly sleazy”—moving truly undesirable residents into white argues, that is not empirically demonstrated. “I actually think some neighborhoods to induce homeowners to sell at bargain prices so mismatch is good,” he adds. “When surrounded by people with the brokers could resell at a profit, for instance—he points out that stronger incoming credentials, that can drive you to learn more, can some were looking to help dismantle segregation. “They felt they were improve your own game and ambition.” on the side of justice,” he says. In fact, as Brooks continued his research, he says he became more t Columbia Law School—where he will be teaching con- conscious of the complexities at play in the history of housing discrimi- tracts, corporate law, fiduciary law and economics, and nation. “By the end, it was so much more complicated than bad guys A game theoretic analyses of law—Brooks will continue to and good guys,” Brooks says. “Everybody became more nuanced.” explore differences and their impact. He has also begun writing The process of researching and writing Saving the Neighborhood his next book, which concerns how formal titles and forms of involved not only sifting through online legal archives, but filing address—from the Constitutional prohibition against granting Freedom of Information Act requests at the National Archives any American a “title of nobility” to the post–Civil War practice in and visiting several cities where legal battles over covenants were Southern courts of referring to black attorneys as “Lawyer So-and-So,” waged. “For some of this, you actually have to go to city hall to not “Mr.”—play a role in social interaction. look at the tract books and the ordinances,” he adds. The work Also on Brooks’ agenda is a decade-long study of race and class required him to function as a historian, an anthropologist, and a on Martha’s Vineyard, which has been home to both whites and game theorist, as well as a legal scholar. blacks since the 17th century, along with an ever-decreasing number Brooks’ scholarship has led him to examine a broad range of other of native Wampanoags. For this project Brooks undertakes an legal, economic, and social justice issues throughout his career, from the empirical multi-method approach, such as measuring the distances lack of credit institutions in low-income neighborhoods to minorities’ that groups of beachgoers choose to keep between them, and how race perceptions of the legal system. He was among several professors who and gender influence their comfort zones. He has also calculated the filed an amicus brief in theFisher v. University of Texas affirmative distances between graves in local cemeteries and studied the way action case that the Supreme Court in June sent back to an appeals religious practices relate to their geographic orientation. court for a more rigorous inquiry into the university’s rationales for using “It’s a project about how groups form and how groups persist,” race as a factor in admissions determinations. The Brooks says. “Once these racial entities exist, decision permits affirmative action in higher educa- you observe these patterns in ordinary, everyday tion to continue for the present, but calls for tougher activities. And even after death, segregation can review standards that could undermine its future. web exclusive continue by law.” The brief argued against the “mismatch” Explore Professor Brooks’ hypothesis, which posits that permitting race as recent scholarship on PAULA SPAN teaches at the Columbia University race, inequality, and contracts. Graduate School of Journalism and writes The a consideration in admissions decisions can ulti- law.columbia.edu/mag/brooks mately harm minority students, an idea, Brooks New York Times’ New Old Age blog.

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At Issue Essay focus: 60 The people, personalities, and perspectives making an impact this season

ALUMNI PROFILES 52

AT ISSUE ESSAY 60

CLASS NOTES 64

IN MEMORIAM 92

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 96

Eric Eisner ’73 & Chris Bonilla ’16

PHOTOGRAPHED BY MAX S. GERBER LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 51 eric eisner: THE EDUCATOR

As founder of the Young Eisner Scholars program, Eric Eisner ’73 is helping kids from the roughest neighborhoods reach their full potential BY TIM FERNHOLZ

Eric Eisner ’73 dreams big. He Eisner moved to L.A. in the the best high schools and col- recently reunited with an old sees no point in waiting around, mid-’70s after graduating from leges in the country—with YES Law School friend, Harold S. fingers crossed, hoping pundits Columbia Law School, where he funding SAT prep and covering Handelsman ’73, who plans to will fix the system. “Let’s sell edu- was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. costs that financial aid misses. open a YES branch in Chicago.) cation,” the former Hollywood In 1980, he was tapped by David Through a variety of Eisner’s YES seeks out the most driven dealmaker and Young Eisner Geffen for what became a 10-year corporate connections, YES also students at each location, offering Scholars (YES) founder says, “the stint as president of the Geffen helps find internships and jobs for spots in the program based on test same way Nike sells sneakers to Company, producing hits such upperclassmen and graduates. scores, recommendations, and kids: Make it glamorous. Each as Risky Business, Beetlejuice, Fourteen years after Eisner’s the all-important interview with YES scholar, home for Christmas and M. Butterfly. By the early first sit-down with students, YES Eisner. “Dynamic people have had in his Columbia jacket, is the ’90s, Eisner was able to retire, employs seven staffers and main- an enormous impact on my own living advertisement for kids and when a friend working with tains a yearly operating budget of life,” he says. “I guess I’m drawn to in his neighborhood.” inner-city children in L.A. asked $850,000, of which 83 percent the process of being influential Eisner is sitting in a win- him to get involved, Eisner agreed. goes exclusively to programs. in the lives of young people.” dowless bungalow on a middle But first, he told her, he wanted to The organization now works While Eisner’s success can school campus full of windowless meet some of the students. with more than 250 students at inspire students, a bigger influ- bungalows in Lennox, Calif., a Eisner began visiting five stu- four L.A. middle schools and at ence, he says, is their peers in troubled neighborhood adjacent dents each week to get a sense of five schools in Harlem. (Eisner the program, who come back for to Los Angeles International Air- why some kids excelled despite visits during breaks from schools port. Here, 92.2 percent of the such difficult circumstances. “We YES WORKS WITH like Columbia and Stanford. children are on free or assisted would geek out about physics and MORE THAN 250 “The glamour radiates from lunch programs. Through YES, astronomy,” says Chris Bonilla ’16, STUDENTS AT FOUR successful students with whom Eisner works to give promising one of the first students to meet other kids can identify,” Eisner LOS ANGELES students here, and in other low- with Eisner. (Bonilla began his says, recalling the first time a income communities, the chance studies at Columbia Law School MIDDLE SCHOOLS prep school sent an articulate to experience world-class educa- this fall, four years after graduat- AND AT FIVE YES scholar—resplendent in her tional instruction by linking them ing from Columbia University.) SCHOOLS IN HARLEM. school uniform—rather than a up with the city’s top schools. “It’s not so cool to be [seen as] a middle-aged admissions director, ‘nerdy kid’ at these schools,” he to recruit new applicants. “Those adds. “Hearing about Eric’s suc- kids were mesmerized,” he says, cess, and him pushing me, really “and I thought: ‘Of course, they’re web exclusive boosted my self-esteem.” looking at the dream.’” Learn about how Columbia As Eisner realized the Law School is helping the untapped potential in the stu- TIM FERNHOLZ has written for YES program expand east. Quartz and The Atlantic, among law.columbia.edu/mag/YES dents he met, he began assisting them in earning scholarships to other publications.

52 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 PHOTOGRAPHED BY MAX S. GERBER LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 53 minna schrag: THE DIFFERENCE MAKER

As a passionate advocate for the burgeoning field of transitional justice, Minna Schrag ’75 is adding new chapters to a diverse and distinguished career BY AISHA LABI

In 1994, after years of serving in the towns of Vukovar, Brˇc ko, was asked to consult for the Her international work has as a federal prosecutor and and Bosanski Samac. U.N. High Commissioner for sparked within Schrag a pas- time spent working at a large The career detour was noth- Refugees, and Schrag contin- sion for transitional justice, the Manhattan law firm, Minna ing new for Schrag, who had ues to provide legal advice to burgeoning field that deals with Schrag ’75 received an offer enrolled at Columbia Law the organization on issues judicial and non-judicial remedies that would change the course School a decade after earning an related to international crimi- for redressing human rights vio- of her career, and, more broadly, undergraduate degree in history nal tribunals. From 1997 to lations. She helped establish the her life. “I got a call asking if I’d be from Radcliffe College. At the 2000, she was also a member New York City–based Interna- interested in going to The Hague,” time, she had three young chil- of the U.S. delegation to the tional Center for Transitional Schrag recalls in discussing dren and had begun an Ed.D. treaty conference in Rome that Justice—the motto of which is how she became a senior trial program at Teachers College established the International “Justice, Truth, Dignity”—and attorney for the International but was drawn to the law, she Criminal Court. serves as a member of that orga- Criminal Tribunal for the former says, by the extent to which nization’s board of directors. Yugoslavia. “At the time, I didn’t the legal profession was being SCHRAG HELPED Schrag’s colleagues in the know much about international used to drive social change in ESTABLISH THE transitional justice movement law and had no formal training the early 1970s. INTERNATIONAL assist victims groups and com- in human rights, but of course After graduation, Schrag munities in efforts to address CENTER FOR I went.” clerked for Judge Whitman human rights violations and Her work as a prosecutor Knapp of the Southern District TRANSITIONAL encourage healing. Those efforts had given Schrag the criminal of New York, and, following six JUSTICE, WHICH USES sometimes lead to truth and law experience sought by the years as an assistant U.S. Attor- THE MOTTO “JUSTICE, reconciliation commissions. In then-new court, which was ney at the Southern District, she TRUTH, DIGNITY.” other instances, healing comes set up to address allegations joined Proskauer Rose. After in the form of smaller-scale—but of war crimes, genocide, and several years of working on a no less important—efforts like crimes against humanity that wide range of litigation matters, the recent establishment of a took place during the Balkan Schrag answered the call from the memorial museum by survivors conflicts of the early 1990s. She International Criminal Tribunal, of the killings in the Bosnian took a leave from Proskauer and she has been involved in town of Brˇc ko, the perpetrators Rose and relocated to the Neth- human rights work ever since. of which Schrag helped bring erlands for 18 months to help Schrag, who retired from to account. “They wanted the set up the prosecutor’s office, Proskauer in 1997, may be story of what happened there where she joined a group of even busier now than she was to be told,” she says, “so people lawyers drawn from a diverse during her mid-career years. wouldn’t forget.” mix of countries and ultimately She serves on several nonprofit brought to indictment three boards and is a regular patron AISHA LABI has written for Time cases involving the murder and of the New York City Ballet. and Businessweek, in addition torture of civilian populations Just weeks after retiring, she to other publications.

54 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID FRIEDMAN LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 55 edward soto: THE MULTITASKER

As the head of litigation at the Miami office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Edward Soto ’78 specializes in winning cases and serving his community BY PETER KIEFER

Ask Edward Soto ’78 how he not slowed. While prepar - funds to rebuild ZooMiami after endeavors] that matter to me,” balances his career as a distin- ing for a work trip to Laguna Hurricane Andrew. He has also Soto says. “More than anything guished commercial litigator Beach, Calif., he paused to served as the chairman of the else, I wanted to be involved in with a busy family life and a reflect back on a 35-year board for both a local orphanage helping people meet real needs, laundry list of philanthropic career that is marked by a broad and for the Ransom Everglades and the law has [helped facili- activities, and he may tell you range of legal victories and an School, the oldest independent, tate those connections].” about the 2003 World Series. unflinching commitment to co-ed prep school in Miami. Seeds of his philanthropic That autumn, as the Florida civic engagement. Soto may be an Currently, he is on the executive interests were sown at Columbia Marlins made their historic extremely accomplished litigator, committee of the Lawyers’ Com- Law School, Soto says. And that playoff run, he found himself but the trade he plies serves him mittee for Civil Rights Under period of his life has made quite spending an inordinate amount equally well as a mechanism for Law and is the chairman-elect an impression on his sons, two of time in distant hotels, working giving back to society. for Catalyst Miami, a nonprofit of whom graduated from the on a drawn-out, high-stakes case. The range of high-profile cases that promotes civic engagement Law School. His youngest son For Soto—a husband, father of he has handled is as varied as the to help build a community will be enrolling at Columbia four sons, and lifelong baseball philanthropic causes he champi- and economy that benefits all University next fall to earn a fan—being away during that ons. In 2006, Soto successfully Miami residents. graduate degree in social work. time was especially difficult. helped defend UnitedHealth “I’ve matched some of the Like their father, Soto’s chil- “I had four boys who wanted Group against a class-action things that I am doing in my dren are pursuing career paths to go to the games,” he says, “and lawsuit brought by 700,000 doc- practice with [community that value public service and we wanted to share that experi- tors. Two years later, he helped social responsibility. ence together as a family. So I was win a legal victory for ESPN by SOTO’S 35-YEAR And while Soto is still a loyal flying back and forth before and defending the company against a CAREER IS MARKED Marlins fan, his ties to New after every game. It meant early libel accusation levied by boxing BY A BROAD RANGE York City and Columbia Law morning and overnight flights, promoter Don King. In 1999, OF LEGAL VICTORIES School remain strong. One but it was worth it to be with Soto’s successful represen- senses that a passion for the my family. I do it a lot. It doesn’t tation of Fiserv/Texas Data AND AN UNFLINCHING school, and the drive it instills always work out, but it’s always Control against False Claims COMMITMENT TO in students, never really left worth it when it does.” Act charges brought by the CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. him. “Thinking back, the cases For Soto, the senior trial Justice Department was rec- that I enjoy most,” he says, “are partner and head of litiga - ognized as the “Top Defense always the ones where I feel like tion in the Miami office of Victory of the Year” by The I was being challenged, where I Weil, Gotshal & Manges, some National Law Journal. was forced to learn something things have changed since that Soto’s public service commit- new and interesting.” World Series—his sons, for ments also run the gamut. He instance, have grown up and served as the chairman of the PETER KIEFER has written for are on their own professional board for the Zoological Soci- The New York Times, among tracks. But Soto’s schedule has ety of Florida and helped raise other publications.

56 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEFFERY SALTER LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 57 tom rogers: THE INNOVATOR

As the president and CEO of TiVo, Tom Rogers ’79 is leading a charge to make television viewing a more personalized and enjoyable experience BY SETH STEVENSON

In July 1969, 15-year-old Tom during a two-year stint as an With Rogers at the helm, issues,” he says, “from regula- Rogers ’79 held a reel-to-reel attorney at a Wall Street firm, TiVo has tripled in value and tory interpretation to patent audio recorder up to the speaker Rogers worked on an antitrust won an Emmy Award for TV enforcement. I’ve often thought of the TV set in his parents’ case involving local TV stations. innovation. He has taken TiVo that I could never have the Westchester home. He had Rogers headed to Washington, from its original roots as the insights I bring to my role as decided to tape Walter Cronkite’s D.C., in the early 1980s to serve creator of the DVR to now CEO without my legal training.” broadcast of the moon landing. as counsel to the congressio- being what Rogers refers to As for the day-to-day appeal He thought he might want to nal subcommittee dealing with as “the leader in providing next of the brand, TiVo loyalists point listen to it again later. media and telecommunications generation TV to the cable to this high praise from a 2010 “It’s clear that, as a consumer, law. It was a key moment in the industry.” He has also led the Wired magazine article: “There even back then, I longed for history of television. Cable TV company in patent litigation are exactly three companies in TiVo capabilities,” Rogers says. was exploding in popularity, and against Motorola, Cisco, Verizon, this world that are truly great Thirty-six years later, in July Rogers led the drafting of the and AT&T, racking up more at interface design—Apple, 2005, Rogers became president Cable Act of 1984, which cre- than $1 billion in court victo- Google, and TiVo.” Meanwhile, and CEO of TiVo, Inc.—which ated the federal framework for ries. Rogers’ legal acumen has presiding over a company that is best known for inventing the governing the industry. Over proven invaluable throughout. helps viewers more elegantly device to digitally record and the next few years, all three “I deal with significant legal explore the television landscape replay TV shows. broadcast networks switched seems a perfect fit for Rogers, Always an avid television ownership hands—with Rogers WITH ROGERS AT who will be inducted into the viewer, Rogers kept stacks of TV working in-depth on many of the THE HELM, TIVO HAS Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Guide issues on his bedside table associated regulatory issues. His TRIPLED IN VALUE Fame this year. He keeps 10 as a child. He surmises he was talents impressed Jack Welch, AND WON AN TiVo boxes around his house one of very few teenagers who the legendary chairman of Gen- and records about 80 hours eagerly looked forward to the eral Electric, which then owned EMMY AWARD FOR of TV each week (mostly news magazine’s coverage of indus- NBC, and soon enough Rogers TV INNOVATION. and current events), using his try news. By the time Rogers was appointed the first presi- remote to fast-forward and enrolled at Columbia Law School, dent of NBC’s new cable divi- rewind as he watches. “We’re he had stirred government policy sion. There, he founded CNBC in a world of infinite media into his mix of interests. “I was and MSNBC, and oversaw an choices,” says Rogers, “and that fascinated by the intersection of array of cable channels, including can be chaotic for consumers. media and regulation,” he recalls. A&E, History, Bravo, AMC, and TiVo’s mission is to organize During his time in Morning- Court TV. In 1999, he moved on the chaos.” side Heights, Rogers studied to become CEO of Primedia—a media law and kept tabs on major player in the print, online, SETH STEVENSON has written for the communications industry and video realms—before eventu- Slate and The New Republic, landscape. After graduation, ally settling in at TiVo. among other publications.

58 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 PHOTOGRAPHED BY PETER FREED LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 59 at issue: HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

All you need is regulation BY THOMAS W. MERRILL, CHARLES EVANS HUGHES PROFESSOR OF LAW, AND DAVID M. SCHIZER, DEAN AND THE LUCY G. MOSES PROFESSOR OF LAW; HARVEY R. MILLER PROFESSOR OF LAW AND ECONOMICS

As any Beatles fan knows, Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney have had their differences over the years. So it is striking that they are now working together to stop hydraulic fracturing. In fact, Ms. Ono has described this new method of drilling for natural gas and oil, which is also called “fracking,” or “fracturing,” as an “assaul[t] with dirty water.” The truth is, though (borrowing again from the Beatles), that all you need is regulation. With the right regulatory strategy, we can manage the environmental risks, while reaping the extraordinary benefits of fracturing.

Those benefits were on display and oil. In 2000, shale supplied there are also sizable deposits includes a 1 million bpd increase in 2009 when the United States negligible amounts of oil and in other states, including Texas, in 2012 alone. Although North passed Russia as the world’s only 2 percent of domestically New York, Louisiana, and Ohio. Dakota was producing less than largest natural gas producer, and produced natural gas in the U.S. As President Obama said in his 1 percent of the nation’s oil as again last year when the world’s As recently as 2007, we were 2012 State of the Union address, recently as 2008, by 2012 North most respected energy forecaster preparing to import natural gas. fracturing may generate 100 Dakota—drilling in its Bakken predicted that the United States Yet since 2008, domestic natu- years of natural gas supply for Shale, a 25,000–square mile will overtake Saudi Arabia as ral gas production has increased the United States. sheet of embedded oil—was the the world’s largest oil producer by 25 percent. Today, 50 percent Fracturing has also unlocked second largest oil-producing by 2020. These developments of our gas comes from shale and massive supplies of domestic oil state after Texas. would have seemed wildly tight sands, with 80 percent in shale. While shale produced improbable just a few years expected by 2035. Pennsylva- only 100,000 barrels per day Economic, National ago. But energy companies have nia has the second largest nat- (“bpd”) of oil in 2003, 2 million Security, and Environmental learned to tap previously inac- ural gas field in the world, and bpd were produced in 2012. The Benefits of Fracturing cessible shale oil and gas by level is expected to rise to 4.5 A cheap domestic supply of pumping fluid into the shale million bpd in the coming years. energy is a powerful engine of at high pressure, cracking (or Although U.S. oil production economic growth. According to “fracturing”) it to release gas web exclusive was in steep decline for decades, an October 2012 study by the Read more from Dean Schizer and oil trapped inside. on the regulation of fracturing. production increased by over 2.7 consulting firm IHS, shale oil The result is a massive new law.columbia.edu/mag/ million bpd from 2008 to the and gas contributed $237 bil- schizer-fracturing domestic supply of natural gas first four months of 2013, which lion to U.S. GDP (or about 1.5

60 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 energy-intensive industries such this level declined to 42 percent as the petrochemicals industry. in 2011 and 36 percent in 2012, Reducing our dependence the lowest levels since these num- on imported energy has obvi- bers were first tracked in 1949. ous geopolitical advantages as This shift from coal to natu- well. Some of the world’s oil ral gas is one reason why U.S. and natural gas comes from greenhouse gas emissions have nations that are either unsta- declined by 12 percent from ble or hostile to the United 2005 to 2012 (including a 5.3 States, or both. The top eight percent decline in 2012 alone), oil-exporting nations are Saudi and are at their lowest level Arabia, Russia, Iran, the United since 1994. This decline is the Arab Emirates, Norway, Iraq, largest anywhere in the world, Kuwait, and Nigeria. Likewise, and occurred during a period 70 percent of the world’s con- when global emissions rose by ventional gas reserves (i.e., 8 percent. Fracturing thus facili- not including shale gas) are tates the use of natural gas as in Iran, Qatar, and Russia. a bridge fuel, reducing carbon Some of these regimes con - emissions in the near term, sistently seek to undermine while solar and other renewable U.S. foreign policy goals, and technologies are developed added oil and gas revenue over the long term. percent) in 2012, an amount WITH THE RIGHT strengthens their ability to do expected to almost double by REGULATORY so. Recent events in the Middle Air Pollution, Traffic, Water 2020. Likewise, IHS credits East—the terrorist attack at an Usage, and Competition the shale revolution with 1.7 STRATEGY, WE Algerian natural gas facility, With Renewables million U.S. jobs in 2012, and CAN MANAGE THE the nuclear program in Iran, Yet the picture is not uniformly expects 3 million in 2020, ENVIRONMENTAL the attack on the U.S. Embassy rosy. For example, although representing 2 percent of total RISKS, WHILE in Libya, etc.—suggest that, if burning methane (the main U.S. employment. Obviously, anything, the Middle East is ingredient in natural gas) releases REAPING THE this is a significant boon to an becoming more unstable and relatively small amounts of CO2, economy that shed 5 million EXTRAORDINARY hostile to the United States. It is releasing methane into the jobs in 2008 and has created BENEFITS OF fortunate, then, that the United atmosphere—for instance, during jobs haltingly in the years since. FRACTURING. States has gone from importing drilling or from pipeline leaks—is The shale gas boom has also 60 percent of its oil in 2005 to a potentially significant source of enhanced consumer purchas- 36 percent in early 2013, with greenhouse gas emissions. ing power by causing natural further reductions in U.S. oil Emphasizing this point, gas prices to plummet to less imports expected in the next Professor Robert Howarth of than one-third of their 2008 two decades. The increase in Cornell has argued that shifting level. By contrast, natural gas U.S. oil production since 2005 from coal to natural gas actually prices are three to five times is more than what Iran was does not reduce greenhouse gas higher in Europe and Asia, exporting before sanctions emissions when measured on which gives a sense of what were imposed, a fact that has a “lifecycle” basis. Yet this con- U.S. prices would be if set made those sanctions more clusion is not widely accepted. by gas imports. The savings viable. Amazingly, the United A number of studies fault Pro- (e.g., on home heating and States is projected to be 97 fessor Howarth’s assumptions electricity bills) averages $926 percent energy self-sufficient and analysis, and reach a more per year for every American in net terms by 2035. favorable conclusion. household—almost 2 percent Shale gas is also an impor- Indeed, in an April 2013 of the U.S. median household tant component of any viable study, the Environmental income—and is expected to strategy to combat climate Protection Agency (EPA) con- grow to $2,000 in 2035. change. Natural gas burns cluded that methane emissions Since every business spends cleaner than other carbon-based declined by 8.2 percent between on energy, this savings also fuel, producing less carbon 1990 and 2011. Although this hits the bottom line of U.S. dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particu- period coincides with a dramatic businesses, enabling them late matter, and carbon monoxide increase in natural gas produc- to cut costs, increase profits, than coal. Until recently, coal gen- tion, methane emissions from and hire more people. The erated almost half of the elec- natural gas production are down most significant impact is on tricity in the United States, but even more—by 10.2 percent.

ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL BEJAR LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 61 Obviously, to the extent First, fracturing fluid can that methane leakage is con- contain toxic chemicals, so it tained, the benefits of using is important that it not seep natural gas become even into water wells after cracking clearer. Fortunately, energy the shale. Fortunately, this is companies have an economic quite unlikely, since thousands incentive to keep methane of feet of dense rock separates from escaping, so they can the “payzone” where drilling sell it. In addition, EPA reg - takes place (which is usually ulations finalized in April 5,000 to 10,000 feet down) 2012 reinforce this incentive, from water wells (which requiring energy companies are only 500 to 1,000 feet to capture or burn methane down). Fracturing fluid is also released during drilling. unlikely to leak into a water The fracturing boom also well on the way down, since creates traffic and congestion. state regulators generally require Fracturing itself uses significant oil and natural gas wells to have amounts of water, although, thick protective layers of steel and as a recent Department of concrete, called “well casings,” Energy study observed, “in extending past the water table. most regions water used in According to a number of stud- hydraulic fracturing represents ies, therefore, after more than 2 a small fraction of total water million oil and gas wells have consumption.” Fracturing may been fractured in the United also increase the risk of minor States—including thousands earthquakes. Yet air pollution, fractured in shale—there are no traffic, water usage, and seismic documented cases of fracturing activity all arise with other fluid migrating into water wells sources of energy, such as during the fracturing process. “It coal mining and conventional for these initiatives and, more EFFECTIVE is noteworthy,” observes a 2011 gas drilling, and the U.S. has generally, will outcompete renew- REGULATION IS MIT report authored by Ernest experience handling them. ables so that they never become Moniz, the new secretary of Because these risks are famil- economically competitive. NEEDED TO ENSURE energy, “that no incidents of iar in other contexts, most are In any event, while we agree BOTH THAT DRILLING direct invasion of shallow water already governed by existing with the goal of using taxes and IS SAFE AND zones by fracture fluids dur- regulatory regimes. other policy instruments to THAT THE PUBLIC ing the fracturing process have Another concern might be that ensure that carbon fuel prices BELIEVES IT IS SAFE. been recorded.” the shale oil and gas revolution reflect their true social cost, A second (and more mean- could undercut the economic including externalities, this ingful) risk is that fracturing viability of renewable energy. strategy does not make sense fluid might accidentally spill This is not necessarily the case, if applied only to shale gas and on the surface and seep down though. Shale gas is often viewed oil, but not to other carbon into the water table. Some as a bridge fuel, which will help fuels. If fracturing is banned spills have been reported in satisfy the nation’s energy needs or becomes significantly more the media although, as EPA until renewables are more com- expensive, while coal remains has observed, “the frequency petitive. In addition, since wind cheap, the result will not be and typical causes of these and solar are intermittent sources more solar and wind energy, spills remain unclear.” Sur- of energy, they need another but more coal. This is not an face spills of toxic chemicals source to fill in when they are outcome that environmentalists obviously are a risk in many unavailable, which usually is should favor. industrial and commercial natural gas. Likewise, renewables activities; the chemicals in and natural gas do not compete Water Contamination fracturing fluid are also found head-to-head, to the extent that The most unique risk from frac- in swimming pool cleaners, government initiatives guaran- turing—and the one attracting detergents, hair cosmetics, tee a percentage of the energy the most attention—is water and other products. A range market to renewable energy. contamination. There are three of federal and state regulations Nevertheless, there is some different aspects of this risk, and already address this risk, gov- risk that cheap natural gas will their magnitude is uncertain erning the storage of chemicals undercut the political support and intensely debated. and requiring spill prevention

62 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 ILLUSTRATION BY GEMMA ROBINSON plans. Of course, by increasing either common to all forms of rules, working in tandem, create Once landowners establish the volume of toxic chemicals oil and gas production or are a powerful incentive for industry that fracturing has caused that are transported, fracturing familiar from other types of to help regulators develop pro- water contamination, they can makes this risk all the more industrial operations, includ- tective best practices rules and recover, at a minimum, the loss significant. The bottom line, ing well casing leaks, surface to comply with them. in property value attributable then, is that fracturing fluid spills, and disposal of drilling The third rule fills any gaps. to the contamination. If con- needs to be transported and waste. Second, the idea that a If there is no relevant best prac- tamination goes undetected for stored carefully. public regulatory body is “on tices rule, the doctrine of res some time it might also cause Third, natural gas itself the case” is reassuring to the ipsa loquitur should apply. This more serious injuries, such as also can cause health issues public. Third, because energy means an energy company is health effects, although this if it migrates into drink - companies have to make sub- presumed negligent—and thus will be much harder to show. ing water. Yet the reality stantial investments to drill in is liable—for any water con- We should use presumptions is that natural gas is com - shale, they need to estimate tamination it causes, unless it to help plaintiffs prove their monly found in rural water what regulatory costs they will can show that the contamina- case, while burdening energy wells because it migrates face. Best practices regulation tion was an inevitable accident. companies to show otherwise. there naturally; so far, there offers this predictability. The This difficult showing means the While this may seem unfair to is little evidence that fractur- states, which are the principal standard of care, as a practical energy companies, they can ing increases the probability regulators of oil and gas drilling, matter, approaches strict liabil- mitigate this risk with self-help. of this. For example, a 2011 already impose a broad range of ity. As a result, energy companies By periodically testing the water, Pennsylvania study found “best practices” regulations on oil have a strong incentive to reduce they can either ensure that it methane contamination in and gas producers. residual risks not governed by is not contaminated or act 40 percent of the wells tested Second, we would backstop best practices regulations, and to promptly to clean or replace before drilling began; the best practices regulations with help regulators develop new best it. After all, energy companies study then compared levels of liability rules. After all, best practices regulations. cannot be liable for health contamination after the drill- practices regulations are only Of course, the incentives are effects unless there first is a ing, and found no statistically as effective as the resources right only if liability assessments showing that they contami- significant difference. After committed to enforcing them. are accurate—that is, only if nated the water. all, energy companies drill A further limitation is that best the system makes reliable We can refine the common there because there’s methane practices regulations are less judgments about whether law with select legislation to in the ground—and, therefore, effective for novel risks, since it an energy company actually make it more effective as a reg- sometimes in the water as is impossible to mandate best caused the contamination and ulatory strategy. For example, to well. Similarly, a 2013 study practices until we know what any resulting health effects. ensure that lawyers are willing concluded that the presence they are. This will not always be easy. to bring cases, we can require of methane in water corre - These two pillars of our regu- If a water well contains an defendants who lose to pay the lated better with topography latory effort—best practices and unusual chemical, how do we other side’s legal fees. We can than with shale gas produc - liability—should be coordinated. know it comes from fracturing, also oblige energy companies tion—it is more common in To do so, we need three differ- as opposed to a natural cause to have insurance to cover the valleys and low areas—so that ent liability rules, depending or some other source of pol - damages if they are insolvent. “the use of hydraulic fracturing on how our best practices rules lution? If someone who lives We may also want narrowly tar- for shale gas in northeastern treat the conduct that caused near a drilling site becomes ill, geted prohibitions on fracturing Pennsylvania has not resulted in the water contamination. First, how do we know that fracturing in environmentally sensitive widespread gas migration into if an energy company violates caused the illness? areas, such as the Catskills the shallow subsurface.” a best practices regulation in To generate reliable answers watershed that supplies water contaminating water, the com- to these sorts of questions, we to millions of people in New Regulating Water pany should be negligent per se. should create incentives to York City. Some of the neces- Contamination Second (and conversely), if the develop better information. The sary steps may be taken by Even so, effective regulation is company complies with the rel- most important step is to test Congress, while others can be needed to ensure both that drill- evant best practices regulations, water quality before fracturing taken by state legislatures or ing is safe and that the public it generally should not be liable begins in order to establish a even state courts. believes it is safe. We recom- (unless the regulations are much benchmark of water quality, The bottom line, though, is mend a two-pronged strategy. less protective than those in other and then to retest it periodi- that reasonable and effective First, for issues that are jurisdictions). These two per se cally. If contaminants are found regulation is possible for frac- already well understood, we that were not present in the turing. The right regulatory would rely on command and baseline sample, this supports strategy can protect our water control regulations to enforce the allegation that fracturing resources, while also harness- best practices. Best practices facebook caused the contamination. ing the substantial economic, Join Columbia Law School regulation has three advan- Alumni on Facebook to But if the contaminants were national security, and envi - tages. 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Columbia Law School graduates from around the world share news of their professional and personal accomplishments

1935 MORDECAI ROCHLIN, LL.B., practiced law at Adelman to the Bar Award from had worked at the agency for a longtime partner at Paul, & Fagelson. Stuchiner, who the Middlesex County Bar more than 30 years. Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & recently passed away, was one of Association this past May. Garrison in New York City, cel- the country’s leading experts on The award recognizes indi- 1959 ebrated his 100th birthday this pension law. Waldman served viduals for their extraordinary EVAN J. SPELFOGEL was past December. Rochlin began as a civil rights lawyer for the service and dedication to named to The Best Lawyers as an associate at the firm in American Jewish Congress. the bar association. Borrus, in America list for 2013. 1946, and he headed the firm’s president and senior partner Spelfogel, a partner at Epstein trusts and estates practice for 1950 of Borrus, Goldin, Foley, Becker & Green in New almost three decades. DANIEL SCHEYER was recently Vignuolo, Hyman & Stahl York City, was recognized elected to his 10th term as a in North Brunswick, N.J., for his work in labor and 1946 trustee of the village of Sands was also recently honored employment law. He was also NAOMI LEVINE recently Point, N.Y. Scheyer previously with a Professional Lawyer recently named one of Super befriended fellow graduates served as deputy mayor of the vil- of the Year Award from the Lawyers magazine’s top labor LIBBY ADELMAN ’38, TERRY lage, as well as chairman of Sands New Jersey Commission on and employment lawyers in STUCHINER ’47, and LOIS Point’s board of zoning appeals. Professionalism in the Law. the New York metro area. WALDMAN ’50 after a chance This past spring, he was fea - encounter while all of the 1952 tured in a New Jersey Health RICHARD S. VOLPERT was graduates were on separate DONALD A. ROBINSON Foundation publication for recently named senior partner vacations at Raquette Lake in received the 2012 Trailblazer his work in establishing the at Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs the Adirondack Mountains. Award from the New Jersey O’Connell-Borrus Asthma Howard Avchen & Shapiro Though the women graduated Women Lawyers Association. Research Laboratory at the in Los Angeles. Volpert, who in different years, Levine says Robinson, a founding partner Child Health Institute of has more than five decades that, following the coinciden- of Robinson, Wettre & Miller New Jersey. of experience in the planning tal meeting, they were able to in Newark, N.J., was recog- and development of large-scale come together to reminisce nized for the firm’s promotion 1955 construction projects, is a about days spent as students of gender diversity and for his LEONARD M. WAGMAN works member of the firm’s real at the Law School. Levine is consistent efforts to support as a labor relations arbitrator estate practice. the chair and executive direc- the advancement of women in in the Washington, D.C., and tor of the George H. Heyman, the legal profession. Baltimore regions. Before 1961 Jr. Center for Philanthropy retiring from the National MEYER A. GROSS was recently and Fundraising at New York 1953 Labor Relations Board in elected a voting member of University. After graduating JACK BORRUS received the 2003, Wagman served as an the American Institute for from the Law School, Adelman David Pavlovsky Service administrative law judge. He (continued on page 66)

64 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 class of: ’72

RUSSELL GERTMENIAN COMMUNITY CENTERED

Russell Gertmenian ’72, managing partner of Vorys, Sater, When Gertmenian became managing partner of Vorys Seymour and Pease in Columbus, Ohio, recalls with great in 2007, he spent his first nine months talking with every precision how, 40 years ago, some friends and colleagues partner at the firm—sometimes for 45 minutes, occasionally found it odd that he decided to join Vorys rather than work for six hours. “I had probably 120 different expectations of for an elite New York City law firm. But in retrospect, he me,” he says. says, the choice provided him a wider array of experiences, It has not been an easy time to be a managing partner, and the potential to play a big role in a smaller city. after all, with the legal market squeezed since the economic “My professional career is different than it would have downturn. For Gertmenian, the financial climate led to an been if I’d stayed in New York,” Gertmenian says. “The law increased focus on the firm’s sustainability and market share, firm has given me a platform to get involved in the com- rather than efforts at maximizing profits in the short-term. munity in a very real sense.” Now, as he nears retirement age, Gertmenian must transi- Since joining Vorys, Gertmenian has served on the boards tion the firm to the next generation. “I’ve been here for 40 of various companies (including retailer Abercrombie & years, and I love this institution,” he says. “It matters to me.” Fitch) and worked to further the goals of nonprofit organizations such as the Columbus WHEN GERTMENIAN BECAME MANAGING Metropolitan Library Foundation, among PARTNER OF VORYS, HE SPENT HIS FIRST others. (He has also advised family foun- NINE MONTHS TALKING WITH EVERY PARTNER dations and worked with the local art AT THE FIRM—SOMETIMES FOR 45 MINUTES, museum.) During that same span, the firm has grown from approximately 40 lawyers OCCASIONALLY FOR SIX HOURS. to more than 350, and Vorys has opened offices in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and, most recently, Houston.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 65 1964 Economic Research, an inde- University School of Law were ANDREA LEE NEGRONI ’82, pendent, nonprofit organiza- in Bristol, R.I. Rice, whose KENNETH J. PFAEHLER ’88, and tion that provides the public teaching career spans four ADAM M. SPARKS ’09. with critical analysis of the decades, served as a professor state of the U.S. economy. of law at the school for nearly 15 MARTIN EDELMAN, LL.B., was Gross maintains his own legal years. He specializes in contract appointed to the board of practice in New York City and law, intellectual property, and directors of AMD, a semicon- specializes in patent law. information technology law. ductor design company in Sunnyvale, Calif. Edelman PAUL A. ROWE, LL.B., was ARTHUR D. WOLF recently serves as of counsel at Paul recently named the number published the article Hastings in New York City. one lawyer in New Jersey by “Preliminary Injunction He specializes in real estate Super Lawyers magazine. Standards in Massachusetts law and corporate mergers. This marks the second con- MICHAEL R. GRIFFINGER recently State and Federal Courts” in secutive year that Rowe has received the Medal of Honor the Western New England Law JEROME (JERRY) MARSHAK received the top ranking, and from the New Jersey State Bar Review. Wolf serves as a professor recently defended the state his seventh consecutive year Foundation. The award, the of law at Western New England of New Mexico in a Medicaid on the Super Lawyers “Top foundation’s highest honor, is School of Law, and as the director class-action case before the 10” list. This past May, Rowe given each year to candidates of its Institute for Legislative and New Mexico Supreme Court. also received the National who have made outstanding Governmental Affairs. Marshak, who previously Judge Learned Hand Award contributions to improving the served as an assistant attorney from AJC New Jersey. The justice system in New Jersey. 1966 general for the state and has annual award recognizes Griffinger serves as director of WARREN BELMAR was recently since retired, continues to leaders in the legal profession business and commercial liti- reappointed as a senior fel- work on special projects for the who promote the rights of gation at Gibbons. He focuses low of the Administrative attorney general’s office. the individual and the impor- his practice on corporate and Conference of the United tance of democratic values. commercial disputes, securities States, an independent federal Rowe serves as chairman of litigation, and antitrust mat- agency that works to promote Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & ters. His clients include the improved government proce- Davis in New Jersey. state legislature of New Jersey, dures. Belmar also serves as Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae, managing director of Capitol 1962 and Hearst Publications, as Counsel Group, a company ROBERT A. KAGAN recently well as the city council and that advises clients on how received the Lifetime mayor of Newark. to receive financial assistance Achievement Award from the from federal programs. American Political Science ARTHUR C. SILVERMAN Association’s law and courts was recently recognized by RODERIC V.O. BOGGS is execu- section. Kagan was recog- Chambers USA for excellence tive director of the Washington nized for his distinguished in the field of construction law. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil BENNETT G. PICKER was career of scholarly achieve- Silverman is a partner in the Rights and Urban Affairs. named Philadelphia’s ment and for his work in the New York City office of Duane The organization’s work was “Lawyer of the Year” by The judicial and legal fields. He Morris, where he specializes in highlighted during a recent Best Lawyers in America. serves as professor emeritus construction project documen- brown-bag luncheon at the Picker serves as senior coun- of political science at the tation and negotiation. Washington, D.C., offices of sel in the alternative dispute University of California, Weil, Gotshal & Manges. PETER resolution practice at Stradley Berkeley, and as the Emanuel 1965 D. ISAKOFF ’78, head of that Ronon Stevens & Young. He is S. Heller Professor of Law DAVID A. RICE, LL.B., was firm’s Washington, D.C., litiga- also a distinguished fellow of (emeritus) at UC Berkeley recently named professor of tion practice, hosted the event. the International Academy of School of Law. law emeritus at Roger Williams Among those in attendance (continued on page 68)

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JOEL REYNOLDS NATURAL INSTINCT

Growing up in Riverside, Calif., environmental law During the past three decades, Reynolds has litigated expert Joel Reynolds ’78 remembers spending much of his cases involving a wide range of pressing environmental childhood playing outdoors. He also recalls not being able matters, including the protection of a birthing lagoon for to take deep breaths outside by late afternoon because of whales in Mexico’s Laguna San Ignacio and cleanup of the smog drifting over his community from Los Angeles, a toxic waste dump near his hometown. He is currently about 60 miles to the west. focused on a campaign to prevent construction of the “I grew up very aware of air pollution,” says Reynolds, who Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, a project that was named the western director of the Natural Resources he says would poison one of the world’s most valuable wild Defense Council (NRDC) in the autumn of 2012. “It was salmon fisheries and the communities that depend on it. just part of Riverside in the summer.” “I tend to work on things that tap into a level of outrage or Reynolds, who became interested in public policy at passion,” Reynolds says, adding that he also looks for a young age, focused on public interest issues while at pressing environmental issues that present an oppor - the Law School. In 1990, he began working as a senior tunity to spur tangible change. “I’m not interested in attorney for the NRDC and soon took on a series of bringing cases for public relations purposes. I have to cases that involved a relatively new subfield of envi - believe in the merits of each case.” ronmental law: ocean noise pollution. Reynolds successfully challenged the REYNOLDS IS CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON A U.S. Navy’s use of underwater explosives CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE and high-intensity sonar. “Sound travels PEBBLE MINE IN ALASKA’S BRISTOL BAY REGION. five times more efficiently under water,” he explains. “The increasing exposure to high-intensity sound threatens entire populations of marine mammals with injury and death.”

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 67 Mediators, as well as a fellow of co-chair of Jenner & Block’s she was responsible for the more than a dozen nonfic- the American College of Civil insurance litigation and coun- cross-examination of President tion books—including The Trial Mediators. seling practice. Richard Nixon’s secretary, Rose Secret Life of Money and The Mary Woods. Wine-Banks Writer’s Legal Guide—focused 1967 GERALD SHEA recently pub- now works as a management on the business lives of artists lished his memoir, Song consultant at F&H Solutions and writers. Without Words: Discovering Group, which specializes in My Deafness Halfway through human resources and labor CHARLES E. DONEGAN, LL.M., Life (Perseus Books: 2013). relations matters. maintains an active labor In the book, Shea recalls com- and employment arbitration pensating for his undiagnosed 1969 practice in Washington, D.C., partial deafness throughout PHILIP H. ROSENFELT was and serves as a moot court his childhood and young adult named a finalist for a Samuel judge for the American Bar life, only to fully discover the J. Heyman Service to America Association, as well as for scope of his impairment at the Career Achievement Medal, various other organizations. age of 34. Before embarking which recognizes federal on his writing career, Shea employees for significant public BRUCE C. RATNER received the practiced law at Debevoise & service accomplishments. Jackie Robinson Foundation WILLIAM R. HICKMAN received Plimpton—in both New York Rosenfelt serves as acting Lifetime Achievement Award the 2012 Robert Giegengack City and Paris—for several general counsel for the U.S. at the 2013 ROBIE Awards Award from USA Track & decades. He also served as vice Department of Education. ceremony this past March. Field (USATF). The award president and general counsel He has worked as an attorney Ratner, the chairman of Forest is given annually to a person for Mobil Oil Corporation in the office of the general City Ratner Companies, was who represents the organiza- from 1984 to 1987. counsel at the Department of honored for helping to revi- tion’s high standards of excel- Education—and its prede- talize downtown Brooklyn lence. Hickman has served the 1968 cessor, the Department of through the development of USATF for 40 years, officiating Health, Education, and Atlantic Yards, which includes at the 1984 Olympic Games Welfare—since 1971, including the Barclays Center, home of and at five U.S. Olympic tri- stints as the deputy general the Brooklyn Nets. He was als. He worked as a member of counsel for program service also recognized for his com- the International Association and as the assistant general mitment to the arts and for of Athletics Federations’ counsel for elementary, his work on the boards of anti-doping commission and secondary, adult, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering serves as president of the vocational education. Cancer Center and Weill Pacific Northwest Track & Cornell Medical College. In Field Association. Hickman 1970 addition, Ratner was recently practices appellate law at Reed TAD (JOHN A.) CRAWFORD named chairman-elect of the McClure in Seattle. recently published his debut board of trustees for New novel, A Floating Life, which York City’s Museum of Jewish JEROLD OSHINSKY recently JILL WINE-BANKS was fea- tells the story of a middle-aged Heritage—A Living Memorial joined Kasowitz, Benson, tured in All The President’s man “floating” between a to the Holocaust. Torres & Friedman as a partner Men Revisited, a Discovery surreal, dream-like world in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Channel documentary film and his own reality. Crawford STEPHEN SUSSMAN recently Oshinsky serves as a member centered on the Watergate is the founder and publisher of joined the New York City of the firm’s insurance recovery scandal and narrated by Allworth Press, which specializes office of Duane Morris as a practice, and he also helped Robert Redford. Wine-Banks in business and self-help books partner. Sussman, who serves to launch the Los Angeles served as one of three assistant for artists, graphic designers, as a member of the firm’s trial office, which opened in May. special prosecutors who filmmakers, and photogra- practice group, specializes Oshinsky previously served as helped try the case, and phers. He has also written (continued on page 70)

68 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 R. ALTA CHARO SCIENTIFIC METHOD

For 30 years, bioethics expert R. Alta Charo ’82 has ana- “How does one develop a regulatory system based on lyzed how the interplay between science and the law yellow lights, instead of red lights and green lights?” she evolves. Today, she says, advances in stem cell research, asks. “You don’t want to be an agency that just says ‘no.’” biotechnology, and reproductive rights are challenging In the classroom, Charo teaches her students that what legal structures like never before. is desirable for the legal system is not always the ideal “Science does not stop for the law to catch up,” says Charo, scenario for science, and vice versa. “Today’s science is not the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the just about making new toys,” she adds. “[Science] explores University of Wisconsin’s law and medical schools. “It would the deepest mysteries of human existence. With each devel- be wonderful if law could get out ahead of things, but there is opment comes a new challenge to something we thought risk in trying to write law for science [that doesn’t exist yet].” was written in stone, and was actually written in sand.” Early in her career, Charo worked on policies related to infertility in the U.S. and family-planning programs in CHARO SAYS ADVANCES IN STEM CELL developing countries. During the next two decades, she RESEARCH AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ARE established herself as an authority in stem cell policy and CHALLENGING LEGAL STRUCTURES reproductive rights. In 2008, Charo joined Barack Obama’s LIKE NEVER BEFORE. transition team, focusing on the life-sciences issues most in need of attention during his presidency. She then joined the FDA as an adviser, working on how the agency might better regulate emerging technologies. The greatest challenge, Charo says, is to anticipate and manage novel risks while still allowing for progress.

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PHOTOGRAPHED BY TK LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 69 in business litigation with an STUART M. SAFT was recently dispute resolution. Park serves White previously served as the emphasis on franchise litiga- named chair of Holland & as a professor and as the R. managing partner of Morgan tion, as well as business trans- Knight’s New York real estate Gordon Butler Scholar in Lewis’ New Jersey office. actions. Prior to joining Duane practice group, as well as co-chair International Law at Boston Morris, Sussman worked as a of the firm’s global hospitality, University School of Law. He 1973 partner at Lebensfeld Borker resort, and timeshare group. also serves as general editor of REYNOLD LEVY joined the Sussman & Sharon. Saft has served as a partner at Arbitration International. board of directors for First Holland & Knight since 2012. Republic Bank. Levy also serves 1971 THEODORE (TED) RUTHIZER as president of Lincoln Center MARK A. BELNICK recently NORMAN G. TABLER JR. will be a featured speaker at for the Performing Arts in New served as a distinguished rejoined the Indianapolis office the 6th Biennial International York City. He has written and practitioner in residence of Faegre Baker Daniels as Bar Association Immigration lectured extensively on philan- at Pepperdine University counsel in the firm’s health care and Nationality Law thropy, the performing arts, and School of Law. He also served group. Tabler first joined the Conference in London this nonprofit management. as the founding director of firm in 1971 as an associate, November. Ruthizer teaches the school’s Ninth Circuit and he served as a partner from immigration law and policy as 1974 Appellate Advocacy Clinic. 1977 to 1996. Before returning a lecturer-in-law at Columbia FERNANDO DE MELLO Belnick heads his own legal to Faegre Baker Daniels, he Law School. He also serves BARRETO, LL.M., was named practice in Los Angeles and worked as senior vice president as co-chair of the business head of the Ministry of New York City. He specializes and general counsel at Indiana immigration group at Kramer Foreign Affairs in São Paulo, in complex commercial litiga- University Health. Levin Naftalis & Frankel in Brazil. Barreto is the former tion, white-collar criminal New York City. Brazilian ambassador to matters, internal corporate 1972 Australia, and he also previ- investigations, and alternative ROBERT G. ANDRÉ serves as a ously served as the Brazilian dispute resolution. senior litigation and business consul-general in Boston. attorney at Ogden Murphy MAX W. BERGER, senior Wallace in Seattle. His practice CHARLES DOUGLAS BETHILL founding partner at focuses on complex products married Linda Weiner Bernstein Litowitz Berger liability and toxic tort cases, as Rosner in August 2012 at the & Grossmann, was recently well as on commercial litigation. Pleasantdale Chateau in West named one of the coun- Orange, N.J. Bethill is a partner try’s “100 Most Influential LARRY GAGE was recently in the financial services and Lawyers” by The National named senior counsel at products group at Alston & Law Journal. Berger, who Alston & Bird in Washington, Bird in New York City. serves as supervisor of his D.C. His practice focuses on firm’s litigation practice, was health law and policy. Gage is ROBERT A. WHITE joined JOHN A. SHUTKIN was recognized for his work bro- the founder and former presi- the Princeton, N.J., office recently recognized as a kering settlement claims for dent of the National Association of Goldberg Segalla as a “Top Corporate Counsel” plaintiffs who suffered major of Public Hospitals and Health partner. White is a member by The Business Journal in losses during the financial cri- Systems, and co-founder of the firm’s business and Milwaukee. Shutkin, who sis. Berger is also an accom- of American International commercial, product liabil- serves as general counsel at plished photographer, and Health Alliance. ity, aviation litigation, and the professional service firm this past April the 25CPW toxic torts practice groups. CliftonLarsonAllen, was Gallery in New York City WILLIAM (RUSTY) PARK was He also serves as an adjunct one of 11 corporate counsels showcased a collection of his recently re-elected presi- assistant professor in the honored in the southeastern work. The exhibition, “Places,” dent of the London Court of department of environmental Wisconsin region. He was featured photographs from International Arbitration, one and community medicine at also recently named presi- Berger’s trips to diverse loca- of the leading international the University of Medicine dent of the Wisconsin Equal tions around the world. institutions for commercial and Dentistry of New Jersey. Justice Fund.

70 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 1975 LINDA A. BAUMANN was co-head of the firm’s Supreme corporate transactions in the English in Hartford, as well as recently named to the hon- Court and appellate practice. Washington national tax prac- president of the Connecticut Bar orary board of trustees of tice at KPMG. Blessing previ- Foundation. He led McCarter Arena Stage in Washington, CHERYL L. JOHNSON, a ously served as a tax partner & English’s sponsorship of D.C., where she serves as a deputy attorney general for at Shearman & Sterling, the Connecticut Innocence partner specializing in health the California Department of where he specialized in advi- Project—a division of the law at Arent Fox. The third Justice, was appointed chair sory services, as well as in tax State of Connecticut Public edition of her book Health of the State Bar of California audits and dispute resolution. Defender’s services that provides Care Fraud and Abuse: antitrust and unfair compe- legal assistance to wrongly Practical Perspectives will be tition law section. Johnson STANLEY M. CROCK recently convicted individuals—and has published later this year. recently served as editor-in-chief joined the management served as a board member for of the revised edition of consulting firm McKinsey & Greater Hartford Legal Aid. MARK L. DAVIES was named California Antitrust and Company in Washington, D.C. chair of the municipal law Unfair Competition Law, a Crock, a former news editor 1979 section of the New York one-volume treatise that was and diplomatic correspondent BARRETT L. BRICK recently State Bar Association. Davies published in 2012. for Businessweek, is a senior received the Global Vision serves as executive director of communications specialist at Award from Immigration the New York City Conflicts of 1976 the firm. He previously served Equality, a national organiza- Interest Board. He previously GARY APFEL was recently as a senior editorial director tion that provides legal aid worked as executive direc- named by Super Lawyers at Accenture. and advocacy for LGBT and tor of the New York State magazine as a top attorney in HIV-positive immigrants. Temporary State Commission Southern California for 2013. ALLAN VAN FLEET filed an Brick, who was president of on Local Government Ethics Apfel, whose practice focuses amicus brief with the U.S. the Gay and Lesbian Activists and as a deputy counsel to the on consumer financial ser- Supreme Court in Fisher v. Alliance of Washington, D.C., New York State Commission vices, is a partner at Pepper University of Texas on behalf from 2006 to 2009, has on Government Integrity. Hamilton and oversees the of the family of Heman also served as co-chair of the firm’s Los Angeles office. He Sweatt, an African-American American Bar Association’s GERALD C. HARVEY was also serves as co-chair of the man who was denied admis- committee on sexual orienta- recently elected chair of the firm’s consumer financial ser- sion to the University of tion and gender identity, and Rutgers University Board of vices practice group. Texas School of Law in 1946, as executive director of the Governors. Harvey, the former giving rise to the Sweatt v. World Congress of Gay and executive vice president, gen- 1977 Painter Supreme Court case. Lesbian Jewish Organizations. eral counsel, and secretary of SHEILA ABDUS-SALAAM was The brief supported the Breeze-Eastern Corp., was first recently appointed as a judge university’s practice of con- SHARON M. DAVISON joined the named a trustee governor in on the New York Court of sidering race when reviewing investment management group 2008, and he previously served Appeals. Abdus-Salaam, who applicants not automatically at Seward & Kissel as counsel to as the board’s vice chair. was nominated by New York admitted to the school under the firm. Davison specializes in Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the Texas “Top 10 Percent” legal, regulatory, and compli- REX S. HEINKE was recently is the first African-American law. Van Fleet serves as a ance issues for broker-dealers. recognized as the top First woman to serve on the Court of partner at McDermott Will & She previously served as of Amendment litigation lawyer Appeals. She is a former asso- Emery in Houston. counsel at Richardson & Patel in Los Angeles by The Best ciate justice of the Appellate in New York City. Lawyers in America. He was Division, First Department, 1978 also named an “Attorney of the and a former justice of the TIMOTHY S. FISHER was recently KUNDUCK MOON accepted Year” by California Lawyer Supreme Court of the State of named dean of the University a nomination to join the magazine. Heinke serves as New York. of Connecticut School of Law. Columbia Law School a partner in the Century City Fisher previously served as a Association Board of Directors office of Akin Gump Strauss PETER H. BLESSING was partner in the construction this past summer. Moon serves Hauer & Feld, where he is named head of cross-border practice group at McCarter & as managing director and global

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 71 head of investment industry senior counsel for Verrill where she specializes in labor Center. She previously finance at ING Capital. Dana in Portland, Maine, and employment law. worked as vice president, serves as general counsel for associate general counsel, and MICHAEL P. RICHMAN was both large corporations and 1981 assistant secretary for Chiquita recently named partner at closely held businesses. He is MICKEY MAYERSON was recently Brands International. Hunton & Williams in New York also a member of the Maine named deputy chair of Loeb & City. Richman is a member of the Business Hall of Fame. Loeb. He was also appointed to 1982 firm’s bankruptcy, restructuring, the firm’s three-person senior and creditors’ rights practice. MARTIN J. YUDKOVITZ was management team, which He previously chaired the recently named head of stra- includes fellow Law School bankruptcy and restructuring tegic innovation at The Walt graduate MICHAEL D. BECK ’80, practice group at Patton Boggs. Disney Company, where he chairman of Loeb & Loeb. previously served as senior vice Mayerson continues to serve MARK B. ROTENBERG was president for corporate strat- as managing partner of the named vice president and egy. Prior to joining Disney, firm’s Los Angeles office. He general counsel at Johns Yudkovitz held a number of specializes in entertainment Hopkins University in senior management positions finance law. Baltimore. In this role, at TiVo and NBC. Rotenberg advises the univer- MARY V. ROSADO was sity’s board of trustees, deans, 1980 recently nominated for senior leadership, faculty, and ANNE BLOOMDAHL recently a New York County Civil PETER C. HARVEY received the staff. He previously served earned a master of arts in Court judgeship. This past Francis X. Bellotti Award as general counsel at the religion from Yale Divinity May, her candidacy was at a recent meeting of the University of Minnesota. School. Bloomdahl focused endorsed by the Manhattan National Association of her studies on ethics while Democratic Party, the Village Attorneys General. The award NINA L. SHAW was named the at Yale, and she graduated Independent Democrats, and is presented each year to an 2013 “Entertainment Lawyer summa cum laude. the Downtown Independent individual who has worked of the Year” by the Beverly Democrats. Rosado, an expe- to further the association’s Hills Bar Association. Shaw DANIEL FLYNN recently joined rienced litigator, works as a mission. Harvey, a former is a co-founder and partner at the Iselin, N.J., office of solo practitioner in New York attorney general of the state Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & City. She also serves as vice of New Jersey, is a partner at Finkelstein & Lezcano in Davis as counsel in the firm’s president of the Dominican Patterson Belknap Webb & Santa Monica, Calif. environmental department. Bar Association, which Tyler in New York City. Flynn specializes in environ- represents the interests of mental law, workplace safety Dominican-American, native FRANÇOIS G. HENRIQUEZ II issues, site remediation, and Dominican, and Latino law was recently named partner product stewardship mat- professionals and students at Shutts & Bowen in Miami. ters. He previously served as in both the U.S. and the Henriquez is a member of the associate general counsel at Dominican Republic. firm’s financial services industry Celanese Corporation, a global practice. He previously served as technology and specialty BARBARA WAGNER serves president and CEO of the U.S. materials company. as an assistant professor of Central Federal Credit Union. law at Northern Kentucky ALAINE S. WILLIAMS, LL.M., University’s Salmon P. Chase REX L. NISWANDER recently was recently named to The College of Law. Wagner is joined the board of the Global Best Lawyers in America list director of the school’s Small Language Project, an educa- DAVID E. WARREN was recently for 2013. Williams serves as Business and Nonprofit Law tional organization that spe- named to The Best Lawyers in a partner at Willig, Williams Clinic and co-director of the cializes in language training America list for 2013. Warren, & Davidson in Philadelphia, Transactional Law Practice (continued on page 74)

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DANIELLA LEVINE CIVIC MINDED

While studying at Columbia Law School in the 1980s,Daniella initiatives such as the Prosperity Campaign—which provides Levine ’83 mentioned to her grandfather George M. Jaffin ’26 application assistance for government benefits and free tax that many of her peers were not pursuing public interest law preparation services—Catalyst Miami offers pro bono finan- because of financial constraints. The conversation inspired cial planning help to individuals and families. Another initia- Jaffin—a lawyer and philanthropist—to help establish the Law tive, Imagine Miami, links civic-minded individuals and organi- School’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program for graduates zations in an effort to enhance community involvement. choosing to pursue careers in public service. Jaffin always Levine, the organization’s president and CEO, created pointed to his granddaughter as the catalyst for the idea. Catalyst Miami as a volunteer group in 1996. It now includes “That’s humbling,” says Levine, who, in addition to her law more than 60 employees and apprentices, with an annual degree, earned a master’s degree from Columbia Univer- budget of $2.8 million. “I never expected to start an orga- sity’s School of Social Work. “I thought it was important for nization,” Levine notes. “To me, [this work] is an adventure. students [interested in the field] to keep in touch with their It’s a challenge. It’s a puzzle to be solved.” motivations for going to law school.” Levine’s own desire to dedicate her career to CATALYST MIAMI FOCUSES ON WHAT LEVINE public interest work led her to found Catalyst CONSIDERS TO BE THE TWO PILLARS OF Miami, a nonprofit organization that helps DEMOCRACY: ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND communities develop strategies for social, CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. educational, and economic improvement. The organization focuses on what Levine considers to be the two pillars of democracy: economic opportunity and civic responsibility. Through

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 73 for disadvantaged public school Law Journal earlier this year. law, specifically for securing STUART RIBACK was recently students. Niswander, who In addition, Weber serves as an court rulings mandating that named to the board of direc- serves as of counsel at Morrison adjunct professor at Marquette prisoners with disabilities tors for Quality Services for & Foerster in New York City, is University Law School. He has be accommodated when the Autism Community, a also a member of the project’s taught trial advocacy for more being held in county prisons. nonprofit organization that Chinese Language Council. than 15 years. She was also named a 2012 provides educational, residential, “Attorney of the Year” by the therapeutic, and family support JODY SIMON recently joined 1983 legal newspaper The Recorder. services to individuals with Fox Rothschild as a partner VICTORIA BJORKLUND was autism. Riback is a partner at at the firm’s Century City recently elected to Princeton EDWARD H. KLEES recently the New York City office of Wilk office in Los Angeles. Simon University’s Board of Trustees. began serving as a lecturer at the Auslander, where he specializes specializes in entertainment law Bjorklund, who will serve a University of Virginia School of in intellectual property, business and intellectual property law. four-year term as an alumna Law, where he teaches a class law, and creditors’ rights cases. He has served as governor of trustee, graduated from on private equity and hedge the Academy of Television Princeton in 1973. She cur- funds. Klees also serves as gen- KATHY SURACE-SMITH Arts and Sciences, and as rently serves as of counsel at eral counsel for the University recently joined NanoString director of business affairs Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. of Virginia Investment Technologies, a life science at NBCUniversal. Management Company in tools provider in Seattle, as DAVID GREENWALD was named Charlottesville, Va. In 2012, vice president and general DENNIS M. TOFT was recently co-chair of Fried, Frank, The MIT Press published Klees’ counsel. Surace-Smith previ- recognized by Chambers USA Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. book, Biomedical Consulting ously served as a principal at for excellence in the field Greenwald will remain in Agreements: A Guide for Lochleven Consulting and as of environmental law. Toft this role through February Academics, which he co-authored vice president, general coun- serves as a member of the firm 2015, at which time he will with Nobel Prize winner H. sel, and corporate secretary at Wolff & Samson in West be named chairman of the Robert Horvitz. In March, The at SonoSite, a medical device Orange, N.J., and as co-chair of firm. He previously served as Wall Street Journal published company specializing in the firm’s environmental group. deputy general counsel and an article highlighting Klees’ handheld ultrasound systems. international general counsel bank custody research. at Goldman Sachs. ANALISA TORRES was named H. GEOFFREY MOULTON JR. was a U.S. District Court judge DONALD E. VAUGHAN was appointed special prosecutor in for the Southern District of recently named to The Best charge of the internal investiga- New York. Torres, who was Lawyers in America list for tion by the Pennsylvania Attorney nominated by U.S. Senator 2013. Vaughan is a partner at General’s office into its handling Kirsten Gillibrand, previously Burns & Levinson in Boston, of the Jerry Sandusky child served as a justice on the New where he serves as an execu- abuse case. Moulton currently York County Supreme Court, tive committee member and serves as an associate professor Criminal Term. She currently co-chairman of the firm’s real at Widener University School chairs the board of the Women’s estate group. of Law. He has also worked as Housing and Economic chief counsel to U.S. Senator Development Corporation, RALPH A. WEBER was featured 1984 Ted Kaufman, and as chief of which provides affordable in the September 2012 issue GAY CROSTHWAIT GRUNFELD, staff and deputy special inspec- housing, education and youth of Corporate Counsel maga- a partner at Rosen Bien tor general for the Office of the development, family support zine. Weber is a co-founding Galvan & Grunfeld in San Special Inspector General for the services, and arts programming member of Gass Weber Francisco, was named a 2013 Troubled Asset Relief Program. throughout the Bronx. Mullins, a Milwaukee-based “Attorney of the Year” by Moulton served as first assistant firm that was named one of the California Lawyer magazine. United States Attorney for the PATRICIA C. VAUGHAN was 10 best boutique litigation firms Grunfeld was recognized for Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently elected to the board in the country by The National her work in the area of prison from 2001 to 2005. (continued on page 76)

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STACY D. PHILLIPS IN CONTROL

As the founder and managing principal of a small family Jaffe and Clemens. She founded the firm that became law firm in Los Angeles, Stacy D. Phillips ’83 has repre- Phillips Lerner in November 1990. sented a long list of celebrity clients in their high-profile Representing Darcy LaPier in her high-stakes child-support divorce, paternity, and custody cases. Phillips’ work with battle with Jean-Claude Van Damme was Phillips’ big Britney Spears landed her in People magazine, and she break. “I was a very young lawyer, but was successful in has made many television appearances. achieving for my client the highest-litigated child support Phillips comes from a family of lawyers. Her grandfather, award in the country at that time,” she recalls. “That Louis Phillips, was the founder of the New York law opened a lot of doors.” firm Phillips Nizer, while her father, Gerald Phillips, is Phillips, who wrote the book Divorce: It’s All About Con- a prominent entertainment attorney turned mediator trol (now in its sixth printing), is a natural-born networker and arbitrator. who built upon her initial success by attracting more clients, Because of her family background, it was almost earning greater publicity, and committing to an array of phil- expected that she would become a lawyer, but Phillips anthropic endeavors. “I like to introduce people to people,” never thought she would start her own firm. “I didn’t know she says, “and one thing feeds into another.” I had that kind of entrepreneurial drive,” she says. “Yet, in high school, I had a business PHILLIPS COMES FROM A FAMILY OF LAWYERS. printing custom stationery and invitations. HER GRANDFATHER FOUNDED THE FIRM So, in that sense, I was an entrepreneur.” PHILLIPS NIZER, AND HER FATHER IS ALSO A After graduating from Columbia Law PROMINENT ATTORNEY. School, Phillips clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Califor- nia before working at Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel and Silbert, and then at the Beverly Hills boutique family law firm

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 75 of directors for the African the third consecutive time. porate governance and acts as serves as associate dean for Population and Health Chappell is a partner in the an adviser to the company’s faculty development. Research Center, an organiza- Cleveland office of Ulmer & management board. She tion that facilitates research Berne, where she serves as also recently joined the board 1987 on issues such as urbanization, chair of the firm’s nonprofit of the European Corporate SHARON L. DAVIES was recently overpopulation, reproduc- group. She also specializes in Governance Institute in appointed executive direc- tive health, and education public law. Brussels, as well as the advi- tor of the Kirwan Institute in an effort to improve the sory board of the International for the Study of Race and quality of life for people in FRANCES DI SAVINO recently Center for Insurance Ethnicity at Ohio State Africa. Vaughan serves as published the book The World Regulation in Frankfurt. University. The institute works general counsel and secretary of Sicilian Wine (University of to deepen the understanding for Population Council, a New California Press: 2013) with of the causes and conse- York City–based nonprofit her husband, Bill Nesto. The quences of racial and ethnic organization working to cur- book provides wine lovers disparities throughout society. tail the spread of HIV and with a comprehensive history Davies serves as the Gregory AIDS, address environmental of Sicilian wine, from its H. Williams Chair in Civil problems, and counteract the ancient roots to its modern Rights and Civil Liberties at impact of rapid population evolution. Di Savino is also Ohio State University’s Moritz growth in developing nations. a co-founder of Incounsel, College of Law. which provides general coun- 1985 sel services to venture-backed JESSE FEDER was recently LANNY A. BREUER rejoined the companies in the informa- named a copyright royalty judge Washington, D.C., office of tion technology and life at the Library of Congress. Covington & Burling as vice science sectors. JAMES A. WILSON was recently Feder previously worked as chair of the firm. For the past recognized among Ohio’s top director of international trade four years, he served as the MICHAEL J. SCHMIDTBERGER antitrust litigation lawyers in and intellectual property at assistant attorney general for received Columbia College’s the 2013 edition of Chambers Business Software Alliance the Criminal Division of the John Jay Award this past USA. He serves as a partner in Washington, D.C. He U.S. Department of Justice. spring. The award, which is in the Columbus, Ohio, office has also served as acting Prior to working in public presented annually, recognizes of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and associate register at the U.S. service, Breuer co-chaired the alumni for their distinguished Pease. Wilson specializes in Copyright Office and as a firm’s white-collar defense and professional achievement. Hart-Scott-Rodino investiga- special legal adviser in the investigations practice group. Schmidtberger serves as a tions, criminal investigations Library of Congress’ office of partner in the New York City and trials, and civil actions. the general counsel. office of Sidley Austin. He is a global co-head of the firm’s 1986 JOSEPH A. MENDOLA was investment funds, advisers, GREGORY M. STEIN recently recently appointed to the and derivatives practice. published the book Modern national board of directors of Chinese Real Estate Law: the Log Cabin Republicans, DANIELA WEBER-REY, LL.M., Property Development in a nonprofit organization was recently named chief an Evolving Legal System, that is dedicated to repre- governance officer and deputy which examines private senting the interests of global head of compliance at ownership of land use rights LGBT members of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, in Communist China. Stein Republican Party. Mendola Germany. Weber-Rey, who serves as the University of currently serves as chief previously served as a partner Tennessee College of Law’s compliance officer and legal INAJO DAVIS CHAPPELL was at Clifford Chance, is respon- Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen counsel at the investment recently named to The Best sible for the oversight of & Carpenter Distinguished bank M.R. Beal & Company Lawyers in America list for Deutsche Bank’s global cor- Professor of Law. He also in New York City.

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Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson ’95 started shooting the and on the weekends, she filmed young progressive artists in documentary American Promise 13 years ago, when her the country’s inner-city neighborhoods. Her first short film, son Idris began attending the prestigious Dalton School We Choose to Rap, focused on feminist rap music in Brazil. on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Stephenson and her Fast-forward two decades, and Idris is now in college. husband, Joe Brewster, turned the camera on their own Early next year, Random House will publish a book that family to explore how perceived stereotypes surrounding further explores the issues raised in American Promise. African-American boys can affect academic achievement. “For me, [filmmaking has been] about figuring out “The challenge is to be as true and transparent as possible, how to maximize the power of storytelling to have some because that’s where the power of the stories can be found,” form of impact that effects change,” says Stephenson, says Stephenson, a human rights lawyer. “whether on a personal, community, or societal level.” The film documents Idris and another African-American boy as they struggle with issues of race, privilege, and oppor- “THE CHALLENGE IS TO BE AS TRUE tunity. It debuted earlier this year and won a U.S. documen- AND TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE, tary special jury award at the Sundance Film Festival. BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE POWER Stephenson discovered her passion for filmmaking OF THE STORIES CAN BE FOUND.” after her first year of law school. She spent that summer working in Brazil as a Columbia Law School Human Rights —MICHÈLE STEPHENSON Institute intern at a nonprofit organization focused on fighting racial discrimination in that country. During the workday, Stephenson helped draft legislative initiatives. In the evenings

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 77 JON M. GARON helped estab- general counsel for Baltimore Iowa. Adams’ practice focuses lish the W. Bruce Lunsford County Public Schools. primarily on venture capital Academy for Law, Business law, mergers and acquisitions, + Technology at Northern STEPHEN E. OLDER was and general corporate law. Kentucky University’s Salmon recently named partner in P. Chase College of Law. The the New York City office of GEORGE S. CANELLOS was technology-driven, skills-based McGuireWoods. Older focuses named co-director of the honors immersion program is his practice on corporate U.S. Securities and Exchange operated by the NKU Chase and securities law. He previ- Commission’s division of Law + Informatics Institute, ously served as a partner at enforcement, the body tasked which Garon directs. Garon McDermott Will & Emery. with investigating possible also serves as a professor at violations of securities laws. GUY N. MOLINARI joined Chase College of Law, specializ- LLOYD M. RICHARDSON recently Canellos previously served as the New York City office ing in entertainment law, infor- published the spy novel acting director and deputy of Kilpatrick Townsend matics, intellectual property, Dragon’s Paw, the first book director of the division. He also & Stockton as a partner. and business law. in a trilogy set around a pos- worked as director of the SEC’s Molinari focuses his practice sible nuclear war between New York regional office. on corporate finance, securi- MICHAEL J. HARRINGTON was India, Pakistan, and China. ties, and mergers and acquisi- recently named senior vice In the book, Richardson tions. He previously worked as president and general coun- builds upon and dramatizes a solo practitioner, providing sel at Eli Lilly and Company some of his experiences in general corporate advice to cli- in Indianapolis. Harrington the international relations ents investing in distressed or joined the pharmaceutical realm, including positions at developing businesses. company in 1991. He previ- the U.S. State Department ously served as managing and as a U.S. Foreign Services LAURA S. PRUITT recently director of Eli Lilly New officer in Taiwan. Richardson joined the financial services Zealand, as general coun- serves as a partner at Williams and products group at Alston sel for Eli Lilly’s Asia Pacific Mullen in Washington, D.C. & Bird in Washington, D.C., operations, and, most recently, He focuses on infrastructure where she works as a partner as deputy general counsel finance and public-private specializing in securities responsible for all of the partnerships. Richardson also CAROLYN HOCHSTADTER DICKER law and market regulation company’s litigation, manu- works as an adviser to the U.S. recently served as a judge issues. Previously, Pruitt was facturing, environmental, and Treasury Department. for the annual Benjamin practice group leader of the human resources matters. Franklin Invitational, a securities and futures mar- BRIAN D. ROBBINS accepted a high school mock trial ket regulation group at Schiff MARGARET-ANN F. HOWIE was nomination to join the Columbia tournament hosted by the Hardin, also in Washington, D.C. recently named “Maryland Law School Association Board University of Pennsylvania. Pro Bono Attorney of the of Directors this past summer. Hochstadter Dicker, a lecturer 1988 Year” by the Tahirih Justice Robbins serves as a partner at the Wharton School, also TODD L. CRANFORD joined the Center, a nonprofit organiza- in the New York City office of works as a solo practitioner. Certified Financial Planner tion that works to protect Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He She specializes in business Board of Standards as direc- immigrant women and girls is head of the firm’s executive law and bankruptcy. tor of government relations. from gender-based violence compensation and employee Cranford previously served through legal services, advo- benefits practice. WADE LEAK accepted a as of counsel at Patton Boggs cacy, and public education nomination this past summer in Washington, D.C., and as programs. Howie was rec- 1989 to serve another term on senior counsel for the U.S. ognized for her support of GARTH D. ADAMS was recently the Columbia Law School House of Representatives immigrant women and chil- elected president of Belin Association Board of Directors. Financial Services Committee. dren. She currently serves as McCormick in Des Moines, Leak currently works as

78 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 deputy general counsel at prints on sari fabric. The Association Board of Directors Hong Kong Exchanges and Sony Music Entertainment. women will also write and this past summer. Rahman Clearing Limited. Li, who record their oral histories on serves as president and CEO was named CEO in 2010, STEPHEN ORNSTEIN recently the saris. The finished saris, of the Ms. Foundation for is credited with helping to joined the Washington, D.C., along with photos and videos Women, which is based in New make Hong Kong one of the office of Alston & Bird as a documenting the project, York City. world’s largest markets for partner in the firm’s structured will be exhibited throughout initial public offerings. His finance and securitization the world. 1991 new term will continue until practice. Ornstein specializes October 2015. in banking and real estate law, RUDY CARMENATY accepted with an emphasis on federal a nomination this past CHARLES A. WEISS was recently and state regulation of real summer to serve another named partner at Holland & estate. He previously served as term on the Columbia Law Knight. Weiss serves as head a partner at SNR Denton. School Association Board of of the firm’s New York City Directors. Carmenaty works intellectual property group. He as a deputy county attorney previously served as a partner bureau chief for Nassau at Kenyon & Kenyon. County, N.Y., and as the director of legal services for the 1992 Nassau County Department BARBARA P. ALONSO joined of Social Services. the Miami office of Squire JAMES I. COHEN was recently Sanders as a partner. Alonso JEANNE M. HAMBURG was named to The Best Lawyers is a member of the firm’s recently part of a team that in America list for 2013. financial services practice. successfully represented the Cohen, who is a partner at She specializes in domestic Cointreau Corporation in a Verrill Dana in Portland, and international corporate trademark dispute, winning a Maine, was chosen based on matters, including corporate SIMONE WU was recently preliminary injunction against his administrative law and and project finance, debt and awarded the Asian American a company selling a product regulatory law expertise. He equity capital markets, and Legal Defense and Education similar to Cointreau’s orange was also recently recognized bank and broker-dealer regu- Fund’s 2013 Justice in Action liqueur. She also recently par- as one of Maine’s top attorneys latory issues. Alonso previ- Award. Wu, who serves as ticipated in a panel discussion by Super Lawyers magazine. ously served as a shareholder senior vice president, general on copyright enforcement in at Greenberg Traurig. counsel, and corporate secretary social media that was hosted by SHAZIA KHAWAJA recently at Choice Hotels International, the New York chapter of the moved to the New York City ROY J. LARSON recently was recognized for her dedica- Copyright Society of the USA. office of StormHarbour received the “Client Choice” tion to promoting diversity in Panel members examined Securities, after working award from the International the legal profession. the implications for own- in Singapore for eight Law Office and the online ers, posters, and websites years. Khawaja serves as legal analysis company 1990 that make use of copyrighted a managing director for Lexology. The award recog- MONICA JAHAN BOSE began material on social media sites. StormHarbour, an independent nizes law firms and partners a collaborative printmaking Hamburg currently serves as global markets and financial that provide excellent client and storytelling project in chair of the internet law prac- advisory firm. She previously care and high-quality service. Bangladesh titled “Her Words: tice at Norris McLaughlin & served as a director at DA Larson serves as a partner in Storytelling with Saris.” Bose, Marcus in New York City. Capital Asia. the Miami office of Baker & who is Bangladeshi-American, McKenzie. His practice focuses and 12 Bangladeshi women ANIKA RAHMAN accepted CHARLES LI recently agreed on mergers and acquisitions, are working together to make a nomination to join the to continue serving as the as well as on public and private 24 large-scale woodblock Columbia Law School chief executive officer for equity offerings.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 79 the University of Reading in well as in capital markets and securities offerings, as well as Reading, England. His most securities matters. on private equity and mergers recent scholarship focuses pri- and acquisitions. Goldsamt marily on sexuality and gender 1995 previously served as a partner law, and he has written exten- at McDermott Will & Emery in sively on civil partnerships, New York City. same-sex adoption, sexual orientation, and religious CRISTINE M. SAPERS recently freedom issues. joined the New York City office of Loeb & Loeb as a partner 1993 in the firm’s trusts and estates JONATHAN L. ISRAEL joined department. Sapers specializes JONATHAN D. LUPKIN recently the New York City office of in sophisticated estate and tax co-founded Rakower Lupkin, Foley & Lardner as a partner. planning for high–net worth a boutique litigation firm in Israel is a member of the individuals, the preparation New York City. The firm spe- firm’s sports industry team, of wills and trusts, and the cializes in complex commercial as well as part of its labor and administration of large trusts disputes. Lupkin previously employment practice. He previ- PETER J. EKBERG was recently and estates. She previously served as a partner at Flemming ously served as a shareholder at elected managing partner served as counsel at Debevoise Zulack Williamson Zauderer. Greenberg Traurig. at the Minneapolis office of & Plimpton. He has also served as chair Barnes & Thornburg. Ekberg of the New York State Bar SALOMON TORRES was recently is a partner in the firm’s cor- 1996 Association’s commercial and appointed executive director porate practice, and he also CHRISTINE P. BELLON was federal litigation section. of the Economic Development serves as a member of the named a 2013 “In-House Leader Corporation of San Benito, firm’s management committee. in the Law” by Massachusetts LYNNE HOBBS SMITH was Texas. Torres served as the city’s Lawyers Weekly. The recogni- appointed to a judgeship economic development director MARCIA ELLIS recently tion is reserved for in-house at the Los Angeles County from 2001 to 2002. rejoined Morrison & Foerster counsel or staff attorneys Superior Court by California as a partner in the firm’s Hong who demonstrate innovative Governor Jerry Brown. Prior 1994 Kong office. She focuses her and practical business and to the appointment, Smith SARKIS JEBEJIAN recently practice on private equity legal skills. Bellon serves as served as a Los Angeles joined the New York City transactions, as well as on vice president of legal affairs County deputy district attor- office of Kirkland & Ellis as complex mergers and acquisi- at Blueprint Medicines, a ney. She also volunteers as a partner in the firm’s corpo- tions involving companies biotechnology company treasurer of the Los Angeles rate practice group. Jebejian located in Asia. Ellis previ- based in Cambridge, Mass. chapter of The Links, Inc., previously served as a part- ously worked as a partner at an international service ner at Cravath, Swaine & the firm from 2007 to 2008. ALEXANDER KHUTORSKY organization dedicated to the Moore, also in New York City. She also served as a senior was recently named manag- enrichment and preservation He specializes in domestic vice president at the D.E. ing director at the Valence of African-American culture. and cross-border mergers Shaw Group from 2008 to Group, a specialist invest- and acquisitions. 2011, and as a partner at Ropes ment bank in New York City. CARL STYCHIN, LL.M., was & Gray from 2011 to 2013. Khutorsky was also recently named dean of The City Law THOMAS H. YANG was named named to the board of direc- School at City University partner at Akin Gump SETH T. GOLDSAMT joined tors of Meadow Bay Gold London. Stychin previ- Strauss Hauer & Feld in the New York City office of Corporation. He served as ously served as a professor Dallas. Yang is a member of Lowenstein Sandler as a partner. interim CEO of the corporation of law, pro-vice-chancellor, the firm’s corporate practice. Goldsamt is a member of the in 2012. Khutorsky previously and dean of the faculty of eco- He specializes in complex firm’s specialty finance practice. worked as managing director nomic and social sciences at mergers and acquisitions, as He focuses on public and private at Dahlman Rose.

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ERIC MICHAEL DAVID TECH MATTERS

In a relatively short amount of time, scientists at Organovo by the questions dealing with how you bring that to mar- can create functional human liver tissue using a 3D bioprinter. ket, commercialize it, get it out of the lab, and make the The company’s co-founder and chief strategy officer Eric world a better and more productive place,” he says. Michael David ’96 J.D., ’02 M.D. admits that Organovo’s work David went on to serve as the assistant chief resident in has been compared to something that would be seen onStar internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital before Trek or other shows about the distant future. working as an associate partner at the consulting firm “It’s a very cool technology, and it sounds very sci - McKinsey & Company. He co-founded Organovo in 2007. ence fiction,” David explains, “but [we are careful to Now, as the only lawyer among a staff of 35, David explain] what it can do now, what it can do in two to five balances a wide variety of responsibilities, including years, and after that.” Currently, pharmaceutical compa- overseeing the company’s intellectual property filings nies want to use the bioprinted tissue to test new drugs and its business development efforts. “What we’re in clinical trials prior to human testing, and David says doing is truly at the intersection of science, business, that Organovo’s long-term goal of printing fully com - and the law,” he says. “Wearing all these different hats posed, functional organs is about a decade away. really keeps me sharp.” A graduate of both Columbia Law School and Columbia University’s College of Physi- PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WANT TO USE cians and Surgeons, David did not initially ORGANOVO’S BIOPRINTED HUMAN TISSUE TO plan on studying medicine. He notes that TEST NEW DRUGS IN CLINICAL TRIALS. a Law School seminar on the legal issues involved in organ transplantation taught by Professor Harold S. H. Edgar helped inspire his interest in the field. “I looked around and saw so much cutting-edge technology and was fascinated

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 81 ERNESTO P. MACEDA JR., LL.M., author. He also recently pub- Board of Directors this past member of the firm’s structured was elected president of the lished The Fifth Assassin and summer. Chu serves as vice finance and securitization prac- Philippine Association of Heroes for My Daughter. president-corporate and global tice. He previously served as a Law Schools, an organiza- compliance counsel at Ralph partner at Linklaters. tion comprised of more JENDI REITER and her husband, Lauren in New York City. than 100 of the country’s Adam R. Cohen, recently 1998 legal institutions. Maceda, welcomed their new son, DAVID DICKSTEIN recently MARC H. AXELBAUM was who also serves as dean at Shane Steven Cohen. Reiter joined the New York City office recently named partner at the University of the City of is a co-founder and vice presi- of Katten Muchin Rosenman as Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Manila College of Law, is a dent of Winning Writers, a a partner. Dickstein represents Pittman in San Francisco. former vice mayor and city website for writers and poets. broker-dealers, investment Axelbaum is a litigator spe- councilor in Manila. She is also the award-winning advisers, investment companies, cializing in white-collar author of several poetry books, and hedge funds in connection criminal defense matters, SEC including A Talent for Sadness with a variety of regulatory, enforcement actions, and cor- and Barbie at 50. compliance, and operational porate investigations. He also matters. He previously served as represents indigent defendants a partner at K&L Gates, also in in federal criminal cases as a New York City. member of the Criminal Justice Act trial panel. CHIU-TI JANSEN received the Trailblazer Award from the BINTA NIAMBI BROWN U.S. Pan Asian American accepted a nomination to Chamber of Commerce join the Columbia Law Northeast Chapter during School Association Board the third annual Top Ten of Directors this past sum- JOSEPH B. MANN was named Asian American Business mer. Brown was also recently a partner at Vorys, Sater, Awards ceremony this past named to CNNMoney’s “40 Seymour and Pease in spring. Jansen, who serves as Under 40” list of business Columbus, Ohio. Mann is JOHN C. TANG joined the San publisher of YUE magazine, leaders. She was recognized in a member of the firm’s tax Francisco office of Jones a Chinese-English lifestyle part for her fundraising efforts group. He specializes in Day as a partner in the firm’s magazine she helped found, was on behalf of political, cultural, federal taxation, including securities litigation and recognized for her leadership and humanitarian initiatives. tax planning, taxable and SEC enforcement practice. and vision in building a Brown is currently a fellow at tax-free corporate mergers, He previously served as a sustainable business. the Harvard Kennedy School’s acquisitions, divestitures, partner and co-chair of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for and restructurings. securities litigation practice ARTHUR F. MCMAHON III was Business and Government. She at the Silicon Valley office of recently named a “Leading is researching issues related BRAD MELTZER will publish Latham & Watkins. Tang is Lawyer” by Cincy magazine. to the intersection of business the book History Decoded also president of the board of McMahon serves as a partner and human rights. Brown (Workman Publishing directors for the Asian Law in the business and finance previously served as a partner Company: 2013) in October. Alliance, a San Jose–based practice at Taft Stettinius & in the corporate practice at The book ranks history’s top nonprofit that provides legal Hollister in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kirkland & Ellis. 10 conspiracies and includes services to that area’s Asian He specializes in corporate gov- removable facsimile documents, Pacific Islander community. ernance and securities matters. JAKE J. CHO recently joined which are replicas of evidence the New York City office of used in the cases. Meltzer, who 1997 STANFORD A. RENAS was Blank Rome as of counsel. hosts the television show Brad YEN D. CHU accepted a nomi- recently named partner at Cho serves as a member of the Meltzer’s Decoded on History, is nation to join the Columbia Katten Muchin Rosenman firm’s financial services group. a New York Times best-selling Law School Association in New York City. Renas is a He previously worked as senior

82 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 director and analytical manager investment management division Ore., office of Barran Liebman Bartlett in New York City. in the structured credit group at Goldman Sachs in Miami. as an associate. Ramachandran Lindabury previously served at Standard & Poor’s. is a member of the firm’s as vice president and asso- 1999 employment law advice and ciate general counsel at JENNIFER FRIEDMAN serves as MATT GALSOR was named litigation practice, as well as Goldman Sachs. executive director of the Pace chairman of the entertainment its higher education practice. Community Law Practice, a group at Greenberg Glusker She previously served as a legal residency program that Fields Claman & Machtinger research and writing attorney provides affordable legal ser- in Los Angeles. In addition in the Office of the Federal vices to clients in Westchester to entertainment law, Galsor Public Defender in Portland. County, N.Y., and the Hudson specializes in celebrity and River Valley area. She also talent representation. ERIC SAVE was named partner serves as the first director at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw of Pace Law School’s Public JORDAN B. LEADER was named Pittman in San Francisco. Interest Law Center, which was senior counsel at Proskauer He is a member of the firm’s formed in 2008. Rose in New York City. corporate and securities prac- Leader’s practice focuses on tice, with a focus on Latin ANN RICHARDSON KNOX was sports law and international American transactions. Prior to named partner at the New York arbitration, namely the repre- joining Pillsbury, Save worked JOHN S. RHEE was recently City office of Mayer Brown. sentation of professional sports in Mexico City for four years named to the Pacific Business Knox, who specializes in com- leagues in antitrust and com- as an executive and in-house News “Forty Under 40 Class of plex secured loans and financ- petition matters, arena leases, lawyer at a Mexican software 2013” list, which honors young ings on behalf of major financial and general contractual issues. company that he co-founded. business and community institutions and non-traditional leaders in Hawaii. Rhee serves lenders, is a member of the firm’s ELIZABETH LENAS recently IMRE SZALAI recently as of counsel at Alston Hunt banking and finance practice. advised TPG Capital, a global published his first book, Floyd & Ing in Honolulu. He She was previously a partner at private investment firm, on its Outsourcing Justice: The specializes in commercial Haynes and Boone. formation of TPG Opportunities Rise of Modern Arbitration litigation and civil rights litiga- Partners II, a special situation Laws in America (Carolina tion. Rhee previously served as a WENSENG “WENDY” PAN was fund, and TPG Growth II, a Academic Press: 2013). The partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson named partner at O’Melveny growth-equity fund. Lenas book explores the history in Illinois. & Myers in Shanghai. Pan serves as a partner at Cleary of arbitration agreements, is a member of the firm’s Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in relying on never-before-seen 2001 transactions department. New York City. archival materials—many CRISTINA CORONADO was She specializes in mergers from Columbia University’s recently named president-elect and acquisitions, as well as in Rare Book & Manuscript of CREW Utah, the state’s technology-based transactions Library—to explain the chapter of the Commercial and strategic partnerships. evolution of modern arbitra- Real Estate Women Network. Pan has worked with both tion laws. Szalai serves as an She will begin serving as state-owned enterprises and associate professor of law president of the organization privately owned emerging at Loyola University New in 2014. Earlier this year, companies in China. Orleans College of Law, where Coronado was also named he teaches civil procedure and to a list of Utah’s leading JASON WIESENFELD accepted alternative dispute resolution. real estate lawyers by Utah a nomination to join the Business magazine. She is Columbia Law School 2000 a member of the real estate Association Board of Directors JONATHAN LINDABURY was development and complex this past summer. Wiesenfeld BANU K. RAMACHANDRAN recently named senior coun- transactions group at Ballard serves as a vice president in the recently joined the Portland, sel at Simpson Thacher & Spahr in Salt Lake City.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 83 Rosati in Palo Alto, Calif. past spring. The list recognizes KARINA LENGLER, LL.M., was Moreno specializes in securi- minority professors who are named partner at Araújo ties litigation and counseling, making an impact in legal e Policastro Advogados in including the representa- education. Torres-Spelliscy São Paulo, Brazil, where she tion of companies and their teaches election law, corporate serves as a member of the directors and officers in governance, and constitutional firm’s corporate practice divi- class-action lawsuits, deriva- law at Stetson University College sion. Lengler moved to Brazil tive actions, and mergers and of Law, and currently serves as after working at Shearman & acquisitions litigation. a member of the board of direc- Sterling in New York City, and tors of the National Institute on at Bryan Cave in St. Louis. CHRISTIAN MORETTI, LL.M., Money in State Politics. joined the New York City RUSSELL M. STEINTHAL was LANCE W. LANGE joined the office of Carter Ledyard & 2002 named a partner in the Des Moines office of Faegre Milburn as a partner and ELISSA ALBEN recently joined New York City office of Baker Daniels a partner in co-chair of the firm’s European the Democratic Finance Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider. the firm’s litigation and advo- cross-border practice. Moretti Committee as international Steinthal is a member of cacy group. Lange previously specializes in corporate mat- trade counsel. Alben previ- the firm’s antitrust practice. served as special counsel at the ters, including stock and asset ously served as a deputy He specializes in litigation, firm. He specializes in complex acquisitions and dispositions, assistant U.S. trade repre- mergers and acquisitions, and commercial litigation, consumer auctions, private placements, sentative responsible for corporate counseling. lending and consumer protec- securities offerings, corporate enforcement and monitoring tion litigation, antitrust and reorganizations, and private in the Office of the United 2003 trade regulation, appellate equity transactions. States Trade Representative. DAVID CHANG and his wife, litigation, and corporate JANE (YANG) CHANG ’03, internal investigations. DANIEL P. RAGLAN, LL.M., was DARRELL S. CAFASSO was recently welcomed their sec- named partner at Kelley Drye named partner in the New ond child, Claire Naomi. The RUTH M. MOORE recently & Warren in New York City, York City office of Sullivan couple, who met at Columbia was named of counsel at where he specializes in corpo- & Cromwell. Cafasso is a Law School and were married Weingarten Brown, a Los rate advisory matters, merg- member of the firm’s litiga- in 2004, have an older daugh- Angeles–based business and ers and acquisitions, and pri- tion group. His practice ter named Audrey. entertainment litigation vate equity. Raglan previously focuses on the representa- firm. Moore specializes in served as a partner at Torys, tion of financial institutions in RAMIN FATEHI married Mary complex business litigation, also in New York City. complex commercial litigation, Beth Pennington this past including entertainment as well as the representation summer in Chesapeake, Va. law and intellectual property DANIEL SEROTA recently joined of corporations in regulatory Fatehi currently serves as law matters. the New York City office and criminal investigations. an assistant commonwealth of Greenberg Traurig as a attorney in Norfolk, Va., pros- CATHERINE MORENO was shareholder in the firm’s cor- JACOB M. KAPLAN was ecuting fraud and white-collar recently named partner at porate and securities practice. named a partner at Baker & crime cases. He previously Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Serota specializes in mergers and McKenzie in New York City. worked as a special assistant acquisitions, with an emphasis He is a member of the firm’s U.S. Attorney for the Western on corporate governance matters litigation practice. Kaplan District of Virginia. and private equity transactions. specializes in both domestic He previously served as counsel and international commer- DEBORAH KOVSKY-APAP was at Linklaters. cial litigation, as well as in named a partner at Pepper Follow us arbitration matters. He cur- Hamilton in Detroit. She spe- on Twitter CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY rently serves as secretary of cializes in bankruptcy insolvency @ColumbiaLaw was named to the Lawyers of the International Arbitration and out-of-court debtor-creditor Color “50 Under 50” list this Club of New York. (continued on page 86)

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YEN D. CHU STYLISH PURSUITS

Yen D. Chu ’97 readily admits that she felt a bit out of place her work as an in-house counsel at Ralph Lauren. Not during her first days as corporate and global compliance only does she manage the company’s governance and counsel for the luxury fashion brand Ralph Lauren. compliance—including federal securities regulations, “I’m sure everyone looked at me thinking, ‘Ugh, the suit anti-bribery, and international trade—she also provides is here,’” Chu recalls, adding that she quickly modified her advice to its senior management (including Ralph Lauren standard corporate business attire with more fashionable himself) and its board of directors. Chu also advises the Polo options. “When you work for a company like this, you have Ralph Lauren Foundation, a private nonprofit organization. to really understand your business,” she explains. “You have “You are expected to connect the dots and understand to adjust and work to build credibility.” the different pieces of the company,” Chu says. “You live Fortunately, Chu, a native of Vietnam, is no stranger to with [the brand] from day to day, and as the company adapting, even in the toughest of situations. At the end of the evolves and the law evolves, you have to keep both on a Vietnam War, she and her family fled their homeland by boat, parallel track.” floating at sea for days before being rescued by the Philippine Coast Guard. A young girl at “WHEN YOU WORK FOR A COMPANY LIKE the time, Chu sought refuge with her mother RALPH LAUREN, YOU HAVE TO REALLY and father through a church in Minnesota and UNDERSTAND YOUR BUSINESS.” —YEN D. CHU eventually settled there. The experience, she says, has always motivated her to overcome obstacles and learn from each challenge. Now, 38 years after leaving Vietnam, Chu says she regularly calls on these abilities in

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 85 agreements. Kovsky-Apap is a served as a managing director member of Pepper Hamilton’s in the investment bank divi- corporate restructuring and sion at Guggenheim Partners. bankruptcy practice. She is also a member of the American VIRGINIA F. TENT was named Bankruptcy Institute. counsel at Latham & Watkins in New York City. Tent spe- RADU A. LELUTIU was named cializes in litigation, with a a principal in the New York focus on trade regulation and City office of McKool Smith. antitrust issues, including Lelutiu focuses on commercial civil antitrust matters, gov- litigation. He specializes in ernment investigations, and bankruptcy disputes, as well as ALISON L. PLESSMAN was cross-border issues. SCOTT P. MARTIN was named in cases involving patent, recently recognized by partner at Gibson, Dunn & antitrust, and securities issues. The Recorder as one of 50 CLIFFORD G. TSAN was named Crutcher in Washington, D.C. “California Lawyers on the a partner at Bond, Schoeneck Martin practices in the firm’s WILLIAM MACK III married Dr. Fast Track.” She was also & King in Syracuse, N.Y. Tsan litigation department and is Lian Sorhaindo in the autumn named a “Rising Star” of is a member of the firm’s liti- a member of its appellate and of 2012 in Brooklyn. Mack Southern California by gation practice, as well as its constitutional law practice is currently principal coun- Super Lawyers magazine e-discovery and information group. He represents clients in sel at the Financial Industry earlier this year. Plessman, a management practice group. a variety of matters, including Regulatory Authority. He pre- partner at Irell & Manella in He specializes in both federal those that involve constitutional viously served as the director Los Angeles, specializes in and state litigation, as well as law, securities regulations, and of the executive secretariat at complex litigation. She also in arbitration and mediation. class-action proceedings. the Office of the United States serves as vice-chair of the Trade Representative. firm’s summer committee, 2004 BENJAMIN A. NAFTALIS and as a member of the firm’s STEPHEN B. AMDUR was recently received the U.S. hiring and women’s committees. named partner at Latham & Attorney General’s Award for Watkins in New York City. Distinguished Service—the FRANCISCO RIVERO joined the Amdur represents public and Department of Justice’s Houston office of Reed Smith private companies in mergers second-highest honor for as a partner. Rivero serves as and acquisitions, public and pri- employee performance—for his a member of the firm’s com- vate financing matters, tender participation in the investigation mercial litigation practice offers, and joint ventures. and prosecution of an al-Qaeda and as global co-chair of its operative. Naftalis serves as an Latin America business team. ELIZABETH R. GONZALEZ- assistant U.S. Attorney in the He also teaches as an adjunct SUSSMAN married Bradford terrorism and international professor at the University of Jay Sussman this past narcotics unit for the Southern Houston Law Center. Rivero January at the Angel District of New York. FARSHAD E. MORÈ was recently was previously an associate at Orensanz Foundation for named partner at Gibson, Haynes and Boone. Contemporary Art in New KENJI P. TANEDA recently Dunn & Crutcher in Los York City. Gonzalez-Sussman joined the Tokyo office of Angeles. Morè is a member SAMIR N. SHAH joined Intrepid is a partner at Olshan Frome Morrison & Foerster as a of the firm’s real estate prac - Investment Bankers as a vice Wolosky in Manhattan. She partner in the firm’s corpo- tice. He specializes in the president. The firm, based in specializes in capital-raising rate practice. He specializes acquisition and development Los Angeles, specializes in transactions, tender and in initial public offerings of commercial assets, complex mergers and acquisitions, as exchange offers, mergers and and mergers and acquisi- construction matters, and well as in corporate finance acquisitions, and general cor- tions transactions. Taneda joint ventures. advising. Shah previously porate law matters. (continued on page 88)

86 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 class of: ’99

NYAGUTHII CHEGE INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

One look at the faculty listing for Peking University’s Sang Yop Kang ’07 LL.M., ’11 J.S.D. teaches corporate law, School of Transnational Law (STL) is enough to show that securities law, and corporate governance at STL, which Columbia Law School has planted strong roots in Shenzhen, was the first law school in China to offer a joint English a city northwest of Hong Kong. In just a few short years, Juris Doctor degree and Chinese Juris Master degree. five Columbia Law School graduates have joined STL’s fac- In addition, Mark Feldman ’99 teaches contracts, treaty ulty of 24 full-time professors and lecturers, and Nyaguthii arbitration, and international business transaction law. Chege ’99 signed on as the school’s first director of career Feldman served as chief of NAFTA/CAFTA-DR arbitration services in the summer of 2012. in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser STL was founded five years ago, and, since then, several before moving to Shenzhen with Chege, his wife. Law School graduates have served as C.V. Starr Lecturers “I imagine that working at STL is similar to being in in its Transnational Legal Practice Program. The program a start-up organization,” says Chege. “This is such a new helps non-native English speakers master legal research. endeavor, so we all feel that we’re on an adventure together.” The transition from the Morningside Heights campus to Shenzhen came quickly for Travis FIVE COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES HAVE Annatoyn ’10, who taught as a Starr lecturer JOINED THE FACULTY OF PEKING UNIVERSITY’S months after graduating from the Law School. SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW SINCE IT During his year at STL, Annatoyn spoke with WAS FOUNDED IN 2008. Andrew Jensen Kerr ’11 about the merits of the job. Kerr now serves as a Starr senior lecturer in STL’s Transnational Legal Prac- tice Program, and he helped persuade Juan Gonzalez ’07 to join the same program.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 87 previously served as a special rate transactions group. He LISA A. PARRINGTON was counsel in the Tokyo office of previously worked as an asso- recently named assistant Sullivan & Cromwell. ciate at Irell & Manella, also general counsel in the in Los Angeles. law department of the HEATHER VON ZUBEN was Northwestern Mutual Life named a managing director at ANNA (WAGNER) ST. JOHN Insurance Company in Goldman Sachs in New York was recently named to the Milwaukee. Parrington previ- City. Von Zuben previously “Top 99 Under 33” list by ously served as a senior associate served as a vice president in the Diplomatic Courier in the securities department at the company’s investment and Young Professionals WilmerHale in New York City. management division’s alterna- in Foreign Policy. The list tive capital markets group. includes the world’s most COURTNEY L. WEINER was NICK GREENWOOD recently influential foreign policy elected by the District of 2005 joined the Salt Lake City office leaders under the age of 33. Columbia Bar membership CARA S. ELIAS recently of Parsons Behle & Latimer St. John is an associate in the to be its under-35 delegate in joined the Denver office of as an associate. He serves as Washington, D.C., office of the American Bar Association Brownstein Hyatt Farber a member of the firm’s corpo- Covington & Burling, where House of Delegates. Weiner, Schreck as an associate. Elias rate transactions and securi- she focuses on international who serves as an associate at specializes in employee ben- ties department. Greenwood’s trade and investment matters, Lewis Baach, is one of just efits and compensation mat- practice focuses on corporate data privacy and security issues, six members representing ters related to mergers and formations, debt and equity and insurance coverage. the D.C. Bar. She previously acquisitions, public offerings, financings, mergers and served as counsel to the assis- and debt financings. She pre- acquisitions, and corporate 2006 tant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. viously served as a director at restructurings, among other Justice Department’s antitrust Shareholder Representative areas. He previously worked as division, and as a special Services and as an associate an attorney at Gibson, Dunn assistant U.S. Attorney in the New York City office of & Crutcher in New York City for the Eastern District of Latham & Watkins. and Los Angeles. Virginia. Weiner is a member of the D.C. Bar Foundation’s JUSTIN FAIRFAX was named to Young Lawyers Network the “Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Leadership Council. Lawyers Under 40” list by the National Bar Association and 2007 IMPACT-DC, a Washington, ANDREW COHEN recently D.C.–based organization that joined Burford Capital promotes civic engagement Limited, a financial litigation and leadership. The list recog- REBECCA L. AVITIA was recently advisement company, in New nizes African-American lawyers named a “Rising Star in York City. Cohen serves as a under the age of 40 for their Business Litigation” by Super vice president in the company’s professional and philanthropic Lawyers magazine. Avitia, underwriting and investment work. Fairfax, who recently who serves as a shareholder division. He previously worked ran for the office of attorney RONNIE ROY recently joined at Montgomery & Andrews as a senior litigation associate general in Virginia, served Weingarten Brown in Los in Albuquerque, N.M., was at Debevoise & Plimpton. as an assistant U.S. Attorney Angeles as a partner. Roy, also named to Albuquerque for the Eastern District who specializes in merg- Business First’s “40 Under GREGORY C. PADGETT of Virginia from 2010 to ers and acquisitions, public Forty” list earlier this year. married Katherine Penberthy 2012, and as an associate at offerings, securities law, and That list recognizes 40 of the in September of 2012 in WilmerHale in Washington, corporate governance, serves most outstanding young Chevy Chase, Md. Padgett is D.C., from 2006 to 2010. as chair of the firm’s corpo- professionals in New Mexico. (continued on page 90)

88 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 LUIS ALBERTO ANINAT IN ASCENSION

Like many international lawyers who earn graduate legal Aninat, who is married with three daughters, has degrees in the United States, Luis Alberto Aninat ’00 LL.M. become an expert at balancing his roles at the law firm, returned home to practice. As a founding partner of Aninat as a professor at Universidad de Chile School of Law, Schwencke & Cía in Santiago, Chile, he advises corporate and as a founder of the online newspaper El Dinamo. clients, oversees litigation, and manages a growing law His leadership at Aninat Schwencke & Cía has paid off firm. “It has been an incredible ride,” says Aninat, who in spades. “In only seven years, which for me, looking worked as a foreign associate at Cameron & Hornbostel back, looks like seven centuries,” Aninat says, “we have in Washington, D.C., and as a partner at Aninat & Cía, his managed to become one of the top 10 or 12 law firms family’s law firm, before venturing out on his own. in the country.” Aninat teamed up with Juan Pablo Schwencke ’97 LL.M. in 2005 to discuss the possibility of forming a firm with “IN ONLY SEVEN YEARS, WE HAVE national roots and international reach. The partners com- MANAGED TO BECOME ONE OF THE bined their savings, and they opened Aninat Schwencke TOP 10 OR 12 LAW FIRMS IN CHILE.” & Cía in early 2006. —LUIS ALBERTO ANINAT Seven years later, Aninat Schwencke has grown to include 40 attorneys, a number that may not sound so large by U.S. law firm standards, but one that ranks highly in a country where few firms employ more than 50 lawyers. “Chile is a very isolated and far-away coun - try, and so we have really worked hard to be connected, mainly with the U.S., but also with some jurisdictions in Europe,” Aninat says.

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 89 2010 an associate at Covington & mergers and acquisitions, previously served as an asso- Burling in Washington, D.C. and real estate law. ciate at Labaton Sucharow. He specializes in complex commercial disputes, includ- ROHAN K. GEORGE, LL.M., joined ing technology, antitrust, and the Chennai, India, office intellectual property matters. of Narasappa, Doraswamy & Raja as a partner. George MANMEET SINGH, LL.M, was serves as chair of the firm’s recently named partner at the intellectual property practice New Delhi office of Luthra and is also co-head of the & Luthra. Singh specializes Chennai office. He previ- in infrastructure and project ously served as an intellec- finance, aviation matters, and tual property associate at Ali private equity. Associates in Chennai. JENNIFER A. COFFEY joined the Tampa office of GrayRobinson RODRIGO SURCAN DOS CAROLINE K. SIMONS was as an associate. Coffey is a SANTOS, LL.M. ’07, J.D. ’11, selected as a member of the member of the firm’s real estate accepted a nomination to Boston Bar Association’s practice. She previously served join the Columbia Law 2013–2014 Public Interest as an associate at Arent Fox in School Association Board of Leadership Program. Through New York City. Directors this past summer. the program, Simons will work Surcan dos Santos serves with local community leaders JOANNE T. PEDONE recently as an associate at Simpson and program alumni to execute joined the Syracuse, N.Y., office Thacher & Bartlett in New public service activities that of Bond, Schoeneck & King. York City. He is a member of benefit the Boston community. Pedone previously served as the firm’s mergers and acqui- an associate at Weil, Gotshal & sitions practice, as well as its 2009 Manges in New York City. She corporate practice. MIKHAILE P. SAVARY joined specializes in civil litigation. the Los Angeles office of 2008 Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck NILANJANA SINGH, LL.M., was ANTONIA ABRAHAM married as an associate. Savary focuses named partner at AZB & Thaddeus Pitney in August his practice on insurance Partners in Mumbai. Singh of 2012 in Garrison, N.Y. matters, general commercial specializes in corporate Abraham is the chief finan- litigation, real estate law, and mergers and acquisitions. She cial officer at Chartbeat, employment law. He previ- previously served as a senior a New York City company ously served as an associate at associate at the firm. that charts audience usage Mendes & Mount. for website owners. She was 2011 previously vice president of ROBERT A. WEINSTOCK was JONATHAN A. BERRY, a former finance and operations at recently named an associ- legal adviser to Mitt Romney’s Betaworks in Manhattan. ELIZABETH L. FRIEDMAN ate at Barnes & Thornburg recently joined the New York in Chicago. Weinstock, HUGO LOPEZ COLL, LL.M., City office of Robins, Kaplan, who previously served as a was named a shareholder at Miller & Ciresi as an associ - law clerk for Judge Victor Greenberg Traurig in Mexico ate. Friedman is a member Marrero of the United City. Lopez Coll previously of the firm’s antitrust and States District Court for the Follow us served as a senior associate trade regulation practice, and Southern District of New on Twitter at the firm. He specializes in she specializes in complex York, is a member of the @ColumbiaLaw corporate and securities law, antitrust litigation. Friedman firm’s environmental practice.

90 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 presidential campaign, was as an associate at McLaughlin named to Forbes magazine’s & Stern. He focuses his “30 Under 30: Law & Policy” practice on corporate and Follow us on Twitter list for 2012. The list is com- securities litigation. prised of 30 lawyers, company @ColumbiaLaw founders, economists, and 2012 advisers younger than the age PARKER ZHOU recently of 30 who are helping shape published Financial Investing: U.S. and international law and A Beginner’s Guide to What policy. Berry serves as an associ- the Rich Already Know. please email your news to [email protected] ate in the new lawyers group at In the book, Zhou advises with the heading “Class Notes Submission” in the subject Jones Day in Washington, D.C. first-time and amateur inves- line. Please be certain to include your year of graduation in the email. Photo attachments are welcomed, but due to tors and outlines a basic space limitations, the magazine cannot guarantee publication EVAN MOITOSO married Kaylan financial vocabulary.Financial of submitted photographs. Marie Scagliola this winter in Investing is available in a Class notes submissions may be edited for clarity and space. Columbia Law School Magazine cannot guarantee publication of all items. New York City. Moitoso serves Kindle edition.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 91 in memoriam: The Columbia Law School community extends its deepest sympathy to the loved ones of recently deceased alumni, faculty, and friends

Soon after, Chaskalson met parative constitutionalism. at Columbia Law School. After Columbia Law School Professor His enduring relationship with graduating in 1949, Zimmerman Jack Greenberg ’48, who was Columbia Law School helped worked as a law clerk for Judge then serving as director-counsel ensure that Law School students Simon H. Rifkind ’25 of the U.S. of the NAACP Legal Defense received the opportunity to work District Court for the Southern and Educational Fund (LDF). as interns at the Legal Resources District of New York, and for U.S. Inspired by the work of the LDF, Centre for decades. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Chaskalson left his law practice Chaskalson is survived by his Reed one year later. in the late 1970s to help create wife, Dr. Lorraine Chaskalson; his Zimmerman focused on the Legal Resources Centre, two sons, Matthew and Jerome; antitrust law as part of the a law firm focused on ending and several grandchildren. litigation group at Sullivan & apartheid through legal methods. Cromwell before accepting a Arthur Chaskalson A few years later, Greenberg faculty appointment at Stanford DECEMBER 1, 2012 invited Chaskalson to spend Law School in 1959. In 1965, he a year at the Law School took a leave of absence from Arthur Chaskalson, a longtime as a visiting professor. He Stanford to become director of Columbia Law School visiting taught numerous courses and policy planning for the antitrust professor, was an international seminars, including Legal division of the U.S. Justice champion of human rights and Responses to Apartheid. Department. Later that year, the first president of the South In the early ’90s, Chaskalson he was promoted to deputy African Constitutional Court. served as one of the principal assistant attorney general, He passed away on December 1, draftsmen of the new South and, in 1968, he was chosen to 2012, at the age of 81. African constitution. In 1994, lead the division. Chaskalson was born on Mandela won the South Afri- Moving back into private November 24, 1931, in Johan- can presidency and appointed Edwin M. practice, Zimmerman became a nesburg. He earned his law Chaskalson president of the newly Zimmerman ’49 LL.B. partner at Covington & Burling degree from the University of created Constitutional Court. OCTOBER 6, 2012 in Washington, D.C., in the late the Witwatersrand in 1954, Chaskalson presided over a 1960s and continued to special- and in 1963 he was chosen to number of landmark equality Edwin M. Zimmerman ’49 LL.B. ize in antitrust law. Outside of be part of a defense team repre- cases, fostering a more just soci- was an antitrust law expert his legal practice, Zimmerman senting Nelson Mandela and ety and building foundations who served as head of the U.S. held a wide range of interests. other members of the African for a democratic South Africa. Justice Department’s antitrust He was a published poet, and National Congress who had After 10 years on the court, he division in the late 1960s. He his work has appeared in vari- been charged with sabotage. retired as chief justice of South passed away on October 6, ous journals. His collection, A The defendants were found Africa but continued to serve on 2012, at the age of 88. Piercing Happiness, was pub- guilty, but they did not receive a number of international human Zimmerman, a native New lished in 2011. Zimmerman the death penalty, and following rights commissions and courts. Yorker, graduated from Columbia was also a dedicated rug collec- the trial, Chaskalson established Chaskalson again joined the College in 1944. He served in the tor, and he served as president of himself as one of the most suc- Law School faculty in 2004, U.S. Army as a radio officer dur- the board of trustees of the Textile cessful barristers in South Africa. co-teaching a course on coming World War II before enrolling Museum in Washington, D.C.

92 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 Zimmerman is survived by Association Board of Directors oil companies—and serve as secretary of Inter-Continental his wife, Caroline; his two for more than 30 years, and was a president of the Association Hotels, a subsidiary of Pan Am. daughters, Sarah and Mir - member of the Law School’s Board of International Petroleum Upon her election, Goldberg iam; his son, Lyle; and his of Visitors for nearly 20 years. Negotiators in Houston. became the company’s first granddaughter, Rebecca. In 1999, the Columbia Alumni In 1987, Boulos was awarded female corporate officer. Association honored Scheuer the Columbia University Alumni Goldberg spent four years with its Alumni Medal, which Medal. After retirement from working as assistant general Thomas Scheuer ’53 recognizes graduates for distin- Conoco in 1993, he founded counsel at the Gimbel Brothers JULY 27, 2013 guished service to the University. Boulos International and served department store after leaving Scheuer is survived by his as a consultant to gas and oil com- Inter-Continental in 1976. She Thomas Scheuer ’53 was a widely wife, Ann; his children, Todd, panies in the U.S. and abroad. returned to Pan Am as assis- respected, highly skilled attorney Gwenn, and Chris; his stepchil- Boulos is survived by his tant general counsel in 1980, and an active member of the dren, Carl, Rindy, and Jerry; wife, Mary; six children: Mary, and retained the same posi- Columbia Law School alumni and 11 grandchildren. Elizabeth, John, Peggy, Katie, tion with Inter-Continental community. He passed away on and Suzie; and 11 grandchildren. when Pan Am sold the hotel July 27, 2013, at the age of 85. company in 1981. Goldberg Scheuer was born in April of Alfred J. Boulos ’59 was named a vice president at 1928. He studied economics as JANUARY 31, 2013 Inter-Continental in 1983. an undergraduate at American Goldberg also dedicated University in Washington, D.C., Alfred J. Boulos ’59 was an nearly 10 years of her career earning a bachelor’s degree in expert negotiator and adviser to working as deputy general 1950. Three years later, he gradu- to governments and oil com- counsel at Phoenix House, a ated from Columbia Law School. panies throughout the world. national drug-rehabilitation Scheuer served as a private He passed away on January 31, organization, in New York City. practice attorney for 21 years, 2013, at the age of 82. She retired in 2002. including time as a partner at Boulos was born in Port-au- Goldberg is survived by her both Wolf Haldenstein Adler Prince, Haiti, in 1930. He gradu- husband, Ralph Goldberg ’59; Freeman & Herz, and Bernstein ated from Marquette University her children, Judy and David; & Scheuer, before beginning a in 1954 and was commissioned Audrey L. Goldberg ’59 and four grandchildren. fruitful and productive period of as an officer in the U.S. Navy FEBRUARY 21, 2013 work as director, vice president, upon graduation. After serv- and general counsel at the Louis ing as a line officer aboard U.S. Audrey L. Goldberg ’59 was a Julius L. Chambers ’64 Dreyfus Holding Company, part aircraft carriers, he enrolled at longtime in-house counsel for AUGUST 2, 2013 of the Louis Dreyfus Commod- Columbia Law School, where Pan American World Airways ity Group—a commodities he was a Harlan Fiske Stone and one of the company’s first Julius L. Chambers ’64 LL.M. merchandising and trading Scholar, and graduated in 1959. female corporate officers. She was a dedicated champion conglomerate. Scheuer served Boulos also earned an M.B.A. in passed away on February 21, of civil rights and the former in that capacity from 1976 to business administration from 2013, at the age of 78. director-counsel and president 1996. Thereafter, he took on New York University. Goldberg graduated from of the NAACP Legal Defense the role of senior counsel at the Boulos was named senior inter- Smith College and enrolled at and Educational Fund (LDF). company for the next 13 years, national counsel for Mobil Oil Columbia Law School in 1956. He passed away on August 2, before retiring in 2009. During Corporation in 1964, working in She was one of just 12 women in 2013, at the age of 76. his career, Scheuer also served both New York City and London. the 1959 graduating class. Chambers was born in Mount as chairman of the National Five years later, he became senior Goldberg began her legal career Gilead, N.C., in 1936. He earned Committee for an Effective director of international explora- as an assistant attorney general for his bachelor’s degree from North Congress, a political organization and production for Conoco the state of New York. She then Carolina College (now North tion that seeks to elect progres- Inc. In that role, he directed the served as a staff attorney for the Carolina Central University) sive candidates to Congress. company’s international nego- Columbia University Project for in 1958, and went on to earn a Scheuer stayed close to his tiations with governments and Effective Justice, a Law School master’s degree in history from roots at Columbia Law School oil companies. At that time, organization that conducted the University of Michigan one throughout his life. In 1987, Boulos also served as chairman research into the civil justice year later. In 1962, Chambers was he established the Thomas of the legal committee of the Oil process. In 1966, Goldberg one of the first African-American Scheuer Scholarship, which was Industry Group, an organization was named associate director students to earn a law degree given annually to outstanding that negotiated prices, currency of the project. from the University of North Law School students. He also exchanges, and equity participa- In 1970, she joined the legal Carolina at Chapel Hill. He founded the Thomas Scheuer tion with OPEC. He would later department of Pan American graduated first in his class and Human Rights Internship in found the European Petroleum World Airways (Pan Am). She served as editor-in-chief of the 1998. Scheuer served as a mem- Negotiators Group—which was named senior attorney three North Carolina Law Review ber of the Columbia Law School represented more than 200 years later, before being elected during his time there.

LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 93 Chambers served as a teaching Cohen graduated from Macchiarola left the chan- associate at Columbia Law School Columbia College in 1959. cellorship in 1983 to become in the early 1960s, earning an He served as a lieutenant in president and CEO of New LL.M. from the Law School in the U.S. Navy for three years York City Partnership, a con- 1964. While in Morningside before receiving his J.D. from glomerate of business orga- Heights, he was selected by Columbia Law School in nizations that worked to Thurgood Marshall to serve as 1965. During his time at the improve economic and social an intern at the LDF, laying the Law School, Cohen worked conditions within the city. foundation for Chambers’ career as managing editor of the In 1991, he was named dean as a civil rights lawyer. After Columbia Law Review. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo graduating from the Law School, From 1965 to 1967, Cohen School of Law, where he also Chambers returned to North served as a law clerk for Stanley taught legal process, contracts, Carolina, where he founded a H. Fuld ’26 LL.B., chief judge Frank J. and legal writing. Macchiarola practice that would later become of the New York Court of Macchiarola ’65 LL.B. returned to his alma mater, St. the state’s first integrated law Appeals. In 1967, he turned DECEMBER 18, 2012 Francis College, as president firm. Chambers worked along- his interests toward admiralty in 1996. During his 12 years in side the LDF on many desegrega- and maritime law as a trial Frank J. Macchiarola ’65 LL.B. that role, he led a $40 million tion cases, including Swann v. attorney for the admiralty and was a former chancellor of fundraising campaign and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board shipping section of the U.S. New York City schools who helped establish 150 endowed of Education, which upheld Department of Justice. After served many of the city’s aca- scholarships. In October 2012, busing programs as a suitable three years, Cohen transi - demic institutions throughout Pope Benedict XVI bestowed a way to promote racial integration tioned into private practice at his life. Macchiarola passed pontifical order of knighthood in public schools. Chambers also Burlingham, Underwood & away on December 18, 2012, upon Macchiarola. won Supreme Court cases for Lord in New York City. There, at the age of 71. Macchiarola is survived by clients challenging employment he proceeded to expand his A New York City native, his wife, Mary; his three sons, and voting-rights discrimination. focus on admiralty litigation, Macchiarola graduated from Joseph, Michael, and Frank; In 1984, Chambers was named maritime arbitration, and St. Francis College in 1962 and seven grandchildren. the third director-counsel and marine insurance matters. and enrolled at Columbia president of the LDF, follow- (Cohen continued working at Law School. He earned his ing the tenures of Marshall and Burlingham, Underwood & LL.B. in 1965 and received Richard M. Columbia Law School Professor Lord until 2002.) his Ph.D. in political science Fairbanks III ’69 Jack Greenberg ’48. Chambers In 1975, Cohen began teaching from Columbia’s Graduate FEBRUARY 6, 2013 established the LDF’s Poverty as a lecturer at Columbia Law School of Arts and Sciences in Justice program, focusing on School. He taught admiralty 1970. Macchiarola joined the Richard M. Fairbanks III ’69 the economic issues impacting law biennially for the next 30 faculty of Columbia Business was a former U.S. ambassador minorities as a result of racial years. Cohen also served as School that same year and was in charge of facilitating peace discrimination. After leaving editor of the Index and Digest named assistant vice presi - discussions between Israel and the LDF in 1993, Chambers was of Award Service of the Society dent for academic affairs at Egypt in the early 1980s. He named chancellor of North of Maritime Arbitrators, as Columbia University in 1973. passed away on February 6, Carolina Central University. the special features editor of During the next eight years, 2013, at the age of 71. He returned to his law prac - American Maritime Cases, and Macchiarola served in multiple Fairbanks, who was born tice in 2001. as editor of several volumes of roles for the City University of in Indianapolis in 1941, was Chambers was predeceased by Benedict on Admiralty, widely New York, and as deputy direc- the great-grandson of former his wife, Vivian. He is survived considered the most com - tor of the New York State Emer- U.S. Vice President Charles by his son, Derrick; his daughter, prehensive American text on gency Financial Control Board Fairbanks. He graduated Judy; and three grandchildren. admiralty law. He served as a for New York City, an oversight from Yale University in 1962 titular member of the Comité body created during the finan- and served four years in the Maritime International and cial crisis of the 1970s. U.S. Navy before enrolling Michael Marks was named the 2013 recipi - Macchiarola grew to be a at Columbia Law School. He Cohen ’65 LL.B. ent of the American Bar Asso- key adviser to the mayor’s earned his J.D. in 1969. DECEMBER 1, 2012 ciation’s Leonard J. Theberge office, and he was Mayor Ed Fairbanks spent much of his Award for his distinguished, Koch’s choice to take over as early career working for the Michael Marks Cohen ’65 LL.B. longstanding contributions schools chancellor in 1978. United States government. From was an expert in admiralty to the development of private During his five-year tenure, 1971 to 1972, he served as a spe- and maritime law, as well as international law. the standardized test scores of cial assistant to Environmental a longtime lecturer-in-law Cohen is survived by his New York City students steadily Protection Agency Administrator at Columbia Law School. He wife, Bette; his son, Daniel; improved and the number William Ruckelshaus, and as a passed away on December 1, his daughter-in-law, Jill; and of crimes committed against staff assistant for the White House 2012, at the age of 75. his grandson, Caleb. teachers decreased. Domestic Council. He became a

94 COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE FALL 2013 founding partner of Beveridge, the next decade. Fairbanks passed away on April 8, 2012, he would teach for the next 25 Fairbanks & Diamond in 1974, founded Layalina Productions at the age of 62. years. Madow wrote exten- but returned to public service in 2002. The company is a Madow graduated summa sively on First Amendment law when President-elect Ronald nonprofit organization focused cum laude from Amherst and mass media law. His 1993 Reagan named him head of on producing television and College in 1971. He earned California Law Review article his transition office’s natural media programming for distri- the school’s Rufus B. Kellogg “Private Ownership of Public resources, energy, and envi- bution in the Middle East. University Fellowship, which Image: Popular Culture and ronment division in 1980. Fairbanks is survived by afforded him the opportunity Publicity Rights” is still cited by After Reagan entered office, his wife, Ann; his two sons, to study philosophy at Balliol judges and practitioners. Fairbanks began his first job Woods and Jonathan; and his College at Oxford University Outside of the classroom, in the U.S. State Department six grandchildren. from 1972 to 1974. When he Madow served on the due process as assistant secretary for con- returned to the United States, committee of the ACLU and as gressional relations. Just more Madow enrolled at Harvard a member of the media law than a year later, he was called University and earned a mas- committee of the New York upon to lead peace negotiations ter’s degree in political science City Bar Association. between Egypt and Israel as a in 1978. He went on to study Madow is survived by his wife, special adviser to Secretary of at Columbia Law School, Dr. Karen Brudney, and his chil- State Alexander Haig. Reagan graduating at the top of his dren, Benjamin and Hannah. named Fairbanks an ambassador class in 1982. at large in 1984. After serving as a clerk Fairbanks returned to pri- for Judge Henry J. Friendly vate practice in 1985, and of the U.S. Court of Appeals please email continued to serve on various for the 2nd Circuit, Madow In Memoriam notifications to federal committees during the worked as a litigation asso - [email protected] next several years. In 1992, he Michael P. Madow ’82 ciate at Williams & Connolly with “In Memoriam” in the subject line. began work with the Center APRIL 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C. In 1985, for Strategic and International he was named an assistant As part of this email, please be certain to include the Studies, a public policy research Michael P. Madow ’82 was professor at the University of full name of the deceased, institution in Washington, D.C. a professor at Brooklyn Law Pennsylvania Law School. the year of graduation from He would serve as the organi- School, as well as a renowned In 1987, Madow accepted the Law School, and the approximate date of death. zation’s president, CEO, coun- authority on First Amendment a faculty appointment at selor, and trustee throughout law and mass media law. He Brooklyn Law School, where

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LAW.COLUMBIA.EDU/MAGAZINE 95 QUESTIONS PRESENTED alumni spotlight Michael A. Cardozo ’66

Michael A. Cardozo ’66 has served as the corporation counsel for New York City since 2002. He oversees the New York City Law Department’s 17 legal divisions and 690 lawyers who are responsible for representing the city, elected officials, and various agencies.

WHO HAS BEEN YOUR GREATEST INSPIRATION? JFK. Although in hindsight perhaps imperfect, he captured my generation’s hope, energy, and imagination.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS? Having a loving family and good friends, and spearheading progress in the workplace, in government, and in society.

WHY DID YOU GO TO LAW SCHOOL? In addition to my name, which seemed to ordain that I would become a lawyer, I was attracted by the opportunity to learn skills that might enable me to solve problems and effect change.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE LAWYER OF ALL TIME? Cyrus Vance Sr., former secretary of state. As a young attorney, I worked with him when he was president of the New York City Bar Association and chair of a state task force on court reform. I observed firsthand his integrity, courage, leadership, and consensus-building abilities. He inspired me to seek to improve society in both the public and private sectors.

FINISH THIS SENTENCE: YOU WOULDN’T CATCH ME DEAD WITHOUT . . . My BlackBerry.

ONE THING YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST DO BEFORE YOU DIE? Fulfill my childhood dream of playing shortstop for the Yankees.

THING FOR WHICH YOU ARE MOST THANKFUL? My wife, Nancy; my children; my grandchildren; and the satisfaction gained from practicing law, particularly serving as New York City corporation counsel.

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