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Fall Reunion 2015 Speaker Biographies Fall Reunion 2015 Speaker Biographies Elizabeth Bartholet ’65, Elizabeth Bartholet is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP), which she founded in the fall of 2004. She teaches civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption, and reproductive technology. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as Founder and Director of the Legal Action Center, a nonprofit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. Ms. Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962 and from Harvard Law School in 1965. Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and he is a Faculty Director of the Berkman Center. Mr. Bavitz has concentrated his law practice and clinical activities on intellectual property and media law, with an emphasis on music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Cyberlaw Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, trademark, online speech, and advising of mission-oriented startups and entrepreneurs about their legal, business, and strategic needs. He also works on issues relating to the use of technology to promote access to justice. Mr. Bavitz joined the Clinic in September 2008 as a Clinical Fellow. He was named Assistant Director of the Clinic in 2009 and was promoted to Clinical Instructor in 2010. He was appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2014. In his nearly seven years at the Clinic, Mr. Bavitz has managed a wide range of work for a wide variety of clients. He has worked closely with Clinic students on matters relating to public media, including collaborations with WBUR’s OpenCourt project (which offered livestreams of court proceedings in Massachusetts) and the Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange. He has worked with students and clients to draft amicus briefs addressing legal issues before state and federal courts, including the interplay between defamation law and the First Amendment; the attempted use of trademark law to suppress critical speech; the right of citizens to record police officers carrying out their duties in public; the continuing viability and scope of the hot news misappropriation doctrine; and the propriety of a prior restraint against online publication. And, he has teamed up with students and others to prepare public-facing resources regarding the state of the US music industry; privacy law as it pertains to children’s data; and the legal framework that governs newsgatherers in Massachusetts. He serves as Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab, where he works closely with HLS’s Experts in Residence and attorneys who offer legal services to those who work at the i-Lab. He is a member of Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund Seed Grant Selection Committee and has served as a Preliminary Judge for Harvard University’s President’s Challenge. He sits on Harvard Law School’s IT Steering Committee. 1 In addition to his classroom and clinical teaching activities at HLS, Chris served as a mentor during the first two years of the Harvard University-wide Digital Problem Solving Initiative. The Initiative is a cross-disciplinary teaching effort piloted at the Berkman Center, and his DPSI teams examined norms and practices at creation and innovation spaces and concerns about accessibility on online education platforms. Mr. Bavitz speaks and appears regularly at events and on panels, addressing topics related to intellectual property and technology before audiences that have included college and law school students, librarians and archivists, computer programmers and software developers, journalists and media lawyers. He served as point person on the Berkman Center’s collaboration with Berklee College of Music on a series of “Rethink Music” events and co-hosted the 2012 Rethink Music conference in Boston. Prior to joining the Clinic, Mr. Bavitz served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998 – 2002, he was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP (previously, Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman), where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his BA, cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his JD from University of Michigan Law School in 1998. Honorable Richard C. Breeden ’75 Richard C. Breeden ’75 consults with companies and government agencies on a broad range of topics such as evaluating corporate conduct, strengthening ethics and compliance, and improving corporate governance practices. He currently serves as Special Master for the US Department of Justice in administering the Madoff Victim Fund, which will return $4 billion in forfeited assets to Madoff victims in 135 countries. From 1981 to 1993, Mr. Breeden served in a series of increasingly senior government positions during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and William Clinton. He served as Assistant to the President and Co-head of domestic policy under President George H. W. Bush, where among other things he was principally responsible for developing the highly successful national program to stabilize and restructure the $1 trillion US savings and loan industry. President Bush subsequently appointed Mr. Breeden to serve as the 24th Chairman of the SEC, where he served with distinction from 1989 to 1993. Among other things, then-Chairman Breeden led the last comprehensive overhaul of US proxy rules, authorized the first ETFs, and took other steps to simplify raising capital or to improve the efficacy of US capital markets. In the early 2000s, Mr. Breeden served as Corporate Monitor of WorldCom/MCI, Inc. on behalf of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Breeden was responsible to the Court for overseeing the cleanup of history’s largest corporate fraud, including a wide-ranging overhaul of corporate governance and the largest-ever restatement of corporate earnings. He also later served as corporate monitor of KPMG LLP, under its deferred prosecution agreement with DOJ to implement governance reforms in the wake of criminal conduct involving tax shelters. During his career Mr. Breeden has worked with corporate governance challenges from almost every perspective, including as a regulator, bankruptcy trustee, major investor, corporate advisor and independent director. He has served on a total of more than a dozen corporate boards in the US.and Europe, ranging from startups to one of the world’s largest banks. He is currently a director of STERIS Corporation, an Ohio-based medical device manufacturing company attempting to complete a “corporate inversion” to UK domicile. He is also a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Mr. Breeden graduated from Stanford University in 1972. He lives with his wife Linda and two young sons in Greenwich, Connecticut. Emily M. Broad Leib ’08 Emily Broad Leib is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, as well as Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. She Co-founded and directs the Center’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to nonprofit and government clients in order to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Broad Leib is recognized as a national leader in Food Law and Policy. She teaches courses on the topic and focuses her scholarship and practice on finding solutions to today’s 2 biggest food system issues, aiming to increase access to healthy foods, prevent diet-related disease, eliminate food waste, and reduce barriers to market entry for small-scale and sustainable food producers. She has published scholarly articles in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others. Broad Leib is a recipient of Harvard President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund. Broad Leib’s project, “Reducing Food Waste as a Key to Addressing Climate Change,” was one of seven chosen from around the university to confront the challenge of climate change by leveraging the clinic’s food law and policy expertise to identify systemic solutions that can reduce food waste, which is a major driver of climate change. Broad Leib’s groundbreaking work on food waste has been covered in such media outlets as CNN, The Today Show, MSNBC, Time Magazine, Politico, and the Washington Post. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Broad Leib spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow, serving as Director of the Delta Directions Consortium, a group of university and foundation leaders who collaborate to improve public health and foster economic development in the Delta. In that role, she worked with community members and outside partners to design and implement programmatic and policy interventions on a range of health and economic issues in the region, with a focus on the food system. She received her BA from Columbia University and her JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude. Robert C. Clark ’72 Robert Clark, currently the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, was Dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for 14 years, from July 1989 through June 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he has written numerous law review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as “the paradigm for future student texts.” Professor Clark is a trustee of TIAA and chaired the TIAA-CREF ad hoc committee on corporate governance.
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