FALL/WINTER 2017 The Next Generation More than a decade after Georgetown Law students helped make history with the The Labor of Loving Supreme Court case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Mary McCord (L’90) and Joshua Geltzer Professor Sheryll Cashin’s book Loving: are helping to shape the next wave of constitutional litigators Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy — published on the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia — explores the hopes and challenges facing a nation GEORGETOWN LAW Fall/Winter 2017 ANN W. PARKS Editor BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design INES HILDE Associate Director of Design MIMI KOUMANELIS Executive Director of Communications TANYA WEINBERG Director of Media Relations and Deputy Director of Communications RICHARD SIMON Director of Web Communications JACLYN DIAZ Communications and Social Media Manager BEN PURSE Senior Video Producer JERRY COOPER Communications Associate MATTHEW F. CALISE Director of Alumni Affairs GENE FINN Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations JANE AIKEN Vice President for Strategic Development and External Affairs WILLIAM M. TREANOR Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs Cover photo: Brent Futrell Contact: Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 [email protected] Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2017, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved. Orientation 2017 Miranda Diaz (L’20) examines a piece of the Berlin Wall as she tours the Newseum with her new classmates and professors during Orientation Week 2017. Photo Credit: Brent Futrell 2017 Fall/Winter 1 INSIDENEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE / 11 / 14 Making a Difference Justice to Georgetown John Podesta (L’76) speaks to the 2017 Graduating Class. Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Q. Yates joins Georgetown Law as a Distinguished Lecturer from Government during Fall 2017. / 16 / 24 Students of Originalism, Meet the Justices Keeping it Real Students of Originalism in Professor Randy Barnett’s Summer Seminar Distinguished Visitor from Practice Paul Smith argues a historic ask Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil gerrymandering case in the Supreme Court — while teaching Gorsuch about originalism, career advice and more. Constitutional Law I. 2 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS / 26 / 36 ICAP: The Next Generation The Labor of Loving Georgetown Law’s new Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, the Georgetown Law community Protection takes on unauthorized militias in its first semester. remains connected to the landmark case. 04/ Thoughts from the Dean 05/ News 26/ Feature: ICAP: The Next Generation 36/ Feature: The Labor of Loving 50/ Campus 56/ Commencement 2017 65/ New Faculty 69/ Alumni / 51 Chokehold: Policing Black Men Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler is in the spotlight with a new book. 2017 Fall/Winter 3 NEWS THOUGHTS / CONVINCING FROM EVIDENCE THE DEAN \ The Next Generation We began the 2017-2018 school year in August with the events of Charlottesville, Virginia, in our minds and hearts — a sober reminder of the challenges our country is facing at this unprecedented time. By October, our new Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) was filing suit in Virginia state court on behalf of the City of Char- lottesville and others, seeking an order banning the groups that descended on that university town from returning to the state. ICAP, headed by Professor Neal Katyal; Mary McCord (L’90), former acting assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice’s National Security Division; and Joshua Geltzer, former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, is a new initiative featured on page 26. With a focus on impact litigation in the national security and law enforcement arenas, ICAP will certainly cultivate the next generation of constitutional litigators at the Law Center. We look forward to seeing the work of its practicum students this spring. Our faculty continues to inspire, with Professor Paul Butler’s new book Chokehold: Policing Black Men recommended by the New York Times and Professor Sheryll Cashin’s book Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy published just in time for the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision last June (see page 36). One of our new faculty members, Professor Shon Hopwood, re- cently had his extraordinary story of redemption and success featured on “60 Minutes.” A staunch advocate for prison reform and a former fellow in Georgetown’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, Shon has become a valued member of our faculty. We also welcomed three more full-time faculty members: Professor Sheila Foster, who joins us from Fordham, will teach property and urban law and policy; Professor Brad Snyder from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin teaches Sports Law, Legal Justice and Constitutional Law II. Professor Urska Velikonja comes to Georgetown Law after visiting here full time from Emory University, teaching securities, contracts, and M&A. And Georgetown Law made headlines when we welcomed former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates as a Distinguished Lecturer from Gov- ernment for the fall 2017 semester. In these pages, we offer an exciting glimpse of the remarkable things that are happening at Georgetown Law, and I invite you to read more. William M. Treanor Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs 4 Georgetown Law / NEWS Professor Shon Hopwood Appearing on “60 Minutes” in October Steve Kroft: You’re a professor at one of the finest law schools in the country. Is that something that you thought you would be able to do? Professor Shon Hopwood: No. It makes me laugh hearing you say it out loud, because there are days where it doesn’t make sense to me, and I’ve lived it. So I can see why it doesn’t make sense to hardly anyone else. (Courtesy of “60 Minutes”) For Shon’s story, see page 66. Photo Credit: Brent Futrell 2017 Fall/Winter 5 NEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE Uniformed Injustice The 2017 HRI Fact-Finding Project investigated institutional violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in El Salvador. The report, “Uniformed Injustice: State Violence Against LGBT People in El Salvador”, was released on May 21. Sally Yates: From Acting Attorney General to Distinguished Lecturer Sally Q. Yates began 2017 as Acting U.S. Attorney General, but fortunately for Georgetown Law, she’s finishing the year as one of our Distinguished Lecturers from Government. Yates — who enjoyed a distin- guished career at the Department of Justice for nearly three decades as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and U.S. Deputy Attorney General before serving in the role that made her a hero to many — joined the Law Center for the fall semester. While not Federal Circuit at Georgetown Law teaching a formal class, she served as a resource for Georgetown Law students got the opportunity to witness the U.S. Court of Appeals students, participated in faculty workshops, delivered for the Federal Circuit in action — on Law Center turf. A three-judge panel sitting in the Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture and assisted with the Supreme Court Institute’s Moot Courtroom on March 6 heard four cases, the ma- Law Center programming, among other things. jority involving patents: Aylus Networks v. Apple, Williamson v. Citrix Online, MH “Georgetown has a long and distinguished history Systems v. Coldharbour Marine and Batson v. Snyder. The Institute for Technology of rigorous and thoughtful academic dialogue and a Law and Policy sponsored the event. commitment to social justice,” Yates said at the start The fact that Judge Kimberly A. Moore (L’94), Judge Richard Linn (L’69) and Judge of the year, noting that she looked forward “to being a Kara Farnandez Stoll (L’97) just happened to be Georgetown Law alumni was icing part of this dynamic environment and interacting with on the cake, as Dean William M. Treanor noted. At a Q & A session that followed, the outstanding students and faculty.” For a full interview, judges said that the morning was representative of what one might typically see at see page 14. the courthouse. “It was a hot bench today,” Stoll said, meaning that the judges were actively questioning the attorneys in the cases. “But there’s usually a hot bench.” 6 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS Girlhood Interrupted A groundbreaking study released by Georgetown Girlhood Law’s Center on Poverty Interrupted: and Inequality in June finds The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood that adults view black girls as less innocent and more REBECCA EPSTEIN JAMILIA J. BLAKE adult-like than their white THALIA GONZÁLEZ peers, especially in the age range of 5 to 14. The study, detailed in the new report, “Girlhood In- terrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood,” is the first of its kind to focus on girls, and builds on previous research on adult perceptions of black boys. “This new evidence of what we call the ‘adultifica- Students Wow Distinguished Judges at Beaudry Moot tion’ of black girls may help explain why black girls in Court Competition America are disciplined much more often and more severely than white girls — across our schools and in Not every law student going to a job interview is able to say that he or she once our juvenile justice system,” says Rebecca Epstein, ex- mooted a case in front of a former solicitor general, two federal judges, a talented ecutive director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality Supreme Court practitioner and the national legal director of the American Civil and the lead author of the report. Liberties Union — all at the same time.