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Woodruff Finalist Weekend EMORY LAW 2020 2020 Robert W. Woodruff 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program Scholarship Program Who’s Who Stephanie Dingle of the Canadian Public Health Officer’s Ethics Advisory Director of Student Life Committee. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Petrie- Stephanie Dingle has over ten years of Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and experience in higher education with a Bioethics at Harvard Law School; the University of Sydney In 1980, Emory University established the Robert W. Woodruff Scholars focus in student development, diversity Law School; the Melbourne Law School; and the Faculty and inclusion, leadership development, of Law at Oxford University, where she also held a Plumer and Fellows Program to recruit and reward students with exceptional and community development. In her Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne’s College. Bobinski current role, she provides support to recently completed a new edition of Health Care Law & character, scholastic abilities, and leadership qualities. more than 60 student organizations, Ethics (Wolters Kluwer) with her co-authors and is working advises the Student Bar Association, on a research project focused on the contested nature of the and coordinates orientation programming. She is passionate physician-patient relationship, with a particular focus on about diversity efforts and wrote her dissertation on legal responses to conflicting values or norms. integrating International Students within the campus Robert W. Woodruff community. Prior to joining the Emory community, Dingle received her doctorate degree from Clark Atlanta University Kay L. Levine Just 33 years old Meanwhile, Ernest Woodruff had invested along in educational leadership, a master’s degree in college student Associate Dean for Faculty, Professor when he took with many other Atlantans in The Coca-Cola Co., affairs from Rutgers University, and a bachelor’s degree in of Law command of which had been acquired and taken public by a Language and Cultural Studies from Trinity Washington Kay Levine joined the Emory faculty in University. 2003. She graduated Phi Beta The Coca-Cola syndicate led by the Trust Co. of Georgia. After Kappa from Duke University and Co. in 1923, the acquisition, the company fell on lean times, so Andrew (Drew) Stevens 14L, received her JD from the University Robert Winship Ernest persuaded Robert to return to Atlanta and Woodruff Fellow of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall Woodruff become its president. University Historian, Emory University School of Law, where she served as shaped the Drew Stevens is an associate in the an editor on the Berkeley Women’s fledgling soft During the next six decades, Woodruff established Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Litigation Law Journal. She later earned both a master’s degree and a drink enterprise a remarkable record as a businessman and and Intellectual Property practice PhD in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley. and its bottler philanthropist. He gave anonymously to many groups, where he focuses on complex Before joining Emory, Levine served as a law clerk for the franchise system institutions, a number of which owe their commercial litigation involving Honorable David Alan Ezra, US District Court, District of into a corporate very existence to his generosity. Much of his intellectual property, health systems, Hawaii; as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County, giant with the philanthropy was directed through the Trebor and real property. Stevens has extensive California; as a criminal defense consultant; and as an world’s most Foundation, established in 1937 (renamed the experience prosecuting and defending claims of trademark adjunct faculty member of Boalt Hall. Since joining Emory, infringement and unfair competition, and he regularly she has earned both the Most Outstanding Professor Award widely known Robert W. Woodruff Foundation following his and the Emory Williams Teaching Award. trademark. death). Woodruff and his brother also presided represents brand owners in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the United States Trademark Trial and A man of enormous stature and personal over the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund, a Appeal Board. Drew also counsels and represents hospitals magnetism, Woodruff’s influence over the affairs separate charitable foundation whose assets of and health systems on compliance and in litigation under Ethan Rosenzweig 02L, of Coca-Cola was absolute until his death in approximately $105 million were distributed in Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 1557 Woodruff Fellow 1985. 1979 to Emory University. of the Affordable Care Act, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Associate Dean for Enrollment Act of 1964, and in civil rights investigations brought by the Management and Student Services Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, in The gift was called the largest single benefaction Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights at the After serving as Emory Law’s director 1889 and soon moved to Atlanta, where his in American history and increased Woodruff’s Department of Health and Human Services. of alumni affairs, Ethan Rosenzweig now oversees Emory Law’s admission, father, Ernest, became president of the Trust donations to the university to more than $200 financial aid, and career services. He Co. of Georgia. An indifferent student, young million. Emory, with five million shares of stock, Mary Anne Bobinski Dean and Asa Griggs Cander has served as deputy director of the US Woodruff wasted no time in making his mark in became one of the largest owners of Coca-Cola. Department of Education’s Office of business. Beginning as a salesman for the White Professor of Law Before joining Emory Law, Mary Anne Policy Briefing and Scheduling as a Presidential Management Motor Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, Woodruff quickly Bobinski was a professor at the Allard Fellow. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable became the company’s most successful salesman School of Law, where she served as dean G. Ernest Tidwell of the US District Court of Northern and was soon promoted to vice president and from 2003 to 2015. Previously she was Georgia and then practiced law with Nelson Mullins Riley general sales manager. the John and Rebecca Moores Professor & Scarborough in Charleston, South Carolina. A Woodruff of Law and director of the Health Law Fellow, Rosenzweig graduated Order of the Coif and served and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. as the executive notes and comments editor for the Emory Law Journal. He received his undergraduate and master’s She is a past president and board member of the American degrees in public policy from American University. Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and a past member 2 | Woodruff Finalist Weekend as of 3.18.20 Woodruff Finalist Weekend | 3 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program Who’s Who (continued) Selection Committee (continued) numerous courts, and she has testified about her empirical Julie Seaman BA from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) Silas Allard 11L 11T Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study work before several legislative committees. Shepherd has Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and her JD from Harvard (magna cum laude), where she was of Law and Religion, Managing Editor also been invited to present her scholarly work by faculties Associate Professor of Law an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She currently serves of the Journal of Law and Religion at leading universities around the country. Julie Seaman teaches courses and on the board of the Georgia Innocence Project. Silas W. Allard is managing director and seminars in evidence, constitutional law, Harold J. Berman Fellow in Law and Shepherd has considerable experience as an economic and freedom of speech. Her research Religion at the Center for the Study of and statistical expert. She has authored numerous expert interests include neuroscience and Law and Religion at Emory University. reports, testified at deposition and at trial in both federal and law, scientific evidence, hate speech, He is managing editor of the Journal of administrative courts, and provided public policy research and sex discrimination. In particular, she Law and Religion, published as a joint and white papers for many clients. Her expert work has focuses on the implications of findings venture between CSLR and Cambridge University Press. examined issues relating to market power and competition, in cognitive psychology, biology, and neuroscience to various His work has appeared in Refuge and Political Theology. economic impact analyses of proposed regulations, legal theories and doctrines. Professor Seaman received her A scholar of law and religious ethics, Allard’s work focuses enforcement actions by federal agencies, and damage on issues of migration and human rights. In addition to computations. his scholarly work, Allard serves in leadership roles for El Refugio, a ministry of hospitality for the families of detained Selection Committee immigrants, and the Georgia Immigration Working Group. Kamina A. Pinder Assistant Professor of Practice James B. Hughes Jr. Emory University School of Law (JD). She practiced law Allard joined CSLR, his alma mater, in 2013, following a In 2016 Kamina Pinder joined the Associate Professor of Law as a commercial litigator with a large Atlanta firm before two-year clerkship with Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue at the Emory faculty, where