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Speaker Biographies Speaker Biographies Charlotte C. Alvarez ’12 Charlotte Alvarez is the Executive Director of The Immigration Project located in Bloomington, IL. The Immigration Project is a nonprofit agency that provides direct legal services for low income individuals in 86 counties in central and southern Illinois. She represents individuals in immigration cases, including family-based petitions, citizenship, asylum, and other forms of administrative and humanitarian relief. Charlotte is also active in providing Know Your Rights presentations and working with immigrant advocacy organizations to respond to the needs of rural immigrant communities. Previously, Charlotte was the Legal Services Director of the Immigration and Access to Justice program at the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama. Daniel J. Arbess ’87 Daniel J. Arbess is an investor and analyst recognized for his prescient calls on multi-year macroeconomic and geopolitical developments. He is a former Partner and Head of the Global Privatization practice group at White & Case from 1992, co- founder of investment firms Stratton Investments and Triton Partners from 1995–2002, and founder of Xerion Investments and the $3.25 Billion Xerion Hedge Funds, which he managed from 2003–2014. Dan is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-Founder of No Labels, a US political organization promoting collaboration across the political spectrum. Sabrineh Ardalan ’02 Sabrineh Ardalan is Assistant Director and Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She previously served as the Equal Justice America fellow at The Opportunity Agenda and as a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP. She also clerked for the Honorable Michael A. Chagares of Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie, Chief District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in History and International Studies from Yale College. Robert C. Bordone ’97 Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. Bob also teaches in the Harvard Negotiation Institute and the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars. In 2007, Bob received The Albert Sacks-Paul Freund Teaching Award at Harvard Law School, presented annually to a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for teaching excellence, mentorship of students, and general contributions to the life of the Law School. He was a finalist for the same award in 2012 and 2013. In 2010 the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) awarded Bob its Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum Award for his innovative work in creating and building the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. In 2012 and 2013, Bob was selected by the graduating class as one of three Harvard Law School faculty members to deliver a “Last Lecture” to the class prior to graduation. His research interests include the design and implementation of dispute resolution systems, the development of a problem- solving curriculum in law schools, and ADR ethics. Bob is the co-author of two books: Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes (Aspen, 2013) and The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The Handbook of Dispute Resolution was awarded the 2005 Book Award from the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution, awarded to a book published in the United States that shows the best promise of promoting and contributing to the field of conflict resolution. He has also published articles in leading dispute resolution journals including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, and Negotiation Journal. Bob’s writing and commentary have appeared in various print and broadcast media outlets including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, CNN’s “The Situation Room”, and BBC Radio. In addition he has created many negotiation role simulations and videos available through the Harvard Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse and the Harvard Case Studies Project. Prior to coming to Harvard, Bob clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr. of the US District Court for Massachusetts. He has also worked at the Washington DC-based law firm of Crowell & Moring, the New York-based law firm of Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the US Department of Justice, and the Boston Consulting Group. Bob is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in Government and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School where his coursework focused on negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution. He is a member of the bars of New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. As the Director of HNMCP, Bob is responsible for the overall functioning of the clinic, and directly supervises some of the clinical projects. Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at HLS, where he teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media, and has co-taught the Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace seminar. Chris 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. Chris 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 at HLS in 2010. In his nearly six years at the Clinic, Chris 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 a long-running association between the Clinic and the Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange. Chris has also 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. Chris 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 served this year as a Preliminary Judge for Harvard University’s President’s Challenge. He sits on Harvard Law School’s IT Steering Committee. In addition to his classroom and clinical teaching activities at HLS, Chris has served as a mentor during this, the inaugural year of the Harvard University-wide Digital Problem Solving Initiative. The Initiative is a cross-disciplinary teaching effort being piloted at the Berkman Center, and Chris’s DPSI team has looked at norms and practices at a variety of creation and innovation spaces. Chris 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, and 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 in recent years and co-hosted the 2012 Rethink Music conference in Boston. Prior to joining the Clinic, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998-2002, Chris 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. Megan Leef Brown ’02 Megan Brown is a Partner in the law firm Wiley Rein LLP. She is leader in the firm’s nationally-recognized Telecom, Media and Technology practice, handling, among other things, emerging technology and cybersecurity issues for Fortune 100 companies and associations. She helps companies deploy services, shape policy, and respond to government inquiries and investigations. She practices before the FCC, FTC, DHS, NTIA, GSA, Department of Commerce, and others. She advises on compliance with consumer protection, privacy and security regimes, and helps companies on national security issues, including “Team Telecom”/CFIUS review. Megan litigates questions of first impression related to technology, federal preemption and the First Amendment including commercial speech. She received the National Law Journal’s “Trailblazer” award for her cyber work, and has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and recommended attorney in areas of security, telecom and appellate. Megan served at the US Department of Justice as Counsel to Attorney General Michael B.
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