GEORGETOWN LAW SPRING/SUMMER 2020 RISING TO THE CHALLENGE Georgetown Law Responds to COVID-19 GEORGETOWN LAW Spring/Summer 2020 ELIZABETH TERRY Interim Editor BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design INES HILDE Associate Director of Design MIMI KOUMANELIS Executive Director of Communications TANYA WEINBERG Director of Media Relations and Deputy Director of Communications RICHARD SIMON Director of Web Communications JACLYN DIAZ Communications and Social Media Manager BEN PURSE Senior Video Producer MATTHEW F. CALISE Assistant Vice President of Alumni Engagement. WILLIAM M. TREANOR Dean and Executive Vice President Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair Contributors: VANESSA BAUZA, JEREMY CONRAD, MELANIE D.G. KAPLAN, THOMAS E. KELLOGG, BETSY KUHN, GREG LANGLOIS, ANN W. PARKS, SARA PICCINI, KATHERINE HUTT SCOTT, ALLISON STEVENS, EMILIE KARRICK SURRUSCO, ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN Cover design: INES HILDE Contact: Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 [email protected] Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2020, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved. REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD.) Keynote speaker at an American Constitution Society symposium on separation of powers Photo Credit: Ines Hilde INSIDE / 06 / 21 Second Annual Ginsburg Lecture D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Argues for Statehood Former President Bill Clinton (F’69, H’80) and former Delivering the annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined the mayor of the nation’s capital made the case for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. making Washington, D.C. a state. / 34 / 50 Rising to the Challenge Stronger Together When the COVID-19 pandemic caused a pivot to online The Georgetown Health Justice Alliance Clinic brings together learning, the Georgetown Law community responded with law and medical students for learning and advocacy. resilience, commitment and creativity. 2 Georgetown Law \ INSIDE / 69 / 73 Four New Scott K. Ginsburg Professors of Law Intelligence Operations in Liberal Democracies Professors Carlos Vázquez, Sheila Foster, David Hyman and Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director Nan Hunter (L’75) are the newest recipients of the professor- of the CIA Avril Haines (L’01) took part in a panel on ethics ships funded as part of a gift by Scott K. Ginsburg (L’78). within the intelligence community. 04/ Thoughts from the Dean 06/ News 34/ Feature: Rising to the Challenge 50/ Feature: Stronger Together 68/ Campus 94/ Alumni 106/ Class Notes / 95 Reunion Weekend The 2019 Georgetown Law reunion broke attendance records. 2020 Spring/Summer 3 THOUGHTS FROM THE DEAN \ The Georgetown Law Difference Our feature article in this issue on Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance (page 50) speaks to our work battling hen communicating with racism and poverty and the failures of our health care Wprospective students, my system. This powerful partnership between the Law colleagues and I often use the Center and the Medical Center is giving our students in- phrase “the D.C. difference.” This valuable insight into our health care system and into the is shorthand for the unique things ways racism and poverty affect health outcomes. It bears Georgetown Law offers because of witness to the fact that, at this terrible time, Georgetown our location in the nation’s capital Law is a source of hope for the future. — such as the opportunity to in- And the rest of this issue is, as always, full of updates teract with Supreme Court Justices, learn from seasoned on our outstanding faculty, dedicated students, accom- policy experts, and pass the U.S. Capitol dome every day. plished alumni, and groundbreaking initiatives and But these past few months, seeing our community pull- programs. I find it bittersweet to look through this issue ing together in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and and to see so many photos of people gathered together working together with renewed urgency around justice in community and to recognize some of the remark- and antiracism, I’ve been struck even more powerfully by able people who come to Georgetown Law to engage how unique and special Georgetown Law is. with our faculty and students — from Justice Ginsburg, The period since we moved our classes online in March to Secretary and President Clinton, to Bill Gates, to so has been the most challenging of my tenure as Dean, and many others whose pictures you will see on these pages. yet I am more inspired than ever. I am so proud of how Georgetown University recently made the difficult deci- our students, faculty, and staff have pivoted to distance sion to begin the semester teaching remotely. At the Law learning, teaching and working. We’ve mastered new Center, this means we will be remote for at least the first technologies, done our best to stay connected to each four weeks of the semester, as we monitor the situation other and found ways to help those affected most severe- in D.C. and around the country. We have been planning ly by this global crisis. On page 34, you will find some for this potential scenario, which puts us in good shape examples of how Georgetown Law has, once again, risen to start off remotely. That said, we are disappointed that to the occasion. we will not be able to welcome our students in person at And this is not only a time in which we have focused the beginning of the semester. on confronting the pandemic. It is a time in which we Our next issue will provide more information on the have focused on confronting racial injustice. creative ways in which we are building community and The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the offering our students a remarkable educational expe- worldwide protests that followed took place after this rience, even during the pandemic. One initiative that I issue went to design, but I hope you have been following am particularly proud of is a course I will be teaching, the series of online discussions we have been holding “Lawyers as Leaders,” in which I will be having a series on police reform and civil rights, which highlight the of conversations with members of our faculty about their deep expertise and passion of our faculty and alumni. I work and how they are addressing some of the most can assure you that the issues being debated will still be important issues confronting the nation and the world. very present on campus as classes begin again, and that We had originally planned in this issue to share infor- our motto, “Law is but the means, justice is the end,” will mation about upcoming events to celebrate the impend- lead the way. ing 150th anniversary of Georgetown Law—October 5, 4 Georgetown Law 1870 was the date of the very first law lecture at Georgetown University. Of course, now we are revising our plans to find new ways to mark our sesquicentennial in October, and to gather in per- son when it is safe to do so. We will share plans as they come together, and you can also visit www.law.georgetown.edu/150 for more on this important milestone. And last but not least, to mention the obvious, this is not the usual print magazine you are accus- tomed to receiving. The pandemic response and related economic instability has led to cost-cutting efforts across Georgetown — yet another challenge we are managing as a community. For this reason, we opted to publish our magazine digitally for this issue. I’m grateful to the faculty and staff who have displayed great creativity and grace through this process. This time is extraordinarily difficult, with pro- found uncertainty about our health, lives, careers, and the economy and, indeed, the fate of the na- tion and the world. I hope you will stay connected to your Georgetown network, and let it inspire and support you, as it always does for me. William M. Treanor Dean and Executive Vice President Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair Photo Credit: Sam Hollenshead 2020 Spring/Summer 5 / NEWS Former President Bill Clinton with Dean William M. Treanor at a dinner reception following the Annual Ginsburg Lecture. 6 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG LECTURE Second Annual Ginsburg Lecture Features Bill Clinton (F’68, H’80), Hillary Rodham Clinton and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dean William M. Treanor, Adjunct Professor Mary Hartnett, Professor Emerita Wendy Williams, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Hart Auditorium. Photo Credit: Hillary Schwab. hen Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treanor noted also that the justice’s late husband, Professor launched Georgetown Law’s inaugural Ruth Bader Marty Ginsburg, was a beloved member of the Georgetown Law Ginsburg Lecture Series in April 2018, some feared faculty until his death in 2010. Wthat next year’s lecturer would have a tough act to follow. They needn’t have worried. A CONVERSATION Former President Bill Clinton (F’68, H’80), former Secretary The Clintons noted the justice’s role as a champion for women’s of State and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Justice rights; as a lawyer for the ACLU, Justice Ginsburg argued six sig- Ginsburg in Hart Auditorium on October 30 for a conversation nificant cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court, and moderated by the justice’s official biographers, Adjunct Professor won five. As a justice, her writing continues to resonate. Mary Hartnett and Professor Emerita Wendy Williams. Bill Clinton nominated Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in In opening the evening, Dean William M.