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College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Supreme Court Preview Conferences, Events, and Lectures 2002 2002-2003 Supreme Court Preview: Acknowledgements Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School Repository Citation Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School, "2002-2003 Supreme Court Preview: Acknowledgements" (2002). Supreme Court Preview. 143. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/preview/143 Copyright c 2002 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/preview 2002-2003 Supreme Court Preview Who's Who on the Panels MATTHEW BERRY is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the William & Mary Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in 1994 and his J.D. from Yale University Law School in 1997. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Clarence Thomas on the United States Supreme Court. He also served as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Review, and The Washington Times. JOAN BISKUPIC has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. Before joining USA Today in June 2000, she was the Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Post (1992-2000) and legal affairs writer for Congressional Quarterly (1989-1992). In 1991, Ms. Biskupic won the Everett McKinley Dirksen award for distinguished reporting of Congress for her coverage of the Clarence Thomas nomination. She received her B.A. in journalism from Marquette University, her M.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is the co-author with Elder Witt of Congressional Quarterly's two-volume encyclopedia Guide to the U.S. Supren Cowrt (3rd Ed.) BETH BRINKMANN served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General for eight years, during which time she argued 18 cases before the United States Supreme Court. She currently serves as of counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP in Washington, D.C., where she argued on behalf of respondent in Gonzaga University v. John Doe, No. 01-679, during this past Supreme Court Term. Ms. Brinkmann previously served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Washington, D.C., for two years, and practiced in a small law firm in San Francisco for four years. She received her A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. ERWIN CHEMERINSKY is Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science, at the University of Southern California. He is the author of FederalJurisction (3d ed. 1999); CoratitutionalLaw Priripl and Pduies (2 nd edition 2002); Interpntingthe Comtitution (1987), and many law review articles on aspects of constitutional law and federal jurisdiction. Professor Chemerinsky is a visiting professor at Duke University Law School, Fall Semester, 2002. xix MARCIA COYLE, Washington Bureau Chief and U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal, has covered the Court for 14 years. In November 2000, she received the Toni House Journalism Award from the American Judicature Society for her career body of work covering the administration of justice. Before joining the Law Journal, she covered the Pennsylvania Legislature and the U.S. Congress for the Allentown Cil-Chnni& Neuspapem. She earned her B.A. in English from Hood College; her M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, and her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law. She was a contributing author to A Year in the Life ofthe Supere Court (Duke University Press) and her freelance articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Vogue, and Ms. Magazine. She has won a George Polk Award for legal reporting, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for outstanding investigative reporting, and a National Press Foundation Award for her coverage of the death penalty, among others. WALTER DELLINGER is head of the Appellate Practice at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., and the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and Yale Law School, Professor Dellinger served as law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black. He has published articles on constitutional law for scholarly journals including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Duke Law Journal and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, the New Republic and the London Times. He spent 1988-89 as a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and has lectured in the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Belgium and Brazil. In 1993, he was nominated by the President to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLQ and was confirmed by the Senate in October 1993. He served as head of OLC from 1993 until he became acting Solicitor General for the 1996-97 term of the Supreme Court. His arguments before the United States Supreme Court have included cases involving the Physician Assisted Suicide laws, the Brady Act, the Line Item Veto, the Cable Television Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Clinton v. Jones, aid to parochial schools, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Census Act, redistricting, federal jurisdiction and other matters. LYLE DENNISTON is the Supreme Court correspondent for The Boston Globe. He began writing for The Globe after retiring from The Baltimore Sun in February 2001. He is the longest-serving correspondent for any news organization covering the Court. In August 2002, he received the annual Toni House Award from the American Judicature Society for his career in covering the law. In May, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, where he is on the adjunct faculty and where he appears in a series of educational TV programs on the Supreme Court and other legal subjects. He is the author of The Reporterand The Law Tadques of Coeringthe Ourts (Columbia University Press, 1992), and is a chapter author for A Year in the L fe of the Suprenr Court (Duke University Press, 1995), which won the 1996 ABA Silver Gavel Award. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and received a master's degree in history and political science from Georgetown University. xx NEAL DEVINS is Acting Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, Goodrich Professor of Law, and Professor of Government at the College of William and May. He is the author of several books and articles on constitutional law and government lawyening, including ShapingComtitutiond values Johns Hopkins, 1996), PdliticalDymaic fCofttituttiI Law(West, 3d ed. 2001) (coauthored with Louis Fisher), and RedefiningEquality (Oxford, 1998) (coedited with Davison Douglas). Professor Devins has testified before both the House and Senate and has spoken to numerous groups about consitutional law, government lawyering, and other issues. A. MECHELE DICKERSON, Professor of Law at William and Mary. Professor Dickerson received her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. Before joining the William and Mary faculty of law in 1995, she practiced law with firms in the District of Columbia and in Norfolk, Virginia. Professor Dickerson clerked for Hon. Nathaniel R. Jones of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Dickerson teaches bankruptcy and civil procedure, has written a number of law review articles on bankruptcy and is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy law. DAVISON DOUGLAS is Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the College of William & Mary School of Law. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, his Ph.D. in History from Yale University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also has an M.A.R. from Yale University Divinity School. Before joining the William and Mary faculty of law in 1990, he was a partner mi a Raleigh, North Carolina, law firm, specializing in labor and employment law and civil rights law. He also clerked for Judge Walter R. Mansfield of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Douglas is the author of Reading Writingand Race The Desegregation f the ChaiotteSabods (1995), and the editor of TheDezdpnrntcfSch Busingas a Degagation Renry (1994); The Public Deate Owr Busing andA tenpts to Retnct Its Use (1994); and Raejeining Equality (1998) (with Neal Devins). JOHN DUFFY is currently a Professor of Law at the William & Mary School of Law. Professor Duffy received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1985 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1989. Prior to entering academics, Professor Duffy clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court, served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, and practiced law with the Washington firm of Covington & Burling. Professor Duffy"s article on administrative law, "Administrative Common Law in Judicial Review", 77 Tex. L Rev. 113 (1998), received the 1999 Scholarship Award from the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He is the co-author (with Robert P. Merges) of Patent Law and Policy (3rd ed. 2002). Xxi MICHAEL GERHARDT, Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at William and Mary, has served as a Special Consultant to both the Clinton White House on judicial selection and the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal.

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