Who's Watching You?

GEORGETOWN LAW Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2015

WHO’S WATCHING YOU?

Our New Center on Privacy and Technology Has Some Surprising Answers Letter from the Dean

echnology is transforming the legal landscape, and here Tat Georgetown we are making an unprecedented push to prepare students for this new world. We offer courses on information privacy law and the law of cyberspace. We offer practicum students the chance to design legal apps for real- world partners, thus providing more legal services to people in need. And we have just established the Mark Claster Mamo- len Professorship in Law and Technology, to which Professor Julie Cohen was formally installed on April 1.

GEORGETOWN LAW I’m especially proud of our new Center on Privacy and Technology (see page Spring/Summer 2015 20). In less than a year it has become a thought leader on matters of utmost impor-

ANNE CASSIDY tance, such as protecting the privacy rights of vulnerable populations. The Center Editor has hosted conferences, produced white papers and is offering a first-of-its-kind ANN W. PARKS partnership class in which professors and students from Georgetown join profes- Senior Writer sors and students from MIT to examine the privacy implications of everything from BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design Fitbits to smart TVs. We’re excited to be creating, in the words of the Center’s

INES HILDE executive director Alvaro Bedoya, “lawyers who can speak engineer.” Senior Designer This is a pivotal time for privacy issues, and Washington, D.C., is the perfect EMILY ELLER place to be studying them. Many of the country’s key privacy decision-makers work Communications Coordinator within a few miles of campus. One of them, our own Professor David Vladeck, ELISSA FREE Executive Director of Communications formerly director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Bureau,

KARA TERSHEL is one of the Center’s faculty directors. Director of Media Relations But Vladeck is only one of many professors who bring government experiences RICHARD SIMON directly into the classroom. Our professors serve in key government posts, provide Director of Web Communications expert testimony, and help shape national policy in many ways. Every student at SAM KARP Senior Video Producer Georgetown Law gets to experience the D.C. advantage — which is what we call

MATTHEW F. CALISE the powerful combination of place and expertise that makes our school special (see Director of Alumni Affairs page 32). KEVIN T. CONRY (L’86) The D.C. advantage was on full display last fall at our first Family Weekend (see Vice President for Strategic Development and External Affairs page 44), when we hosted a crowd of 1L students and their parents, grandparents,

WILLIAM M. TREANOR spouses, children and siblings. More than 500 people from 25 states came to hear Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs such speakers as Rep. John Delaney (L’88), D.-Md., and Adjunct Professor Kenneth Feinberg (H’14), the special master of the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Cover design: Ines Hilde The event was made possible by the new Parents Leadership Council, a unique We welcome your responses to this publication. Write to: program that’s helping connect parents to their students and to this wonderful Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center institution. 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 We’re excited to welcome parents to the Georgetown Law community, a community made richer every day by your dedication and hard work. It’s a community Or send e-mail to: [email protected] that continues to amaze me — a community to which I’m so very proud to belong. Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Sincerely, Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2015, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved.

William M. Treanor Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs GEORGETOWN LAW Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2015

20 Who’s Watching You? Our new Center on Privacy and Technology has some surprising answers. By Anne Cassidy

32 The D.C. Advantage The Law Center’s academic strength paired with its Washington, D.C., location packs a powerful punch.

By Ann W. Parks 32 44 All in the Family At Georgetown Law, students aren’t the only ones who feel at home.

By Ann W. Parks

52 Torture, Power, and Law “One of the most basic questions a book on torture must answer is what exactly torture is.” So begins this excerpt from Professor David Luban’s new book, Torture, Power, and Law.

By David Luban 52

2 Faculty Notes 20 Features

6 Lectures & Events 58 Alumni

58 CLASS NOTES 69 CLE CALENDAR 60 IN MEMORIAM 70 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS 68 ALUMNI PROFILE 78 ALUMNI EVENTS FACULTY NOTES

Edelman Becomes Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy

Edelman used his installation address the New York State Division for Youth and to discuss what he called “two intertwined vice president of the University of Mas- crises in our country” — one the “quiet sachusetts. He was a legislative assistant crisis in civil justice for people who have to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and was issues to navigate courts without a lawyer” and director for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s presi- the other a deep and pervasive poverty. dential campaign in 1980. Edelman takes issue with those who say He was also a law clerk to Justice we fought a war on poverty and poverty Arthur J. Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme won, noting that poverty was cut in half in Court and to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the the 1960s and that such policies as Social U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Security, the Supplemental Nutrition In addition, he worked in the U.S. Depart- Access Program (SNAP), housing vouchers ment of Justice as special assistant to and, most recently, the Affordable Care Act Assistant Attorney General John Douglas. have made inroads into it. Edelman is the author of So Rich So Poor: But persistent low wages, changes Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America in family structure, the decline of public (2012) and Searching for America’s Heart: education, mass incarceration, the loss of RFK and the Renewal of Hope (2001) and affordable housing and other changes have the co-author of Reconnecting Disadvan-

BILL PETROS created a widening income gap between taged Young Men (2006). the very rich and everyone else. Income “Peter Edelman is a top-notch teacher, ur work as law professors and law- is unequally distributed by race as well: an outstanding scholar and one of the yers and members of our various “O While 10 percent of white Americans live nation’s most highly-regarded anti-poverty communities is to contribute in whatever in poverty, 25 percent of Hispanics and 27 advocates,” said Dean William M. Treanor, ways we can to create a vibrant economy percent of African Americans do. announcing the new Carmack Waterhouse for everyone,” said Professor Peter Edelman Edelman, who is faculty director of Professor of Law and Public Policy. at a February ceremony marking his formal the Center on Poverty and Inequality, is an installation as the Carmack Waterhouse expert in constitutional law, legislation and Professor of Law and Public Policy. social welfare. He has served as director of

2 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW FACULTY NOTES BILL PETROS Professor Lawrence Solum delivers his inaugural address as Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law on Oct. 29. Solum with his students shortly after his installation.

Solum Installed as Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law

n October 29, before a capacity Defining a “jurisprudential gestalt” as great teacher and wonderful colleague,” Ocrowd in Gewirz Student Center, that which provides “the framework, the and Professor Randy Barnett introduced Professor Lawrence Solum was formally lens and the perspective from which and by Solum by summing up his career and influ- installed as the Carmack Waterhouse Pro- which we organize thought trends, history ence: “There really is no other professor fessor of Law. and theory into a coherent whole,” Solum who so richly deserves the title of Carmack In his inaugural address, “The Juris- took listeners on a tour of legal realism and Waterhouse Professor of Law as does Larry prudential Gestalt,” Solum described his its adversary formalism and described how Solum. For that is what Larry Solum is and early desire to be a law professor and how the latter has endured despite efforts to what he has always dreamed of being — a he taught himself law by reading cases subvert it. true professor of law.” and journal articles while he was still in “Originalism, the constitutional form of The Carmack Waterhouse Professor- high school. “By the time I started my first legal formalism, had legs. Like the walking ships at Georgetown Law, which include year of law school I’d been reading law for dead, killing it did not stop its advance,” professorships in law, medicine, ethics and a dozen years,” he said. “I grew up in the Solum said. “Can we imagine a world … public policy, and state and local govern- law, therefore, as a wildling, untutored and where judges and scholars agree that the ment, were established by the late Car- untrained, putting together a picture of plain meaning of statutes governs except mack Waterhouse (L’35) and his wife, the law from the raw materials without the in extraordinary circumstances?” Solum Mary, with a gift from their estate. Water- expert tutelage of the legal professoriate.” asked. That’s already happening, he said, house was a patent attorney with the This unusual background gave Solum but the fact that it’s imaginable does not Atomic Energy Commission until his retire- the perspective to do pioneering legal mean it will come to be. “That depends ment in 1967. He died in 1995. research on character, virtue and law and to upon politics and culture, on institutions create a new body of law on virtue jurispru- and ideas.” dence that is recognized by legal scholars, In his welcome, Dean William M. political scientists and philosophers. Treanor called Solum “a brilliant scholar,

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 3 FACULTY NOTES Faculty Awards and Recognition

Professor Sheryll Professor Deborah ter’s Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board, Cashin’s book Place Epstein, director of which will oversee a new three-year, $5.5 not Race: A New Georgetown Law’s million initiative to do educational out- Vision of Opportunity Domestic Violence reach, host debates and develop a new in America was nomi- Clinic, has been constitutional website with clause-by- nated for an NAACP named to the National clause bipartisan commentary by leading Image Award in the Football League Play- scholars. Professor Randy Barnett is also a category of “Out- ers Association Com- member of the Coalition of Freedom Advi- standing Literary mission on Violence sory Board. Work — Nonfiction.” Cashin’s previous Prevention. The newly created group also book, The Failures of Integration (PublicAf- includes Georgetown Law alumna Kath- Professor Philip fairs, 2004) was an editors’ choice in the ryn Ruemmler (L’96), former White House Schrag is one of three New York Times Book Review. counsel to President Obama. The com- 2014 recipients of mission has been developed to advise the Georgetown Universi- Professor Julie NFLPA about how to deal with domestic ty’s President’s Award Cohen was formally violence and other issues facing the league. for Distinguished installed as the inau- Its mission is “to evaluate all measures to Scholar-Teachers. gural Mark Claster prevent the occurrence of violence, address This award recognizes Mamolen Professor the critical issues that arise by providing faculty from across the of Law and Technol- leadership and education and review the university who have excelled in both schol- ogy during a ceremony methods and processes of discipline.” arship and teaching. “Professor Schrag has on April 1. Cohen been a leading innovator in legal education teaches and writes Professor David and research throughout his career, infus- about copyright, information privacy regu- Luban’s book Tor- ing the law curriculum with high-impact, lation and the governance of information ture, Power, and Law immersive experiences that transform our and communication networks. She is also a has won an Ameri- students’ legal education and, oftentimes, faculty director of the new Center on Pri- can Publishers’ Award define their career paths,” said Georgetown vacy and Technology at Georgetown Law. for Professional and University President John J. DeGioia in The Mamolen Professorship was created Scholarly Excellence, a statement. “Our clinical program is one with a gift from the estate of Mark Mamo- the PROSE award, in of the best in the country, distinguishing len. For complete coverage, see the next the category of phi- Georgetown Law from its peer institutions issue of Georgetown Law. losophy. The 2015 PROSE award winners and helping attract the very best students.” were announced in Washington, D.C., in DeGioia presented the award to Schrag at Professor David February. See page 52 for an excerpt from the Law Center in January. Cole’s article “Can the book. Privacy Be Saved?” On March 5, Professor Jeffrey Shulman (New York Review of Professor Nicho- delivered a lecture Books, March 6, 2014) las Quinn Rosen- entitled “The History was honored by the kranz has joined and Current Land- Green Bag Almanac the board of direc- scape of Children’s & Reader for exem- tors of the Federalist Rights” at Harvard plary legal writing Society, the country’s Law School. He lec- in 2014. Cole’s article, which addresses foremost association tured before Professor the legal and political questions raised of conservative and Elizabeth Bartholet’s by the National Security Agency’s previ- libertarian lawyers class The Art of Social ously secret dragnet electronic surveillance and law students. Rosenkranz joins as the Change: Child Welfare, Education and programs, was a winner in the category of 12th member of a board that includes Juvenile Justice, which is part of Harvard’s news and editorial. a former congressman, a former White child advocacy program. Shulman’s book House counsel and two former attorneys The Constitutional Parent (Yale Press) was general. Rosenkranz has also been chosen published last year. to co-chair the National Constitution Cen-

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Professor from Prac- Warren F. Schwartz: 1931-2014 tice David P. Stewart has been eorgetown Law mourns the loss Professor Sherman Cohn remembers elected president of Gof Professor Emeritus Warren F. Schwartz enlivening faculty meetings with the American Branch Schwartz, who died on December 5. his comments — “standing up for what he of the International Schwartz began his teaching career at thought was right even if he were a minor- Law Association. The Georgetown Law as a visiting professor ity of one. He cared not only about what ILA (founded in 1873) from 1978 we did, but how it was done. In so many is the preeminent to 1979 ways, Warren was a wonderful colleague international nongovernmental organization and served who played a significant role in building for developing and restating international as a profes- this law school.” law. Stewart teaches international law, for- sor from Professor J. Peter Byrne called Schwartz eign relations law and international crimi- 1979 until “a pioneer in the law and economics move- nal law. He directs the Global Law Schol- his retirement,” noting that he had “an intense devo- ars Program and co-directs the Center on ment in tion to scholarship leavened by an impish Transnational Business and the Law. He 2004. He Brooklyn wit.” also serves as one of the co-reporters for served as In addition to authoring many books the American Law Institute’s project to pre- director of and articles, Schwartz lectured at various pare a new Restatement (Fourth), Foreign the Law research and educational institutions in Relations Law of the United States. Center’s the United States, Europe, Latin America, John M. Olin Program in Law and Eco- Australia and Asia. At Georgetown Law, he Professor David nomics, sponsoring workshops, conferences taught Torts, Economic Reasoning and the Vladeck has received and a student research fellowship program. Law, International Trade, and a Law and the Federal Trade Schwartz applied economic analysis to a Economics workshop. Commission’s Miles variety of subjects, including the conven- Former students remember him for W. Kirkpatrick Award. tion of dueling, the meaning of the term his intellectual curiosity, his constructive The Kirkpatrick Award “the reasonable man” in tort law, decision- criticism and his dedication. “It was my is for lifetime achieve- making by juries and the most favored na- tremendous good fortune to be assigned ment and is the FTC’s tion principle in the General Agreement on to Warren Schwartz’s 1L Torts class at highest award, hon- Tariffs and Trade. Georgetown in the fall of 1987,” said Uni- oring those who have made lasting and Before coming to Georgetown, versity of Chicago Law Professor Lee Fen- significant contributions to the agency. Schwartz taught at the University of Vir- nell (L’90). “It is impossible to overstate the The award is named for Miles Kirkpat- ginia and the University of Texas law impact this had on my life. … I would not rick, whose leadership of the American Bar schools. He also served as a consultant have become a legal academic had it not Association’s 1969 commission to study to the Federal Trade Commission, the been for Warren’s help and encouragement, the FTC led to the agency’s reform and International Trade Commission and the and his feedback and humor over the years reorganization. Vladeck was the director Administrative Conference of the United always made my work better. He was one of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protec- States. of a kind, a true friend and invaluable col- tion from 2009 to 2012. In announcing the “Warren will be deeply missed by many league, and he will be greatly missed.” award, FTC Chair Edith Ramierz cited the members of our community,” said Dean Warren F. Schwartz was born in 1931. “distinguished careers” and “inspired lead- William M. Treanor. “In the more than two He earned his A.B. from Brooklyn College ership” of both Vladeck and co-recipient decades that he taught at the Law Center, in 1952 and his LL.B. from Columbia Law William J. Baer, who is currently assistant he left a lasting impression on students and School in 1954. Schwartz served two years attorney general for antitrust at the Depart- colleagues alike with his wit, humor, bril- as an attorney in the U.S. Department of ment of Justice and was previously direc- liance, dedication to teaching and zest for Justice in the 1950s and was in private tor of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. life.” practice before beginning his teaching Ramirez presented the awards March 16 at “He was a huge contributor to the intel- career in the 1960s. He is survived by his FTC headquarters. lectual vitality of this place,” said Professor wife, Deborah Chassman, his children and Steven Salop. “Georgetown would not be grandchildren. the same today without his efforts.”

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Justice Ginsburg Tells Graduating Students to “Make Things Better”

he class of 2015 welcomed Supreme and loving memories of her late husband, [we] were literally on trial … that all eyes TCourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to longtime Georgetown Law Professor Mar- were on us,” she noted. “That if we failed, Georgetown Law February 4 for the second tin D. Ginsburg. if we gave a bad answer to a question, we annual Dean’s Lecture to the Graduating Encouraged to study law during her would be failing not only for ourselves, but Class. Dean William M. Treanor led the undergraduate years at Cornell, Ginsburg for all women.” conversation with the justice in a packed by 1956 was one of nine women (and 500- Though Ginsburg was at the top of Hart Auditorium, gleaning insights on plus men) in her first-year Harvard Law her class at Harvard and Columbia Law Ginsburg’s career, cases, passion for opera class. “The women in my class felt that School, where she later transferred, a

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determined law professor had to call numerous federal judges to help her get a clerkship. “Several of them could overcome the fact that I was a woman, but none of them that I was the mother of a four-year-old,” she said, noting that she overcompensated to prove herself as a clerk. Though she was later offered positions with law firms, Ginsburg joined BRENT FUTRELL the faculty at Rutgers Law as a much- needed voice on women’s equality, starting with the issue of equal pay for Justice Stevens Speaks to 1Ls on women professors. She continued the fight as a lawyer for the ACLU, work- Hard Work, Integrity and Playing by ing on Reed v. Reed, a landmark equal protection case, and on Weinberger v. the Rules Wiesenfeld, a case in which a husband who had lost his wife in childbirth asked our most important asset is your become an English teacher but for the G.I. for the same Social Security benefits as “Yreputation for integrity,” retired Su- Bill of Rights and the influence of his law- widows get to care for his infant son. preme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told yer brother. The former justice also spoke “That was our illustration to the Court first-year law students in Georgetown Law’s about his book, Six Amendments: How and that gender discrimination is bad for Hart Auditorium on October 1. “You must Why We Should Change the Constitution, everyone,” Ginsburg said. always remember — you’ve got to play by which was published in April. Today, of course, Ginsburg serves on the rules.” While Stevens provided students with that Court with two female colleagues, At the Law Center’s inaugural “Conver- plenty of advice for the future, such as the Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. “Peo- sation to the First-Year Class,” the legend- importance of oral arguments and how to ple ask me sometimes … when will there ary 94-year-old sat down with George- write a good brief, his advice to them for be enough women on the Court? And my town Law Dean William M. Treanor and now was “study hard. It pays off if you do.” answer is, ‘When there are nine.’” approximately 350 1Ls in Hart Auditorium The former justice also answered stu- The class of 2015 then got to quiz to discuss his career, life on the Court and dents’ questions: Who’s the funniest justice the justice on topics ranging from repro- much more. One of the Supreme Court’s on the Court? “Nino Scalia,” Stevens said, ductive rights to effective advocacy. The longest-serving jurists, Stevens was nomi- though Byron White was known to answer one case the justice would overturn? nated in 1975 and retired in 2010. a phone in the Supreme Court confer- Citizens United. “One day sensible Treanor, who is also a historian, noted ence room with the greeting “Joe’s Bar.” restrictions on campaign financing will that former President Gerald R. Ford once Which justice did you most admire and be the law of this land,” she said. “It will said that he would be more than happy to why? “Thurgood Marshall, but my strongest happen.” rest his presidential legacy exclusively on admiration for him was for the work he did In her career advice to the gradu- his nomination of Stevens. “I don’t know even before he was a justice.” What was ates, Ginsburg highlighted the impor- of any other president who has made a the worst decision you witnessed during his tance of service to others. “Yes, you need statement like that about a Supreme Court tenure? Bush v. Gore, Stevens said, because a job. But if you don’t do something justice.” “it gave the public the incorrect impres- outside yourself, something … that will Stevens clerked for Supreme Court sion that courts are political institutions.” make life a little better for other people, Justice Wiley Rutledge, from whom he (Stevens dissented in that case.) you’re not really a true professional,” she learned the value of writing the first drafts “I think when people are placed in high said. “[Take your] talent and education of opinions. (Stevens also analyzed enemy positions, there is a risk of losing who you and use it to make things better.” communications in the military; he enlisted are as a person,” said Jessica Bigby (L’18). in the Navy on December 6, 1941, the “Justice Stevens demonstrated the impor- day before the Japanese attack on Pearl tance of maintaining your identity, your Harbor.) Stevens said that he might have character and your sense of humor.”

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Clockwise from left: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy with Deborah Markowitz (L’87) of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources; Michael Northrop of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Mary Nichols of the California Air Resources Board; Mark Rupp of the EPA, Climate Center Executive Director Vicki Arroyo (L’94) and Faculty Director Peter Byrne. Climate Center Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary can remember the early days of think- that EPA is able to [do] what the president Achievements such as a major climate “Iing about a place like this,” Environ- wants us to do … is because we now have policy address by President Obama at mental Protection Agency Administrator rested our foundation of action on what Georgetown University in 2013 and EPA’s Gina McCarthy recalled at the Georgetown states have done,” McCarthy said. clean power plan that builds on the work Climate Center’s five-year anniversary The event also honored Mary Nichols, of the states “really move us significantly celebration on October 21. It was, she said, chairman of the California Air Resources down a path of reductions, thanks to so “a point in time when there was no voice Board and one of Time’s 100 most influen- many of you in this room,” said George- in Washington on this issue … or those tial people in the world in 2013. “This is town Climate Center Executive Director voices were so muted and unable to take the moment for states … and I’m happy to Vicki Arroyo (L’94). “When we get to- action that we felt we needed some bigger be a representative of the states,” Nichols gether for our 10th anniversary, with your momentum.” said. “But it is that amazing interaction continued support and engagement, we’ll Now there’s the Georgetown Climate between the federal and state governments be here partnering with you to help states Center, which works with states and of- … that has allowed for so much continued lead on these issues.” ficials at all levels of government to reduce progress.” Georgetown Law Dean William M. emissions, transition the power sector to As Michael Northrop of the Rockefeller Treanor and Climate Center Faculty Di- clean energy sources, adapt to climate Brothers Fund noted, Nichols was the rector Peter Byrne also welcomed attend- change and much more. one who suggested that a center bridging ees. John Podesta (L’76), former counselor The event gathered innovators and federal and state governments should be to President Obama, spoke to funders funders to honor not only the Climate housed at Georgetown; Professor Robert earlier in the day. Center but also the state and community Stumberg also played a large role in making leadership that has been so essential in ad- the center a reality. dressing climate change. “The only reason

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The symposium included Matt McKenna (L’75, L’78) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Owen Kearney of the U.S. Department of Treasury and Vanguard founder John C. Bogle (H’07).

Public-Private Partnership Symposia Begin

ollowing a kickoff luncheon at the “We’re hoping to explore the many ways in (F’85, L’88), principal deputy general coun- FWhite House Rural Council’s Rural which the private sector and government sel at the U.S. Air Force, helped discuss Opportunity Investment Conference last can partner to manage more effectively the the management of federal loan portfolios. summer, Georgetown Law hosted the first portfolios that they share, and encourage Dean William M. Treanor introduced of its Public-Private Partnership Symposia and discuss new opportunities.” Vanguard founder John C. Bogle (H’07), on October 31. “Structuring Public-Private Which, when investing in America’s who delivered a luncheon keynote. “I’ve Partnerships for Asset Management and future, can create some novel challenges. used this phrase for a long time: ‘Ideas Co-Investment” looked at effective ap- As Alfred Puchala Jr. (L’88), the CEO of are a dime a dozen, but implementation is proaches to public-private partnerships, Capitol Peak Asset Management, noted, everything’ — and so it is with public and emphasizing best practices in the steward- the real need is for critical infrastructure private partnerships,” Bogle said. “Values ship of publicly held assets. — not just bridges, highways and airports and ethics should guide these new forms “By bringing together government but electricity, water, gas and housing — to of relations emerging from the public and officials, commercial practitioners and be upgraded or modified. “The government private sector.” academic leaders, we’re seeking to broaden does a very good job of supporting many opportunities for partnering and providing a of these regions and sectors, but it needs venue to share knowledge of best practices more resources,” said Puchala. for economic growth,” said Associate Dean Matt McKenna (L’75, LL.M.’78), an James Feinerman, who served as a modera- adviser at the Department of Agriculture tor along with Professor Emma Coleman and former senior vice president for finance Jordan and Professor Chris Brummer. at PepsiCo, and Joseph M. McDade Jr.

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 9 LECTURES AND EVENTS BILL PETROS INES HILDE Judge Robert A. Katzmann with Dean William M. Treanor; Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended the program. Waxman Reflects on Four Decades of Health Policy JUDGING STATUTES

Last fall’s discussion of Robert A. hen Rep. Henry Waxman, D- “If we believe in equal opportunity, to Katzmann’s new book Judging Stat- WCalif., was elected to the Califor- advance as far as people can go, we have utes (Oxford University Press, 2014) nia State Assembly in 1968, he decided to recognize that there are some people featured panelists Dean William M. to specialize in health policy “so I could who because of disabilities or other fac- Treanor, Professor David Vladeck, the make the maximum difference.” On tors in their life don’t have that chance,” New York Times’ Adam Liptak and M. October 22, Waxman sat down with Pro- Waxman said. “We’ve got to provide a Douglass Bellis, senior counsel in the fessor from Practice Timothy Westmore- strong safety net.” Office of the Legislative Counsel in land, one of his former congressional staff In his work with the House Com- the U.S. House of Representatives. members, to discuss his four decades as a mittee on Energy and Commerce and its Katzmann is the chief judge of the U.S. leader in health reform. subcommittee on health, Waxman con- Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit “If one thinks about the modern fronted tobacco executives on the ques- and a member of Georgetown Law’s history of health and health law … the tion of whether nicotine was addictive. board of visitors. The event drew such congressman has been a leading force to He also held dozens of hearings on AIDS attendees as Supreme Court Jus- really shape that law in the United States in the 1980s. “One thing I learned, if you tices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia in so many different areas, from [safe have something like this, or Ebola, follow Sotomayor. “So much of what we drinking] water to tobacco to the Afford- the advice of the public health people, do as judges involves interpretation able Care Act,” said Professor Lawrence follow the science,” Waxman said. of the laws of Congress,” Katzmann Gostin, who introduced the conversation. The event was sponsored by the said. The event was co-sponsored by Waxman, who retired from his 40-year O’Neill Institute for National and Global Georgetown Law and the Law Library career in Congress in January, has played Health Law as part of its fall colloquium of Congress, through a generous gift a major role in writing or enacting such and was covered by C-SPAN. from the Burton Foundation for Legal major health legislation as the Affordable Achievement. Care Act, the Waxman-Hatch Generic Drug Act, the Nutrition Labeling Act, the Food Quality Protection Act and Medic- aid expansions.

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Professor Paul Butler, Professor Abbe Smith, Georgetown University Professor Marcia Chatelain and Dean William M. Treanor speak to concerned students about racial tensions in Ferguson. A Conversation About Ferguson

ollowing a grand jury’s decision not to said. “It was more like a trial than a grand teenager … the state respectfully recom- Findict Missouri police officer Darren jury proceeding.” mends that you return an indictment.” Wilson for the fatal August shooting of Professors on the panel used the first In the off-the-record discussion that unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, hour of the event to teach: Professor Abbe followed, students followed up with ques- law scholars, deans and students gathered Smith demonstrated how a defense lawyer tions regarding race, poverty and inequality; at Georgetown Law on December 3 for a might counsel a client in a grand jury the need to transform the criminal justice “Conversation about Ferguson.” proceeding, Georgetown University History system; the use of cameras to film police Dean William M. Treanor, who Professor Marcia Chatelain and Professor actions; how law students can engage with introduced the event, was gratified to see Anthony Cook provided a racial and histori- the Washington, D.C., community; and the large, standing-room-only crowd. “We cal perspective of the events in Ferguson, how Americans can stop fear of others from wanted to have a ‘town hall’ to look at the and Professor Louis Michael Seidman being a justification for police actions. grand jury decision, to look at Ferguson helped explore questions of poverty and “The question before us is whether or from a number of different perspectives inequality in America. not Ferguson is a moment … and can be and also to get your thoughts,” he said. Butler gave his version of a prosecu- transformed into a movement,” Cook said. Professor Paul Butler, a former federal tor’s impassioned speech to the crowd (the The event was sponsored by the Office prosecutor, noted that out of 162,000 cases “grand jury”) regarding the evidence in the of the Dean, the Student Life and Diversity in the federal grand jury system in 2010, case. “All you have to decide is whether Committee, the Black Law Students Asso- indictments were brought in all but 11 of this case is worthy of taking to a jury of his ciation and the National Lawyers Guild. those cases. “Almost everything was differ- peers. In the name of a dead 18-year-old ent about the Ferguson grand jury,” Butler

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 11 LECTURES AND EVENTS SAM HOLLENSHEAD (2); RHODA BAER Dean William M. Treanor Professor Robin West Professor Sherman Cohn

Dean, Professors Recount Personal Journeys

few things you didn’t know about Solum, Viet Dinh, Jane Aiken, Robin West, fix [them], and sometimes I wake up with ADean William M. Treanor: He once Laura Donohue and Professor Emeritus that kind of urgency. … Once I’m writing, considered medical school as a career path. Norman Birnbaum. I’d rather be writing than anything else, He ended up majoring in history and Afri- Treanor — who earned a Ph.D. in his- because it’s so absorbing.” can American studies at Yale — and then tory at Harvard in 2010 — taught a Legal A highlight of the spring semester was weighed the possibility of going to graduate Justice Seminar and an Advanced Constitu- Rourke’s February 9th conversation with school in history. He even thought about tional Law Seminar this year in addition to Professor Sherman Cohn (F’54, L’57, the priesthood. serving as dean. LL.M.’60), who is serving his 50th year But growing up in the 1960s during the “As an educator, one of the things that’s on the Georgetown Law faculty. A for- civil rights movement, Treanor observed important to me is the well-being of stu- mer Hoya J.D. and LL.M. student, Cohn that many of the people who were making dents,” Treanor responded, when asked by recalled a very different world than law a difference were lawyers, like Thurgood Rourke what has driven him to do all that students experience today — one where no Marshall. And when he read Go East Young he’s done, including education, scholarship LSAT was required but where it was not Man, the autobiography of Supreme Court and public service. “We think of success unexpected for half the class to disappear Justice William O. Douglas, the decision in terms of career goals, and that’s impor- after the 1L year. According to legend, at was clear. tant, but that’s only part of what success is least one student got so flummoxed by “It gave me a model for the kind of about. … It’s ultimately the people whose the intense classroom atmosphere that he career that I thought that I would follow,” lives you touch and your relationships with passed out from nerves, Cohn recalled. “As Treanor told Father Paul Rourke, S.J., them.” they were carrying him out, [the profes- Georgetown Law’s Catholic chaplain, and a For West, who sat down with Rourke sor] was interrogating the next person.” roomful of Hoya law students in the Gewirz on October 7, family and work are defin- To which Rourke remarked, “Not cura Student Center last September. “[It] con- ing themes; the latter, of course, includes personalis.” vinced me that the combination of law and teaching, reflecting and writing about gen- Cohn said he “gives Georgetown a hell teaching was the best path for me.” der issues, philosophy, law and literature, of a lot of credit for who I am,” citing his The discussion was the first in last fall’s and legal education. “What literally will get undergraduate and law school professors as “Personal Journeys” Faculty Interview Se- me going … is the energy that comes from well as the “wonderful students who teach ries, designed to offer students a closer look thinking that something is just really wrong me so much.” at the lives of the Georgetown Law faculty. and has to be fixed,” she says. “If you wake Additional fall semester Personal Journeys up in the morning and you realize that the programs featured Professors Lawrence pipes are broken, you’ve got to get up and

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University Professor Lawrence Gostin moderates a discussion of the Ebola crisis with a panel that includes Dan Lucey of Georgetown University Medical Center; Marty Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control; Kevin Donovan of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University; and J. Stephen Morrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Experts Discuss Ebola Epidemic

s the Ebola epidemic spread rapidly “This has been the perfect storm hover around 3,000 cases and 1,500 dead, Athrough West Africa last summer and because Ebola … has engulfed the region, actual numbers could be two to four times fall, the O’Neill Institute for National and which has two post-conflict states [and] that many. “It’s totally plausible to see this Global Health Law quickly emerged as a very fragile health systems,” Gostin said, as going to 40 or 50 or 100 thousand or calm voice of reason, offering programs to noting that the international response has beyond,” Morrison said. help explain and understand what became fallen far short of what is needed. A com- Kevin Donovan, director of the Center “one of the great humanitarian tragedies” of ment in The Lancet by Gostin that same for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown Uni- our time, in the words of University Profes- week called for an international health sys- versity Medical Center, noted such critical sor Lawrence Gostin. tems fund for crisis response and for build- ethical issues as whether to provide treat- Gostin, who has published widely on ing strong health systems; in the article, he ments not yet tested in humans and how to the epidemic, hosted a roundtable discus- argues that the Ebola tragedy did not have allocate scarce medicines should they be- sion of the crisis in September as part of to happen and that we can prevent the next come available. The development of Ebola the O’Neill Institute’s fall colloquium. John one by building health system capabilities treatments is still a small and unpredictable Monahan, special adviser to the George- in poorer countries. market for pharmaceutical companies, he town University president on global health, Speaking on the characteristics of the noted. “If this epidemic were happening in began with an update on the disease, which disease, Marty Cetron of the Centers for any place else than in the poorest countries was at that point in Guinea, Liberia, Nige- Disease Control and Prevention noted not in West Africa,” Donovan said, “we would ria, Senegal and Sierra Leone. only its concentration in areas of profound be seeing the attention that … should have Adjunct Professor Dan Lucey of poverty but also the fear and stigma that been given to this a long time ago.” Georgetown University Medical Center, thwart efforts to bring it under control. Georgetown Law Dean William M. who had just returned from Sierra Le- “The virus is winning this battle. … This is Treanor remarked at the outset that the one, described his work there evaluating going to require a coordinated, internation- roundtable discussion “epitomizes the mis- patients in an Ebola testing center in al, all-hands-on-deck … response,” he said. sion” of the O’Neill Institute, which has Freetown and helping train 160 doctors J. Stephen Morrison of the Center for been at the forefront of policy, ethical and and nurses in the proper use of protective Strategic and International Studies called legal issues relating to the Ebola epidemic. equipment. As the epidemic moves into the outbreak “a multidimensional secu- “This is Georgetown Law and the O’Neill urban areas, it will require new drugs and rity crisis” that world leaders have not yet Institute’s convening power at its finest,” vaccines to halt its spread, he said. recognized as such. While official estimates he said.

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 13 LECTURES AND EVENTS BILL PETROS

Clockwise from left: Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor with Robert M. Kimmitt (L’77), Nelson M. Jones III (L’77, LL.M.’80), Capt. Erin E. Stone (L’97) and Gordon Griffin (L’11, LL.M.’12); Georgetown Law members of the military; Kimmitt with Kevin M. Jinks (LL.M.’15); and students in the ROTC Color Guard from the Hoya Battalion.

On Veterans Day, Georgetown Law Salutes Its Own

ilitary men and women often cite “Tonight’s program underscores that veterans in attendance. “You’re awesome,” “Mthe formative experience of early Georgetown recognizes and is committed he said. Jones called Georgetown “a unique service,” said Dean William M. Treanor at to … educating, empowering and shaping institution. … It’s one of those places that’s Georgetown Law’s second annual Veterans strong leaders,” said the Hon. Robert M. designed to propel you to the highest levels Day program and reception in Gewirz Stu- Kimmitt (L’77), a senior international coun- of citizenship and government.” dent Center on November 11. “They say sel at WilmerHale and former deputy sec- Kimmitt said the school has come a it disciplines the mind and body. It gives retary of the Treasury. Kimmitt graduated long way since he was a first-year student them a perspective that they never lose. from West Point and served in Vietnam. 40 years ago. “We didn’t have a Veterans Our student veterans have lived lifetimes Joining Kimmitt were Nelson M. Jones Day event … nor a Military Law Society before they even step through our doors, III (L’77, LL.M.’80) of the Law Firm of nor a Yellow-Ribbon program.” But it was a and they enrich us greatly.” Nelson M. Jones III, a graduate of the fascinating time to be studying law, he said, Four alumni veterans shared their ex- Naval Academy and former Marine Corps noting the resignation of President Richard periences here, commending the school for officer; Capt. Erin E. Stone (L’97), a staff Nixon, the fall of Saigon and profound its attention to service members. Thanks judge advocate and graduate of the Naval changes in the military as it moved from to generous donors and the Yellow Rib- Academy; and Gordon Griffin (L’11, the draft to an all-volunteer force. “Nelson bon GI Education Enhancement Program, LL.M.’12), an associate at Crowell and and I and our classmates were fortunate to veterans may now receive as much as an Moring and former Marine Corps fighter be studying in the premier law school in extra $20,000 toward tuition and fees, up pilot who served in Iraq. the nation’s capital during this remarkable from the $5,000 they were allowed two In her remarks, Stone cited the “rich period in our country’s history.” years ago. history of service at Georgetown” while Griffin gave a shout-out to the student

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REP. MIKE MCINTYRE SPEAKS ON FAITH

INES HILDE “Your faith can move you in different ways. Michelle Wu, director of the Georgetown Law Library. It’s not limited to one party or one religion or one denomination,” Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., told students gathered at a Law Library Fights “Link Rot” Center “Faith and Justice Conversation” in McDonough Hall on November 12. “My pur- ibraries have always been dedicated thing and it’s not static,” said Harvard Law pose today is to share how your faith can and should motivate you.” Organized by Campus to ensuring access to legal informa- Professor Jonathan Zittrain in a keynote “L Ministry, the talk was a way to explore topics tion, both for current users and future address. “When you throw a link out to a not often discussed in a law school class- generations,” said Michelle Wu, director of work in a library … it’s in a book, and the room, such as prayer and finding a fellowship the Georgetown Law Library, last October book isn’t going to change. … It’s a very, of believers. 24 at the all-day symposium “404/File Not very different world.” McIntyre, who Washingtonian Magazine recently dubbed one of the two least partisan Found.” The Law Library has continued And while experienced researchers may politicians in the House of Representatives, that tradition by exploring the challenges be able to locate the document elsewhere, described his own career as a “calling I of link rot in legal citations — discussing it’s still a problem for the ordinary person wanted to answer” and a series of decisions solutions and issues that lawmakers, poli- who might be looking, say, for a report on guided by faith. When he ran for Congress cymakers, information professionals and smart growth published by a former Mary- against 24-year House veteran Rep. Charlie researchers should consider. land governor a decade ago. “That entire Rose, D-N.C., no one gave McIntyre much of a chance. But five days before the filing pe- department is ‘404’, because it’s not part Link rot is “a situation where a URL riod ended, Rose decided to retire. McIntyre no longer references the document or site of the governor of Maryland’s office any won the seat. it was intended to reference when it was longer,” said Associate Law Librarian Roger McIntyre, who retired in January, says made,” said Wu. It can happen when a Skalbeck, who provided a “webmaster’s that the first and last question he asks domain registration expires, when informa- view” of link rot. himself before voting on an issue is how it tion is migrated from one site to another But thanks to the Maryland State Law affects the people back home. But when or when someone alters or removes a Library, that particular document was saved there is no clear answer to that question, he recalls the words of Edmund Burke, which document. And it can cause headaches by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation he paraphrased: “I owe you the duty of my in the law when, for example, a Supreme Group, which preserves and ensures access conscience.” Court justice cites online content that to vital legal information in digital formats. McIntyre urged students to ask them- subsequently disappears, which happened The Chesapeake project — and Perma.cc selves what they are being called to do and in 2011 when Justice Samuel Alito, in a links, developed in a partnership between whether they are being faithful to that calling concurring opinion in Brown v. Entertain- Harvard Law School library and many other before they make a big decision. “That’s the ment Merchants Association, provided a law libraries across the country, including threshold question. Then you can talk about link to a gaming site. (The same link today Georgetown’s — are a few ways that archi- how much are they going to pay me and where am I going to be located and what am contains a humorous message indicating vists are finding to “preserve precedent.” I going to do.” that persons looking for that content won’t “[A political administration] changes, find it there anytime soon.) the website changes,” Skalbeck said. The link-rot problem “gives you a sense “That’s going to happen, right? Well, that’s of just what a weird loss of control it is, life, and we have to figure out how to deal whoever you are, including a Supreme with that.” Court justice, to throw a link out to some-

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 15 LECTURES AND EVENTS INES HILDE BRENT FUTRELL Clockwise from left: Leon Rodriquez, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies; Professor from Practice Andrew Schoenholtz; and El Salvador Ambassador Francisco Altschul Fuentes. Immigration Law and Policy Conference Features Director Leon Rodriquez

n his keynote address at the 11th annual said, growing up in Miami showed him for sanctuary or family reunification efforts, IImmigration Law and Policy Conference that immigrants are good for America. but also to increasingly more successful on October 21, U.S. Citizenship and Immi- “The Miami of my childhood was this “marketing strategies” from smugglers who gration Services Director Leon Rodriquez amazing cauldron of energy … one of the promise swift journeys — and charge as told a capacity crowd in Hart Auditorium most economically vibrant cities in the much $10,000 or $12,000 per person. that he had a confession to make. Twenty- United States.” The immigration conference also eight years earlier, he said, he was wait- Rodriquez, who spoke only weeks be- featured Doris Meissner, senior fellow and listed at Georgetown Law. fore President Barack Obama announced director of the U.S. Immigration Policy “It’s a great metaphor for immigration,” an executive action that offered temporary Program of the Migration Policy Institute; said the director, who obtained his J.D. legal status to millions of illegal immi- Donald Kerwin, executive director of the from Boston College, “because what we grants, declined to offer details of how his Center for Migration Studies; and Andrew do in immigration policy is decide who we agency would enforce the executive order Schoenholtz, Georgetown Law professor want to admit to the United States and that was widely expected after the elec- from practice and director of Georgetown’s who we don’t.” tion. “What I will tell you is that we will be Human Rights Institute. The event at- Rodriquez, the son of Cuban immi- ready,” he said. tracted reporters from such news outlets as grants and grandson of immigrants from At an afternoon panel on unaccompa- NBC, the New York Times and C-SPAN. Turkey and Poland, said his background nied children from Central America, El The conference was sponsored by helps him understand “the aspect of im- Salvador Ambassador Francisco Altschul Georgetown Law, the Catholic Legal Immi- migration that is seeking refuge, fleeing a Fuentes said that the surge of young peo- gration Network, the Center for Migration situation that has become in some way no ple crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is not Studies and the Migration Policy Institute. longer tolerable.” On the other hand, he only due to economic disparities, the need

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Clockwise from left: Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell; Professor Laura Donohue; Professor David Cole, George Washington University Professor Orrin Kerr, Donohue, Judge M. Margaret McKeown (L’75, H’05) and Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben; and Judge Richard Posner, joining the conference remotely.

New Cybercrime Unit Announced at Conference

n December 4, Assistant Attorney morrow, legislating the crimes of the future, ship in Alcoholics Anonymous. “That’s the OGeneral Leslie Caldwell used her ap- the evolution of public/private engagement type of private information that should be pearance at the Law Center as part of the and a keynote address by Troels Oert- protected,” Posner said. “Cybercrime 2020: The Future of Online ing, director of the European Cybercrime Another panelist, Deputy Solicitor Crime and Investigations” conference to Center. General Michael Dreeben, who argued announce the creation of a new cybersecu- In a lively discussion on the future for the government in the recent Supreme rity unit within the criminal division of the of the Fourth Amendment moderated by Court case Riley v. California (in which Department of Justice. Professor Laura Donohue, Professor David the justices ruled unanimously that police “Given the growing complexity and vol- Cole sparred with Judge Richard Posner of must get a warrant before searching a cell ume of cyberattacks, as well as the intricate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Cir- phone), said, “A certain degree of privacy nature of the laws and investigatory tools cuit (who joined the conference remotely). is perhaps a precondition of freedom — that are needed to thwart these attacks, In answer to Posner’s questioning why the political freedom, artistic freedom, personal the cybersecurity unit will play an incred- digital information found in a smartphone autonomy. … It’s sort of baked into the ibly important role,” said Caldwell, who needs to be protected unless its owner has nature of the democratic system. You need heads the Department of Justice’s criminal something to hide, Cole responded, “Even that to have a flourishing of individual life.” division. “According to data included in the if you don’t have anything to hide and you Georgetown Law and the criminal civi- 2013 Norton Report [an annual research live a life that could be entirely transparent sion of the Department of Justice spon- study on the dangers and costs of cyber- to the world, I still think the value of that sored the conference, which was organized crime], there will be more than 14,000 ad- life would be significantly diminished if it by Professor Laura Donohue and Adjunct ditional victims of cybercrime before I have had to be transparent.” Professor Leonard Bailey of the Depart- finished this speech in 15 minutes.” Cole and Posner agreed on the impor- ment of Justice. Professor David Vladeck The all-day conference included panel tance of protecting the sort of information moderated one of the panels. discussions on the high-tech crimes of to- that would, for instance, reveal member-

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Clockwise from left: Professor David Cole and Erin Murphy (L’06); Hashim Mooppan and Professor Martin Lederman; Jeff Wall and Melissa Arbus Sherry; Tejinder Singh, Kannon Shanmugam and Amy Howe (G’94, L’98). Supreme Court Institute Offers Biannual Press Briefings

hat used to be an annual ritual By January the Court had also decided included Goldstein & Russell’s Tejinder Whas become a biannual one as the to tackle King v. Burwell, which looks at Singh and Sullivan & Cromwell’s Jeff Supreme Court Institute now offers a whether the IRS may provide tax cred- Wall. pair of press briefings — one for fall term its to people who buy health insurance And while these experts declined to cases and one for spring. Panelists at the on exchanges established by the federal make outright predictions, they wondered September briefing — Georgetown Law government. Under the Affordable Care (in response to a student question) about Professors David Cole and Martin Leder- Act if states fail to establish their own the effect that the two blockbuster cases man; Erin Murphy (L’06) of Bancroft and exchanges the federal government must do might have on each other. “Who knows Hashim Mooppan of Jones Day — said so for them. But the ACA’s text explicitly what’s going to happen, but if [you think] there was a near certainty that the Court allows tax credits for individuals who buy that either Justice Kennedy or the chief would take up and decide the issue of insurance on an exchange established by justice or both are prepared to recognize whether the prohibition on same-sex mar- the state. a right to marriage equality … that would riage still existing in several states violates “The question is whether the tax credits take an awful lot of sting out of knocking the U.S. Constitution. are available only to individuals who pur- out the president’s chief domestic policy By the January briefing this predic- chase insurance [through] state exchanges achievement,” Wall said, referring to the tion had proven true, the Court having by or … federal exchanges as well,” said Wil- ACA. “I don’t know whether that factors then decided to hear DeBoer v. Snyder, liams & Connolly’s Kannon Shanmugam, into their decision-making or not.” which asks whether the 14th Amendment another January panelist. “This is obviously The Supreme Court press briefings requires states to issue marriage licenses to of critical importance to people in those routinely draw reporters from such news same-sex couples or to recognize such mar- states where the state governments … have outlets as NPR, NBC, CNN, ABC, the Los riages lawfully performed elsewhere. chosen not to establish exchanges of their Angeles Times, Bloomberg, the Associated “It’s no surprise that … the key vote own.” Press, the New York Times, USA Today and here would seem to be Justice Kennedy,” Supreme Court Institute Executive Di- the Washington Post. said Latham & Watkins partner Melissa rector Irv Gornstein and the day’s modera- Arbus Sherry, a panelist at the January tor, SCOTUSblog editor Amy Howe (G’94, briefing. “You have federalism on one hand L’98), introduced the panel, which also and gay rights on the other.”

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Stewart, Judge, Cohn, Holland.

CELEBRATING THE MAGNA CARTA

On November 7, the Rt. Hon. Lord Igor Judge of England revealed a rather surprising fact to a roomful of law professors across the pond at Georgetown Law: The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 on a battlefield at Runnymede

BRENT FUTRELL and one of the most celebrated documents in history, was not supposed to last. Judge David C. Simmons (L’84), bottom right, and two high school students at the November 19 event. “This wasn’t a be-suited meeting of chaps in ties who walked up and down and shook hands and trusted each other … the king had no intention of abiding by it,” said Telling the Street Law Story Judge, who served as the lord chief justice and president of the Courts of England and he 250 high school students participat- Monica Palacio (L’93), director of Wales from 2008 to 2013. Fortunately, the Ting in this year’s “Know Your Rights” D.C.’s Office of Human Rights — which document would outlive both King John and Exhibition may not have known the exact includes the D.C. Commission — said the the pope, would lead to the development of the rule of law in England and influence the language of the D.C. Human Rights Act excitement of the exhibit has only grown U.S. Constitution. when they began working with Georgetown over the past four years. “The [high school] Judge spoke to an audience that in- Law students through the D.C. Street Law students pass on the message that this is a cluded Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. program this fall. Yet they all had stories to fun project to do; they get a lot out of it.” Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, Justice tell — from parents going to court to get As do Georgetown’s 15 D.C. Street Randy J. Holland of the Delaware Supreme educational services for an autistic sibling Law clinic students teaching the Human Court and Georgetown Law faculty. Profes- to a classmate just trying to fit in. Rights Act in D.C. high schools. “We sors Sherman Cohn and James Feinerman provided the introductions. On November 19, the Law Center’s worked really hard to help our law students Street Law clinic and the D.C. Commis- make the individual rights projects come There are four surviving copies of the sion on Human Rights teamed up to show- alive for the high school students,” said Magna Carta, Judge explained. In 1939, Eng- land gave one copy to America for safekeep- case more than 140 creative expressions clinic director Rick Roe. ing, fearing a Nazi invasion. The document of those stories through essays, poems, “We realized that what matters is that was placed at Fort Knox and given back to posters, films, drawings, cartoons, songs each student has their own individual England after the war but returned to the Li- and even Powerpoint presentations. The personality, their own inside lives, their brary of Congress for a temporary anniversary fourth annual High School Student Human own distinct fundamental, recognizable set exhibit last fall. Rights Multimedia Exhibit was held in and of goals.” “I have been struck by how committed around Hart Auditorium. Law Fellows Efrain Marimon (L’18) you in the United States are to this 800th anniversary of Magna Carta,” Judge said. “Under the Human Rights Act, there and Jessica Gallagher (L’19) and Associate are 19 traits that are protected and the Dean Gregory Klass welcomed the students students can pick any of those traits, what- to a brief awards ceremony, recognizing ever is important to them,” explained Judge them in more than a dozen categories. David C. Simmons (L’84), chief adminis- When asked what they learned from the trative law judge of the D.C. Commission project, a Thurgood Marshall Academy stu- on Human Rights, who first conceived of dent said, “We all have a right to live. We the exhibition idea. (Simmons is also an all have a right to do whatever we choose.” adjunct professor at the Law Center.)

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 19 First in a series of articles on law and technology. WHO’S WATCHING YOU?

20 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW WHO’S It’s a question Georgetown Law’s new Center WATCHING on Privacy and Technology takes very seriously. YOU? by Anne Cassidy

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 21 t was a face-off between a whistleblower and the intelligence community’s chief lawyer. John Napier Tye, a former State Department official, claimed that a Ilittle known executive order was making it possible for the government to collect and store the digital data of millions of American citizens without their knowledge. Executive Order 12333 “is a legal loophole to evade all protections that we have in place,” Tye said.

Robert Litt, general counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, disagreed. He said that the order actually restricts surveillance because the Constitu- tion grants the president unrestrained power to authorize it. “12333 is not a grant of authority but a limitation on how that authority can be used in certain settings,” Litt said.

Litt and Tye met and sparred at the inaugural event of Georgetown Law’s new Cen- ter on Privacy and Technology. The Center, founded last July, strives to bridge the gap between the academy and policymakers, lawyers and technologists as well as educate students to be leaders in privacy practice, policymaking and advocacy — and it has already been fulfilling these goals in the first months of its existence. There have been conferences, testimonies, white papers, classes, clinics and a brand new practicum.

All of this couldn’t have come at a better time. The news is full of privacy issues — from fears of data breaches, cybercrime and government surveillance to concerns that companies are monetizing our every move and click. Technology is evolving so quickly that it’s difficult for privacy settings — perhaps for privacy itself — to keep up with it. “I think people are increasingly concerned about privacy,” says Professor

David Vladeck, a Center faculty director. “I think people are increasingly demanding better controls for it.”

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The new Center on Privacy and Technology is the sort of place Vladeck dreamed of creating when he returned in 2013 from leave as head of the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Bureau. During Vladeck’s four years at the FTC, the agency pursued 50 or more path-breaking privacy cases, suing Face- book, MySpace and Google (twice) and putting Google and other Internet giants under a 20-year consent decree requiring them to undergo outside audits to assess and verify their data protection policies. The agency — “which is essentially the nation’s privacy regulator,” Vladeck says — set up the first forensic lab for mobile devices, rode herd on malware, spyware and e-scams, and did a lot of work on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). But there was a world more to do, and the academy was a good place to do it. So when Vladeck planned his return to Georgetown he shared his ideas with Dean William M. Treanor. “Bill was very enthusiastic about Georgetown becoming a thought leader on questions about the legal relationship with privacy, technology and national security,” Vladeck says. “I wouldn’t have taken this on without the encouragement and assistance of the dean.”

“I think people are increasingly concerned about privacy,” says Professor David Vladeck. “I think people are increasingly demanding better controls for it.”

Another piece of the puzzle had fallen into place when Vladeck, while still at the FTC, became ac- quainted with Alvaro Bedoya, then chief counsel to Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy. Bedoya had come to rely upon the FTC, because “it always seemed to be on the same page as we were in terms of consumer privacy,” he says. When Vladeck asked Bedoya if he’d like to direct the new Center, Bedoya said yes. Within a year the school secured a Ford Foundation start- up grant and the Center was on its way. “A lot of folks say why on earth would you start a center on privacy and technology at Georgetown? You’re not in Silicon Valley, you’re not in the Bay Area, you’re not in New York,” Bedoya says. “But the fact of the matter is that the big decisions in American privacy law are made right here. You have the FTC, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. … You have the Senate and House. Basically, you have within 10 or 20 blocks the key decision-makers on privacy in the country. And Georgetown is in the center of that.” In addition, the Georgetown faculty boasts an impressive roster of privacy experts — a collection of big- picture thinkers and experienced policymakers — who serve as faculty directors of the new center. In addition to Vladeck, there is Professor Angela Campbell, a director of the Institute for Public Representation and a children’s privacy expert who has represented some of the nation’s leading privacy groups before regulators such as the FTC; Professor Julie Cohen, one of the nation’s top privacy theorists who was just installed as the first Mark Claster Mamolen Professor in Law and Technology; and Professor Laura Donohue,

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 23 director of the Center on National Security and the Law who has written some of the first in-depth studies of the laws underlying the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection program. Starting next fall there will also be Professor Paul Ohm, who joins the faculty from the University of Colorado School of Law, where he has taught computer crime law, information privacy, criminal procedure and intellectual property. At Georgetown, Ohm will teach a class on the technology of privacy, a new and unusual offering. Vladeck worked with Ohm at the FTC and says he’s “the perfect person for Georgetown to get. Paul is a brilliant theoretical academic, but he’s also a geek and a really fine lawyer. He’s the kind of person who writes code for fun.”

LAWYERS WHO SPEAK ENGINEER

The Georgetown curriculum reflects this faculty expertise in privacy and technology law. For instance, Cohen’s information privacy class surveys the field, covering the dearth of comprehensive privacy legislation in the U.S. commercial sector compared with the more robust privacy protection found in some European countries. Adjunct Professor Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has been teaching an information privacy law class at Georgetown since 1990. In 2010 his class featured a debate between the chief privacy officer at Facebook and the organizer of a group of 150,000 Facebook users who were protesting a change in the social media company’s terms of service that made it more difficult for users to protect their privacy. “That Georgetown class led directly to a new Facebook policy, followed for many years, to allow users to vote on significant changes in Facebook policies,” Rotenberg says. Another class featured a guest speaker who taught the class how to hide their online identities. Rotenberg also teaches a practicum on the law of open government in which students learn how to pursue Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases in conjunction with ongoing litigation at EPIC. And next year Rotenberg and former Georgetown Associate Dean Anita L. Allen will be publishing the third edition of Privacy Law and Society (West). Meanwhile, students in Campbell’s Institute for Public Representation Clinic on Communications and Technology draft complaints about violations of COPPA and file them with the FTC on behalf of such clients as the Center for Digital Democracy and others. The most recent is a complaint against the Topps Candy Company. Topps asked kids to send in photos of themselves eating Ring Pop candies; the company used some of the photos in a music video and posted them on their Facebook and Twitter pages, along with the children’s user names. The complaint asserts that Topps did not heed the privacy policies set forth in COPPA, which requires that websites used by children younger than 13 obtain parental consent before collecting personal information. Campbell says that there’s an advantage working on children’s privacy issues. “We have a law [COPPA], which makes it more interesting than a lot of the other privacy issues, where we don’t have laws.”

24 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW The newest privacy practicum on the block is the one Vladeck and Bedoya are co-teaching this semester with two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors: Daniel J. Weitzner, principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Hal Abelson, professor of electrical engineering and computer science. In Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology — a first-of-its-kind partnership for the Law Center — 12 Georgetown Law students and seven MIT students are examining such topics as geolocation tracking or the privacy implications of Fitbits and other personal health apps. They’re plumbing the technological and policy issues of these and other new products before distilling their findings into legislative recommendations. The class’s first meeting was held at MIT in January, and the last takes place in D.C. in April, when students present their legislative recommendations to a panel of experts from Congress, state legislatures and regulatory agencies. In between, classes are being held jointly here and at MIT, with students and faculty interacting via teleconference. “The course’s goal is not to come up with the perfect legislation…” Vladeck says. “The point is for students to … develop a reasonable degree of literacy in the technology.” Or, as Bedoya puts it, to create “lawyers who can speak engineer.”

UNCHARTED TERRITORY

Creating tech-fluent lawyers is not only a service to the Center; it’s also a service to the profession. Consider the fact that the NSA was for years able to search the digital data of ordinary citizens without a reasonable suspicion of their wrongdoing. This could happen, Bedoya says, because “there was not a single lawyer at the NSA, not a single lawyer at the DOJ, not a single lawyer at the FBI who knew everything the engineers were doing.”

“The fact of the matter is that the big decisions in American privacy law are made right here. ... Basically, you have within 10 or 20 blocks the key decision-makers in the country. And Georgetown is in the center of that,” says Executive Director Alvaro Bedoya.

When Vladeck was working on privacy policy issues at the FTC, he observed that many of the privacy advocates did not have access to technologists, which weakened their ability to make an effective case. “Unless you can understand and frame your arguments within the technological realm you’re not going to be a persuasive advocate,” he says. The mission of the new Center, then, corresponds with a larger push for technology training at Georgetown Law — with such classes as Ohm’s new technology of privacy class and Professor Tanina Rostain’s Technology, Innovation and Legal Practice, for instance, where students design an application that solves a legal problem (see page 31). “What we’re doing in our Center is just a slice of what the Law Center is doing,” Vladeck says. “The dean has a lot of ambitions for the law school on the technological side.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 25 Treanor highlighted the importance of the tech side last October when he opened the new Center’s Privacy Act @ 40 Conference, a daylong review of the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act amendments. “We are very much focused as a law school on the way in which technology is changing the law,” Treanor said. “Our Center is really about that. It’s an area we’ve identified as a key to our moving forward.” A case in point is the new Mark Claster Mamolen Professorship in Law and Technology, to which Professor Julie Cohen was formally installed on April 1. The professorship was made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of the late Mark Mamolen, who spent his first year at Georgetown Law, graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and became a successful businessman, entrepre- neur and investor. Mamolen, who died in 2013, said that acceptance at Georgetown changed the direction of his life.

“We are very much focused as a law school on the way in which technology is changing the law,” said Dean William M. Treanor. “Our Center is really about that. It’s an area we’ve identified as a key to our moving forward.”

The new professorship marks a strong new course for the Law Center, too. Technology is changing many aspects of the legal landscape, including privacy laws and practices, making things murky where they weren’t before. Many privacy laws are outdated and must be interpreted in the context of new technology. When Bedoya worked on the Hill, for instance, he noticed that streaming video companies were beginning to argue that they were not subject to the nation’s video privacy law, the Video Privacy Protection Act, because, they argued, they were not “video tape service providers” — the term of art used to describe the video stores of the 1980s. Or consider Executive Order 12333, which was discussed at the Center’s inaugural event. The order, which President Ronald Reagan executed in 1981, covers the collection of foreign intelligence information overseas. But now that e-mail and other digital data is stored on foreign servers it can be included in a collection of foreign intelligence information without Americans ever leaving home. “We are dealing with new technologies, and they have just changed the whole game,” noted Donohue, who also spoke at the conference. “We’re in a new world now; this is uncharted territory.”

UNTRAMMELED ACCESS

One of the Center’s strengths is that it covers governmental and commercial aspects of privacy, with a special focus on the latter. This is unique, since most of the country’s leading privacy organizations focus on privacy from government intrusion. But both areas were on display at the Privacy Act @ 40 Conference. While the event included panel discussions on the 1974 FOIA amendments and a luncheon speech by the

26 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Hon. Laurence Silberman — who urged President Ford to veto the FOIA amendments only to see the veto overridden by a close Senate vote — it concluded with a freewheeling discussion on data brokers and commercial privacy issues. And at a conference on cybercrime held at Georgetown a few weeks later, experts discussed everything from the high-tech crimes of tomorrow to the future of the Fourth Amendment. “I do think we live in a Brave New World. We’ve walked into it; the government hasn’t imposed it upon us. But unless we change the rules we will allow technological advances to render privacy like the eight-track player, something we once had but which isn’t of use,” said Professor David Cole, who’s written extensively on privacy and national security. Given that the Center is covering both governmental and commercial privacy lapses — and its experts are writing and speaking in the popular media as well as the academy — it seems worthwhile to ask them whether they think governmental or commercial abuses pose the greatest risk to ordinary citizens. Donohue says they’re equally concerning. It’s troubling that the marketplace now commoditizes personal data and sells it without the consumer’s awareness or complicity. But “the government, which has access to the most coercive tools available — such as imprisonment for life and execution — has untrammeled access to all sorts of information,” she says. Vladeck believes “data brokers know much more about us than the NSA does.” In 2010, the FTC pro- posed stronger regulation of data brokers, and the agency took enforcement actions against data brokers who were violating existing law, he notes. “But the aggregation of sensitive individual data on American citizens has exploded in the last decade without any real oversight.” Both Vladeck and Bedoya have argued for more individual control over information that’s collected, rather than relying on data brokers to restrain themselves from using what has already been gathered. In comments on Big Data and consumer privacy sent to the Department of Commerce last year, for instance,

“Data brokers know much more about us than the NSA does,” Vladeck says. “The aggregation of sensitive individual data on American citizens has exploded in the last decade without any real oversight.” they argued for stricter controls of passive data — the kind you give away without knowing it — and debunked the notion that Big Data is too big for consumer control. Ever since the 1967 Katz decision, in which the Supreme Court found that private conversations could occur in a public place (a closed phone booth), there has been more emphasis on public expectations of privacy — expectations that are constantly changing. “With the advent of location tracking, with the birth of efficient facial recognition technology, when you walk outside now it’s not just the grocer who sees you or your neighbor,” Bedoya says. “It’s computers … you never heard of which are able to track your movements and create a profile of your movements with little cost and without your knowledge.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 27 Bedoya believes public perceptions of privacy have eroded in part because the recent growth in smartphone and other technology makes people think they can’t protect their own data. But “it’s no accident” that we have poor privacy laws, he says. Efforts to update commercial privacy laws have been stymied by aggressive lobbying efforts. And some of the most exciting privacy protections are occurring at the state level. “There are state legislatures around the country that are focused intensively on privacy, including Cali- fornia, which is an engine of privacy reform,” Vladeck says. Agencies have likewise had a big role in shaping privacy, he notes, citing the FTC’s suits against companies like Google. “I think the FTC’s work has helped spark the debate we’re now seeing … and I would not rule out state attorneys general and the Department of Commerce.” Consumer awareness is also crucial. Vladeck says that when smartphones first reached the marketplace “we called them ‘information-sharing devices’ because there was so much data leaking out of them. They were not built with privacy in mind.” But when users became aware that, for instance, a smartphone’s

“When you walk outside now it’s not just the grocer who sees you or your neighbor,” Bedoya says. “It’s computers ... you never heard of which are able to track your movements and create a profile of your movements.”

geolocation tracking abilities continued even when the location tracking was turned off, the operating systems of smartphones evolved to prevent that. The problem, says Bedoya, is that the less you know about your data the fewer protections it has. “The technology that digitizes and quantifies your offline life — in other words your real life — is poorly protected by commercial privacy laws,” he says. “Sometimes, it isn’t protected at all.” It’s the Internet of Things — the appliances, automobile sensors, personal fitness devices and other entities that gather personal data and share it with third parties. “So far the folks who have been talking about updating privacy laws have been focusing on updating the government side of the privacy laws — when can police get your data, when can the FBI get your data — and there’s been much less focus on what companies can do with your data once they collect it. So that’s one of the gaps we’re looking into,” Bedoya says. In fact, the Center is embarking on an in-depth study on lobbying and its impact on commercial privacy laws and has also teamed up with Con- sumer Reports to study the privacy policies of smart TVs.

BREATHING SPACE

Plainly, this is a rich area for thinking and debate. And it’s also a practical one. Being well-versed in privacy and technology issues enhances many types of law practice, and there’s never been a better time for students to pursue jobs in the privacy field.

28 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW “This is an area of extraordinary job growth for our students and for lawyers generally,” Cohen says. “If you were to go back two decades and ask someone what a chief privacy officer was, no one would know what you were talking about, at least not in this country. And now every company of any size needs to have one.” There are also compliance practices to join and a greater need for privacy experts in government practice, too. “I came in with an interest in privacy and communications law, and ended the semester feeling like I had accomplished something for my client and for the public,” says Camille Fischer (L’15) of IPR’s Com- munications and Technology Clinic, whose findings led to the request for an investigation of Topps candy. “The request felt like my baby — I saw it from beginning to end. I’m incredibly proud of the work, and thankful for everything that [Professor] Angela [Campbell] and my fellow, Eric Null, taught me during our brainstorming and revision sessions.” Fischer plans a career in privacy and technology policy when she leaves school. She’s currently applying for fellowships with the consumer advocacy organizations with whom IPR partners. “I think my experience with IPR definitely helps because I’ve been able to do the work in school that many of these organizations do as part of the job.” Another important goal of the Center on Privacy and Technology is to protect the privacy rights of vulnerable populations. Which includes children, Campbell says. Her work to provide privacy protection for our youngest citizens “is where I see a big overlap with the Center.” Among the traditionally disadvantaged groups — the poor, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, LGBT and the elderly — Vladeck and Bedoya see a need to push for more consumer controls for Big Data — as opposed to so-called “use controls,” which allow data to be collected on the premise that it will only be used if necessary. “Privacy is in many ways a shield for the weak,” Vladeck and Bedoya wrote in the comments they filed with the Department of Commerce. “An exclusive focus on use limitations would take away that shield and replace it with promises.” The problem, Bedoya explains, is that as a society we take a long time to deem certain uses of data harmful, particularly when those uses of data involve marginalized populations. For instance, during

“If you were to go back two decades and ask someone what a chief privacy officer was, no one would know what you were talking about, at least not in this country. And now every company of any size needs to have one,” says Professor Julie Cohen.

WWII, census data was given to the war department so Japanese-Americans could be tracked down and put in internment camps. But that decision wasn’t questioned for decades. “Often what we now see as discrimination was in the past totally acceptable to society. So the idea that we’re going to adequately protect privacy through use restrictions doesn’t really jibe with history,” Bedoya says. Better to provide more individual controls so the data can’t be collected in the first place.

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 29 The stakes are higher than you might think, because privacy is needed not only to protect sensitive data but also to flourish as human beings. Cohen has written about privacy as “breathing room” or “space in which to develop relationships and associations, to develop one’s own preferences and tastes, one’s politics, habits, religious beliefs and friendships … fundamental aspects of one’s self that require some degree of freedom from scrutiny.” Donohue says as far back as the founding of the colonies there has been this notion that privacy lets us question who we are. “If you think of Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter, there’s the idea that you could move somewhere and be somewhere new and become who you wanted to be. This gave you a freedom to make mistakes and move on from them. … But we’re losing that now. … The digital ‘scarlet letter’ is on everybody and I worry about democratic debate, about our ability to discuss and figure out emotionally and intellectually who we are.” It’s important that privacy, which is often portrayed as being in tension with innovation, be understood, instead, as essential for a flourishing and innovative society, Cohen says. Having a record of everyplace you went and everyone you talked to and everything you read — which we often do today — “is far more likely, in the long run, to stifle human innovativeness than to encourage it.”

“I think we’re at a tipping point in terms of technological adaptation and acquisition,” Bedoya says. “We’re in a window where the choices we make are going to have repercussions for years and years down the line.”

As far as Bedoya is concerned, the time to seek better control of Big Data, to provide privacy rights for the vulnerable — and indeed for all of us — is now. It’s why the Center hit the ground running and has been so well received. It’s why there will be a conference this spring featuring the nation’s leading civil rights organizations, financial regulators and people from industry to look at what Big Data means for low- income and minority communities. “I think we’re at a tipping point in terms of technological adaptation and acquisition,” Bedoya says. “It was only in the last five years that most Americans had smartphones, only in the last 10 years or so that most Americans joined a social network. And so we’re in a position where people’s expectations about privacy protections are just now being developed. … We’re in a window where the choices we make are going to have repercussions for years and years down the line.”

30 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW DIMENSION

Technological advances are changing the Rostain acknowledges that legal apps way law is practiced — and at George- might put some lawyers out of work, but town Law, students have a chance to gain the software is already being licensed to cutting-edge experience. At the fifth Iron law firms, she says, and “I want our stu- Tech Lawyer Competition, held last Decem- dents to be ahead of the game in terms of ber in Gewirz Student Center, six three- designing these kinds of solutions.” student teams introduced the applications For instance, several students have grad- TECH they built as part of an experiential class uated to jobs as legal solutions architects called Technology, Innovation and Legal with Seyfarth Shaw. And this semester is Practice — E-Government. the first for the Georgetown-Littler Innova-

THE Apps provide self-help tools for those tive Scholars Program, which provides an who can’t get a lawyer, they help legal internship for a student to learn about le- service providers and regulatory agencies gal technologies at Littler, an employment become more efficient, and they provide law firm. These were jobs that didn’t exist tailored access to legal resources for orga- five or 10 years ago, Rostain says, and nizations whose clients are served in part Georgetown Law students are snagging by volunteers or non-lawyer profession- them. “We are in the very small handful als. The apps in this competition were de- of law schools working in this area,” she signed to “increase access to regulatory says. processes and administrative agencies,” Rostain also chairs the faculty technol- says Professor Tanina Rostain, who teach- ogy committee, which has encouraged es the class along with Adjunct Professor faculty members to use learning manage- Kevin Mulcahy. ment systems to post course materials, has Take the Business Inquiry Navigator. promoted classroom technologies to ex- Developed for the City of New York’s De- periment with remote teaching tools, and partment of Consumer Affairs (each team has been collaborating with the Center worked with a real-world client), the ap- for New Designs in Learning and Schol- plication seeks to streamline the process arship on Georgetown’s main campus. by which the department provides infor- One of the committee’s latest endeavors mation on the business licensing process is exploring the possibility of an electronic and to ease the “disconnect between users courtroom, which would allow the school and their ability to access information,” to offer trial practice classes that focus on according to Jolene Wang (L’15), who the use of electronic evidence and effec- designed the app along with classmates tive visual presentation. Teaching students Matt Dulac and Lilly deSouza Burr (both about the technologies available to sort L’15). The Business Inquiry Navigator and classify electronic documents is part earned the Best Iron Tech Lawyer award of the school’s larger goal of preparing at the December competition. Students students for 21st-century practice. learn to design and build these apps with The time has come to make these chang- software provided under an educational es, because a new generation of law license by Neota Logic, a commercial students is demanding them. “It’s part of platform. what I think of as a larger movement,” Not every area of law is amenable to Rostain says, noting that more young peo- apps, Rostain says. “There are litigation ple are learning to write computer code. settings, civil rights litigation, where you “They have a digital approach to how you wouldn’t be able to use an app,” Rostain answer questions and how you gain skills. adds. But in areas of law that “are very This is happening at a very rapid pace in well settled” an app can do the job. the legal field.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 31 32 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW the D.C. ADVANTAGE

By Ann W. Parks

On November 20, 2013, Visiting Professor Judith Appelbaum — who directs the Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic — received an e-mail from a Senate insider hinting that her clinic students should be watching the Senate floor the following day. When an intrigued Appelbaum asked her friend for more information, she received the cryptic message “Nuclear 10 a.m.” Appelbaum, of course, knew what it was. “I quickly e-mailed my students and said, ‘Watch the Senate floor tomorrow; I have good information that the nuclear option is going to happen,” she said. “Three of my students got gallery passes and went at ten o’clock. … I turned on my computer and watched the Senate floor on C-SPAN — and sure enough, Senator Reid said the magic words.” With Sen. Patrick Leahy (L’64), D-Vt., then president pro tem of the Senate, in the presiding officer’s chair, the students witnessed the change of the filibuster rule, from 60 to 51 votes to close debate on judicial and executive branch nominees. “We watched, in real time, as the rules of the Senate fundamentally changed,” says Grant Dubler (L’14), a former clinic student who is now working as a legislative assistant for Rep. Lois Frankel (L’73), D-Fla. “It was one of those only-in-Washington-D.C. moments, one of those only-at-Georgetown-Law kind of moments.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 33 By that time, the clinic students were so steeped in Senate procedure that they could explain to tourists in the gallery just what was happening. “It just so happened that a few days before we had met with the Senate parliamentarian and afterwards we were going to the White House’s legislative affairs office to meet with [the president’s top] Senate liaison,” Dubler explains. “Every week was something exciting in the clinic, whether it was meeting with an advocacy group or with lobbyists or with members of Congress.” Like many students, Dubler was experiencing the Law Center’s D.C. advantage. The D.C. advantage is many things. It’s the school’s Washington location paired with its academic strength — a powerful one-two punch of place and expertise. It’s faculty members who excel in both teaching and scholarship, many of whom have served in government and bring their expertise into the classroom. It’s all the clinics, externships and practicum courses that give students the chance to learn the law — only steps away from where it’s being made. It’s alumni, adjunct and visiting faculty who connect students with those in the know. It’s the international and government officials who visit the Law Center each semester, along with judges, business experts and thought leaders.

34 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW The D.C. Advantage is also the name The D.C. Advantage is also the name of a of a new pilot program introduced new pilot program introduced this spring this spring in which students work in which students work on Capitol Hill or on Capitol Hill or other placements other placements around town while around town while taking related taking related coursework on campus — coursework on campus — giving giving students the ability to hit the ground students the ability to hit the ground running in any area they choose: business, running in any area they choose: law firms, public or government service. business, law firms, public or government service.

The D.C. Advantage is also the name of a new pilot program introduced this spring in which students work on Capitol Hill or other placements around town while taking related coursework on campus — giving students the ability to hit the ground running in any area they choose: business, law firms, public or government service. “The law in action is often very different from the law in theory,” says Associate Dean Jane Aiken, who has been developing the new innovations along with Dean William M. Treanor and other members of the faculty and staff. “It’s not just, do you understand contracts and civil procedure and criminal law, but have you reflected on the law in action and learned the lessons that you take away from that? How do you translate that into counseling clients? Or how do you conduct your legal representation? When the center of the universe has now shifted to Washington, D.C. — which a lot of people say it has — understanding the law in action here can make you the most powerful person in the room.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 35 “ At Georgetown, they gave me a pamphlet that had the [Federal Legislation] clinic, and I thought it was amazing. The idea of working with clients to actually advocate for legislative [change], drafting legislation and lobbying I thought was clearly something I could not get at any other institution.” — Adaku Onyeka-Crawford (L’14)

‘PECULIAR ADVANTAGES’ Of course, Georgetown Law students have been taking full advantage of the school’s Washington, D.C., location since the first lecture on October 5, 1870. “The City of Washington,” extolled theCatalogue of Georgetown College, 1870-1871, “offers peculiar advantages to the Student of Law.” By the 1880s, the school was helping “entering students find places with ‘the ablest lawyers of the city, where they are allowed to familiarize themselves with the conduct of the business and the practical duties of the profession.’” At the same time, prominent faculty members — like Samuel Freedman Miller, a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice, and Charles W. Hoffman, the second law librarian of Congress — brought the city inside the classroom. Some of the same “peculiar advantages” exist today, including the government connections. “We have so many faculty who are in and out of the federal government, and that means those professors have broad and deep experience in the federal public policy process,” says Appelbaum, who once headed the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Justice Department, a role now filled by Peter J. Kadzik (L’77). These faculty members include Professors Rosa Brooks, Peter Edelman, Lisa Heinzerling, David Koplow, Marty Lederman, Victoria Nourse, Jane Stroms- eth, David Vladeck and others. Two former Georgetown Law faculty members — Professor Nina Pillard and Visiting Professor Pamela Harris — have recently been appointed federal appellate court judges. Hoyas watching President Barack Obama’s January 20th State of the Union address would have seen a veri- table “Who’s Who” of Georgetown Law — from alumni like Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (L’83) to recent visitors to the Law Center, such as EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. Fourteen law alumni currently serve in Congress, along with D.C. Delegate (and Georgetown Law Professor) Eleanor Holmes Norton [see page 40]. Even the most recent law librarian of Congress has a Georgetown connection; David Mao (L’93) served as the 23rd law librarian from 2012 until his appointment as deputy librarian in January. The D.C. advantage worked for Adaku Onyeka-Crawford (L’14), who came to Georgetown Law specifically to take the Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic now taught by Appelbaum. As a result of her work in the clinic, Onyeka-Crawford is currently pursuing a fellowship in the education and employment division of the National Women’s Law Center. “I wanted to make the laws, so I applied to a couple of schools in Chicago, where I’m from, but also in New York and D.C.,” she says. “And the schools that I got into, I asked, what clinics or experiential learning can you offer to help me get involved in legislative advocacy? ... At Georgetown, they gave me a pamphlet that had the [Federal Legislation] clinic, and I thought it was amazing. The idea of working with clients to actually advocate for legislative [change], drafting legislation and lobbying I thought was clearly something I could not get at any other institution.”

MAKING CONNECTIONS

Teaching the inaugural Delaney Public Policy Scholars Program in the summer of 2014, Adjunct Professor Laurie Rubiner (L’02) — now the chief of staff to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. — could call upon many of her Hill contacts to help the class in a simulation on gun control. After developing policy proposals, media strategies and lobbying campaigns on a hypothetical similar to the Newtown shooting (but geared toward the 2014 midterm elections) students met with the guests Rubiner brought to the classroom: Tamera Luzzatto, who was Hillary

36 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Clinton’s chief of staff in the Senate; Philippe Reines, a senior adviser to Clinton during her service as secretary of state; Miguel Rodriguez, a former director of legislative affairs under President Obama; and Maura Keefe, chief of staff to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Students also went to the Senate, to meet with Blumenthal. For Rubiner it’s all part of introducing students “to some of the really interesting people in this town that Georgetown has access to.” The Delaney program, made possible by a gift from Rep. John Delaney (L’88), D-Md., and April McClain- Delaney (L’89), was designed to develop students’ expertise and skills in public policy — and was so successful that Rubiner was asked to headline the innovative pilot project mentioned above, the D.C. Advantage. In the first of several planned modules, which focuses on Congress and legislative lawyering, students take a seminar with Rubiner and related “cluster” courses taught by the full-time faculty while working in the placements they find on the Hill.

ONE ALUMNA’S D.C. ADVANTAGE Laurie Rubiner (L’02) was working as a legislative assistant on the Hill when she decided to go to law school. She knew that law school at Georgetown would enhance her professional career and she was not disappointed. John D. Podesta (L’76) — a White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton (F’68) and later counselor to President Barack Obama — was one of her favorite professors. Viet Dinh, who would go on to serve as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush Administration and play a key role in drafting the USA Patriot Act, was another. “I still have tremendously fond memories of his class,” says Rubiner, who as a liberal then working for a Republican senator didn’t let political differences keep her from admiring Dinh as a “really wonderful” professor. “You had [instructors] like that, people who were here in Washington and doing different things in Washington… He brought a very dynamic, really interesting perspective to the law.” After graduating from law school, Rubiner practiced at a law firm for a short time before landing at the New America Founda- tion in New York, launching a program for health care. In 2005, she returned to the Senate as the legislative director for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D.-N.Y., helping to develop the health care plan for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. “It was very exciting, and quite an honor to be a part of that,” she says. Today, Rubiner — now the chief of staff to Sen. Richard Blu- menthal, D-Conn. — is giving back to Georgetown Law by teaching the next generation of law students about public policy, legislative lawyering and work on Capitol Hill. Last summer, she taught the inaugural seminar course in the new Delaney Public Policy Scholars Program; this spring, she teaches the seminar that accompanies the D.C. Advantage. “Because I [work on the Hill] every day and I have a lot of young people who work for me, I know what skills to look for when I hire people in this office,” Rubiner says, citing a strategic sense, being able to work well with others, being able to em- pathize and see the other person’s point of view as among the necessary talents. “This [seminar] really helps them get ready for it. They learn the ins and outs of what it’s like to be in this world.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 37 For their coursework, students might choose a seminar on separation of powers co-taught by Professorial Lecturer Viet Dinh and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, or Advanced Constitutional Law with Dean William M. Treanor and Professor John Mikhail, Administrative Law with Professor Sheryll Cashin, or the Fed- eral Role in Education with Professor Eloise Pasachoff. Subsequent modules of the D.C. Advantage may cover administrative agencies, NGOs, law and technology, business regulation and international/transnational work. Amelia Bell (L’15), who served on the Hill as a legislative correspondent for Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., before coming to law school, jumped at the opportunity to take a class with Rubiner, about whom she’d heard nothing but raves. For the externship portion of the Delaney Public Policy Scholars Program, Bell worked in the education and employment division of the National Women’s Law Center. In the seminar portion, she played the role of a gun control advocate. “We had to figure out a legislative proposal, what we would want in legislation, create a marketing scheme for it on the Hill, write an op-ed about it, consider how we would pitch it to Hill staffers,” she says. “I learned how to frame an issue, write a one-pager about it — things I was doing at my externship, but it was great to have somebody in a class teaching [us] how.”

BEYOND BUSINESS 101

In the 21st century, lawyers must be adept at a number of skills that have not historically been associated with the three branches of government, such as business prowess. “A lot of people come to D.C. not thinking they necessarily want to be business lawyers, because, after all, it’s D.C.,” says Adjunct Professor Andrew Sherman, a partner at Jones Day who is helping Georgetown Law students bridge the gap between the law and business worlds. “But even if you are going to pursue a career in not-for-profits, it’s still important to understand business.”

“You get 10 years out of law school and the intersection between business and law becomes obvious. But why should we wait until then for that light bulb to go off? Let’s create that epiphany with 2Ls and 3Ls.” — Andrew Sherman

Sherman teaches in Georgetown Law’s new Business Law Scholars Program, providing a weekly seminar for students working in business-law related externships they’ve found in the city. Among other things, Sherman makes his law students — some of whom have never read a financial statement — analyze a potential client’s business plan. “You get 10 years out of law school and the intersection between business and law becomes obvious,” he says. “But why should we wait until then for that light bulb to go off? Let’s create that epiphany with 2Ls and 3Ls.” Bryan Wood (L’16) took advantage of both the Business Law Scholars Program and the Delaney Public Policy Scholars Program in the summer of 2014. As a part-time law student who works full-time as a legislative director for Rep. Robert Hurt, R-Va., Wood brought his new business skills to the Hill job he already had. “I have a lot of interest in the policy implications [of corporate law], so I was attacking that class from a different perspective than a lot of my classmates, who were interested in working in-house with a company or working in a firm,” explains Wood. “We see a lot of lobbyists who represent interests from the corporate world and I can understand where they are coming from. … I also can ask questions and maybe challenge some of the assumptions and assertions that they are trying to make.” And while not all Georgetown Law students will choose to become government lawyers, draft the laws or otherwise work on the Hill, those on the corporate or law firm side of things also enjoy a D.C. advantage — no matter where they end up. “Our students will have an on-the-ground experience and will become much better advisers to their clients, whoever those clients are, on what happens in Washington,” Aiken says. “How to influence

38 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW legislation, how to interpret regulations, how to have an influence. A Georgetown-educated lawyer can provide insights into how laws will likely be interpreted while working for clients in Idaho.”

THE MASTERS AT WORK

Professor Vicki Girard’s Legal Research and Writing (LRW) students had barely turned in their first-year take- home final exams on Monday, November 24, when they headed to their next LRW assignment — watching a moot court argument of Elonis v. United States, to be heard in the Supreme Court December 1. The Elonis case, involving a man convicted under a federal threat statute for posting violent messages on Facebook, was one that the students were already familiar with, having seen a mock moot conducted by the faculty during orientation week in August. But the Supreme Court, in granting the cert petition, had shifted the focus of the matter from a First Amend- ment issue to a question of statutory interpretation — which would add a new dimension to students’ understanding of how the case might ultimately turn out. “And they are excited, because it’s a really kind of cutting edge, interesting, Facebook-media case,” Girard said. The Supreme Court Institute’s moot court program, launched more than a decade ago, is one of the jewels of Georgetown Law. Since 2010, the Institute has collaborated with professors to incorporate the moots into the legal research and writing program — meaning that all first-years have at least one opportunity to see a moot. “The Supreme Court Institute is completely unique in United States law schools,” former U.S. Solicitor Gen- eral Seth Waxman, a distinguished visitor from practice, said on January 22 as he described the program to an auditorium full of recently admitted J.D. students. By the October 2012 term, the Institute mooted a record 100 percent of the Court’s docket (one side only) for the first time. During the October 2013 term, the Supreme Court Institute had 1,485 observers for its 67 moot courts. Some students come as the result of a class; others are simply fans. “There are students who follow particular advocates — Paul Clement, Seth Waxman, Jeff Fisher and David Frederick,” says Dori Bernstein, director of the Supreme Court Institute. “Neal Katyal is another one. It’s not so much what they are arguing; [students] just want to see the masters at work.”

OPERATING THEATER

Brian Liegel (L’15) came to Washington, D.C., to do something that he couldn’t do anywhere else — take the Supreme Court Institute’s Judicial Clerkship Practicum, which teaches students about clerkships in a unique and innovative way. Using real cases that are coming before the Supreme Court, students act as law clerks for the Georgetown Law professors serving as volunteer justices in the Supreme Court Institute moots. The brainchild of Bernstein — who once clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the course was offered for the first time last spring. “I knew I wanted to clerk in the future, so I thought that it would be a good way to first get experience and see what it’s like and also make sure it was something I was interested in doing,” Liegel says. It was. Liegel was assigned the case of Hall v. Florida, asking whether Florida’s statutory scheme for identify- ing defendants with mental retardation in capital cases violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on executing persons with mental retardation. Waxman mooted and argued the case. Liegel was also paired with a partner who was assigned the Hobby Lobby case; former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement mooted and argued that case. In other words, Liegel heard oral arguments for those cases before the nine justices did.

“I knew I wanted to clerk in the future, so I thought that it would be a good way to first get experience and see what it’s like and also make sure it was something I was interested in doing.” — Brian Liegel (L’15)

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 39 ALUMNI IN CONGRESS Talk about the D.C. advantage. The 114th U.S. Congress got under way in January with 14 Georgetown Law alumni and one faculty member continuing the Law Center’s long tradition of service. The Law Center is presently second among law schools, after Harvard, in the number of law alumni in Congress. In the Senate, Dan Sullivan (L’93, MSFS’93), R-Alaska, joins Senators Richard Durbin (F’66, L’69), D-Ill.; Mazie Hirono (L’78), D-Hawaii; Mark Kirk (L’92), R-Ill., and Sen. Patrick Leahy (L’64, H’94), D-Vt. Five is the highest number of Georgetown Law alumni to serve in the Senate in a particular session of Congress; five served in the 111th Congress as well. In the House, Barbara Comstock (L’86), R-Va., and Ted Lieu (L’94), D-Calif., join seven fellow Georgetown Law alumni: Representatives Lois Frankel (L’73), D-Fla.; David Cicilline (L’86), D-R.I.; John Delaney (L’88), D-Md.; Steny Hoyer (L’66), D-Md.; Ann McLane Kuster (L’84), D- N.H.; Christopher Van Hollen (L’90), D-Md.; and Peter Visclosky (LL.M.’82), D-Ind. Professor Eleanor Holmes Norton, who currently teaches the year-long Lawmaking and Statutory Interpretation Seminar at the Law Center, has served as the District of Columbia delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives since her election in 1990.

40 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Liegel has since secured a clerkship with Judge Aldaberto Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in 2017-2018. In the meantime, he heads to the Miami office of Weil Gotshal and Manges to do complex commercial litigation. As a student, he has gone to the Supreme Court to see the actual oral arguments at least five times. “What makes Georgetown one-of-a-kind is having the Supreme Court Institute moot court program,” he says. Supreme Court Institute Executive Director Irv Gornstein, who acts as a justice in an impressive 35 to 40 moots each term, says it is a great experience for him to now have students acting as his law clerks. “[You] have somebody to bounce ideas off of, and see if they can come up with things you haven’t thought of,” he says of the students. “It actually facilitated my own preparation.” Faculty Director and Professor Steven Goldblatt says the program “is as ‘experiential learning’ as you get.” And its special moot courtroom — built to closely resemble the Supreme Court, right down to the carpeting — is the law school equivalent of a med school operating theater, Goldblatt says. “That room is a laboratory; you are seeing the creation of something that is used the next week in the Supreme Court of the United States.”

URBAN LABORATORIES

For his final semester in law school, Dorian Hawkins (L’15) wanted to get as much practical experience in land use as possible, since he would be joining the Department of Housing and Urban Development full time in the fall. So this spring Hawkins is taking advantage of a new initiative called “Urban Laboratory: Land Use Planning Law in Practice” led by Associate Dean Peter Byrne. As air-rights development over I-395 brings digging and jackhammering to the Tower Green, law students both inside and outside McDonough 337 were examining local construction projects in Washington, D.C.’s East End neighborhood — analyzing problems and solutions alongside students in Georgetown’s graduate program in urban and regional planning. “We are going to get students engaged with some of the big projects that are going on around the city, in the area around the Law Center and the School of Continuing Studies,” Byrne says, noting that the students will explore some of the “tensions and persistent problems,” such as the need for affordable housing and better transportation alternatives. “The law students are getting out there, talking to stakeholders and preparing to address real problems and opportunities. Their collaboration with the planning students is equipping them to work with future clients and regulators.” Urban Planning Professors Uwe Brandes and Paul Brophy, who co-teach the class with Byrne, are helping define the issues: What does the neighborhood represent to those who live and work there? How do you define the boundaries of the neighborhood? How should you house the people who live here? Is there a sense of community? “I lived on campus during my IL year, and I personally find the area to be very inviting,” Hawkins says. “Because of my housing background and future [career at HUD], I was really thinking about the affordability of the area. And the historic preservation angle, because I took that seminar last spring.” Hawkins has been interested in land use and historic preservation since his first days in law school, when he participated in a Capitol Hill walking tour during 1L orientation with Byrne, an expert in both fields. During his time at Georgetown, Hawkins fully used his D.C. advantage with an externship at the Securities and Exchange Commission; a class in administrative law with Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and a year-long placement at the Law Center’s Harrison Institute Affordable Housing Transactions Clinic, helping a housing cooperative in D.C. with its legal and financial needs. “It was really a whole process of learning the role of the lawyer, interacting with clients, which is very valuable in my opinion — learning to grow as a lawyer.”

“People that are living on the economic margins of society don’t have the resources to help themselves, and that’s where the Harrison clinic comes in.” — Raquel Skinner

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 41 BUILDING COMMUNITIES

The D.C. Advantage also worked for Nikkisha Smith (L’13) and Stuart Hudson (L’14), who returned to D.C.’s Eckington neighborhood on January 22 — along with Professor Michael Diamond, Dean Treanor and city officials — to celebrate the successful completion of a project they had begun in the Harrison Institute’s Afford- able Housing clinic more than two years earlier (the Harrison Institute also operates a public policy clinic at Georgetown Law). Smith and Hudson helped the residents of the Sierra Cooperative, a tenant-owned affordable housing building, renovate the space, assisting the cooperative as legal counsel and development consultants. So they were thrilled with the opportunity to inspect the results, complete with granite countertops, wood floors and fresh paint. “For the year that we worked on the project, we engaged with contractors about project design and construction and also engaged with the financers, the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a private company,” explained Smith, who now does mergers and acquisitions at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York. The improvements were not simply cosmetic; the building had been “a wreck,” according to Diamond and clinic staff attorney Raquel Skinner. The roof had partially collapsed in 2010, resulting in a severe infestation of mold; a subsequent plumbing failure resulted in water damage to the front hall staircase; and there were squat- ters living in the basement. The building, in fact, was so egregiously uninhabitable that by 2012 only four units in the 20-unit building were still occupied. “People that are living on the economic margins of society don’t have the resources to help themselves, and that’s where the Harrison clinic comes in,” Skinner says. Hudson — who now works for Hessel Aluise and Neun, an affordable housing regulatory law firm — notes that Washington is a city in transition, made up of communities that are changing fast. “Being able to help residents who are here to maintain their housing in a way that builds community institutions is fantastic,” Hudson says. “[You are] connected with the people who you are surrounded by on a daily basis, not just as another citizen, but you are actually building people in the communities up.”

“Being able to help residents who are here to maintain their housing in a way that builds community institutions is fantastic.” — Stuart Hudson (L’14)

SIX SEMESTERS

On the day of the Sierra Cooperative ribbon cutting, Dean Treanor noted that such moments celebrate the best part of Georgetown Law. “It’s a manifestation of the Law Center’s social justice mission,” he said. “It’s transforming the lives of people who live here, it’s educating the next generation of lawyers and building our connections with the D.C. community in which we live.” Members of the community — from D.C. Councilmember Kenyan R. McDuffie to the residents who refused to give up — also recognized Georgetown’s role. “Our homes are worth preserving, and we want to enjoy the city,” said a teary-eyed Sierra Cooperative President Pamela Frazier as she thanked the Georgetown clinic. So while other law schools offer a semester in D.C., Georgetown Law can offer six — thanks to its D.C. Advantage. “You can enhance your legal education in Washington in ways that are just absolutely mindboggling,” says Goldblatt, who in addition to being the faculty director of the Supreme Court Institute also directs the Ap- pellate Litigation Clinic — in which students can argue cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit before they even graduate from law school. “Some of my students are graduating from law school with two years of [work] experience. It’s all out there.”

42 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Students and alumni agree. “To me it’s the greatest city in the world,” says Dubler. “There’s a tremendous concentration of bright, young, educated people who want to make a difference.” Says Bell, who is working in Sen. Blumenthal’s office for her final semester at Georgetown Law: “Everything’s right here — you have the experiences of people coming from the Hill or from major organizations, and everybody who worked in government or in a policy position, it seems, is teaching these classes.” And finally, there is this from Hawkins: “I came to D.C. because I was interested in public interest work, and Georgetown being the best law school in D.C., when they accepted me, I [said,] all right, that settles that. And it worked out. I was able to do everything that I wanted to do and end up where I wanted to be.”

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 43 PHOTOS BY DANIEL CIMA

At Georgetown Law, students aren't the only ones who feel at home.

By Ann W. Parks

44 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW erhaps you remember Family Weekends from your under- light switch went on in my head,” said Cornblatt, himself the Pgraduate days, when your parents traveled hours or even proud parent of Nathan (C’18) and Johannah (G’16). “Gradu- days to hear how your classes were going, to meet your new ate schools have not traditionally included parents and other friends and to whisk you off campus to the kind of restaurant members of the family in their students’ educational experi- that did not accept GOCards as payment. And then you went ence; they just figure the students are older and the families off to law school, maybe with a spouse and children in tow, don’t need to be included nearly as much. Hearing Albert talk, and family events between Open House and Commencement it occurred to me that this couldn’t be further from the truth.” were few and far between, if they existed at all. From there, the idea of a Parents Leadership Council [see Of course your family wanted to meet the contracts and page 51] was born, with proud parents Greg McLaughlin and civil procedure professors who were demanding so much of Rachel Sullivan at the helm as co-chairs. The idea of a Family your time. Of course they wanted to experience for them- Weekend, law-school style, quickly took shape. “My job in selves how exciting it was to be studying law in Washington, admissions is to make decisions,” Cornblatt said. “To decide to D.C., a few blocks from the Capitol and the Supreme Court. use these two was the best decision I made all year.” The problem, as you explained to your disappointed relatives, McLaughlin, the father of Juliana (C’12, L’15) and Alexan- was that the school-sponsored family thing just wasn’t done in dra (F’11), said the primary goal was to get parents more con- law school. Until now. nected to the Law Center. Law schools communicate directly On September 12, Georgetown Law kicked off its first with the students, he noted, so it’s easy for parents, especially Family Weekend, hosting IL parents, grandparents, children, those who are out of town, to feel disengaged. spouses and siblings. When Dean William M. Treanor and Sullivan, the mother of Courtenay (L’16), didn’t think that Dean of Admissions Andy Cornblatt sent out the invitations, getting involved with Georgetown Law was even an option they expected maybe 200 affirmative responses, since many for parents when her daughter started her 1L year in 2013. parents had just helped their first-years move into Gewirz “With graduate school, it’s typically the scenario where you Student Center a few weeks before. More than 500 showed say to your kids, goodbye, good luck, hope all goes well and I up, from 25 states. have no idea what you are doing,” Sullivan said. “We [thought] So on a late-summer Friday evening, Cornblatt, Treanor it would be nice to engage the parents and welcome them as and other members of Georgetown Law’s faculty and staff part of the community.” found themselves outside the Sport and Fitness Center, welcoming families to the Law Center. “We have learned very Sense of community quickly by the terrific turnout we have tonight,” Cornblatt told Cornblatt and Treanor were already thinking along those same the crowd, “that there is no expiration date on being proud of lines. “We are very mindful of the fact that these are inde- your kids.” pendent [adults] who have reached an age where they are on It would become the motto for the weekend, but for their own, but that doesn’t mean you can’t include parents,” Cornblatt that insight came last spring when he met Albert Cornblatt said. “They will go home and their children will do Del Castillo (C’79, L’82), father of current Georgetown what they are going to do, but we just said let’s make them students Albert (LL.M.’15) and Allison (C’18) and alumna feel a part of this community.” Raquel Braun (L’10), at an event. “When I asked him about [his children], his eyes lit up, and as I listened to him talk, a

Opposite: Dean of Admisssions Andy Cornblatt chats with Brooke Martin (L’17) and her family at Georgetown Law’s inaugural Family Weekend. Above: snapshots of students and parents who attended the event.

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 45 All in the Family

Which they did. While some parents attended the Georgetown Law families. “In area after area, you are getting weekend’s events with their students, others willingly sur- people who are the leaders, who are the cutting edge, who rendered their Hoyas to the library (after exacting a legally are world renowned, and are coming to Georgetown and are binding promise to meet up for meals) and thoroughly enjoyed teaching your kids,” Treanor told parents. the experience of mingling with other law student families. Feinberg — a criminal law adjunct professor and a student “Everyone was so excited that their students had gotten into favorite — described his role as administrator of funds for Georgetown Law,” said Dale Pinto, mother of Brooke (L’17). the Boston Marathon bombings, the Virginia Tech shootings, “Everyone was enthusiastic, happy to be there and wanting to claims relating to the BP oil spill and, most recently, for vic- be a part of it.” tims of accidents caused by General Motors’ defective ignition They met others in the Law Center family as well. “Sister switches. Dorinda Young came over and asked if she could join us,” “It’s a [welcome] change of pace for me to leave the hor- said Julia Anderson, mother of Ben (L’17). “She spoke about ror and the tragedy that I’m dealing with — 9/11, GM, BP, living in Gewirz for many years and her involvement with the Boston Marathon, Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Feinberg students. … I thought that was quite nice and very personal. said. “To be able to get away from that, come down here two I did get a sense that there is a lot of support here for the law mornings a week and just be challenged by the type of stu- students and felt very comfortable about the community that dents that are admitted to this place.” he is living among.” Anderson said that one of the reasons her son Ben chose Kathi Heagerty, the mother of Alex Antonio (L’17), also Georgetown is because D.C. has so much to offer, includ- noticed the sense of community. “There was just a warmth ing instructors like Feinberg. “Hearing Ken Feinberg speak, I there, and for such a top law school to exude that warmth, think Ben has an opportunity for some really wonderful fac- from everyone who works there, has really impressed me,” she ulty members to engage with over the next few years.” said. “It seemed so genuine and unpretentious … I think they just set a nice tone.” Debunking the myths Dean William M. Treanor called the weekend “historic” Law school, as Dean of Students Mitch Bailin explained to for the Law Center. “We wanted to celebrate our 1L student anxious parents, is like a study-abroad program in a foreign families, who too often find themselves left out of the law country. “Right about now, your loved ones are feeling like school process,” said Treanor, who attended his own first of- it is the third week in a foreign immersion trip. … They are ficial Parent & Family Weekend on Georgetown University’s slowly learning a very complicated local language, the law, and main campus this fall as the proud father of Liam (C’18). each one is bringing new ways to see the world, new insights, “And we wanted to showcase for parents different parts of new perspectives,” he said at a Saturday morning showcase. “I what makes Georgetown so unique and distinctive.” know — I’ve talked to some of these new arrival travelers, and it’s life-changing for them.” Unique and distinctive What are the most common myths that students have While Georgetown Law isn’t the first T14 law school to host upon arriving in this new land called law school? The first a day or a weekend in which families can attend classes, tour myth is the notion that (consistent with the 1973 movie “The buildings and experience where their law student will be going Paper Chase”) one out of every three law students will vanish to school, it is safe to say that a Family Weekend in Washing- by the end of the year. “I am happy to say that that … is no ton, D.C., offers distinct advantages. longer true — even at Harvard [where the movie takes place] Including instructors like Adjunct Professor Kenneth R. and certainly not at superior schools like this one,” Bailin Feinberg (H’14), formerly the special master of the federal joked, to great applause. September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, who spoke to

46 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Students and their families heard from Rep. John Delaney (L’88), D.-Md., and April McClain Delaney (L’89), pictured above with Dean William M. Treanor; Dean of Admissions Andy Cornblatt (second row left); Professor David Vladeck (second row right); Professor Louis Michael Seidman and Adjunct Professor Dori Bernstein (third row right); and Adjunct Professor Kenneth Feinberg (bottom row right).

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 47 All in the Family

The second myth? That students are doomed to a solitary Delaney, who has represented the 6th District in Mary- existence. While Georgetown is indeed a big place, Bailin land since his election in 2012, began his career starting said, professors are approachable, and academic advisers, companies and helping small businesses grow. His interest in counselors and peer mentors are too. “There is a vast array of business began during his second year in law school, when support available to ensure that your loved ones are not going he worked at a firm in D.C. that did real estate development. it alone,” he said. McClain-Delaney, the Washington director of Common Sense The third myth that Bailin worked hard to debunk is that media, coordinates education, outreach, legislative and regula- law students have no life. “I tell the students on the very first tory efforts before the Federal Communications Commission day they are here: You will have a life — a small life,” he said, and Congress. to much laughter. “I tell them: treat it like a job … a 55-hour- Families also heard from those just starting their law a-week job, to start. Get used to that, because that’s pretty school careers. Earlier that morning, Darian Hands (L’16), much what you are going to be doing when you are a lawyer.” Katherine Hannah (L’16), Brian Lewis (L’15), Jenadee Nanini And the final myth? That success in law school requires (L’17) and Genevieve Ryan (MBA’15, L’15) told families about one concrete path that includes straight A’s in your first se- their own law student careers at Georgetown: from the clinics mester, a summer at an elite New York firm, an editor-in-chief to the summer jobs to the friendships — and what parents stint at the Georgetown Law Journal and a Supreme Court should expect during the 1L year. “Try to understand that if clerkship after graduation. While some students happily man- they are not calling 24/7, it’s not that they don’t love you; they age to do all those things, success has many different routes, are probably studying civil procedure and trying to order some Bailin said. “We show them 40,000 alums who have gone a pizza,” Hands said. thousand different directions in the law.” And understand that they will find their way. “When I came to law school … the one thing I said [was], I’m pretty From business to Congress sure I don’t want to be a criminal lawyer,” said Lewis, who had just represented his first client in the Criminal Justice Clinic As U.S. Rep. John Delaney (L’88), D-Md., tells the story, he as a student attorney two days before. “And now I’m doing was just starting his 3L year at the Law Center when he met criminal work.” April McClain — now April McClain-Delaney (L’89) — who

was in the process of choosing her 2L courses, in the lobby of McDonough Hall. “You all remember this,” John told the A Free Pass for the mock moot delighted audience, referring to those pre-Internet days when Suzy Anand Garfinkle, mother of Claire Chevrier (L’17), students thumbed through paper course catalogues and stood had heard about Georgetown Law’s moot court program as in line at the registrar’s office. “She went up to the registrar to her daughter was going through the law school admissions register for her classes … I waited about half an hour, went process. “One of the reasons that Georgetown was Claire’s up to the registrar, dropped all my classes and enrolled in the first choice was because she knew about the Supreme Court classes she was interested in.” Institute, with lawyers who are actually about to argue in front Thanks to Georgetown Law, the couple today has four of the Supreme Court practicing with the students, so they daughters — and extremely rewarding careers. “If I trace the can watch and benefit from it,” Garfinkle said. important parts of my career, I trace them to Georgetown,” When Garfinkle traveled from Florida to attend Family said Delaney, who along with McClain-Delaney sat down with Weekend, she was delighted to be able to witness a moot Treanor in Hart Auditorium on Family Weekend to talk about court too — or more accurately, a mock moot court put on by Georgetown Law, life after law school, and, of course, family. the faculty. “I loved everything that gave me a sense of what she’s being exposed to, because I haven’t been to law school,”

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Garfinkle said. “So for me to get to watch these professors Getting ready for the future who are really legendary in their fields — I loved everything Above all, the Georgetown Law community helped to reas- about it.” sure anxious parents that their students will not only make it Constitutional Law Professor Louis Michael Seidman, through law school but will also find rewarding careers. Neil acting as “Chief Justice” Seidman, led the mock moot of Dennis, director of career services and diversity; Amy Mat- Elonis v. United States, with Adjunct Professor Dori Bernstein tock, director of employer outreach; and Assistant Dean Bar- and Professors Paul Butler and Marty Lederman also acting as bara Moulton of the Office of Public Interest and Community justices. Visiting Professor Irv Gornstein and Professor David Service spoke to parents on Saturday about their team’s hard Vladeck, who between them have argued 40 cases in the Su- work on students’ behalf. preme Court and have been involved in briefing many more, “That was absolutely helpful,” said Anderson, “because volunteered their time to argue the mock exercise, which is you think, what is the future going to bring with respect to a based on a real case from this term’s docket. career? We learned right away that most likely next summer, “If you were law students, we would have expected you to [students] would be involved in some employment or intern- read the briefs and studied the relevant law,” a jovial Seidman ships and that that process was going to begin this fall… told the families. “But fortunately for you … we’re going to as a parent that was just wonderful to hear, that they will be give you a free pass.” involved in working as soon as they can.” And somewhere along the way, parents became law stu- In the meantime, proud families look forward to hear- dents themselves. “It was so much fun, and I remember Alex ing how their students are progressing. “The classroom at talking about how they did something similar in orientation,” Georgetown is a hugely engaging, supportive place — and said Heagerty, who is a lawyer. “One woman that I sat and every major political, social, economic issue will surface in the talked with said, ‘I’m really enjoying this, and I have no legal course of the discussions in the first-year classes,” Bailin told background, but they are making it entertaining for me, too.’ the families. “The professors here are wonderful, incredibly That said a lot.” experienced lawyers, and deeply committed to students.” In fact, when they were not firing off questions at the In fact, if there was one downside to Family Weekend mock lawyers in the case, “Chief Justice Seidman” and com- 2014, it was that the families had to leave, reluctantly, when pany appeared to be having so much fun that Garfinkle was it was all over. “Do you know what the parents talked about?” compelled to ask her daughter later: are law professors really Pinto said. “We all said, we would love nothing more than this amiable, or was it a show put on for the parents? “She to attend this school. If we could turn back time — or if we said, ‘oh, no,’” Garfinkle recalled. “It’s like that in the [mock] could clear our schedules and they would allow us to just moot courts that they do for us, too.’” come and sit in on classes — wouldn’t you just love to go to Bernstein, who directs the Supreme Court Institute along this place? We all came away with that feeling; we just wanted with Executive Director Gornstein, admits to wondering to see more.” beforehand if families were really going to want to come to the mock moot. As it turned out, Hart Auditorium was packed — and they weren’t just killing time on their phones. “As I was leaving, a couple of parents came over to me and started talking to me about one of the questions I’d asked; they said it was something that they, too, had thought about,” Bernstein said. “I thought, wow, they were actually paying attention. They were really engaged.”

50 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Friends of Georgetown Law and parents of Law Center students listen to a Family Weekend speaker. From left: Linda Morgan (L’76), partially pictured; Michael Karam (C’72, L’76, LL.M.’81); Kevin Conry (F’76, L’86); Susan Oldham (L’85); Roger Oldham; Rebecca McLaughlin; Greg McLaughlin; Chet Gillis; Rachel Sullivan and Tom Sullivan.

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Georgetown Law’s Parents Leadership Council was these took place in the D.C. area last fall. The council will formed a year ago, but it quickly developed an agenda ultimately consist of approximately 30 members and 100 that includes encouraging opportunity scholarships, additional ambassadors (the ambassador program being bolstering internships and jobs, becoming an advocate suited for parents who wish to be involved, but with less for the school, and hosting events for parents around the of a commitment than the council members). country. “This place has got something going on, and it’s “Certainly with the Jesuit tradition of service, we are very special and unique, and it’s something that you trying to build opportunities for very bright individuals want to be a part of,” said Dale Pinto, who serves on who do not have the financial means to attend a school the council with her husband, James (L’76). “That’s what like Georgetown,” co-chair Greg McLaughlin told the Dean Treanor, Dean of Admissions Andy Cornblatt and audience at Family Weekend 2014, noting that the devel- Associate Dean Kevin Conry have created, and you just opment of the Parents Leadership Council was believed come away from that thinking, ‘Wow, I am really a part to be unprecedented for a law school. “We support the of something that is not going on everywhere else in the Law Center’s belief that there shouldn’t be an applicant country,’ and they are doing it so well and making you who has the academic ability to attend Georgetown who feel a part of it.” cannot because of financial means. These bright Oppor- Other council members include McLaughlin and his tunity Scholars bring a diverse background to the law wife, Rebecca; Sullivan and her husband, Thomas; Caryl school and provide enrichment for all students, making (L’67, LL.M.’92) and George Bernstein; Albert (C’79, L’82) for a better law school.” and Barbara Del Castillo; Robert (L’76) and Gail Dufek; Co-chair Rachel Sullivan notes a fifth agenda item, Hiroko (L’83) and Saturo Murase; Susan (L’85, LL.M.’90) which is to create a community and a network for and Roger Oldham; Charles (L’83) and Jodi (L’83) Rosen- parents. “I think … everything kind of falls under the zweig; John (L’82) and Medina (L’83) Vasily; and Debra umbrella of a sense of community, and all these little and Jeffrey Wechsler. pieces are going to help our students,” she said, referring “Georgetown has provided my daughters with a to the Law Center as a diverse, welcoming place. “If we tremendous opportunity and life-changing experiences, are able to give a scholarship to a student, that’s helping both at the university and the law school, so we are very my daughter as well.” grateful for that,” McLaughlin said. “For me, to donate During this academic year, Sullivan and McLaugh- my time back to help them … is the least I could do for lin will host events for Hoya law parents in New York, all that Georgetown has done for my family.” Washington, D.C., and on the West Coast; the first of

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Torture, Power, and Law A Communicative Conception of Torture

ne of the most basic questions a book on torture from pretending that “torture,” “severe pain,” and “cruel, Omust answer is what exactly torture is. inhuman, and degrading treatment” are purely technical One could dispute this claim. Why does a word we concepts that demand minute legal line-drawing. Later in understand all too well need to be defined? When the this chapter, I label this pretense the fundamental trick. U.S. Department of Justice’s secret torture memos were It was the fundamental trick that allowed the torture released in 2009, journalist Kathleen Parker wrote this in lawyers, quoting Parker again, to “torture[ ] the English the April 26, 2009 issue of the Washington Post: language trying to justify the unjustifiable.” Pursuing Several years ago, I asked a veteran journalist for this line of thought, one might suspect that to demand advice. a definition of torture is merely the opening gambit in a “I’m trying to figure out if I have an ethical conflict,” game of loophole lawyering. Why muddy the waters with I began. definitions that invite pettifoggery? “If you have to ask, you do,” he said…. One reason is that a definition of torture can help us Apply the same construct to torture. If we have to identify what the most important evils associated with ask, it probably is. torture are. There are, after all, other reasons to define a Pursuing the same line of thought, Jeremy Waldron, concept besides sorting which items do or don’t fall under in an article published in the Columbia Law Review and it. We define concepts to learn something about them by later reprinted in his book Torture, Terror, and Tradeoffs: seeing how they hang together with our other concepts. Philosophy for the White House (Oxford University Press, That is a fundamentally philosophical aim, distinct from 2012), observes that the prohibition on torture is not like the legal definition of torture. It is my aim here. a tax regulation, which needs precision because we ex- The defining feature of torture, I will argue, is the pect even blameless taxpayers to push to the limits of the use of pain or suffering as a communicative medium for law. It is more like the prohibitions on domestic violence displaying the absolute mastery of the torturer and the and sexual harassment, where you have no business de- absolute helplessness of the victim. This non-legal defini- manding precise guidance on exactly how far you can go. tion, focusing not only on the painfulness of torture but For Waldron, the prohibition on torture represents a on its inextricable link with subjugation and humiliation, legal archetype — “a particular provision in a system of aims to identify the essential features that place torture norms which has a significance going beyond its imme- among the greatest affronts to human dignity. It shows diate normative content, a significance stemming from why torture violates a moral archetype. the fact that it sums up or makes vivid to us the point, purpose, principle, or policy of a whole area of law.” The Defining torture: a new start prohibition of torture is archetypal of the fundamental The Convention Against Torture (CAT) provides the commitment of law not to rule through brutality or sav- standard legal definition of torture, as the intentional agery. To paw through the law against torture looking for infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering loopholes undermines that fundamental commitment of by an agent of the state. CAT also asserts that no war or the law itself. emergency can ever justify torture — CAT places torture I agree with Waldron’s analysis and Parker’s rule of in an infernal class by itself. States have never said about thumb. Indeed, part of my argument in this book is that killing anything remotely as categorical as CAT’s declara- the fundamental dishonesty in the torture memos came

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tion that nothing justifies torture. After all, more than half the commencement of the torture. Seneca admits that the world’s people live in countries that have the death diseases can be as painful as torture, but penalty. Killing in war is lawful, and even peacetime hu- that which shakes us most is the dread which hangs man rights treaties prohibit only “arbitrary” killings by the over us from our neighbour’s ascendancy [lit. ‘an- state, not all killings. other’s power’, aliena potentia]; for it is accompanied CAT’s definition of torture sheds no light on what by great outcry and uproar . . . Picture to yourself makes torture unique among the misfortunes we visit on under this head the prison, the cross, the rack, the each other. For legal purposes, explaining that intuition hook, and . . . all the other contrivances devised by is unnecessary, and too much theorizing would actually cruelty . . . It is not surprising that our greatest ter- weaken the force of the prohibition by inviting contro- ror is of such a fate. versy. Thus, my observation that the legal definition sheds no light on why the ban is uniquely categorical is not a Notably, Seneca emphasizes suffering amplified by criticism of that definition. It does mean that to under- imagination, and he associates the horrors of torture stand the evils of torture, we need to move past CAT’s with being in another’s power and having that power put definition. on spectacular display. But imagination does not merely The main point I shall argue is this: CAT’s definition amplify suffering, it transforms its content; that is, the centers on pain and suffering, but the evil of torture can- way we experience pain or suffering — in this case, as not be reduced to sensations alone. To see this, recall an absolute subordination to another person who uses pain example that I used in Chapter Four: women whom no to announce that subordination. Pain now becomes a one would deem irrational often choose natural child- medium of communication. Bearing these observations in birth despite the pain. Its association with a joyful event mind, I shall define torture as follows: transforms excruciating pain into an experience they do not regard as evil. Communicative Definition of Torture The example suggests that the evil of physical torture Torture of someone in the torturer’s custody or physi- lies in the linkage between suffering and its context. cal control is the assertion of unlimited power over Natural childbirth links pain with creation, love, and absolute helplessness, communicated through the the miracle of human life. Torture links pain with fear, infliction of severe pain or suffering on the victim uncertainty, and the horror of being wholly in the power that the victim is meant to understand as the display of a maleficent enemy. The fact that it iscustodial torture of the torturer’s limitless power and the victim’s matters crucially. Being in the clutches of the enemy and absolute helplessness. at his mercy — and understanding through the suffering he inflicts that he has no mercy — is an essential part of I label this definition “communicative” because it torture’s evil. focuses on the infliction of pain or suffering to announce, The Stoics recognized this special character of or communicate, the total subordination of the victim to torture. Seneca observed in his Epistles that even the the torturer. The communicative definition encompasses Stoic sage quails when he sees the instruments of torture mental as well as physical torture. So long as the mental displayed, and “the spectacle overcomes those who would suffering is severe, and it is inflicted in a context that have patiently withstood the suffering.” This last observa- communicates the absolute dominance of the torturer tion should be read carefully. Seneca means, quite liter- and helplessness of the victim, it qualifies as torture. ally, that the terror is more unbearable than the suffering The communicative definition is more complicated itself. That is why displaying the instruments is actually than the legal definition. I wish to reiterate that it is not intended to replace the legal definition, which serves its own purposes. Indeed, the communicative definition

54 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW The pain of torture is not only an experience in itself, it is a medium of communication; it is contentful pain — in this respect wholly unlike pain resulting from natural causes like illness or injury … By contrast, what the pain of torture communicates is the absolute subordination of the victim to the enemy’s sovereign cruelty.

would be useless for legal purposes, if for no other reason These psychic resources may succeed for a while in than the near impossibility of proving in a court of law resisting the torturer’s message, and therefore falsifying through ordinary evidence that an act is a communication it and keeping the victim intact. But eventually they will of unlimited power over absolute helplessness using pain almost certainly fail. Physical and mental pain exhausts as a medium, and intended to be such. the will, as everyone who has ever suffered prolonged The definition offered here means to capture a dis- pain or depression knows all too well. They discourage tinctive feature of torture, which lies in the connection of and dispirit the sufferer; they undermine the faith of the pain and suffering with subordination and helplessness faithful. In the Gospels, the cross causes even Jesus to as two sides of the same experience. The pain of torture ask in anguish why God has forsaken him. is not only an experience in itself, it is a medium of com- The torturer’s control over the victim’s pain and suf- munication; it is contentful pain — in this respect wholly fering automatically makes the torturer the most passion- unlike pain resulting from natural causes like illness or ately interesting person in the universe to the victim, the injury, whose noteworthy experienced characteristic is its one whose opinions are of greatest immediate signifi- senselessness, its lack of meaningful content. By contrast, cance. It matters crucially that the torturer has custody what the pain of torture communicates is the absolute of the victim, cutting him off from any social contact subordination of the victim to the enemy’s sovereign that might contradict the message of radical hierarchy cruelty. and radical worthlessness that torture sends. We take our cues from other people, and few of our beliefs, even Making, taking, breaking perceptual beliefs, could survive perpetual contradiction by those around us. That holds especially of our belief in Does that mean that if the victim resists successfully, our own worth, which to an incalculable extent rests on perhaps even laughing defiantly in the torturer’s face, the the esteem in which we are held by others. By cutting the act is not torture, because the torturer has not absolutely victim off from any society other than the torturer’s, the dominated the victim? Of course not. An assertion of ab- torturer undermines the victim’s confidence in his own solute dominance can fail to induce absolute dominance, worth, which relies on the reinforcement of those around just as a factual assertion can be disbelieved and rejected. us. Losing confidence in their own worth, torture victims That observation highlights one important piece to stand at risk of losing their final resource of resistance: this communicative model of torture. The torturer uses anger and indignation at their treatment. pain and suffering to send a message, but the aim is not When the torturer succeeds, the victim takes on merely to send the message. The torturer uses pain and board the message of radical humiliation, and we then suffering to communicate total domination in order to say that the victim is broken. Psychologists talk about make it happen that he totally dominates the victim. The it as “learned helplessness” and Stockholm syndrome, communication succeeds only when the victim takes up when the victim becomes docile and cooperative. It is the the message by believing it. What completes the making golden moment that interrogators aim at. Orwell brilliant- true is the taking as true. ly represents that moment in 1984, when Winston Smith The victim, we may assume, will fight desperately betrays his lover Julia and in her place genuinely loves Big to defy the message of total subjugation, using all the Brother. The broken Smith is, in an important sense, no limited resources a helpless captive has available: will, longer fully human. courage, and spirit (which are importantly different from each other); indignation and rage; and religious faith, if the victim has it.

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First corollary: the experienced content of 7. the totalitarian relationship torture establishes pain and suffering between the torturer and the victim, in which the torturer becomes sovereign over the most One essential corollary of this definition is that the pain intimate sensations and emotions of the victim. of torture cannot be separated, even conceptually, from Notice that the legal definition of torture focuses only the communication of absolute dominance over absolute on the first item on this list — the infliction of pain or helplessness. The victim experiences the pain not only as suffering. It rightly belongs first; obviously, the pain and physical or mental sensations, but as a humiliation of the suffering are the fundamental evil of torture. And, as I self at the hands of an infinitely cruel other. suggested above, there are good reasons for focusing the It follows that the pain and suffering of torture cannot legal definition on the most tangible and provable of the be understood reductively or “medically” as neural events evils. But noticing the multiple dimensions of evil curled of a specified intensity (“severe,” or merely “serious,” as up in the concept of torture is essential if we wish to un- one U.S. statute confusingly puts it, or not even serious), derstand why the world condemns torture so categorically. apart from the contents of the message they convey. Se- The evils on this list are not the only basis for regard- verity must be understood not as a quantitative measure ing torture as an affront to morality. For example, I have of negative neural stimulation, but as an index of how omitted from this list the crucial evil of torture that most hard it is to ignore or deny the message the pain or suffer- concerns health professionals who treat torture survivors: ing communicates. 8. the lasting aftereffects of the torture, including depression, PTSD, fearfulness, and fundamental Second corollary: the evils of torture loss of trust in the world. A second corollary is a set of consequences that yields a In tandem with these aftereffects, we can add — as fuller understanding of the evils of torture. The definition an evil associated with the act of torture rather than the centers on the communicative or message-sending func- experience of torture: tion of custodial torture. We can elaborate seven specific 9. the torturer’s indifference to those lasting afteref- evils (seven deadly sins?) that follow from the definition: fects. 1. the form of the message: inflicting mental or Both surely belong on the list of torture’s evils, but physical pain or suffering; they do not follow specifically from the definition of 2. the content of the message: “I, the torturer, am torture offered here. They are collateral consequences of everything; you, the victim, are nothing; I am the torture. The same is true of: master, you are the dog”; 10. The corruption of the torturer, as well as the 3. the means or manner by which torture sends the physicians, psychologists, lawyers, and other pro- message: compelling the victim’s own senses and fessionals connected with the torture enterprise, emotions to turn against her; including military and law enforcement person- 4. the intended effect of the message: breaking the nel and political leaders; will, courage, and spirit of the victim; 11. the further corruption induced by the inevitable 5. the moral falsehood of the message of radical cover-ups; and inequality and subordination, coupled with… 12. the tendency of institutionalized torture to 6. …the self-fulfilling (or, in philosophical language, metastasize from cases in which it is supposedly “performative” and “truth-making”) character of “justified” to borderline cases, and then across the message: by using pain and suffering to con- the border — as the border itself gets redrawn vey the message that the victim is broken, torture because, as a consequence of torture’s corrupting wears the victim down and makes it so; effects, the baseline sense of what is normal and what is not changes in the minds and practices of those on the torture team.

56 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW [T]he pain of torture cannot be separated, even conceptually, from the communication of absolute dominance over absolute helplessness. The victim experiences the pain not only as physical or mental sensations, but as a humiliation of the self at the hands of an infinitely cruel other.

Cataloguing these evils does not by itself prove that David Luban is University under no circumstances could torture ever be justified. It Professor and professor of law is always possible to invent imaginary cases in which all and philosophy at Georgetown the evils summed together still turn out to be the lesser University. He holds a Ph.D. in evil. But the character of evil associated with torture Philosophy from Yale University and a B.A. from the University places it in a category similar to slavery: the category of Chicago. In addition to his of practices about which the question “do the benefits Georgetown responsibilities, outweigh the costs?” seems out of order — even if earlier he is currently the Class of 1984 Distinguished Chair in civilizations saw nothing odd about the question and Ethics at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, even assumed the answer was yes. As I put it in Chapter United States Naval Academy. In 2012-13 he co-directed Four, torture (like slavery) belongs in the category of the the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. unthinkable. This obviously does not mean it cannot be Luban has also directed Georgetown’s Center on National thought, only that such thoughts are radically at odds Security and the Law. Luban’s books include Lawyers and with central parts of our moral framework — most basi- Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton University Press, 1988), cally, assumptions about human worth and human equal- Legal Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 1994), ity. Returning to Waldron’s conception of a legal arche- Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge University type, with which I began this chapter, we might say that Press, 2007), and Torture, Power, and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014), as well as several edited just as the prohibition on torture is a legal archetype, the anthologies on legal ethics, textbooks on international abolition of torture is a moral archetype, with significance criminal law, and legal ethics. His books have been beyond its immediate normative content. That is because translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish — most to put the question of torture back into play compels us recently a book-length Spanish translation of A Theory of to put other central values into play as well: not only the Crimes Against Humanity. His writing includes more than rejection of cruelty, but also of totalitarian domination, 150 articles on international criminal law, moral and legal along with belief in the indecency of humiliating and philosophy, professional ethics, law and literature, just war degrading other people, rejection of radical human hierar- theory, and issues surrounding the U.S. “war on terrorism.” chy with broken men and women at the bottom, and the He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress. perverseness of creating a class of corrupt professionals whose job is to assist in all the other evils and then to cover it all up. To reject the ban on torture would cast doubt on even minimum modern conceptions of human equality, human dignity, liberal government, and even simple decency.

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1963 1967 1975 provides legal assistance in the areas Robert L. Parks, Jim Davitt (C’64) writes, “On Paul W. Shaw was named in the of regulatory compliance, legislative principal and November 4th, I was elected to the 2015 Best Lawyers in America in the developments and litigation. She has founding partner Maine House of Representatives for area of health care law. He practices testified before Congress regarding of the Law Offices the 101st District, covering Hamp- in the Boston office of Verrill Dana. the operation of various consumer of Robert L. Parks den and Newburgh. Another career protection laws and frequently serves in Miami, Fla., has change for me.” as an expert witness in litigation. been appointed to the executive 1977 committee and named litigation Richard N. James B. Astrachan, principal of chairman for the Everglades Friedman (LL.M.) 1970 Astrachan Gunst Thomas, was named a “Lawyer of the Year” in the category Foundation, dedicated to a restored — known as “the Robert M. Krakow reports that of intellectual property litigation by Everglades. Parks served as volunteer singing attorney”— “Complicit,” his documentary film Best Lawyers. In December, Astra- chairman of the state’s Environmental has released his on the SS St. Louis, was broadcast in chan was named to the International Regulation Commission under Gov. third album, “Red South Florida on PBS. The show “will Trademark Mediators Network by the Bob Graham and was named the Carpet,” featuring include a post-film discussion with International Trademark Association. National Audubon Society’s 13 songs that won myself and noted presidential histo- His nine-lawyer firm was also given a Environmentalist of the Year for his the Academy Award for Best Original rian Dr. Robert Watson,” he writes. dedicated leadership. In keeping with Song from 1936 to 1973. The album Tier 1 ranking in the 2015 edition of his commitment to protect the is available on Amazon.com, iTunes U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” environment, Parks was an original and most other Internet and music Jack Waddey Jr. member of 1,000 Friends of Florida, stores. Friedman is chief executive was included in where he served as litigation chair for officer of All-Star Music and is also a the 2014 Thomas C. Papson writes, “I retired 13 years. practicing attorney, primarily in Intellectual from McKenna Long & Aldridge at securities, corporate, tax, entertain- Property (IP) Stars the end of 2013, after 34 years at the ment, sports and commercial law. He List. He is a firm doing government contracts and is a litigator, mediator and arbitrator. partner at Waller 1966 commercial litigation. I am now a vol- Landsen Dortch & Stephen L. unteer staff attorney at the Legal Aid Davis and co-leader of the firm’s IP Kadish (LL.M.) Society of the District of Columbia, practice group. was included 1969 working in the consumer law unit. I in The Best Anne P. Fortney also am teaching procurement law as Lawyers in received the an adjunct professor at the George America 2015 in Senator William 1973 Washington University Law School.” the field of Proxmire Lifetime Robert C. Falsani litigation and Achievement has been named to controversy – tax and tax law. Kadish Award from the the College of Scott E. Thomas, former chairman has been named to the Best Lawyers American College Workers’ of the Federal Election Commission, list since it began in 1983. He is a of Consumer Compensation has joined Campaign Legal Center’s partner at Kadish, Hinkel and Weibel Financial Services Lawyers in 2014. Lawyers. He is a board of directors. Thomas is cur- and has been a leading tax attorney in The award honors a person who has founding partner rently co-leader of the public policy Cleveland for more than 40 years. made significant contributions in the at Falsani, Balmer, and political law practice at Dickstein field of consumer financial services. Peterson, Quinn & Beyer. Shapiro. Fortney, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hudson Cook,

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Loaf, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Joan 1978 1982 Jett and Blue Öyster Cult,” he writes. 1988 David L. Shain, an attorney with John F. Lauro Miles L. Plaskett Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, was (C’79) was (B’85) has been Kathryn L. Tucker, executive director selected by the Ventura County inducted as a named a partner at of the Disability Rights Legal Center (Calif.) Bar Association (VCBA) to fellow of the Duane Morris. He and visiting associate clinical profes- receive the Ben E. Nordman Public American College focuses his sor of law at Loyola Law School, has Service Award. The honor recog- of Trial Lawyers, practice on been selected for a Fulbright Special- nizes Shain’s longtime commitment recognizing trial corporate and ists Project in New Zealand. Tucker to aiding county residents in need attorneys in the municipal finance, will present lectures discussing the through his many community volun- United States and Canada. John is including project finance, with an evolving landscape in law, policy and teer activities and legal work with the the founder of the Lauro Law Firm emphasis on renewable energy and medicine in the United States, gov- Volunteer Lawyer Services Program and a former federal prosecutor in infrastructure projects, many of them erning end-of-life care, and the trend and VCBA Pro Bono Committee. New York. He practices white-collar in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the toward empowering terminally ill Shain received the award at VCBA’s criminal defense and commercial Caribbean. patients with more information and annual Installation and Awards litigation in Florida and New York. control at the end of life. Dinner on Nov. 15.

Martha Jo Wagner has been named 1989 president of the American College 1986 Dr. Scott D. Gelfand was recently 1979 promoted to head the Department of of Employee Benefits Counsel, a Matthew Richard Galin has been elected Philosophy at Oklahoma State Uni- not-for-profit organization formed in Fitzmaurice chairman of the State Bar of Nevada’s versity. He is also the founding direc- recognition of legal and social policy (C’82) has administrative law section. “I practice tor of the Ethics Center at Oklahoma issues affecting the regulation and founded EcoAlpha corporate, securities and banking law State. management of pension, retirement, Asset Manage- with the firm of Gordon Silver in Las group health, welfare and disability ment, an Vegas, one of Nevada’s oldest and plans. She is of counsel at Griffith & investment largest law firms,” he writes. “I also Jeffrey E. Wheat in Washington, D.C. management firm. publish a ‘Business Contracts and McFadden has EcoAlpha invests in companies that Raising Capital’ blog at www.rich- joined Stradley are providing solutions to the issues ardgalin.com.” Ronon as a partner arising from overburdened global 1983 in the firm’s resources. EcoAlpha has specifically Ilise L. Feitshans received a prize Washington, D.C., identified water, agriculture and Van R. Mayhall Jr. for the best research in biology and office. He was energy efficiency as the key recipients (LL.M.) will serve preventive medicine (Prix de la Fon- most recently of what it sees as a massive, as chairman of the dation de medecine sociale et preven- chair of the securities litigation and multi-decade reallocation of capital. board for the tive) for 2014 from the University of enforcement practice group at Baton Rouge Area Lausanne last September. Feitshans Steptoe & Johnson. McFadden has Chamber in 2015. was selected in part for her research nearly 25 years of experience Eric Rapkin, a A senior partner at and her thesis entitled “Forecasting litigating cases in state and federal partner with Breazeale, Sachse Nano Law: Risk Management Pro- courts and administrative forums Akerman’s Real and Wilson, Mayhall practices in the tecting Public Health Under Interna- across the country. He represents Estate Practice areas of corporate and business law, tional Law.” corporations and individuals in Group, is the business transactions, tax and high-stakes civil and criminal managing partner securities, and insurance regulatory litigation, administrative enforcement of the firm’s Fort matters. matters and arbitrations. 1985 Lauderdale office. Kirby D. Behre has joined Miller & 1981 Chevalier’s Washington, D.C., office John R. Washlick (LL.M.) was as a member of the litigation depart- 1987 appointed to Bloomberg BNA’s José P. Ceppi, ment, representing companies and Edward N. Health Law Reporter editorial advi- former assistant individuals globally in government George (F’74, sory board. Washlick is a health care general counsel of investigations, criminal prosecutions, LL.M.) was shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Chrysler Group, complex business litigation and regu- included in New Rooney. has joined Miller latory matters. He practiced previ- Orleans Magazine’s Canfield as of ously with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky 2014 rankings for counsel in the & Walker. top lawyers in the firm’s international 1990 areas of banking and automotive practices. He is based Michael Drenan (LL.M.) has joined and finance, mergers and acquisi- in the firm’s Troy, Mich., office. Richard A. Solomon, host and pro- Jackson Lewis as a shareholder in the tions, tax, and trusts and estates law. ducer of “Taking Care of Business” firm’s San Diego office. He was previ- George was also included in the 2015 (tcbradio.com, WCWP 88.1 FM), ously a partner at Atkinson, Andelson, Super Lawyers list for Louisiana. He is celebrating 10 years on FM radio. Loya, Ruud & Romo. For more than is a partner at Chaffe McCall. Solomon’s “first broadcast of the year 20 years, Drenan has counseled and featured acclaimed musician Kasim represented employers in such mat- Sulton, who has played with Meat ters as wrongful discharge, tort claims

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 59 ALUMNI Newsmakers IBJ/LEARNED

Milton C. Hirsch (L’82), David Klaus (L’83), Rep. John Delaney (L’88), Andy Luger (L’85), Pamela Chen (L’86), Erin Roth (L’01),

Multiple news outlets reported that “An ‘out-of-the-box idea’ to fund “CIA’s No. 2 tapped to be deputy “Report: White House Adviser John Jerry Abramson (L’73), the former transportation projects gains trac- national security adviser,” coverage Podesta will join Clinton team,” lieutenant governor of Kentucky, tion,” coverage in the Washington in the Washington Post, featured coverage by CBS News in January, is deputy assistant to the president Post in February, featured Rep. Avril Haines (L’01). featured John D. Podesta (L’76). and director of intergovernmental John Delaney (L’88). Other coverage included “White “See How Judge Milton Hirsch’s affairs at the White House. House Adviser John Podesta to Join “Kindred Healthcare Names New Career Came By Happenstance,” a Emerging Hillary Clinton campaign” “In major shift, Obama Administra- CEO,” coverage in the American profile in the Daily Business Review in the Wall Street Journal and “For tion will plan for rising seas in all Journal of Managed Care in Octo- in January, featured Milton C. Hillary Clinton, John Podesta Is a federal projects,” coverage in the ber, featured Paul J. Diaz (L’88). Hirsch (L’82). Right Hand With a Punch,” in the Washington Post in January, quoted “It’s the culmination of a career,” “The energy behind the Depart- New York Times. Vicki Arroyo (L’94), executive coverage in American Builders ment of Energy,” coverage on director of the Georgetown Climate The Indianapolis Business Jour- Quarterly in October, featured Alan Federal News Radio in October, Center. nal named Erin Roth (L’01) to its Di Sciullo (C’72, L’77). featured David M. Klaus (L’83), 2015 “Forty under 40” list. Roth is “New judges chosen for Palm Beach deputy under secretary for man- “Living out Knicks Dream, complete general counsel of Wabash National County’s 15th Judicial Circuit,” agement and performance at the with nightmares,” coverage in the Corporation. coverage in Florida’s Sun Sentinel, Department of Energy. New York Times in November, fea- featured Edward Artau (L’88). “NFLPA assembles group for tured Dennis Doyle (L’10). “Boomer Women Hit the Glass domestic violence advice,” coverage “Pete’s Place,” coverage in Sports Ceiling; Four Tips to Crack it Now,” Jessica Grannis (LL.M.’13), adap- in USA Today in October, notes that Illustrated in February, featured an opinion piece by Beverly Jones tation program manager for the the National Football League Players Peter Bevacqua (L’97), chief exec- (L’78), appeared in Forbes last Georgetown Climate Center, was Association Commission on Vio- utive officer of the PGA of America. October. interviewed on E&E TV in October lence Prevention includes Kathryn The Chicago Tribune reported in in a piece entitled “U.S. adapta- “Andy Luger at a glance,” featuring Ruemmler (L’96) and Georgetown January that Richard J. Burke tion plans show varied success in Andy Luger (L’85), the U.S. attor- Law Professor Deborah Epstein. (L’90, MSFS’90) is the new presi- states.” Grannis was also men- ney for Minnesota, appeared in the “Pakistani attorney honored,” cov- dent and CEO of Chicago-based tioned in “‘Nobody Is Truly Ready’ Washington Times in October. erage in Gulfnews.com, noted that online immigration service provider for Rise of Seas,” coverage in the “New Rules for Law Students’ Legal Zarrar Sehgal (L’97) was named VisaNow. Huffington Post, in November. Work in D.C.,” coverage in the “Lawyer of the Year for Team of the “Meet the Judges: Eastern District “Greenstein takes over as chair of National Law Journal in October, Year 2014” in the asset finance and Judge Pamela K. Chen,” cover- Senate Law and Public Safety Com- featured Wallace Mlyniec (L’70), leasing category by Legal 500. age in the New York Law Journal mittee,” coverage in PolitickerNJ who “helped lead the push for A profile of Barbara Underwood in September, featured Pamela K. featured New Jersey State Senator revised rules.” Another article on (L’69), New York’s solicitor general, Chen (L’86). Linda Greenstein (L’84). this topic quoting Mlyniec appeared appeared in the New York Law in Corporate Counsel in December. Journal in October.

IN MEMORIAM

Damian Paul Alagia Jr. Lane Evans (L’78) J. Crilley Kelly (L’73) Mary C. Nir (L’06) (L’53, LL.M.’55) Samuel J. Fiore (L’56) Barbara A. King (C’83, L’89) Elliot M. Olstein (L’65) Thomas H. Boggs Jr. (C’61, L’64) James L. Fowler (L’58, LL.M.’61) John B. Leonard (L’58) Edward T. Rosse (LL.M.’60) Shellie Bowers (L’62, LL.M.’63) Herbert E. Harris II (L’51) Sister Cecilia Meighan (L’85) Tracey Lee Pinson (L’82) James J. Cotter Sr. (C’59, L’63) Joseph F. Healy Jr. (L’59) Timothy C. Murphy Angelo G. Santaniello (L’50) Diana R. Engel (L’83) Gerald M. Katz (L’63) (L’54, LL.M.’59)

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related to employment, employment C. Erik Gus- discrimination, sexual harassment, tafson, who is the unfair competition cases and wage litigation and hour matters. department leader at LeClairRyan, has been named Jon Kahn has joined Lippman the 2014-2015 Jungers, a global legal recruiting firm, chair of USLAW as a senior managing director of the NETWORK, an organization firm’s New York operations. Kahn composed of more than 100 has more than 20 years of experi- independent, defense-based law firms ence in the legal industry, serving as with more than 7,000 attorneys. Peter Bevacqua (L’97), Avril Haines (L’01), Linda Greenstein (L’84). a capital markets partner at White & Gustafson has served on the USLAW Case and Morrison & Foerster. He board of directors since 2004 and has Mark Vlasic (B’96, L’00) penned federal litigation, and Andrew began his corporate legal career at held a variety of leadership roles. “Islamic State sells ‘blood antiqui- Nadel (L’14), legal counsel. Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where he ties’ from Iraq and Syria to raise handled high-yield transactions. Prior “Best Legal Departments: The money,” an op-ed in the Wash- to joining Lippman Jungers, Kahn Christine Stoneman was named Finalists,” coverage in Corporate ington Post, on September 14. was the founder and president of JEK principal deputy chief of the federal Counsel magazine in September, He also co-authored “Congres- Partners, where he conducted partner coordination and compliance section featured Louise Parent (L’75), sional Monuments Men: The Role and senior-level searches and group of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Adam Ciongoli (L’95) and Leslie of Congress in Fighting Terrorist acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad. Civil Rights Division. She leads a Turner (L’85). Parent was noted team focused on enforcement of civil Financing, While Preserving Our for her work as general counsel rights laws that prohibit discrimina- Cultural Heritage,” a piece in the for American Express before her Harris M. tion by recipients of federal funds. World Post (a partnership of the retirement in 2013, Ciongoli for his Livingstain Huffington Post and the Berggruen work as general counsel of Lincoln (LL.M.) has been Institute), in December. named to the 2015 Financial Group, and Turner for her North Carolina 1992 Ali Zaidi (L’16) was named to the role as general counsel of Hershey. Super Lawyers list Lynne McGhee (LL.M.) was named Forbes 2015 “30 Under 30: Law vice president and general counsel at “How to Get Away with Murder,’ in the category of and Policy” for his work as associ- California Water Service Group. She Meet Law Students for the estate and probate. ate director of natural resources, A partner with McGuire, Wood & previously served as associate corpo- Defense,” coverage by WJLA ABC7 energy and science at the White Bissette, Livingstain works with rate counsel and corporate secretary, News in November, quoted Profes- House. issues relating to estate planning as advising the executive team on regu- sor Abbe Smith and her students well as trust and probate administra- latory, commercial, real estate, risk “Why California is both liberal Nayantara Bhushan (L’15), Ben- tion. He also represents owners of management and other matters; man- utopia and tech boom central,” jamin M. Schiffelbein (L’15), closely held or family businesses, aging legal proceedings; negotiating coverage on MSNBC.com, featured Cynthia Frezzo (L’15), Karri provides general income tax planning major vendor contracts; and oversee- Kathryn Zyla (L’14), managing Ridgeway Egerton (L’15) and and represents taxpayers before the ing corporate governance. McGhee has also served as staff counsel at director of the Georgetown Cli- Steven Woodward (L’15). IRS and Department of Revenue the California Public Utilities Com- mate Center. regarding audit and collection “Governor Cuomo announces matters. mission and as a legal adviser to two The New York Law Journal new administration appoint- commissioners. reported in September that ments,” coverage by WROC New the New York City law depart- York, noted that Julia Pinover 1991 John D. Singer, a partner with and ment hired 35 attorneys and 16 Kupiec (L’07) and Angela James C. Adams co-founder of Singer Deutsch, a post-graduate fellows from the Dougan Sherrer (L’04) have been II was recognized securities and employment law firm graduating class of 2014 including appointed assistant counsels to as a “local with offices in New York City, Los Richard Bahrenburg (L’14), assis- the governor. litigation star” in Angeles and San Francisco, and Jen- tant corporation counsel, special the area of general nifer Zeller, a 1994 graduate of the commercial in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton 2015 edition School and a vice president at Inter- of Benchmark scope Geffen Records, announce the Litigation. He was also recognized in birth of their son, Sebastian Julian, the 2014 edition of Super Lawyers on August 18, 2014. Sebastian Business Edition and the 2015 edition Julian joins big sister Maya Jolie, age of North Carolina Super Lawyers for 2. John, Jennifer, Maya and Sebas- John R. Schmertz Jr. Edwin B. (Ned) Swan (L’09) business litigation. Adams is a partner tian reside in New York City. John, (L’58, LL.M.’59) Louis R. Tabit (L’57) at Brooks Pierce in Greensboro, N.C. who has been named a 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 “Super Andrew J. Schroder (LL.M.’65) Peter Louis Truebner (LL.M.’69) Lawyer” for the New York City Metro William Schweitzer (L’69) Ingrid Erica White (L’10) Area, provides legal commentary on Philip D. Snodgrass (LL.M.’17) Starla Williams (C’86, LL.M.’92) CNBC and Bloomberg Television David J. Sullivan Jr. (L’58) Thomas Ballard Yewell (L’56)

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Frank Wolf (L’65), Anthony DePanfilis (L’74), Marcus Johnson (B’97, L’97), Susan Smith Blakely (L’79), Osamudia James (L’04), Richard Verma (LL.M.’98).

Susan Smith Blakely (L’79) received the Ms. William R. Durland (L’59) is the 2013 recipient Force in 2007 and quadrupled its membership, J.D. 2015 “Sharing Her Passion” Award in of Bucknell University’s “Service to Humanity established Jacksonville’s first human trafficking San Francisco in March. After 25 years in the Award.” He also received the state of Colorado’s awareness walk, and organized the Jacksonville private and public sectors at all levels of law Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award Bar Association’s first human trafficking continu- practice, Blakely resigned her partnership in in 1999. He recently retired as a civil rights at- ing legal education curriculum. This year, Freed 2006 to devote herself to raising the retention torney and professor of philosophy, government directed ArtWorks for Freedom, a five-week rates for women lawyers. Through her company, and history, but continues as a member of the citywide trafficking awareness campaign in Legal Perspectives, she speaks about overcom- faculty of Pillar Institute for Lifelong Learning Jacksonville. ing the special challenges to women lawyers at in Colorado Springs and writes plays on political Brian Greenspun (B’68, L’71) was appointed law schools, law firms and law organizations and religious subjects as an avocation. a member of the Commission for the Preserva- throughout the country. She is the author John Facciola (L’69), who retired from the tion of America’s Heritage Abroad by President of Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Barack Obama in November. Know about a Career in the Law and Best Friends where he served as a magistrate judge, received at the Bar: The New Balance for Today’s Woman The San Francisco Superior Court Bench has the Sedona Lifetime Service Award for 2014. Lawyer. Her new book, Best Friends at the Bar: elected Teri L. Jackson (L’80) to serve as the “His own alma mater, Georgetown Law Center, Top-Down Leadership of Women Lawyers, will be assistant presiding judge of the San Francisco describes him as one of the ‘rock star’ judges in released later this year. Superior Court. Jackson, who’s been on the the eDiscovery world, and we agree!” Sedona bench since September 2002, is the first African Samuel Buffone Jr. (L’11) was named “Rookie Conference Executive Director Craig Weinlein American woman to serve as assistant presiding of the Year” by the Civil Division of the U.S. wrote when announcing the 2014 Volunteer judge in the city and county of San Francisco. Department of Justice. This award recognizes Awards. “We are pleased to recognize his impor- She is currently the supervising judge for litiga- “exceptional performance and notable contribu- tant contributions to our mission over his long tion involving asbestos and the California Envi- tions towards the Department’s mission by an tenure of service and support for the Sedona ronmental Quality Act. She served on the court’s employee with fewer than three years of service Conference.” appellate division from 2009 to 2012. with the Division.” Buffone works in the fraud Crystal Freed (L’03) was named Florida’s section of the commercial litigation branch. Osamudia James (L’04) is a co-recipient of the Community Advocate of the Year by the 2014 Derrick A. Bell Award, presented by the Anthony J. DePanfilis (L’74) has been re- Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Freed American Association of Law Schools minor- elected for his sixth term as judge of probate for is an attorney and community activist who has ity groups section to a faculty member who, the Norwalk/Wilton probate district. DePanfilis dedicated her legal career to providing pro bono through activism, mentoring, teaching and and his wife, Kelly, their four children and four services to women who have been exploited in scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribu- grandchildren, live in Norwalk, Conn., where the commercial sex industry and to collaborating tion to legal education, the legal system, or social Tony also remains as senior partner at the law with elected officials, artists and nonprofits to justice. James was recently granted tenure at the firm of DePanfilis & Vallerie. end human trafficking in Florida. She co-chaired University of Miami School of Law, where she Northeast Florida’s first Human Trafficking Task teaches and writes in the areas of tort, adminis-

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committee of the association for eight years. Schwartz was also appointed by the Interna- tional Skating Union as the first chair of its newly created adult figure skating committee. She was chosen by International Figure Skating magazine as “one of the most influential people in figure skating.” Due to her efforts, thousands of adult skaters are now participating in regional, national and international competitions throughout the world.

Kara Farnandez Stoll (L’97) was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in Novem- ber. Stoll is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Gar- rett and Dunner. She has extensive experience in patent litigation, having represented clients at both the district and appellate levels, and has served as lead counsel on a number of cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Bruce Prager (L’77), Crystal Freed (L’03). Erica Suter (L’03) received the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Best Lawyers Under 40 award in September. She trative law, education law, and race and the law. Bruce J. Prager (L’77) received the New York was also named a Super Lawyer “Rising Star” She lives in Miami, Fla., with her husband and State Bar Association’s William T. Lifland Service for Washington, D.C., and Maryland in 2014 two young children. Award, presented by the antitrust section. The and 2015, as well as one of the National Trial award is presented to practitioners in recognition Lawyers’ “Top 100 Lawyers” and a Maryland Marcus Johnson (B’97, L’97) was honored of their contributions and accomplishments in “Top 40 Under 40” defense lawyer. with Georgetown University’s Samuel A. Halsey the field of antitrust. Prager received the award Jr. Award, honoring African American alumni James T. Vaughn (L’76), a judge on Dela- during the Bar Association’s annual meeting in for their achievements and contributions to the ware’s Superior Court, was nominated to the New York City January 29. He has practiced anti- community. Johnson is an independent Billboard- state Supreme Court by Gov. Jack Markell in trust and competition law, with a focus on merg- ranked musician and NAACP Image Award- September and confirmed in October. ers, acquisitions and joint ventures, for nearly nominated jazz keyboardist and pianist. He is also 40 years. Prager is a retired partner at Latham & Richard Verma (LL.M.’98) was nominated by the owner of a music label, Three Keys Music, Watkins, where he practiced for 17 years. President Barack Obama to be U.S. ambas- and the CEO and founder of Flo Brands and sador to India in September and confirmed by Flo Wine. Johnson independently produced and Judge Sandra I. Rothenberg (LL.M.’73), the the U.S. Senate in December. Verma has served distributed his first jazz album, Lessons in Love, first woman to serve as a Prettyman fellow at the as a senior counselor at Steptoe & Johnson and while at Georgetown. Law Center, has received the Colorado Women’s the Albright Stonebridge Group and also as a Bar Association’s Mary Lathrop Award. The David S. Mao (L’93), who has served as the law senior national security fellow at the Center for award is presented annually to an outstanding librarian of Congress since 2012 and also served American Progress. He was assistant secretary female attorney who has enriched the community as the deputy law librarian from 2010 to 2012, for legislative affairs at the Department of State through her legal and civic activities. It recognizes was appointed deputy librarian of Congress in from 2009 to 2011 and senior national security the tradition begun by Colorado lawyer Mary January. He will also continue as acting law librar- adviser, counsel and foreign policy adviser to Lathrop, who blazed many trails for women in the ian until a replacement is named. the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from profession. Lathrop graduated first in her class 2002 to 2007. Adrienne Noti (L’00) was sworn in as a magis- at the University of Denver School of Law before trate judge on the Superior Court of the District passing the Colorado bar in 1896, with a record Former Rep. Frank Wolf (L’65), who rep- of Columbia by Chief Judge Lee Satterfield on score that would stand until 1941. resented Virginia’s 10th District in Congress October 6. from 1981 until his retirement on January 3, The Jewish Community Center of Greater Wash- was named the Jerry and Susie Wilson Chair in Susan Pascocello (L’90) was appointed by Presi- ington inducted Rhea Schwartz (L’74) into the Religious Freedom at Baylor University. dent Barack Obama to serve on the White House Greater Washington Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Advisory Group on SES Reform, a presidential in November. Schwartz was inducted for her commission to review the federal government’s efforts in successfully lobbying the U.S. Figure Senior Executive Service. Skating Association to create the first U.S. adult national competition in 1995. She also created and served as chair of the adult figure skating

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concerning Wall Street employment Holly O’Neill Jason Winter was issues. John can be reached at jds@ 1997 (LL.M.) has been named to Best singerdeutsch.com. named partner in Lawyers in Catherine M. the West Palm America for 2015 (Clayton) Farrelly Beach office of in the categories of has joined Broad and Cassel. legal malpractice Frankfurt Kurnit 1994 She is a member law – defendants Klein & Selz as a Michael R. Thornton was included of the estate and professional partner and in the 2015 Best Lawyers in America planning and trusts practice group. malpractice law – defendants. He co-chair of the in the category of real estate law. He practices in the Cleveland office of firm’s trademark is a partner at Smith Anderson in Reminger. and brand management group. She Raleigh, N.C. Michael J. Pitts has been elected has more than 15 years of experience to the American Law Institute. The in trademark and copyright law. latest group of 50 members includes 2002 1995 judges, lawyers and legal academics hailing from 15 states and the District Richard W. Maureen M. Carr 1998 of Columbia, along with two new Arnholt has joined Wisler (LL.M.’03) has J.J. Harwayne international members. Pitts is a pro- Pearlstine as an become a member Leitner has joined fessor at Indiana University’s McKin- associate in the at Bass Berry & Davis Wright ney School of Law. school law Sims in Washing- Tremaine’s New department. She ton, D.C., and will York office as previously served practice in the counsel. She has as a mediator for 2001 firm’s government contracts practice been advising the Chester and Montgomery County, James R. Burns has joined the asset group. He was previously counsel at nonprofit Pa., court custody mediation management group at Willkie Farr & Crowell & Moring. organizations on tax, corporate programs. Gallagher, based in the firm’s Wash- governance and complex corporate ington, D.C., office. He is a former transactions for 15 years and has a deputy director of the Securities and Brigitte F. Daniel, the executive multidisciplinary practice represent- Richard Exchange Commission’s division of vice president of Wilco Electronic ing tax-exempt organizations of all Gastineau trading and markets. Systems, has launched “Mogulette,” types and sizes. Previously, she was (LL.M.) has been a program to educate, mentor and an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, appointed chief empower young women of color who Meagher & Flom. operating officer Roy Salins has are interested in entrepreneurial and general joined Davis technology careers. In addition to a counsel of Wright Tremaine speaker series highlighting promi- Y-Prime, a clinical 1999 as a partner. nent women in tech, “Mogulette” products and consulting company. He Gwynne Guzzeau He focuses his will engage with regional colleges and joins Y-Prime after co-founding is executive practice on universities to identify future women Beacon Bioscience, a clinical director of the employment technologists and match them with research organization in the medical Gestalt Interna- litigation, mentors. Daniel has been recognized imaging field. tional Study including wage and hour class action as one of the “seven brilliant women Center, a nonprofit litigation and providing clients with in tech,” according to Craigslist learning center day-to-day advice and counseling. He founder Craig Newmark; she was 1996 located in was previously a shareholder at also featured in the September 2014 Vedder Price, where he worked for “Mogul Maintenance” column in Susan Kovarovics, Wellfleet, Mass., that teaches the past five years. Marie Claire magazine. a partner at Bryan individuals and organizations how to Cave in Washing- increase their impact through ton, D.C., is the training, coaching and consulting. Ralph Winnie (LL.M.), director of president-elect of Guzzeau has been affiliated with 2003 GISC for a number of years as a global business development and the the Women’s Bar Nancy Chi Cantalupo (F’95) is the faculty member, professional Eurasian Business Coalition’s China Association of the associate vice president for equity, associate and certified coach. Her program, spoke at “China, Reaching District of inclusion and violence prevention at article, “Communication Out to the World: Global Investments Columbia. In her practice, she NASPA Student Affairs Administra- Counts: Coaching Strategies for and Partnerships,” the fourth-annual counsels foreign and domestic parties tors in Higher Education. Cantalupo, Estate Planning Professionals,” was emerging markets conference at the regarding international business an adjunct professor at Georgetown published in the November-Decem- Cornell Club of New York in Octo- regulatory matters. Law as well as a victim’s rights attor- ber 2012 issue of ABA’s Probate & ber. He also participated in a Wash- ney, researcher and gender-based Property journal. ington, D.C., Peace and Security Forum, spoke at the Waikiki Rotary violence expert, has more than 19 in December and was quoted in the years of experience combating sexual October 2014 issue of China Legal harassment and violence in education Daily. and has taught courses on gender, legislation and administrative law. “In this newly-created post, I will act as a subject matter expert on equality and civil rights in education, with a

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focus on preventing and respond- Kelly F. Moser ing to gender-based and other forms was promoted to of discriminatory violence on college partner at Perkins Across Classes campuses,” Cantalupo writes. Coie, where she is a member of the environment, Students of the Human Rights Institute’s 2013-2014 Fact- Kimberly energy and Finding Project and Practicum were awarded a Special (Brickell) Frank resources practice Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Student Re- has joined in the firm’s Seattle office. Moser McCarter & focuses on environmental, energy, search last fall by an international jury convened by the U.N. English’s natural resources and land use High Commissioner for Refugees and Tilburg University in environment and compliance counseling and litigation. the Netherlands for their work researching and writing HRI’s energy practice group as a partner 2014 report, “Left Behind: How Statelessness in the Domini- in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Jeremy Schropp can Republic Limits Children’s Access to Education.” The She continues to focus on represent- has been elected jury considered more than a dozen nominations in separate ing state regulatory entities and other partner at clients before the Federal Energy Morrison & prize categories for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral Regulatory Commission and in a Foerster; he is a research. “Because HRI’s report was researched by a team of broad array of regulatory matters member of the eight graduate students (candidates for J.D. and LL.M. including the design of wholesale corporate group electric power markets and in and resident in the degrees), it fell outside of the jury’s mandate to present appellate matters arising from agency firm’s Northern Virginia office. awards for individual research,” Professor Andrew I. Schoen- decisions. Schropp’s practice focuses on holtz explains. “However, the jury chose to confer a special representing technology and emerging-growth companies in a certificate and commended our students, noting that it ‘con- Scott Singer was variety of sectors, including siders this project to be a significant contribution to stateless- elected without government contracting, defense, ness research, thanks to its collection of new primary data opposition to the cybersecurity, data analytics, clean Boca Raton City technology, software, communica- and fresh analysis of the situation in the Dominican Repub- Council. Singer tions and construction. lic.’” HRI was able to help facilitate travel to The Hague for also serves as three students, B. Shaw Drake (L’15), Kimberly Fetsick (L’15) chairman of the Boca Raton Matthew Varzally joined Humana and Tabitha King (L’15), to present their research at the first- Community Redevelopment Agency at its Louisville, Ky., headquarters as ever Global Forum on Statelessness last September. These and maintains his law practice senior counsel in the litigation and three students accepted the award on behalf of the group, focused on general counsel services investigations group. Varzally was pre- for small businesses. viously counsel in the Philadelphia, which also included Khaled Alrabe (L’14), Jamie Armstrong Pa., office of Akin Gump Strauss (LL.M.’14), Elizabeth Gibson (L’14), Young-Min Kwon (L’15) Hauer & Feld, where he litigated and Franziska Veh (LL.M.’14). complex commercial cases for more 2004 than five years. Before joining Akin Jennifer Gump, he was a litigation associate at Davis-Oliva, a Wolf Block in Philadelphia. 2006 Mark A. Jones has veteran attorney been installed as Tracye Winfrey Howard (F’96) was with extensive the chairman of promoted to partner at Wiley Rein in experience in the criminal the government contracts practice, health care law, 2005 justice section of where she counsels and represents public policy and Michael Billok the North government contractors and subcon- policy analysis, has has been elected a Carolina Bar tractors on a broad range of govern- been named founding director of the member of Bond, Association and ment contracting issues. Howard Legislative Advocacy Clinic at Penn Schoeneck & certified as a specialist in federal and prosecutes bid protests before the State’s Dickinson Law. King. He state criminal law by the North U.S. Government Accountability represents Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Office and the U.S. Court of Federal employers in state Specialization. Mark heads the Claims, as well as contract claims Libby Henninger and federal court white-collar and general federal and disputes, including appeals of was promoted to and at agency proceedings in a variety defense sections at Bell, Davis & Pitt, terminations for default and monetary shareholder at of labor and employment matters, which has offices in Winston-Salem claims under the Contract Disputes Littler. She such as actions alleging harassment, and Charlotte, N.C. practices in the discrimination, retaliation, wage-hour Act. firm’s D.C. office, and FLSA violations, and alleged advising and violations of the NLRA. representing employers in a broad range of employment law matters.

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Robert Morris Lauren Ottaway (LL.M.) was 2007 2010 (LL.M.) has promoted to joined the Kelly (Lonergan) Kendra Norwood has joined Blank partner in the tax Oklahoma City Lennox was Rome as an associate in the maritime, practice of Norton office of Crowe & promoted to international trade and public con- Rose Fulbright. Dunlevy as an member (partner) tracts group. She is based in the firm’s He practices in associate. She at Foster Pepper. Washington, D.C., office. the firm’s Houston joins the firm’s She is a member office, representing clients in all private wealth and closely held of the firm’s phases of tax controversies: during business and taxation practice groups, litigation and Andrew Stein is examinations, in administrative focusing on wealth planning, dispute resolution and real estate director of appeals and in litigation. tax-exempt organizations, trust and practices, focusing on real estate development at estates and taxation. litigation, construction claims and City Year commercial contract disputes. Washington, D.C., John R. Prairie was promoted to an education- partner at Wiley Rein in the govern- focused nonprofit ment contracts practice, where he 2014 Peter R. Wand that partners with counsels and represents govern- Cyrus Abbassi is was elected to the public schools to help keep kids in ment contractors and subcontrac- an associate in the partnership of school (he served as an AmeriCorps tors on a broad range of government financial services Lewis Roca member with the organization before contracts matters. Prairie represents litigation practice Rothgerber. Wand enrolling at Georgetown). On clients in litigation matters, including group at Burr & is a member of the November 5, Andrew and his team at contract claims and disputes, before Forman. He is firm’s tax practice City Year hosted an event for the Boards of Contract Appeals and based in the firm’s and currently members of the legal community the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Fort Lauderdale, serves as the co-chair of its executive called the Legal Community (COFC), and in bid protests at the Fla., office. compensation and employee benefits Breakfast, which raises funds to U.S. Government Accountability practice. He is based in the firm’s support City Year’s work. D.C.’s City Office and the COFC. Phoenix office. Year was founded by Chris Murphy Benjamin (L’98), former D.C. Mayor Vincent Eisenstat Gray’s chief of staff. Joseph W. (LL.M.’15) has Swanson (C’01) 2009 recently joined Caplin & has joined Carlton Henrika J. Buchanan was named Drysdale’s tax Fields Jorden Burt to Mass Transit’s “Top 40 under 40” 2012 practice as an as of counsel in list for 2014. She is the associate Clayton H. associate in Tampa, Fla. He administrator of the office of program Garrett (LL.M.) Washington, D.C. practices in the management at the Federal Transit recently joined securities litigation Administration. Sirote & Permutt section of the firm’s national trial in the firm’s Jessica Kaplan has joined Holling- practice group. Mobile office. He sworth as an associate, practicing in John B. Dodson, an associate at DLA is a member of the the firm’s complex litigation, pharma- Piper, received the Lawyers Alliance estates, wills and ceutical products, and toxic torts and Olga M. Vieira for New York’s 2014 Cornerstone trusts practice group. products liability groups. has been elected Award in October honoring outstand- shareholder at ing pro bono legal services to non- Carlton Fields profits. Ryan P. McCarthy James P. Roberts has joined the Jorden Burt. She is has joined Reed creditors’ rights and bankruptcy prac- a member of the Smith’s Pittsburgh tice group at Burr & Forman. He is an firm’s appellate Jason Patil (LL.M.’09) is an adminis- office as an associate in the firm’s Birmingham, and trial support, trative law judge at the Securities and associate in the Ala., office. aviation, national trial practice and Exchange Commission. A member of firm’s corporate products and toxic tort liability the U.S. Navy Reserve, Patil was the and securities practice groups. Vieira is also a lead interrogator for a joint operations group. McCarthy’s member of the firm’s food, beverage, task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom experience includes work in capital 2015 dietary supplement and personal care in 2007 and received the Bronze Star markets, where he has represented a John Tyler Clemons was named products; insurance; manufacturing Medal in 2008 for his leadership and variety of issuers and advised the 2015–16 Lindsay Fellow by the and raw materials; and pharmaceuti- interrogation acumen. He served at underwriting syndicates in SEC-regis- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. cal and medical device industry the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from tered and unregistered debt and The fellowship provides an opportu- groups. Her practice focuses on January 2010 to February 2011 over- equity transactions. He also has nity for recent law school graduates defending national clients in complex seeing U.S. efforts to improve gover- experience assisting financial to become familiar with civil rights product liability and commercial nance and the rule of law in Iraq. institutions on a variety of regulatory practice by working with many of the litigation in state and federal courts. compliance issues and advising them nation’s leading civil rights experts. She is based in the firm’s Miami with preparing and submitting various office and has recently been involved filings with state and federal in smoking and health litigation in regulators. Florida.

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CLE PROFILE MAURA R. GROSSMAN

that the technologies were at least as effective, if not more effective, and many, many times more efficient than the law students and the lawyers at reviewing documents,” she says. “The question is how do you train the computer to be able to do that? That’s really been a passion for me for the last couple of years.” In addition to her past role as co-chair of the planning committee of the Advanced eDiscovery Institute — hailed by Law Technology News as “the gold standard for electronic data discovery updates” — Grossman has stayed connected to Georgetown Law by teaching one of the first online courses available to J.D. students, a one-credit course in (what else?) eDiscovery. She taught the class last summer, when she spent time in Australia and Maura R. Grossman (L’99) some of her students were working in the United States. One challenge was moving the Socratic method online. “When you are in the room with When Maura R. Grossman (L’99) was promoted to counsel at Wachtell, someone and you ask a question, and you look somebody in the eyes, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in 2006, her mentor at the firm suggested that there’s a certain social pressure to answer, but when you are sitting in your she consider developing an expertise in the discovery of electronically office and they are sitting in their jammies … sometimes there’s silence,” stored information, or eDiscovery. “He thought that electronic discovery laughs Grossman, who did resort to whipping out the roster and calling was going to become a big deal,” Grossman recalls, noting that the Federal out names once in a while. Rules of Civil Procedure had just undergone revisions to take electronic Tim Huether (F’10, L’17) said that Grossman’s adept command of information into account. breaking eDiscovery issues was clear from the first moment of class. And She followed his advice. Today, Grossman — who serves on the advisory the online delivery method allowed him to take the class during a busy board of the Advanced eDiscovery Institute of Georgetown Law CLE as summer. “Due to my schedule, I would not have been able to squeeze in well as the faculty of its eDiscovery Training Academy — is one of the an in-person class, so I am very thankful for having had this opportunity,” leading experts in the country on predictive coding, which uses a com- he says. puter to do the document review that law students and associates typically Grossman plans to teach the course again this summer. As for George- find so onerous. town Law CLE, it is also ramping up its online offerings, with a new “When I started at this, there weren’t ‘tweets.’ Social media wasn’t what online provider (InReach) and more products for attorneys and other it is today. These are now forms of evidence,” she explains, noting that professionals. In addition to generating content — from cybersecurity to even an E-Z Pass used on a toll bridge can leave an electronic trail. “Text tax-exempt organizations — from its popular live conferences, Georgetown messages, IMs and social media are now very important sources of discov- Law CLE will soon be offering online webinars from experts that dive ery in some practice areas. In family disputes, in marital disputes and in deeper into conference topics, says Larry Center, assistant dean of aca- personal injury cases where somebody says, ‘I can’t walk, I’m homebound,’ demic conferences and continuing legal education. “It’s not just repurpos- and then there are pictures of them at a rodeo riding the bull. Just think ing the live content of our conferences; it’s actually creating courses that about the massive amounts of information on a smart phone that are are meant solely for the web.” sources of potential evidence. It’s a very exciting area of the law.” Georgetown Law CLE is also partnering with Georgetown Law’s cen- Grossman now focuses exclusively on this part of litigation, “helicopter- ters and institutes to make their events available through online CLE. And ing” into a matter to assist a team with electronic discovery in a case that they have created “compliance bundles,” making it easier for attorneys might generate, for example, more than 50 million documents. Traditional to meet CLE requirements in states like Virginia. Grossman, meanwhile, document review in such matters being almost impossible, she teamed up calls Georgetown Law CLE “phenomenal.” “These are some of the most with a computer scientist several years ago to find ways of filtering legal prestigious programs in the country,” she says of the Advanced eDiscovery information into “relevant” and “not relevant” buckets, as spam filters do. Institute in November and the eDiscovery Training Academy in June. “I’m “We did a study basically comparing third-year law students and profes- very proud to be involved with both of them.” sional contract reviewers with some of these technologies, and we found By Ann W. Parks

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ALUMNI PROFILE DAVID COLANGELO (L’77)

David Colangelo (L’77)

David Colangelo (L’77) has no memory of the moment that Colangelo grew up on Staten Island. He commuted to Regis changed his life. All he remembers is falling down afterward. High School in Manhattan and graduated from Columbia in “It was slow motion, very strange,” he says. The next thing he three years by taking maximum credits and summer school knew he was in the emergency room of D.C. General Hospital classes. “When I was eight years old I had my life mapped out. thinking he had been in an auto accident and worried what his One day I would be president,” he says. “My ambitions got parents would do when they found out he wrecked the car. trimmed back fairly quickly after that. But so many of the presi- But Colangelo, then a second-year Georgetown Law student, dents had been lawyers that between that and watching Perry hadn’t wrecked the car. On the night of September 25, 1974, he Mason reruns it seemed like a good way to go.” had gone to an off-campus party on Capitol Hill. About 11 p.m. After leaving D.C. General, Colangelo spent months at the two men burst in with a handgun, demanding money. Colangelo Rusk Institute in New York, where he underwent rehabilitation was shot in the neck and rushed to the hospital. and physical therapy. It was there that he was fitted up with a “A doctor came by and started asking me questions — do you motorized wheelchair. “I was one of the first couple of guinea know where you are and what happened?” Colangelo said. “He pigs to try the sip and puff wheelchair — there’s a tube that’s was the one who told me.” The bullet had severed Colangelo’s situated in the front of your mouth. You puff if you want to go spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the neck down. forward and sip if you want to stop. … I was always volunteer- In the next few weeks Colangelo struggled to survive. He was ing for things like that, anything that would make me a little hitched up to a respirator and in critical condition. The bullet less dependent on other people. Otherwise, I would have to be didn’t shatter bone (and in fact has never been removed), but in a chair and someone would have to push me around.” Colangelo developed a severe gastric ulcer that required remov- A year after the shooting, Colangelo went back to school. A ing two-thirds of his stomach. He remembers this as a defining legion of Georgetown Law students volunteered to help. “We moment: The surgery was risky and doctors didn’t automatically needed people to drive Dave to and from school, to stay over rush to do it. with him to turn him over at night; people to tape-record his “They said it’s really your decision if you want to go on and classes, to get books from the library and sometimes to serve as try to essentially do something with your life.” And even with readers,” former Chaplain Jim Malley, S.J., told the Washington the operation doctors weren’t uniformly optimistic. But Colan- Star newspaper in May 1977. “Why, there must have been more gelo knew that if he made it through the surgery, there was a than 100 people involved that first semester.” chance he could become a lawyer. So he said yes. One of them was Dorothy Saunders. She signed on to sit with “Law is really what I wanted to do in life. If they told me for David on Saturday afternoons. “As we got to know each other, some reason that I couldn’t be a lawyer I might have made a it was clear that David had already put his new limitations in different decision,” Colangelo says. perspective and embraced what life still offered him,” Saunders

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says. She and Colangelo have been married now for 33 years. “Being dependent on other people is something I’ve never re- They have two grown sons, Andrew and Stephen. ally gotten used to,” Colangelo says. But Saunders believes her Saunders wasn’t the only one impressed with Colangelo’s at- husband’s “fierce determination” has seen him through countless titude. “I never even saw a moment of bitterness,” said his friend medical crises that have required lengthy hospital stays. “He is and classmate Janice Obuchowski (L’76), who was co-hosting one of the most grounded and tenacious people I have ever met,” the party at which Colangelo was shot. Malley said Colangelo’s she says. “His quiet grace in the face of adversity has been one of attitude impressed him so much that his relationship with him the cornerstones of our home life.” “rapidly turned from the duties of a university chaplain to a very Colangelo has remained optimistic through the years. “Until deep personal love.” something I try proves it’s not working I’ve always been pretty After graduation, Colangelo quickly found a job with the Advice sure I could get it done.” And now he’s slowly adjusting to retire- Division of the General Counsel’s office of the National Labor ment and what he calls “this lesser-energy state.” He’s watching Relations Board, a position he held for 37 years, until he retired movies and reading for fun, using e-books instead of a mouth last year. The work was stimulating and the office went out of stick to turn the pages of an actual book. “That got old after a few its way to accommodate his needs, providing Colangelo with the years.” latest technology, including a special phone system and voice It’s been more than 40 years since that September night that activation software when it was in its infancy. changed his life. The thugs who shot him escaped with $10 and “The icing on the cake is that the people who worked in Advice, were never caught. In the beginning, he says, “I was still full of not just toward me but toward each other, were so helpful and anger, but I thought, what good is that going to do? I wanted to friendly it was like a little work family. That lasted through the work. I wanted to make a difference in the world.” whole time I was there, even though people came and went,” Colangelo insists that his story is nothing special. “Laying Colangelo says. around and being bitter” was never an option, he states. “I guess Which is not to say things were easy. “Details had to be care- I would have felt that way if my only option was to be a shut-in fully orchestrated for this life to work,” Saunders says. Colangelo for the rest of my life. But that just wasn’t my personality. I always had to be dressed and in his wheelchair for a 7 a.m. carpool pick- wanted to keep pushing forward. I guess that’s why it never struck up, an assistant would meet him in the NLRB garage to escort me as that remarkable when people come up and say, ‘Wow, this him to his office, and all of this was made possible by a power is so amazing, you’re so inspirational.’ It’s just the way I’ve always wheelchair, a van with wheelchair lift and a special computer. been. I don’t know how else to explain it.” By Anne Cassidy

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LEGACY SOCIETY Mr. Terrence Mealy+ L’57 Mrs. Mary Aiello and Mr. Mrs. Rika Clark and Mr. Ms. Marsha Metz* L’86 John Aiello* L’74 Fred Clark* L’88 Dr. Miguel Alampay N’05, L’08 Mrs. Rita Meyer and Mr. Mrs. Miriam Ain and Mrs. Annetta Coffelt* Ms. Dorothy Black* L’93 Dennis Meyer* L’60, L’62 Mr. Sanford Ain* L’72 Mr. Robert Coffelt Jr.* Mrs. Catherine Brincefield and Mrs. Rachel Mirage, B’92, and Mr. Kary Antholis L’88 Mr. Robert Coffelt Sr.+ L’48 Mr. James Brincefield Jr.* Mr. James Mirage* Mr. Stephen Arcano, F’84, L’88 Mrs. Anne Coffey and Mr. C’63, L’66 L’94, MBA’94 and Mrs. Anne Arcano* L’89 John Coffey* L’87 Mrs. Barbara Lee Brogan and Mr. John Mitchell* L’65 Mrs. Margaret Arness and Mr. Douglas Evans and Mr. Francis Brogan Jr.* B’71, Mrs. Michaelanne Northrop and Mr. John Arness* L’51 Ms. Sarah Cogan* L’81 L’74, L’77 Mr. Carl Northrop* L’76 Mrs. Amy Aronson and Mr. Ms. Jennifer Cognetti, C’02, Mrs. Tyler Burton and Mr. Mr. Chester Nosal* L’70 Clifford Aronson* L’80 and Mr. Mark Cognetti* David Burton* L’96 Mr. Ronald O’Keefe* L’63 Ms. Kim Askew* L’83 B’95, L’98 Mr. Martin Charwat* F’62, L’75 Mrs. Barbara O’Leary and Mr. Mrs. Cyan Banister and Mrs. Susan Cognetti and Prof. Sherman Cohn* Donald O’Leary* F’52, L’56 Mr. Scott Banister* Mr. Sal Cognetti Jr.* L’73 F’54, L’57, L’60 Dr. Michael Olivas* L’81 Mr. Timothy Bass L’11 Prof. Sherman Cohn* Mrs. Julie Connor and Mr. Mr. John Peak* B’67, L’70 Mrs. Eileen Bassler and The F’54, L’57, L’60 Terence Connor* C’64, L’75 Mr. Joseph Plunkett L’83 Hon. William Bassler* L’63 Mrs. Alexis Colker and Mr. John Crawford* L’51 Mrs. Carolyn Reece and Mr. Michael Beauvais* L’99 Mr. David Colker C’75 Mrs. Mary Crawford+ Mr. Joseph Reece* L’89 Mr. George Bernstein and Mr. Gordon Greenberg and The Mr. David Davidson Mrs. Deborah Ricks and Ms. Caryl Bernstein* L’67 Hon. Patricia Collins* L’79 Mrs. Catherine Denny and Mr. Jay Ricks* L’62 Ms. Barbara Wallace-Bernstein, Mr. Todd Coltman L’99 Mr. James Denny L’60 Mrs. Grace Rissetto, MA’75, L’92, and Mr. Matthew Mr. James Cotter C’59, L’63 Mr. Gerhard Depken* C’62, L’65 and Mr. Harry Rissetto* L’68 Bernstein* L’92 Mrs. Irene Craft and Mrs. Leslie Dunn and Mr. William Robertson+ L’51 Mrs. Laura Bilicic and Mr. Randal Craft* L’68 Mr. John Dunn* L’74 Mrs. Ruth Rosenfeld and Mr. George Bilicic Jr.* L’88 Ms. Susan Cullman and Mrs. Melissa Dunn and Mr. Robert Rosenfeld L’60 Mrs. Ann Blume and Mr. Mr. John Kirby Jr.* Mr. Walter Dunn* L’00 Ms. Anne Santorelli and Bruce Blume* L’80 Mr. Joseph Czerniakowski*+ Mr. Edward Gallagher Jr.* L’50 Mr. Albert Santorelli* L’64 Mrs. Mary Boast and C’50, L’53 Ms. Gladys Gallagher* L’78 Mr. William Sawch* L’80 Mr. Thomas Boast Mrs. Valerie Dalebroux, Mr. Matthew Getz* L’05 Ms. Jo Ann Schiff and Mr. Mr. Ronald Brown and MS’76, and Mr. Jeffrey Mr. Louis Harris, L’80, and Mrs. Gunther Schiff* F’49, L’52 Mrs. Katherine Brown Dalebroux* L’76 Bridget Harris* F’76, L’81 Mrs. Marbeth Spreyer* L’56 Mr. Lawrence Fox, L’73, and Mrs. Annegret De Vos and Mrs. Yvonne Held and Mr. Stephen Steppe and Mrs. Ms. Susan Bryant L’73, L’79 Mr. Lloyd De Vos* L’73 Mr. John Held* L’64 Sara Steppe* L’85 Ms. Elisabeth Burch and Mr. Andrew DeCicco L’73 Ms. Judith Hetherton* L’73 Mrs. Dorothy Turi and Mr. Mr. Francis Burch Jr. C’70 Mrs. Joan DeCrane and Mr. Michael Hickey* L’74 John Turi* L’82 The Hon. Alfred Burka* Mr. Alfred DeCrane Jr.* L’59 Mr. Edward Hochman* L’79 Mrs. Gloria Ulterino, MA’65, and C’48, L’51 The Hon. John Delaney, Ms. Annaelisa Holguin* L’96 Mr. Eugene Ulterino* L’66 Mr. Dan Burt and Mrs. L’88, and Ms. April McClain- Mr. Howard Kaufman* L’01 The Hon. Timothy Chorba, Yvonne Burt* L’80 Delaney* L’89 Mr. Thomas Kennedy* L’81 C’68, and Ms. Ruth Wimer* Mr. Kirk Cadwell and Ms. Mrs. Catherine Denny and Mr. Robert Levering, L’76, and B’76, L’83 Donna Tanoue* L’81 Mr. James Denny L’60 Mrs. Mary Levering* L’77 Mr. James Cain* L’79 Mr. Russell Deyo L’75 Ms. Eleanor Lewis* L’74 Ms. Claudia Callaway* L’91 Ms. Victoria Diaz and Mr. Mark Mamolen*+ L’76 HOGAN SOCIETY The Hon. Carolyn Chiechi* Mr. Paul Diaz* L’88 Dr. Patricia Martin, C’76, and Mr. Michael McCabe, B’80 I’65, L’69, L’71, H’00 Mr. Damian Didden* L’97 Mr. James Martin* C’75, L’78 and Ms. Elizabeth Abdoo* Mrs. Dominica Chiechi* Mrs. Vivian Dimond and Mrs. Marcia McBride and Mr. C’80, L’86 Ms. Antonia Ianniello, L’80, Mr. Alan Dimond Timothy McBride* L’75, L’80 Mrs. Marion Abood and and Mr. George Chuzi L’80 Mrs. Carol McCann, N’63, and Mr. Randolph Abood* L’75 Ms. Joan Cirillo and Mr. Mr. Thomas McCann L’65 Ms. Anne Abramson, S’10, and Roger Cooke* C’70, L’73 * = Law Loyalty Society, Mrs. Loretta Mealy* Mr. Ronald Abramson* L’74 + = Deceased

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Ms. Susan Hotine and Mrs. Nancy Hollingsworth and Mr. Rodney Lockwood Lee Miller* B’69, L’73 Mr. John Dubeck* L’76 Mr. Joe Hollingsworth* L’74 Ms. Kathleen Logerfo, N’86, Mrs. Heather Mitchell and Mr. Donald Evans* L’77 Mrs. Monica Hoppenstein and and Mr. Michael Logerfo* The Hon. George Mitchell* Mr. Jonathan Farber F’90 Mr. Joel Hoppenstein* L’84 C’85, L’88 L’61, H’89 Mrs. April Feffer and Mr. Jacob Hornstein*+ L’45 Mr. Jack Londen Mr. Patrick Moran* L’73 Mr. Joel Feffer* L’67 Mrs. Leslie Hudson and Mr. Mr. Bret Lowell* L’78 The Hon. Linda Morgan, Mrs. Pamela Fellows and J. Clifford Hudson* L’80 Mr. E. Robert Lupone* L’84 L’76, and Mr. Michael Karam* Mr. Henry Fellows Jr.* L’78 Mr. Keith Hummel* L’90 Mr. Paul Mahon* L’87 F’72, L’76, L’81 Ms. Michelle Berninger L’95 Mrs. Abby Hutchinson and Mr. Francis Siciliano and Ms. Rebecca Morrison, L’02 Mr. Gregory Fernicola* L’85 Mr. James Hutchinson* L’93 Ms. Kristin Major* L’97 Mrs. Lisa Mottesi and Ms. Patricia Flatley and Mr. Mr. Roger Jaar Mrs. Mary Malyska and Mr. Marcelo Mottesi* L’92 Daniel Flatley* L’78 Mr. Maxime Jadot* L’81 Mr. John Malyska* L’71 Mrs. Hiroko Murase and Mrs. Nancy Fletcher and Ms. Barbara Bott and Mr. Robert Mr. Mark Mamolen*+ L’76 Mr. Satoru Murase* L’83 Mr. Ronald Fletcher* Jennings Jr.* L’76 Mr. Samuel McClure and Ms. Marcia Murphy and Mrs. Marilyn Freeh and Mrs. Christine Johnson and Ms. Laura Marran L’88 Mr. John Murphy* L’93 The Hon. Louis Freeh Mr. Robert Johnson* L’87 Mr. Arvin Maskin* C’75, L’78 Mr. Robert Muse Jr.* L’72 Ms. Heather French* L’96 Mrs. Shaun Jones and Mr. Mr. James Mathias* L’88 Mrs. Marjie Nealon and Mrs. Kristin Fulton and Mr. Michael Jones* L’85 Ms. Linda Mazawey and Mr. Thomas Nealon III* James Fulton Jr.* F’89, L’95 Mr. Tim Dore, L’89, and Ms. Mr. Louis Mazawey* L’74 C’70, L’74 Mrs. Melanie Gajarsa and The Theona Jundanian L’91 Mrs. Marcia McBride and Mr. Mrs. Kyoko Neff Hon. Arthur Gajarsa* L’67 Ms. Amy Weiss and Mr. Timothy McBride* L’75, L’80 Mr. David Miller and Mr. Edward Gallagher Jr.* L’50 Peter Kadzik* L’77 Mrs. Kathe McDaniels and Mr. Ms. Marcia Nirenstein* L’80 Mr. Matthew Getz* L’05 Mr. Bela Karlovitz+ L’54 William McDaniels* L’66 Mrs. Michaelanne Northrop Mrs. Sarah Gewirz and Ms. Marianne Keler, F’76, Mrs. Monica McGonigle and and Mr. Carl Northrop* L’76 Mr. Bernard Gewirz* L’53 L’80 and Mr. Michael Mr. Thomas McGonigle* L’82 Mr. Chester Nosal* L’70 Mr. Neal Gillen, L’64, and Kershow* L’80 Mrs. Beth McGowan and Mrs. Margaret O’Donnell and Mrs. Mary-Margaret Gillen* Mr. Joseph Keller+ L’35 Mr. Gregory McGowan* L’79 Mr. Terrence O’Donnell* L’71 L’65, L’66 Mr. Thomas Kennedy* L’81 Mrs. Jennifer McIntyre and Ms. Helen Moore and Mr. Mrs. Linda Gillis and Mr. Mr. Andrew Kentz, C’78, L’83, Mr. Kevin McIntyre* L’88 William von Oehsen III* L’88 Timothy Gillis* L’91 S’12, and Ms. Ellen Kentz* Mr. James McKnight* L’90 Mrs. Maggie Oetgen and Ms. Theresa Gillis* L’74 C’83, L’92 Mr. Thomas McLain and The Mr. Stephen Oetgen L’94 Mrs. Marie Gittes, MA’71, Mr. Gilbert Keteltas* L’89 Hon. Celeste Pinto McLain* Ms. Chang Oh L’86 and Mr. Franklin Gittes* L’73 Mr. Sukhan Kim* L’81 L’74 Mr. Ronald O’Keefe* L’63 Mrs. Selene Gladstone and Mrs. Holly Kimmitt and The Mrs. Loretta Mealy* Mrs. Carolyn Okinaga and Mr. B. James Gladstone* L’93 Hon. Robert Kimmitt* L’77 Dr. Dale Meers and Mr. Lawrence Okinaga* L’72 Mr. Michael Gotts and Mr. James King* C’70, L’73, Mrs. Elizabeth Meers* L’80 Mr. Roger Oldham and Ms. Mrs. Ilene Gotts* L’84 L’78 Mr. George Meierhofer* Susan Oldham* L’85, L’90 Ms. Marjorie Gross L’73 Mrs. Carol Klein and Mr. C’83, L’86 Mrs. Grace O’Malley Mrs. Lee Ellen Hagner and Kenneth Klein* L’80 Mr. Roger Meltzer Mr. John O’Malley Jr.+ L’55 Mr. John Hagner* L’73 Mr. Jonathan Klein* L’87 Mr. Gilbert Menna* L’82, L’83 Mr. William Stamps III and Mrs. Ruth Hammer and Mrs. Lynn Kroll and Ms. Andrea Grant and Ms. Ramona Ortiz* F’89, L’94 Mr. Kenneth Hammer* L’84 Mr. Jules Kroll* L’66 Mr. Selig Merber L’74 Ms. Leslie Owsley* L’78 Mr. David Koschik, L’84, MS’84, Mrs. Debra Kurz and Mr. John Merrigan C’70 Ms. Linda Patton and Mr. and Ms. Izumi Hara* L’85 Mr. Thomas Kurz* L’77 Mrs. Rita Meyer and Stephen Patton* L’78 Ms. Marybeth Harris, N’84, Ms. Kimberly Lake, L’88, and Mr. Dennis Meyer* L’60, L’62 Ms. Linda Pfatteicher, L’96, and and Mr. Timothy Harris* Mr. Alfred Puchala Jr.* L’88 Ms. Andrea Miano, C’87, L’90, Mr. Gregory Wilson* L’96 C’81, L’84 Ms. Julie Lansaw and and Mr. Kevin Hodges* L’90 Mr. Steven Phillips* L’89 Mrs. Susan Harris and Mr. Mr. F. Joseph Warin* L’75 The Hon. John Schlesinger Mr. Ronald Picerne L’53 Laurence Harris* L’64 The Hon. Albert Lauber* and The Hon. Marilyn Mrs. Dale Pinto and Mr. Mrs. Laurie Hartigan and Mr. John Lauro* C’79, L’82 Milian* L’84 James Pinto* C’73, L’76 Mr. John Hartigan* L’75 Mrs. Tracey Leeds and Mrs. Katherine Miller, G’68, and Mrs. Gail Policy and Mr. Mrs. Ilene Heller, L’82, and Mr. Douglas Leeds* L’96 Mr. John Miller* L’67, L’69 Carmen Policy* L’66 Mr. Barry Heller* L’77 Mr. Steven Zieff and Mr. Michael Miller* L’85 Mr. Brian Polovoy* L’92 Mrs. Ann Herman and Mr. Ms. R. Elaine Leitner* L’78 Ms. Michelle Miller and Mrs. Bonnie Raquet and Robert Herman* L’73 Mr. Robert Lighthizer* Mr. Marc Morial* L’83 Mr. Peter Raquet Prof. Craig Hoffman* C’69, L’73 Mrs. Suzanne Miller and Mr. Ms. Usha Ravi* L’07 Dr. Francis X. Lobo

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Mrs. Carolyn Reece and and Ms. Elizabeth Wieser* Mrs. Barbara O’Leary and Mr. Mrs. Melanie Gajarsa and The Mr. Joseph Reece* L’89 C’86, L’92 Donald O’Leary* F’52, L’56 Hon. Arthur Gajarsa* L’67 Mr. Peter Ressler L’64 Mrs. Agnes Williams* L’54 Mr. John O’Malley Jr.+ L’55 Mr. James Gallagher Jr.* L’65 Mr. David Reyes* L’82 Mr. Edward Williams+ Mr. Ronald Picerne L’53 Ms. Mary Gallagher L’63 Mrs. Hope Reynolds, B’75, and L’44, H’68 Mr. George Rabe* L’59 Mr. Edward Gamble* L’64 Mr. Thomas Reynolds III B’74 Mrs. Suzanne Wuersch and Mrs. Charlotte Schlosberg and Mrs. Terri Geifman and Mr. Ms. Patricia Franklin and Mr. Daniel Wuersch* L’91 Mr. Hubert Schlosberg L’56 Stephen Geifman* L’69 Mr. Alan Rivera L’87 Mrs. Janice Wzorek and Ms. Paula Scolnik and The Mr. Neal Gillen, L’64, and Ms. Patricia Robinson* L’87 Mr. Lawrence Wzorek* L’72 Hon. Louis Scolnik* L’52 Mrs. Mary-Margaret Gillen* Professor Mark Rothstein, Mr. Mark Young* L’77 Mr. Peter Seward* L’59 L’65, L’66 L’73, and Professor Laura Mr. Winston Zee* L’81, L’84 Mr. William Shannahan* L’58 Ms. Laurie Goldberg and Rothstein* L’74 Mr. Damien Zoubek L’99 Mrs. Joyce Walsh and Mr. Mr. Norman Goldberg L’69 Mr. Albert Saltz, L’87, and Donald Walsh* C’52, L’57 Mrs. Patricia Gorman and Mrs. Veronica Saltz* L’88 1920s-1940s Mrs. Agnes Williams* L’54 Mr. Frank Gorman* F’63, L’69 Mrs. Patricia Saunders and Ms. Linda Hardberger and The Mrs. Ruth Carver and Mr. Paul Saunders* L’66 1960s Hon. Phillip Hardberger* L’65 Ms. Linda Schakel* L’86 Mr. John Carver Jr.* L’47 Mrs. Susan Harris and Mr. Mark Schifrin* L’78, L’85 Mr. Jacob Hornstein+ L’45 Mr. Thomas Abbott* L’66, L’68 Mr. Laurence Harris* L’64 Mrs. Ulrike Schlafly and Mr. Mr. Joseph Keller+ L’35 Mrs. Eileen Bassler and The Mrs. Connie Hart and Mr. Thomas Schlafly* C’70, L’77 Mr. James Nouss* L’48 Hon. William Bassler* L’63 Harry Hart L’63 Mrs. Charlotte Schlosberg and Mr. George Bernstein and Mr. John Hayward* L’65 Mr. Hubert Schlosberg L’56 1950s Ms. Caryl Bernstein* L’67 Mrs. Yvonne Held and Mr. Mark Schneider* L’84 Mrs. Catherine Brincefield Mr. John Held* L’64 Mrs. Margaret Arness and Mr. Barry Schwartz* L’74 and Mr. James Brincefield Jr.* Mrs. Judith Hoffman and Mr. John Arness* L’51 Mrs. Leslie Schweitzer and C’63, L’66 Mr. John Hoffman* L’63 Mrs. Teresa Attridge and The Mr. William Schweitzer* L’69 Mr. Stanley Brown L’69 Mr. Robert Jordan L’63 Hon. Patrick Attridge* L’56 Mr. Robert Van Heuvelen and Mrs. Patricia Burris and Mrs. Elizabeth Kozak and Mr. Thomas Behan* C’48, L’52 Ms. Jane Sherburne L’83 Mr. Donald Burris* L’69 Mr. John Kozak* L’68 Mrs. Patricia Bidwill and Mr. Mrs. Margaret Silver and The Hon. Joe Cannon* L’69 Mrs. Lynn Kroll and Mr. Charles Bidwill Jr.* C’50, L’53 Mr. Sidney Silver* L’62 The Hon. Carolyn Chiechi* Jules Kroll* L’66 The Hon. Alfred Burka* Ms. Toby Singer, L’77, and I’65, L’69, L’71, H’00 Ms. Dianne Lerner and C’48, L’51 Mr. Thomas Papson* L’77 Mr. C. Daniel Clemente* L’63 Mr. Herbert Lerner* L’63 Mrs. Frances Burka and Mr. Lawrence Sizemore* L’88 Mr. James Cotter C’59, L’63 Ms. Deborah Lynch and Mr. Leonard Burka* L’57 Mr. Whitney Skala L’83 Mr. Stuart Cotton* L’68 Mr. John Lynch* L’63 Mrs. Ethel Cacheris and Mr. Bob Stebbins and Mrs. Mrs. Irene Craft and Mr. Mr. Roger Makley+ Mr. Plato Cacheris* F’51, L’56 Ann Beth Stebbins* Randal Craft* L’68 C’57, L’60, L’62 Prof. Sherman Cohn* C’86, L’94 Mrs. Lynne Curtin and Mrs. Carol Malone and F’54, L’57, L’60 Mr. Stephen Steppe and Mr. David Curtin C’58, L’63 Mr. H. Christopher Malone* Mr. Joseph Czerniakowski+ Mrs. Sara Steppe* L’85 Mrs. Maryelene Dailey and C’58, L’61 C’50, L’53 Mrs. Janice Straske and Mr. William Dailey Jr.* L’63 Ms. Agnes Maynard and Mr. Mrs. Joan DeCrane and Mr. Stephen Straske II* Mrs. Catherine Denny and Robert Maynard* L’62, L’63 Mr. Alfred DeCrane Jr.* L’59 C’87, MBA’91, L’91 Mr. James Denny L’60 Mrs. Carol McCann, N’63, and Mrs. Barbara Donohue and Mrs. Lila Sullivan and Mr. Mr. Gerhard Depken* C’62, L’65 Mr. Thomas McCann L’65 Mr. George Donohue L’59 Brendan Sullivan Jr.* Ms. Suzanne Dupre L’66 Mrs. Kathe McDaniels and Mr. Mrs. Jenny Dunner and Mr. C’64, L’67, H’11 Mr. Stuart Dvorin* L’67 William McDaniels* L’66 Donald Dunner* L’58 Ms. Bessie Sze Seiler and Mrs. Betsy Emanuel and Mrs. Priscilla McGunnigle and Mr. Vincent Fuller+ L’56, H’88 Mr. Stephen Seiler* L’80 Mr. William Emanuel* L’63 The Hon. George McGunnigle Mr. Edward Gallagher Jr.* L’50 Ms. Leslie Turner* L’85 Mrs. April Feffer and Mr. Jr.* L’66 Mrs. Kathy Gallagher and Ms. Christine Varney, L’86, and Joel Feffer* L’67 Mrs. Sandy McManus and Mr. Mr. John Gallagher III* L’55 Mr. Thomas Graham* L’88 Mrs. Dorothy Flattery and Michael McManus Jr.* L’67 Mrs. Sarah Gewirz and Mr. Mr. John Vasily, L’82, and Mr. Paul Flattery* L’64 Ms. Gale Messerman and Mr. Bernard Gewirz* L’53 Mrs. Medina Vasily* L’83 Mrs. Gertrude Frekko and Gerald Messerman* L’62 Mr. Bela Karlovitz+ L’54 Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg L’99 Mr. Tibor Frekko* Mr. Bernard Metzgar* L’66 Mrs. Debra Maddux and The Mr. W. Edward Walter III* L’80 C’55, M’59, L’63 Mrs. Rita Meyer and Mr. Hon. William Maddux* L’59 Ms. Janet Weiss L’79 Mrs. Cynthia Frestel and Dennis Meyer* L’60, L’62 Mr. Terrence Mealy+ L’57 Mr. Ralph Whitworth* L’85 Mr. John Frestel Jr.* L’64 Mr. William Meyers L’64 Mr. Philip Inglima, C’84, L’88,

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Mrs. Jeanne Miller and Mr. Thomas Wall Jr. L’63 FRANK HOGAN SOCIETY Mr. Stephen Miller L’63 Mr. James Wallace Jr.* L’66 Mrs. Katherine Miller, G’68 and Mr. Thacher White and Mr. John Miller* L’67, L’69 Ms. Doris Blazek-White* L’68 BE RECOGNIZED FOR Mrs. Heather Mitchell and Ms. Marlene Williams and Mr. YOUR GENEROSITY The Hon. George Mitchell* Richard Williams* L’66 AND COMMITMENT. L’61, H’89 Mrs. Nancy Williams and Mrs. Susan Moran and Mr. Sidney Williams L’69 The Frank Hogan Mr. Thomas Moran* L’62 Mrs. Eileen Zazzali and The Society honors those Mrs. Patricia Obermaier and Hon. James Zazzali* Mr. Otto Obermaier* L’60 C’58, L’62 who give $5,000 or Mrs. Joyce O’Brien and Mr. The Hon. Donald Ziegler* L’61 more each fiscal year. William O’Brien* L’69 Mr. Ronald O’Keefe* L’63 1970s Frank Hogan, L’1902 - Alumnus, Mrs. Lyn Parks and Mr. Professor, Alumni Association President Robert Parks L’63 Mrs. Marion Abood and Mr. For more information about how you can join, please e-mail Mrs. Susan Pittleman and Randolph Abood* L’75 Amanda Frost at [email protected]. Mr. James Pittleman* L’66 Ms. Nancy Abramowitz, L’75, Mrs. Gail Policy and Mr. and Mr. Mark Ellenberg* L’75 Carmen Policy* L’66 Ms. Anne Abramson, S’10, and Mrs. Susan Cognetti and Mr. Robert Fabia* L’77 Mrs. Jeanne Price and Mr. Mr. Ronald Abramson* L’74 Mr. Sal Cognetti Jr.* L’73 Mrs. Joyce Fanone and Mr. Joseph Price Jr.* L’67 Ms. Joan Ackerstein* L’77 Mrs. Alexis Colker and Mr. Joseph Fanone* C’71, L’74 Mr. Thomas Quinn* L’63 Mrs. Janis Adams and David Colker C’75 Mrs. Pamela Fellows and Mr. Peter Ressler L’64 Mr. Mark Adams* L’75 Ms. Kathleen Collins and Mr. Mr. Henry Fellows Jr.* L’78 Mrs. Deborah Ricks and Mrs. Mary Aiello and Mr. John Collins* L’71, L’76 Ms. Patricia Flatley and Mr. Jay Ricks* L’62 John Aiello* L’74 Mr. Gordon Greenberg and The Mr. Daniel Flatley* L’78 Mrs. Grace Rissetto, MA’75, Mrs. Miriam Ain and Hon. Patricia Collins* L’79 Mr. Edward Fogarty* L’72 and Mr. Harry Rissetto* L’68 Mr. Sanford Ain* L’72 Mrs. Julie Connor and Mr. Mr. Ladislav Fuchs and Mrs. Patricia Saunders and Mrs. Suzanne Andrews and Terence Connor* C’64, L’75 Mrs. Carol Fuchs* L’79 Mr. Paul Saunders* L’66 Mr. Robert Andrews Sr.* Ms. Christine Conway and Ms. Gladys Gallagher* L’78 The Hon. Marvin Schlosser* B’68, L’71 Mr. Richard Conway* L’72 Ms. Theresa Gillis* L’74 L’60, L’63 Mr. Richard Black L’70 Ms. Joan Cirillo and Mr. Ms. Jennifer Beals and Mr. Mrs. Leslie Schweitzer and Mrs. Ann Marie Bochnowski Roger Cooke* C’70, L’73 Geoffrey Gitner* L’70 Mr. William Schweitzer* L’69 and Mr. David Bochnowski* Mrs. Virginia Crowley and The Mrs. Marie Gittes, MA’71, Mrs. Ellen Shafer and Ambassa- F’67, L’75 Hon. Robert Crowley* and Mr. Franklin Gittes* L’73 dor Robert Shafer* L’61 Mrs. Dorothy Borders and C’68, L’71 Mrs. Joan Glasgow and Mr. Thomas Shaffner* L’63 Mr. Thomas Borders* L’74 Mrs. Valerie Dalebroux, Mr. Norman Glasgow Jr.* Mrs. Patricia Shapiro and Mr. Mrs. Leslie Briggs and Mr. MS’76, and Mr. Jeffrey C’74, L’77 Bernard Shapiro* L’67, L’70 John Briggs III* L’72 Dalebroux* L’76 Mr. Roy Goldman* L’79 Mrs. Mary Shea and Mr. Mrs. Mary Bright, L’76, and Ms. Mary Davidson and Ms. Mary Grant, F’74, and Charles Shea* L’63 Mr. James Bright* L’76 Mr. Mark Davidson* L’77 Mr. Patrick Grant* C’73, L’77 Mrs. Patricia Sheehy and Mr. Stephen Bruce* L’79 Mrs. Annegret De Vos and Mr. Grant Green Jr. and Mr. Terrence Sheehy* L’62 Mr. James Bruton III* L’78 Mr. Lloyd De Vos* L’73 Ms. Virginia Green L’71 Mr. Steven Sher* L’69 Ms. Susan Bryant, L’73, L’79, Mr. Andrew DeCicco L’73 Mrs. Rosalyn Greenbaum and Mrs. Margaret Silver and and Mr. Lawrence Fox L’73 Mrs. Denise DeMarzo and Mr. Mr. Lewis Greenbaum* L’73 Mr. Sidney Silver* L’62 Mr. David Buchholtz* L’76 Joseph DeMarzo* F’76, L’79 Ms. Marjorie Gross L’73 Mr. Michael Slive L’66 Mr. Ralph Davis and Mr. Luis Derrota* L’78 Mrs. Lee Ellen Hagner and Mrs. Lila Sullivan and Mr. Ms. Kathleen Burke* L’77 Mr. Russell Deyo L’75 Mr. John Hagner* L’73 Brendan Sullivan Jr.* Mr. James Cain* L’79 Mrs. Carol Dowley and Mr. Ms. Melissa Hall and Mr. C’64, L’67, H’11 Mr. John Campo Jr.* C’76, L’79 Joseph Dowley* C’68, L’76 William Hall* L’78 Mrs. Carol Thomson and Mr. Mr. David Carlsen* L’79 Ms. Elaine Drummond* L’76 Mrs. Laurie Hartigan and William Thomson Jr.* L’63 Ms. Jean Chamberlain and Mr. Ms. Susan Hotine and Mr. John Hartigan* L’75 Mrs. Martha Uelmen, N’65 George Chamberlain Jr.* L’72 Mr. John Dubeck* L’76 Mr. Hugh Hayden* L’74 and Mr. Gerald Uelmen* The Hon. Robert Chatigny, L’78 Mr. Norman Dupont* L’78 Mrs. Ilene Heller, L’82, and L’65, L’66 and Ms. Stacey Chatigny L’79 Mrs. Kathleen Duquette and Mr. Barry Heller* L’77 Mrs. Katheryn Wall and Mr. Philander Claxton* L’78 Mr. Dennis Duquette* L’73 Mrs. Ann Herman and Mr. Ms. Joan Claybrook* L’73, H’93 Mr. Donald Evans* L’77 Robert Herman* L’73

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Mr. John Heuberger* L’76 Mr. Bret Lowell* L’78 Ms. Kathleen Nealon, Ms. Susan Gilbert and Mr. Mrs. Karen Hibey and Mr. Mrs. Patricia Lynett and C’75, L’78, and Mr. Eric Ronald Schechter* L’76 James Hibey* L’74 Mr. George Lynett* L’78 Scoones* C’74, L’78 Mr. Mark Schifrin* L’78, L’85 Mr. Michael Hickey* L’74 Mr. Joseph Mahaley and Ms. Mrs. Marjie Nealon and Mrs. Ulrike Schlafly and Mr. Mr. Robert Almon and Ms. Peri Mahaley* F’76, L’79 Mr. Thomas Nealon III* Thomas Schlafly* C’70, L’77 Mariana Hogan* L’79 Mrs. Mary Malyska and C’70, L’74 Mr. John Schmidt L’75 Mrs. Nancy Hollingsworth and Mr. John Malyska* L’71 Mrs. Ellen Noel and The Mr. Barry Schwartz* L’74 Mr. Joe Hollingsworth* L’74 Mr. Mark Mamolen+ L’76 Hon. Franklin Noel* L’77 Mr. Alan Greer and The Ms. Hester Honda* L’78 Mrs. Kathleen Margolin and Mrs. Michaelanne Northrop and Hon. Patricia Seitz* L’73 Prof. Nan Hunter* L’75 Mr. Eric Margolin* L’77 Mr. Carl Northrop* L’76 Mrs. Karen Shanahan Ms. Barbara Bott and Mr. Mr. Arvin Maskin* C’75, L’78 Mr. Chester Nosal* L’70 MSFS’69, L’71 Robert Jennings Jr.* L’76 Ms. Linda Mazawey and Ms. Melanie Nussdorf and Mrs. Cecille Shannon, F’68, Mr. Nelson Jones III L’77, L’80 Mr. Louis Mazawey* L’74 Mr. Lawrence Nussdorf* L’74 and Mr. George Shannon* Ms. Amy Weiss and Mr. Mrs. Marcia McBride and Mr. Mr. Daniel O’Connor* L’74 F’68, L’71 Peter Kadzik* L’77 Timothy McBride* L’75, L’80 Mrs. Margaret O’Donnell and Mr. Daniel Shapiro, L’75, and Ms. Marlana Kain and Mr. Ms. Judith McCormally and Mr. Terrence O’Donnell* L’71 Mrs. Emily Shapiro* L’77 Michael Kain L’77 Mr. Timothy McCormally* Mrs. Carolyn Okinaga and Dr. Richard Buckingham and Mrs. John Kane Jr. and Mr. L’76 Mr. Lawrence Okinaga* L’72 Ms. Emily Sherman* L’79 John Kane Jr.* L’71 Ms. Kathleen McGann* L’77 Mr. Richard Omata L’76 Ms. Janet Hahn and Mr. Mrs. Maryanne Kane, L’73 Mrs. Beth McGowan and Ms. Leslie Owsley* L’78 Kenneth Simon* L’77 and Mr. David Kane L’73 Mr. Gregory McGowan* L’79 Mrs. Deborah Paige and Ms. Toby Singer, L’77, and Mrs. Jean Katz and Mr. Mr. Hamlet Bent and Ms. Mr. Stephen Paige* L’72 Mr. Thomas Papson* L’77 Lawrence Katz* L’71 Madonna McGwin L’79 Mr. Scott Partridge* L’74 Mrs. Bonnie Siverd, F’71, and Mrs. Holly Kimmitt and The Mr. Peter Cowhey, F’70, and Ms. Linda Patton and Mr. Robert Siverd* C’70, L’73 Hon. Robert Kimmitt* L’77 The Hon. M. Margaret Mr. Stephen Patton* L’78 Mrs. Lauren Smith and Mr. Mr. James King* C’70, L’73, McKeown* L’75, H’05 Mr. Michael Patton* L’77 Robert Smith* L’72 L’78 Mr. Thomas McLain and The Mr. Robert Paul* L’78 Mr. James Carlson and Mrs. Carol Kirby and Mr. Hon. Celeste Pinto McLain* Mrs. Dale Pinto and Ms. Linda Striefsky L’77 Peter Kirby* L’79 L’74 Mr. James Pinto* C’73, L’76 Mr. William Sweet Jr.* L’78 Mr. Robert Kenney Jr. and Mrs. Christina McManimon and Ms. Donna Potenza and Mr. David Thompson, F’70, Ms. Wendy Kirby* L’79 Mr. Edward McManimon III* Mr. Vito Potenza* L’75 and Ms. Elizabeth Mr. Hideki Kojima* L’79 C’68, L’71 Mrs. Mary Prager and Thompson* L’76 Mrs. Patricia Korb and Mr. Ms. Andrea Grant and Mr. Mr. Bruce Prager* L’77 Ms. Helen Torelli L’78 Donald Korb* L’77 Selig Merber L’74 Mr. Timothy Price* L’74 Mr. Craig Tregillus* L’73 Mrs. Debra Kurz and Mr. Bruce Hack and Ms. Mrs. Christine Rath and Mr. Dennis Verhaegen* L’79 Mr. Thomas Kurz* L’77 Jayma Meyer* L’78 Mr. Thomas Rath* L’71 Mrs. Sandi Vince and Mr. Mrs. Joyce Lamb, L’75, and The Mrs. Suzanne Miller and Mrs. Gail Restivo and Clinton Vince* L’74 Hon. Stephen Lamb* L’75 Mr. Lee Miller* B’69, L’73 Mr. James Restivo Jr.* L’71 Ms. Julie Lansaw and Mrs. Constantia Latham and Mr. Charles Mills* L’77 Ms. Kay Richman* L’78 Mr. F. Joseph Warin* L’75 Mr. Weldon Latham* L’71 Mr. Peter Mirsky* L’71 Ms. Karen Rinta-Spinner, Ms. Janet Weiss L’79 Mrs. Lorraine Lavet and Ms. Abby Yochelson and L’76, and Mr. J. James Ms. Jane Wilson, L’85, and Mr. Robert Lavet* L’79 Prof. Wallace Mlyniec* L’70 Spinner* L’76 Mr. Stephen Wells* L’75, L’77 Mr. Steven Zieff and Ms. Mr. Patrick Moran* L’73 Ms. Nancy Ripp Clark, C’77, Ms. Sybil Wailand and R. Elaine Leitner* L’78 The Hon. Linda Morgan, L’76, M’81, and Mr. Kevin Clark* Mr. Barry Willner L’72 Ms. Shelley Wallan and and Mr. Michael Karam* C’76, L’79 The Hon. Albert Wynn* L’77 Mr. David Lerman* L’75 F’72, L’76, L’81 Mrs. Mary Alice Roberts, Mrs. Janice Wzorek and Mr. Mr. John Leseur* L’79 Mr. Gary Morgans* L’78 C’73, and Mr. Thomas Lawrence Wzorek* L’72 Mrs. Melany Levenson and Mr. Ms. Wendy Jordan, C’73, and Roberts* C’69, L’72 Mr. Bruce Foreman and Howard Levenson* L’78, L’81 Mr. Francis Murray* Mr. Peter Romatowski* L’75 Ms. Joanne Young L’74 Mr. Paul Liebenson* L’79 F’72, L’75 Mrs. Patricia Rothman and Mr. Mark Young* L’77 Mr. Robert Lighthizer* Ms. Patricia Muschett and Mr. Richard Rothman* L’74 Mr. Lupe Zamarripa* L’73 C’69, L’73 Mr. Michael Blau* L’79 Prof. Mark Rothstein, L’73, and Mr. Donald Lofty* L’72 Mr. Robert Muse Jr.* L’72 Prof. Laura Rothstein* L’74 1980s The Hon. Cheryl Long* Mr. Michael Nannes, L’77, Mr. Isam Salah* L’78 F’71, L’74 and Ms. Nancy Everett* L’79 Ms. Anita Scarola and Mr. Mr. Michael McCabe, B’80, John Scarola* C’69, L’73 and Ms. Elizabeth Abdoo* C’80, L’86

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Mr. Phillip Allen L’82 Mr. Albert del Castillo Sr.* Mrs. Kristine Hershberger and Ms. Kimberly Lake, L’88, and Mr. Kary Antholis L’88 C’79, L’82 Mr. John Hershberger* L’83 Mr. Alfred Puchala Jr.* L’88 Mr. Stephen Arcano, F’84, L’88, The Hon. John Delaney, L’88, Ms. Tina Hestrom, L’82, and Mr. Ronny Lancaster* L’84 and Mrs. Anne Arcano* L’89 and Ms. April McClain- Mr. Bernardo Portuondo* Ms. Katharine Latimer L’86 Mrs. Amy Aronson and Delaney* L’89 C’78, L’82 Mr. John Lauro* C’79, L’82 Mr. Clifford Aronson* L’80 Ms. Ileana Blanco, L’84, and Mrs. Monica Hoppenstein and Ms. Helene Weisz and Mr. Ms. Kim Askew* L’83 Mr. Gerard Desrochers* L’84 Mr. Joel Hoppenstein* L’84 Richard Lieberman* L’88 Mr. William Baker III, L’83, Ms. Victoria Diaz and Mr. Ms. Lynn Horn and Mr. Mrs. Sandra Lizza and Mr. and Mrs. Olivia Baker* L’88 Paul Diaz* L’88 Keith Horn* L’83 Charles Lizza* L’80 Mr. William Yaro and Ms. Mr. Jeffrey Distenfeld and Mr. Lewis Horton L’82 Ms. Kathleen Logerfo, N’86, Rosamond Barber* L’82 Mrs. Yvonne Distenfeld* L’81 Mrs. Brenda Howard and and Mr. Michael Logerfo* Mr. Hugh Winkler, C’78, Ms. Theona Jundanian, L’91, Mr. James Howard Jr.* L’84 C’85, L’88 and Mrs. Sylvia Becker* and Mr. Tim Dore, L’89 Mrs. Leslie Hudson and Mrs. Donna Lovely and F’80, L’87, MS’87 Ms. De’Ana Dow* L’81 Mr. J. Clifford Hudson* L’80 Mr. Richard Lovely L’84 Mrs. Jeralyn Berrol and Mr. James Duff, L’81, and Ms. Mr. Kevin Hurley L’80 Mr. E. Robert Lupone* L’84 Mr. Bruce Berrol* L’89 Kathleen Gallagher-Duff* L’84 Ms. Antonia Ianniello, L’80, Mr. Robert Reklaitis and Mrs. Linda Bicks and Mr. Mr. Louis Farr* B’78, L’81, L’88 and Mr. George Chuzi* L’80 Ms. Patricia Maher* L’81 Peter Bicks* L’86 Ms. Michelle Berninger, L’95, Ms. Elizabeth Wieser, C’86, Mr. Paul Mahon* L’87 Mr. John Biek, L’87, and Ms. and Mr. Gregory Fernicola* L’92, and Mr. Philip Inglima* Mrs. Lonni Marchibroda- Christina Norton* L’89 L’85 C’84, L’88 Kehoe L’88 Mrs. Laura Bilicic and Mr. Mrs. Janice Fitzgibbon, C’78, Mrs. Lydia Jackson and Mrs. Margaret Marcou and George Bilicic Jr.* L’88 and Mr. Timothy Fitzgibbon* Mr. David Jackson* Mr. George Marcou* L’84 Mrs. Janet Birenbaum, L’82, and F’77, L’83 F’83, MAAS’83, L’87 Mr. Samuel McClure and Mr. Charles Birenbaum* L’82 Mr. Christopher O’Malley and Mr. Maxime Jadot* L’81 Ms. Laura Marran L’88 Mrs. Ann Blume and Mr. Ms. Wendy Flanagan* L’89 Mr. Wayne Johnsen* L’88 Mr. James Mathias* L’88 Bruce Blume* L’80 Mr. Craig Foster and Mrs. Mrs. Christine Johnson and Mr. Andrew Lapayowker and Ms. Mr. A. Randolph Bregman* L’85 Terri Foster* L’85 Mr. Robert Johnson* L’87 Sarah McCafferty* C’76, L’80 Ms. Robin Shaffert and Mr. Mrs. Gwendolyn Garbarino* Mrs. Shaun Jones and Mr. Mr. Thomas McCarthy* L’81 Dean Brenner* L’85 L’85 Michael Jones* L’85 Mrs. Monica McGonigle and Ms. Elizabeth Breslow and Mr. Sol Glasner* L’81 Mrs. Deborah Kadlick and Mr. Thomas McGonigle* L’82 Mr. Richard Breslow* L’82 Mr. Michael Gotts and Mrs. Mr. Richard Kadlick L’82 Mrs. Jennifer McIntyre and Mr. Dan Burt and Mrs. Ilene Gotts* L’84 Ms. Kathleen Kaleta and Mr. Kevin McIntyre* L’88 Yvonne Burt* L’80 Ms. Christine Varney, L’86, and Mr. Paul Kaleta* L’81 Dr. Dale Meers and Mrs. Ms. Linda Arnsbarger and Mr. Thomas Graham* L’88 Mrs. Elaine Kaplan and Elizabeth Meers* L’80 Mr. Brian Busey* Dr. Julie Luttinger and Mr. Mr. Andrew Kaplan* L’83 Mr. George Meierhofer* F’74, MA’76, L’82 Charles Graves II L’84 Mrs. Carol Kaplun, F’78, and C’83, L’86 Ms. Barbara Cagney and Mr. Mr. Joseph Guerra* L’85 Mr. Paul Kaplun* B’78, L’84 Mr. Thomas Meloro Jr.* L’89 Lawrence Cagney* L’81 Ms. Michelle Hamilton and Ms. Marianne Keler, F’76, L’80, Mrs. Rebecca Smith, L’83 Mr. Daniel Casey L’81 Mr. Kevin Hamilton* L’85 and Mr. Michael Kershow* and Mr. Keith Mendelson Ms. Elaine Chan, L’81, and Mrs. Ruth Hammer and L’80 L’83 Mr. Peter Hiebert* L’81 Mr. Kenneth Hammer* L’84 Ms. Judith Keller* L’85 Mr. Gilbert Menna* L’82, L’83 Mrs. Rika Clark and Mr. Mr. Nicola Hanna* L’87 Mrs. Catherine Kelly and The Hon. John Schlesinger Fred Clark* L’88 Mrs. Barbara Harding, L’88, Mr. Kevin Kelly* L’89 and The Hon. Marilyn Mr. Frederic Clarke and and Mr. David Harding L’89 Mr. Thomas Kennedy* L’81 Milian* L’84 The Hon. Dorothy Clarke* Mr. David Harris L’82, MS’82 Ms. Ellen Kentz, C’83, L’92, Ms. Keiko Miller and Mr. F’66, L’81 Mr. Jeffrey Harris and Ms. and Mr. Andrew Kentz* George Miller L’85 Mrs. Anne Coffey and Mr. Anna-Liza Harris* F’83, L’89 C’78, L’83, S’12 Mr. Michael Miller* L’85 John Coffey* L’87 Ms. Marybeth Harris, N’84, Mr. Gilbert Keteltas* L’89 Mr. Garrett Moore* L’81 Mr. Douglas Evans and and Mr. Timothy Harris* Mr. Sukhan Kim* L’81 Ms. Michelle Miller and Ms. Sarah Cogan* L’81 C’81, L’84 Mrs. Carol Klein and Mr. Mr. Marc Morial* L’83 Mrs. Mary Beth Conry and Ms. Mary Hartnett L’85 Kenneth Klein* L’80 Ms. Susan Hrvatin and Mr. Mr. Kevin Conry* F’76, L’86 Mr. Bruce Heiman and Mr. Jonathan Klein* L’87 David Mullane* C’80, L’84 Mr. William Cople* L’86 Mrs. Diane Heiman* L’83 Mr. David Koschik, L’84, MS’84, Mrs. Andrea Muller, F’81, L’85, Mrs. Vivian Darrell and Mr. Barry Heller, L’77, and and Ms. Izumi Hara* L’85 and Mr. Rudolph Muller* L’85 Mr. Mark Darrell* L’82 Mrs. Ilene Heller* L’82 Mrs. Aileen La Ganza and Mrs. Hiroko Murase and Mr. Robert David* L’81 Mr. William Henderson* L’85 Mr. Dennis LaGanza* L’88 Mr. Satoru Murase* L’83 Mrs. Barbara del Castillo and

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Mr. James Star and Ms. Sara Star L’85 Save the Date! Mr. Samuel Starr* L’81 OCTOBER 16-18, 2015 Mr. Stephen Steppe and Mrs. Sara Steppe* L’85 Mr. Larry Stoller, L’88, and Mrs. Melissa Stoller* L’89 Mr. Peter Susser* L’82 Ms. Irene Syrnyk L’81 Ms. Bessie Sze Seiler and Mr. Stephen Seiler* L’80 Mr. Kirk Cadwell and Ms. Donna Tanoue* L’81 Mr. Philip Tatarowicz L’83 Ms. Judi Taylor and Mr. Matthew Taylor* L’89 Ms. Leslie Turner* L’85 Mr. Richard Shapiro and Ms. Lynn Usdan* L’84 Mr. John Vasily, L’82, and Mrs. Medina Vasily* L’83 Ms. Helen Moore and Mr. William von Oehsen III* L’88 Mr. W. Edward Walter III* L’80 Mr. Weimin Wang* MS’87, L’88 Mr. Arthur Webster* L’82 Mr. Ram Wertheim* L’82 Mr. Ralph Whitworth* L’85 Mr. Stephen Wells, L’75, L’77, and Ms. Jane Wilson* L’85 Mr. Samuel Wolff* L’82, L’83 Ms. Xiaowei Ye C’83, L’88 Mrs. Heather Yeager and Mrs. Elise Museles and Mr. Joseph Piorkowski Jr.* L’88 Mr. Albert Saltz, L’87, and Mr. Mark Yeager* L’89 Mr. Steven Museles L’88 Ms. Regina Pisa* L’82 Mrs. Veronica Saltz* L’88 Mr. Winston Zee L’81, L’84 Ms. Karen Nagle* L’84 Mr. Joseph Plunkett L’83 Mr. William Sawch* L’80 Ms. Amy Rudnick and Mr. Ms. Lynn Neils* L’89 Ms. Barbara Pollack* L’84 Ms. Agnes Scanlan* L’88 Michael Zeldin* L’83 Mr. David Miller and Ms. Mr. Kurt Rasmussen* F’79, L’82 Ms. Linda Schakel* L’86 Mr. Donald Zimmer Jr. L’83 Marcia Nirenstein* L’80 Mrs. Carolyn Reece and Mr. Mr. Mark Schneider* L’84 Mr. John O’Connor* L’85 Joseph Reece* L’89 Mrs. Mary Schropp, N’86, and 1990s Mrs. Kimberly O’Connor, L’91, Mr. Terrance Reed* L’82 Mr. Toby Schropp* Ms. Hadija Ally L’96 and Mr. Paul O’Connor III* Mr. Frank Hobbs and Ms. F’84, L’87, L’90 Mr. Motonori Araki L’91 L’87 Martha Rees* L’84 Mrs. Charlotte Sechler and Mr. Richard Ashley III* L’94 Ms. Chang Oh L’86 Ms. Nancy Reimer* L’89 Prof. Philip Sechler* L’89 Mr. Christian Athanasoulas* Mr. Roger Oldham and Ms. Mr. David Reyes* L’82 Mr. Clifford Sethness L’83 B’92, L’95 Susan Oldham* L’85, L’90 Ms. Patricia Franklin and Mr. Stanley Shaw Jr.* L’80 Mrs. Rosario Baldwin* L’95 Mr. John Oller* L’82 Mr. Alan Rivera L’87 Mr. Robert Van Heuvelen and Mr. Michael Beauvais* L’99 Ms. Margaret O’Neil* L’83 Mrs. Anita Rizek and Mr. Ms. Jane Sherburne L’83 Mr. Gregory Fernicola, L’85, and Mrs. Nancy O’Neil, L’82, and Christopher Rizek* L’82, L’97 Mr. Lawrence Sizemore L’88 Ms. Michelle Berninger* L’95 Mr. Thomas O’Neil* L’82 Ms. Patricia Robinson* L’87 Mr. Whitney Skala L’83 Ms. Myra Bierria L’99 Mrs. Elizabeth O’Reilly and Mr. Ms. Linda Rodd* L’83 Ms. Ruth Smith L’84 Ms. Roxane Reardon and William O’Reilly Jr.* L’80 Ms. Jenifer Rogers* F’85, L’88 Mrs. Rosa Spinnato-Pujol and Mr. Brian Bolster* Mrs. Maryanne Petersen, C’78, Ms. Leigh Ryan* L’80 Mr. John Spinnato* L’82 C’94, MBA’99, L’99 and Mr. Scott Petersen* L’80 Mr. Ronald Safer L’83 Mr. Thomas Sprague* L’81 Mr. Scott Boylan, L’90, and Mr. Steven Phillips* L’89 Mr. Raymond Vallejo and Ms. Janet St. Amand* L’80 Mrs. Kim Boylan* B’81, L’92 Mr. Anthony Pierce* L’87 Mr. Jerry Saliman* L’87

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Ms. Catherine Browning Ms. Kathleen Hamm* L’94 Mrs. Kara Petrosinelli and Mr. Ms. Emilie Cooper L’04 Burch* L’93 Mr. Michael Hodge+ L’90 Joseph Petrosinelli* L’91 Mr. Matthew Dubeck, L’05, Mr. Curtis Brueske L’92 Ms. Andrea Miano, C’87, L’90, Ms. Linda Pfatteicher, L’96, and Ms. M. Elizabeth Mrs. Tyler Burton and Mr. and Mr. Kevin Hodges* L’90 and Mr. Gregory Wilson* L’96 Dubeck* L’06 David Burton* L’96 Mr. William Holbrook* L’93 Mrs. Lana Phillips and Mr. Kevin Ms. Dawn Duncan* L’05 Ms. Claudia Callaway* L’91 Ms. Tanya Holcomb-Webber* Phillips*F’95, L’98, MBA’99 Mrs. Melissa Dunn and Ms. Jeanne Campanelli* L’91 Ms. Obrea Poindexter L’93 Mr. Walter Dunn* L’00 F’83, L’90 Ms. Michelle Hsu L’90, MS’91 Mr. Brian Polovoy* L’92 Mr. Mark Famiglio and Mrs. Mr. Frederick Campbell-Mohn* Mr. Keith Hummel* L’90 Ms. Katherine Pringle* L’93 Jennie Famiglio* L’01 L’93 Mrs. Abby Hutchinson and Mr. Jonathan Puth* L’92 Mr. Russ Ferguson* L’09, L’10 Mr. Chul Chung* L’91 Mr. James Hutchinson* L’93 Mr. James Rooney and Mrs. Ms. Elizabeth Foscue* L’05, Ms. Angela Clark* L’91 Mr. Heeseok Hwang L’96 Jennifer Rooney L’93 L’08 Ms. Jennifer Cognetti, C’02, Ms. Cynthia Hyland* L’99 Ms. Susie Rybak-Feldman and Mr. Daniel Franklin* L’08 and Mr. Mark Cognetti* Ms. Michele Johnson* L’98 Mr. Steven Feldman* L’97 Mr. Michael Galetto, MBA’03, B’95, L’98 Mr. Tim Dore, L’89, and Mr. Kirk Hobbs and Ms. and Ms. Melissa Galetto, L’03 Mrs. Molly Coleman, L’96, Ms. Theona Jundanian L’91 Susan Sakmar* L’99 Mr. Matthew Getz* L’05 and Mr. Craig Coleman* L’96 Mrs. Ja Kao, L’01, and Mr. Ms. Melissa Sebree, L’91, and Mr. Jon Hlafter* L’02 Mr. Todd Coltman L’99 Hilary Kao, L’98 Mr. Samuel Sebree* L’91 Mr. Michael Howard and Mrs. Mr. Bertram Cooke Jr.* L’98 Mr. William Katz Jr.* B’91, L’94 Ms. Dina Shapiro L’92 Tracye Howard* F’96, L’06 Mrs. Mary Crousore and Mr. Andrew Kentz, C’78, L’83, Mrs. Dale Sirota and Mr. Ms. Kathy Huang* L’05 Mr. Andrew Crousore* L’95 S’12, and Ms. Ellen Kentz* Neil Sirota* L’92 Mr. Hilary Kao, L’98, and Mr. Tino Dai and Ms. Mary C’83, L’92 Ms. Marisa Stavenas* L’99 Mrs. Ja Kao L’01 Davis L’93 Mr. Jason Kuo L’93 Mr. Bob Stebbins and Mrs. Ann Mr. Frank Kwok* L’06 Ms. Anne Dealy* C’91, L’95 Mr. Fernando Laguarda L’94 Beth Stebbins* C’86, L’94 Mr. Emerson Lee* L’09 Mr. David Della Rocca L’98 Mr. Judd Lawler* L’98 Mrs. Janice Straske and Mr. Jeremy Lustman* L’00 Ms. Michelle DePaulo, I’86. Mrs. Tracey Leeds and Mr. Stephen Straske II* Mr. Sebastian Maiz L’04 and Mr. Thomas Dewey L’91 Mr. Douglas Leeds* L’96 C’87, MBA’91, L’91 Mrs. Kori Meehan L’08 Mr. Damian Didden* L’97 Mr. Eric Loeb* L’96 Mr. Thomas Swan III L’94 Ms. Vivian Lugo-Eschenwald Ms. Athena Robles and Mr. Mr. John Maguire L’91 Mrs. Annie Terry* L’95 and Mr. Manuel Mendez* G. Richard Dodge Jr.* L’98 Mr. Francis Siciliano and Ms. Tamara Tompkins* L’94 L’07 Mr. Charles Dyke L’95 Ms. Kristin Major* L’97 Dr. Oliver von Rosenberg L’99 Mr. David Morrison and Ms. Mr. Michael Epstein* L’94 Mr. C. David Massey and Ms. Ms. Barbara Wallace-Bernstein, Jessica Morrison* L’01 Ms. Karen Feisthamel* L’90 Katharine Matthews* L’91 L’92, and Mr. Matthew Ms. Rebecca Morrison L’02 Ms. M. Soledad Feliciano, L’90, Ms. Kari McCulloch* L’95 Bernstein* L’92 Ms. Colleen O’Neill* L’02 and Mr. Andrew Anselmi L’90 Mr. James McKnight* L’90 Mr. Scott Waxman* L’90 Mr. Francisco Orellana* L’01 Mr. Henry Fetter and Ms. Mr. James Meenaghan L’93 Mr. Philip Inglima, C’84, L’88, Ms. Windy Venable and Mr. Lois Fishman* L’93 Ms. Ashley Merryman* L’98 and Ms. Elizabeth Wieser* Marc Pilcher* F’95, L’00 Mrs. Meade Fogel and Mr. David Ms. Maura Moffatt, C’88, L’91, C’86, L’92 Ms. Kristina Pisanelli* L’05 Fogel* F’93, MBA’97, L’97 and Mr. Gregory Moffatt Ms. Jill Jarrett, I’90, and Mr. James Pyle* L’04 Ms. Heather French* L’96 F’81, L’91 Mr. Drew Williamson* L’97 Ms. Usha Ravi* L’07 Mr. Scott Frewing L’97 Mr. Scott Monson* L’91 Mr. George Willman* L’96 Ms. Amy Shields* L’05 Mrs. Kristin Fulton and Mr. Mrs. Lisa Mottesi and Mr. Mr. John Wilson* L’96 Mr. James Sullivan* L’04 James Fulton Jr.* F’89, L’95 Marcelo Mottesi* L’92 Mr. Tyler Wolfram and Mr. Andre Warner* L’08 Mrs. Cleo Gewirz and Mr. Mr. John Mullen* C’91, L’95 Mrs. Michele Wolfram* L’92 Mr. Daniel Williams* L’00 Michael Gewirz* C’85, L’90 Ms. Marcia Murphy and Mr. Ms. Jocelyn Woolworth, L’91, Mrs. Tanya Gill L’98 John Murphy* L’93 and Mr. Eric Woolworth* Mrs. Linda Gillis and Mr. Mr. Paul O’Connor III, L’87 C’87, L’91 2010s Ms. Emily Betson, F’07, and Mr. Timothy Gillis* L’91 and Mrs. Kimberly Mrs. Suzanne Wuersch and Frank Balsamello* C’07, L’10 Mrs. Selene Gladstone and O’Connor* L’91 Mr. Daniel Wuersch* L’91 Mr. Timothy Bass L’11 Mr. B. James Gladstone* L’93 Mrs. Maggie Oetgen and Mr. Damien Zoubek L’99 Ms. Sarah Berger C’13, L’16 Captain Guy Glazier L’92 Mr. Stephen Oetgen L’94 Ms. Thea Cohen L’12 Ms. Melissa Hathaway and Mr. Mr. David Oliver* L’99 2000s Mr. David Happ and Mrs. Armando Gomez* L’94, L’96 Mr. William Stamps III and Sunhee Happ L’13 Mr. Richard Gorelick L’96 Ms. Ramona Ortiz* F’89, L’94 Mr. Aaron Broudo and Mr. Anand Appuingam B’08, L’14 Mr. Michael Halow L’90, L’94 Mr. Jeffrey Paravano* L’91 Mrs. Melissa Broudo L’06

Mr. James Pearl L’98 Ms. Kristina Broumand* L’02, MBA’02

SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW 77 ALUMNI Alumni Events

REUNION 2014 A record-setting crowd of 1,600 attended Reunion 2014 on October 17-19, 2014.

Alumni enjoyed luncheons, receptions, panel MELISSA DORN discussions, journal open houses, board meetings and a gala dinner and awards presentation Saturday evening at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.

Clockwise from top left: Members of the Class of 1964 celebrate their 50th reunion with a party at the Library of Congress, where class members pose for a photo.

Members of the class of 2004 reconnect at Taste of D.C., a picnic held on the Tower Green. From left: Brian Foster, Luis Calderon, Patrick Blaney, Michael Heinz and Aman Badyal (all L’04).

Terri Gillis (L’74) at the Frank Hogan Society reception on Friday evening.

The Women’s Legal Alliance Panel and Net- working Luncheon featured Jacqueline Tully MELISSA DORN (L’03), Mary Elizabeth Cisneros (L’95), Amy Friend (L’84), Gaela Gehring-Flores (L’96) and Sara Kropf (C’95, L’99, Ph.D.’02).

Dorothy Flattery, Paul Flattery (L’64), John Held (L’64) and Yvonne Held at the Taste of D.C. Luncheon.

Opposite page: Clockwise from left: Sen. Patrick Leahy (L’64, H’94) chats with Dean William M. Treanor at a special presentation of the photographs Leahy has taken through 39 years and seven presidential administrations. Leahy was honored with the 2014 Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Alumni Public Service award.

Paul R. Dean Award winners flank Sen. Leahy. From left: Delaware Gov. Michael N. Castle (L’64), Chief Administrative Law Judge David C. Simmons (L’84) of the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights; Judge Kimberly A. Moore (L’94) of the U.S. MELISSA DORN Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; April McClain-Delaney (L’89), the Washing- ton director of Common Sense Media; and Georgetown Law Assistant Dean Lawrence J. Center (L’74).

Jim O’Sullivan (L’64), left, and Laurence Harris (L’64) reminisce at the Founder’s Circle Alumni Luncheon on Friday.

Gala-goers take to the dance floor. Deirdre Richardson (C’01), Janice Bashford, Lisa Collins (F’01), Fentrice Driskell, Janelle Carter and Jennifer Mauskapf (all L’04) celebrate their 10-year reunion. An overview of the Reunion Gala at the Reagan Building.

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In the Public Interest One Day, One Clinic, Two Cases SAM HOLLENSHEAD Meghan Boone (LL.M.’19)

t’s not often that a legal organization — even a big national law Boone (LL.M.’19) and Supreme Court Institute Director Dori Bern- firm — has two of its cases heard in federal appeals court on the stein on the bench in the Institute’s moot courtroom on October 21, I very same day. But on Monday, October 27, Georgetown Law’s with each student acting as a judge during Kirkpatrick’s moot. (Kramer Institute for Public Representation did just that. then accompanied Kirkpatrick to New Orleans for the real thing.) Visiting Professor Michael T. Kirkpatrick, the new head of IPR’s So how does a student help a professor prepare for oral argu- civil rights division, argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th ment? “It means looking at everything that has happened in the case Circuit on the same day that IPR’s former co-director, Brian Wolfman, so far, thinking about what sorts of questions the judges are likely argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. to have and where the weakest parts of our case are, the things that “It is kind of amazing for a very small clinic,” Kirkpatrick said, might need some explaining,” said Daniel Colbert (L’15). Colbert noting that six students and one fellow work in IPR’s civil rights divi- helped Wolfman write a letter to the court concerning new case sion each semester. “We’re doing such a wide variety of work all over law and then moot his argument at the Law Center on October 25. the country, important big cases.” (Colbert and his clinic classmates accompanied Wolfman to the D.C. In the 5th Circuit, Kirkpatrick argued Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Circuit for the oral argument.) v. Range, asking whether a federal regulation requiring states to release The clinic, Colbert said, was a “good way to get exposure to the employment records preempts Mississippi laws authorizing the state ins and outs of litigation at lots of different levels.” to withhold the same records. The clinic represents Southern Migrant Many generations of IPR clinic students have worked on the two Legal Services, a nonprofit legal services organization trying to obtain cases including Bradley Girard (L’14) and Shahzadi Ahmed (L’14), the records so that they can better represent migrant farm workers in who wrote the opening brief in the 5th Circuit case, and Jessica the federal H2-A guest-worker program. Westerman (L’15), who assisted with the reply brief. Shelby Leighton Meanwhile, in the D.C. Circuit, Wolfman — now a visiting (L’14), Justin Rowinsky (L’14), Girard and Chris Miller (L’14) wrote professor at Stanford — argued Hairston v. Vance-Cooks, the Title VII the appellate brief in the D.C. Circuit case. case of an employee claiming racial discrimination against the Govern- Kramer said that it’s important for students who plan to do public ment Printing Office for failing to promote him. interest law to have these opportunities. “You find that these are really Both professors enlisted clinic students to help them prepare important issues ... which is cool as a law student,” he said. “You are for oral arguments, anticipating the kinds of questions the appellate involved in something that has the potential to be really impactful.” judges would ask. Sam Kramer (L’15) joined IPR fellow Meghan

80 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 • GEORGETOWN LAW Spotlight: Kathryn Ruemmler (L’96)

sk Kathryn Ruemmler And it was. Her 1L summer was spent working with Profes- A(L’96) what it’s like to sor Susan Low Bloch on an amicus brief for the Supreme Court work in the White House in connection with litigation brought against then-President Bill and she’ll tell you it’s like Clinton. In her second year she interned at the Department of working on a submarine. Justice. Before a decade had passed, Ruemmler would be serv- “It’s a small space, some- ing as associate counsel to Clinton and later as a federal pros- thing that people probably ecutor, receiving the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional wouldn’t understand from Service, the Department of Justice’s highest award, for her work the outside; you are working as a co-lead trial counsel in the securities fraud prosecution of so closely with people and former Enron CEOs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. As a law student, in a very high pressure situ- Ruemmler was also editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Jour- ation,” says Ruemmler, who nal, an experience in leadership she describes as “defining.” returned to private practice Ruemmler’s life after law school also included a clerkship last year after serving as White House counsel and principal with Judge Timothy K. Lewis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for deputy counsel to the president for nearly five years. “It’s a the 3rd Circuit and multiple tours with Latham & Watkins. She glass submarine, because everything that happens in there is of came to the Obama White House from Latham in 2009. “It’s interest to the media.” Nevertheless, “that kind of environment an incredibly unusual lawyering job, because it requires you to creates very much a sense of family.” practice law at the intersection of politics and policy, law and A family that includes her former boss, who Ruemmler now communications,” she says of the White House counsel’s job. counts as a friend. “He is a very down-to-earth, funny, funda- The president’s announcement granting deferred action to im- mentally decent person,” she says of President Barack Obama. migrants is one example, she said. “There will be a lot of public “He’s extraordinary but also regular … you can talk to him on a debate about whether or not that’s within his legal authority, wide variety of matters.” Plus, she says, “he’s a voracious reader; whether it’s constitutional … those are the kinds of questions he may be the most intellectually curious person I’ve ever met.” that you grapple with every day as White House counsel.” As the president’s longest-serving counsel and one of his Ruemmler returned to Latham’s litigation department last top advisers over the past few years, Ruemmler has a lot to be year as a partner and a member of the white-collar defense and proud of, starting with the quality and skill of the president’s investigations practice group. “It was a strange way to start back diverse judicial nominees. “The president diversified the courts at the firm, because I had only been there about a month before all across the country, more women judges under President there was speculation about the attorney general position,” she Obama than any prior president by a significant magnitude — says. In the end, though, she opted not to seek the AG role. “I Asian Americans, African Americans, openly gay judges,” she love public service — obviously, I’ve spent most of my career in says. “I’m also proud of the reforms we made in the clemency public service — but I’m very happy and content to be back in process; the work we did to defend the Affordable Care Act the private sector right now.” before the Supreme Court; the decision that the president made Ruemmler is open, however, to the idea of teaching, having to instruct the Justice Department to no longer defend the recently appeared as a guest speaker on presidential authority Defense of Marriage Act; the work that we did to effect legisla- in Georgetown Law’s Constitutional Aspects of Foreign Affairs tive repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Folks get disillusioned with Seminar, co-taught by Professor Emeritus Don Wallace. She has Washington, but a lot of progress really has been made.” also appeared in the criminal procedure class of Professor Neal Ruemmler grew up in a small rural town in Washington Katyal. In the meantime, Ruemmler has lots of career advice for State, earned a degree in English from the University of Georgetown Law students, having experienced firsthand what a Washington then came to Georgetown Law as an admitted lawyer can do with that Georgetown degree. “Do not be afraid student in the spring of 1993. “The cherry blossoms were in to take professional risks,” she advises students. “Do what you bloom, and there was such energy and excitement around the love, as opposed to what you are supposed to do, and do it well, city,” Ruemmler says. “I fell in love with D.C., I fell in love and everything else will flow from that.” with Georgetown. It was an easy decision. It just felt like the — By Ann W. Parks right place for me.” Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. 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