RES IPSA LOQUITUR The Georgetown University Law Center Magazine SPRING / SUMMER 1990 Volume 39, Number 3 Dean Law Center News 2 Quadrangle groundbreaking; Judith Areen Daniloff on eastern Europe; Blondel delivers Hart Lecture. Assistant Dean for Development and External Affairs Law Center Graduates 8 Graduates reach success in Congress with Kevin T . Conry on Capitol Hill Georgetown law degree. Assistant Dean fo r Career Services Home C ourt 1990 16 Professors and students team up against and Publications Congress in annual charity game. Abbie Willard Thorncr Law Library Campaign 18 Director of Public Relations Generosity of alumni and friends make Adrienne W. Kuchneman Draws to a Close Williams Library a reality. Flaws in Campaign Finance 23 Problems are numerous in efforts to reform Assistant Director of Public Relations Edwin C. Darden by Roy A. Schotland campaign finance laws. Profile: Robert Kimmitt 26 Undersecretary of state is a key policymaker in Bush Administration. Alumni News 28 Reunion weekend in Washington, D.C. Res Ipsa Loquitur is published three times each year for On the Cover: Georgetown Law Center’s McDonough the Georgetown University Law Center community, Hall and Williams Library arc situated just a short with distribution to alumni, faculty, staff, students, the distance away from the U.S. Capitol. All three structures media and friends. Published by the Office of Public are captured at twilight by photographer Sarah Hood. Relations, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. ©Copyright 1990, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved LAW CENTER NEWS Georgetown Law Center Breaks Ground for New Campus Quadrangle jjjLl) |»Jj Artist's rendering o f the new Quadrangle, as seen from Second Street. ONSTRUCTION CREWS broke way gate, which will be mounted in limestone ground this spring for the new George­ to provide an elegant border to the Quad­ town Law Center Quadrangle, designed to rangle on New Jersey Avenue. The arch will provide an outdoor setting for study, conver­ complement the old and new Law Center sation, and relaxation. This grassy area, with buildings, while providing a formal entrance trees, flowers and other greenery, will provide to the garden area and the campus. This arch a park-like setting between McDonough Hall has been preserved from the entrance to the and Williams Library. The new Quadrangle former law school location on E Street, N.W. will be located on G Street between Second Completion of the Quadrangle will cost Street and New Jersey Avenue. $1 million, which the Law Center hopes to The completed Quadrangle will include raise from supporters and friends. Those many benches to encourage students and wishing more information on the Quadrangle faculty to enjoy conversation and study in a campaign may contact Kevin Conry, Assis­ Georgetown Law Center's original iron arch serene outdoor environment. One tangible tant Dean for Development and External was featured prominently at the entrance to the Affairs, at (202) 662-9500. ■ reminder of Georgetown’s roots will be the old law school building on E Street. The same placement of the Law Center’s original arch­ arch w illframe the entrance to the Quadrangle, bridging the old and new. 2 Political Scholar Jean Blondel Delivers Tenth Annual Hart Lecture OLITICAL PARTIES play a pivotal role in A special feature of the Hart series is that the Hart, a three-term member of the United Pshaping the activities of governments in guest speaker spends several days on campus, States Senate, a Georgetown University alum­ Europe, observed Professor Jean Fernand sharing knowledge with faculty and students nus and a Law Center adjunct, died in 1976. Pierre Blondel at the 1990 Philip A. Hart in formal and informal settings. Topics are Family and friends established the lecture in Memorial Lecture in early April. chosen to coincide with areas of special inter­ his honor. The Moot Courtroom, where this Speaking to an audience of faculty, admin­ est to Hart during his career. year’s address was held, also bears his name. ■ istrators, students and friends of Georgetown Law Center, Blondel analyzed the influence of political parties during his speech, “Gov­ ernment, Political Parties, and Liberal De­ mocracy in the New Europe.” Many of the political parties in Europe are powerful, and the party, the chief political leader and the legislature are all interdepend­ ent, Blondel noted. Parties tend to fulfill three primary needs, he explained: recruiting young talent for the future, organizing the population, and producing program ideas. Blondel, a specialist in political science, teaches at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has been chairman of the Government Department at the Univer­ sity of Essex, a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and is the au­ thor of numerous books and articles. His address marks the 10-year anniversary of the Hart Memorial Lectureship, which each year brings a distinguished scholar or professional to the Law Center community. Daniloff Headlines Georgetown Hosts 20-year Retrospective Panel on Restructuring on Chief Justice Earl Warren’s Supreme Court of Eastern Europe NITED STATES Supreme Court scholars uled to deliver the keynote speech at the UTTING INTO per­ Ufrom prestigious law schools and univer­ conference before his unexpected death one Pspective the upheaval sities met recently at Georgetown University week prior to the event. ■ that rocked Eastern Europe Law Center to evaluate the merits and short­ was the challenge fora panel comings of the Warren Court era. of political and legal experts The conference, organized by George­ who visited Georgetown town Law Professor Mark Tushnet, provided Law Center in February. analyses of individual justices and the issues The panel included they faced. Panelists were Melvin Urofsky, Nicholas Daniloff, former Moscow correspon­ history professor at Virginia Commonwealth dent for U.S. News & World Report, who was University; William Nelson and Norman imprisoned in the Soviet Union in 1986 on Dorsen, law professors at New York Univer­ charges of espionage. Also featured were a sity; G. Edward White, law professor at the representative from the National Security University of Virginia; Robert Post, law pro­ Council, representatives from the East and fessor and Michael Parrish and Laura Kal­ West German embassies, and representatives man, history professors, all at the University from the Hungarian and Polish embassies. of California; and Tony Freyer, law and his­ Each of the panelists sought to give the tory professor at the University of Alabama. Law and history scholars take a moment to greet packed audience in the Georgetown Moot Warren, who retired from the High Court each other during a symposium about U.S. Courtroom a legal and political view of what in 1969, was chief justice during a turbulent Supreme Court justices who sat on the bench could happen in Eastern Europe in the fu­ time of change. The aim of the conference, while Earl Warren was chief justice. From the ture. M oderating the symposium was titled, “The Warren Court: A Historical Retro­ left are Melvin Urofsky, history professoral Georgetown Law Professor Norman spective,” was to view his tenure with the Virginia Commonwealth University; Georgetown Birnbaum, an expert on the reunification of hindsight of 20 years. Law Professor Mark Tushnet, who organized the Germany. A moving tribute to former Warren Court event; Tony Freyer, a law and history professor Embassy officials were the most optimis­ Justice Arthur Goldberg was delivered by a t the University o f Alabama; an d Georgetown tic, advocating harmony and open talks as the Tushnet and Georgetown Associate Dean Associate Dean Peter Edelman. formula for stability and improvement. The Peter Edelman. Edelman clerked for Gold­ panelists answered questions from the audi­ berg and maintained a lifelong friendship ence after sharing their views. ■ with the justice. Goldberg had been sched­ 3 Symposium and Moot Court Teams Debate Right-to-Die Issue EADING MINDS in law, medicine and L ethics were empaneled for a discussion in March at the Law Center about the issues in­ volved when an individual or the family of an incapable person asserts the “right to die.” During the “Symposium on Bioethics and the Right to Die,” Georgetown Law Profes­ sor Gregg Bloche moderated a session on the “persistent vegetative state.” Other panels focused on the issues and effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Cruzan case and the future outlook on right-to-die conflicts. Among the speakers were Robert Veatch, director of Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics; Professor Phillip Fubare, Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the Univer­ sity of Virginia; and Alison Wichman, director of the Bioethics Department for the National Institutes of Health. The symposium was preceded by The Second Annual Bioethics Moot Court Com­ petition, featuring students from law schools across the country. Georgetown’s student Barristers’ Council compiled different Appearing a t the right-to-die symposium were, from le ft to right, George Annas, Boston University; dilemmas into a single package, and the par­ Rose Gasner, Society fo r the Right to Die; Robert Levy, ACLU; Gregg Bloche, Georgetown Law ticipants from 27 teams presented oral argu­ Center; D avid Orentlicher, American Medical Association; Dean Judith Areen, Georgetown Law ments on a mock right-to-die case. ■ Center; and Victoria Rostow, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. Equal Justice Foundation Greets Mitch Snyder at Campus Visit Following Hunger Strike end of Snyder’s latest and much-publicized hunger strike. His talk also occurred during an unprecedented nationwide effort by the U.S. Census Bureau to count people living in homeless shelters, bus stations, abandoned buildings, subway cars, and under freeways in pup tents. “There are 3-4 million people on the streets of America who don’t have access to adequate housing,” Snyder proclaimed before the rapt student audience.