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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is also Managing Director of HLS’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. And, he is a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. Chris concentrates his practice on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, speech, advising of startups, and the use of technology to support access to justice, and he serves as the HLS Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab. Prior to joining the Clinic, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998–2002, Chris was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP / Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1998. Gabriella Blum, ’03 Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in public international law, international negotiations, the law of armed conflict, and counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC) and a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Board. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in the fall of 2005, Blum served for seven years as a Senior Legal Advisor in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps in the Israel Defense Forces, and for another year, as a Strategy Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. Blum is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University (LL.B. 1995, B.A. Economics 1997) and of Harvard Law School LL.M. ’01 and S.J.D. ’03. Blum is the author of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries, (Harvard University Press, 2007), Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists (MIT Press, 2010) (co-authored with Philip Heymann and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize), and The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones - Confronting a New Age of Threat (Basic Books, 2015) (co-authored with Benjamin Wittes and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize) as well as of journal articles in the fields of public international law and the law and morality of war. 1 David Bonderman ’66 David Bonderman is a founding partner of Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a leading global private investment firm founded in 1992 with over $74B of assets under management and offices around the world. TPG has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, growth investments, joint ventures, and restructurings. Portfolio companies controlled by TPG have combined revenue surpassing $100B and operate in more than 100 countries. Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was chief operating officer of the Robert M. Bass Group Inc. Before this, he was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and special assistant to the U.S. attorney general in the Civil Rights Division. Mr. Bonderman is a director of Airbnb, Inc.; Kite Pharma, Inc.; Uber, and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is chairman. In addition, he serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, The Grand Canyon Trust, and the American Himalayan Foundation. He received his B.A. from University of Washington in 1963 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1966, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. Bonderman currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Committee on University Resources (COUR). Neil Chayet ’63 Neil Chayet is Co-Chair of the Harvard Law School Association Senior Advisory Network and President of the Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts. He is widely known for his daily nationally- syndicated CBS radio feature, Looking at the Law. The familiar opening line, “This is Neil Chayet, Looking at the Law” has greeted listeners around the nation every weekday for more than 39 years. Since 1976, Neil has written and broadcast more than 9,500 one-minute features. As President of Chayet Communications Group, he maintains an active legal and consulting practice, specializing in the building of “deep coalitions” to deal with difficult issues of public policy. Neil is also a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, serving in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. A graduate of Tufts University, he is a member of the faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts, and a member of the Board of Tufts’ Tisch college of Citizenship and Public Service. Neil is a member of the Board of Directors of the Whitehead Institute for biomedical research at M.I.T. He also serves as a member of the MassPort Security Advisory Council, the Board of MassINC, the Board of Overseers of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the Boards of Timber Owners of New England and Wildlife Conservation Trust, and the Visiting Committee to the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum. He lives with his wife Martha in the recently-restored Joseph Story House on the Salem Common, built in 1811 for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Story, and now a LEED-Certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) National Historic Landmark. Morgan Chu ’76 Morgan Chu is a partner of Irell & Manella, where he was co-managing partner from 1997 to 2003, and where he has been a member of its Executive Committee since 1985. He is presently chair of the Litigation Group. Chu joined Irell & Manella as an associate in 1977 and became a partner in 1982. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Charles M. Merrill, JD ’31 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Since 1993, Mr. Chu has been a member of the board of directors of Public Counsel, serving on the Executive Committee since 1995. The organization is the nation’s largest pro bono public-interest law firm. Chu previously served on the Board of Governors of the University of California, Los Angeles Foundation, has been an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, and has served as a judge pro tem. Chu received his B.A. in 1971, his M.A. in 1972, and his Ph.D. in 1973, all from the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn his MSL in 1974 from Yale University, and his J.D. in 1976, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board, co-chair of the HLS Campaign Committee, and a member of the Leadership Council of the University of Southern California. 2 Robert C. Clark ’72 Robert C. Clark, currently the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, was the Dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1989 through July 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he has written numerous law review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as “the paradigm for future student texts.” For 28 years, until July 2016, he served as a trustee of TIAA, the giant pension fund serving the higher education community; for much of that time he chaired the TIAA nominating and governance committee. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Time Warner Inc. and Omnicom Group, Inc. and on the editorial board of directors of Foundation Press. He is also a trustee of Hodson Trust, which funds educational programs at four Maryland educational Institutions. Prior to his 14-year tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School, Professor Clark consulted for law firms and government agencies, and he testified before various Congressional committees and subcommittees on regulation of financial institutions. From 1972 to 1974, Professor Clark was an associate with the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, where his practice involved commercial and corporate law. After his law firm experience, Professor Clark spent four years on the faculty of Yale Law School, where he became a tenured professor. In 1979, he returned to Harvard Law School as a professor of law. A graduate of Maryknoll College, Professor Clark received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1972. Glenn Cohen ’03 Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has appeared in or been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues. He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history. Prof.