ELIZABETH GARRETT

University of Southern California Bovard Administration Building, Room 103 Los Angeles, California 90089-4019 (213) 740-0064 [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT:

Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget (2006-present); Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (2005-2006); University of Southern California

Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning and Development (2005-present), Professor (2003-04), Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

Co-Director: USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (2007-present) Director: USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (2003-2007) Board of Directors: Initiative and Referendum Institute at USC Courses Taught: Administrative Law, Law and the Political Process, Civil Procedure Affiliated Faculty Member: USC Center for Law, Economics and Organization Courtesy Appointment: Annenberg School, Department of Communication Honors: Distinguished Alumna of the College of Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences), University of Oklahoma (2007); Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; Association of Trojan Leagues Outstanding Service Award (2008); Outstanding Teaching Award fro the Latter-Day Saint Student Association (2006).

Visiting Professor of Law (2004), California Institute of Technology Course Taught: Law and Politics

Professor of Law (1999-2003), Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (1999-2001), Assistant Professor of Law (1995-1999), University of Chicago Courses Taught: Legislative Process; U. S. Congress and the Courts; Administrative Law; Federal Budget Policy; Topics in Legislation and Legislative Process; Introductory Income Taxation; Civil Procedure II; Torts II Recipient: Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence (1997); Crain’s Chicago Business “40 Under 40” Award for Most Influential Young Chicagoans (2000)

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Southern California (Fall 2002)

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Virginia (Fall 2001)

Visiting Professor of Law, Central European University (June 1999, June 2001, June 2003) Courses Taught: Legislation and Legislative Drafting; U.S. Public Administration

Visiting Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Law School, Herzlya, Israel (March 2001) Course Taught: Legislation and Statutory Interpretation in the United States Elizabeth Garrett Page 2

EMPLOYMENT (continued):

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard University (1998)

Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia (1994-1995)

Legislative Director and Tax and Budget Counsel (1993-1994); Legal Counsel and Legislative Assistant for Tax, Budget and Welfare Reform Issues (1991-1993) for Senator David L. Boren, U.S. Senate

Legal Adviser for Judge Howard M. Holtzmann, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, The Netherlands (1990-1991)

Law Clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court (1989-1990)

Law Clerk for Judge Stephen Williams, Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1988- 1989)

GOVERNMENT SERVICE and TESTIMONY:

Member, President Bush’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform (2005).

Witness, Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate (2006). Testified on Tax Reform.

Panelist on “Achieving Tax Fairness,” United States House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, Wintergreen, Virginia (1998).

Witness, National Commission to Restructure the Internal Revenue Service (1996). Also helped to formulate Commission’s recommendation that congressional drafters should prepare a Tax Complexity Analysis for all revenue proposals (which was adopted by Congress in the 1998 IRS Restructuring Law).

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Co-Principal Investigator (with Mathew D. McCubbins), Special Assessments in Financing Infrastructure and Local Governments, funded by the Keston Institute for Infrastructure.

Co-Principal Investigator (with John Matsusaka), Local Governance and Direct Democracy: Past and Current Practices, Meeting the Challenge of the 21st Century, funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics.

Co-Principal Investigator (with Mathew D. McCubbins), Overcoming the Infrastructure Deficit: 21st Century Governance Structures for California, funded by the Keston Institute for Infrastructure.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth Graddy & Howell Jackson eds., 2008, Cambridge University Press).

Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (4th ed. 2007) (3d ed. 2001) and Supplement (2004) (with William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey).

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (2000) and (rev. ed. 2006) (Foundation’s Concepts and Insights Series) (with William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey).

Statutory Interpretation Stories (forthcoming 2009) (with William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey).

New Voices in Politics: Justice Marshall’s Jurisprudence on Law and Politics, __ Howard L.J. __ (forthcoming 2009). Available as Working Paper No. 61 in the USC/Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics Working Paper Series.

Direct Democracy, in Elgar Handbook on Public Law and Public Choice (Daniel Farber & Anne Joseph O’Connell eds., forthcoming 2009). Available as Working Paper No. 60 in the USC/Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics Working Paper Series.

Constitutional Issues Raised by the Lobbying Disclosure Act, in The Lobbying Manual: A Complete Guide to Federal Law Governing Lawyers and Lobbyists (4th ed. 2009 forthcoming) and (3d ed. 2005) (W.V. Luneburg, & T.M. Susman eds., American Bar Association) (with Ronald M. Levin & Theodore Ruger).

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics 360 (K.E. Whittington, R.D. Kelemen & G.A. Caldiera eds., 2008).

Framework Legislation and Federalism, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1495 (2008).

When Voters Make Laws: How Direct Democracy is Shaping American Cities, 13 Public Works Mgmt. & Pol’y 39 (2008) (with Mathew D. McCubbins).

Transparency in the Budget Process, in Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (E. Garrett, E. Graddy & H. Jackson eds., 2008) (with Adrian Vermeule).

The Dual Path Initiative Framework, 80 S. Cal. L. Rev. 299 (2007) (with Mathew D. McCubbins).

The Fifth Annual Henry Lecture: The Promise and Perils of Hybrid Democracy, 59 Okla. L. Rev. 227 (2006) (chosen as “Recommended Reading” in the Green Bag’s Reader of Good Legal Writing from 2007).

Conditions for Framework Legislation, in The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State 294 (R. Bauman & T. Kahana eds., 2006).

The Story of Clinton v. City of New York: Congress Can Take Care of Itself, in Administrative Law Stories 47 (P. Strauss ed., 2005).

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):

Hybrid Democracy, 73 G.W.U. L. Rev. 1096 (2005).

Veiled Political Actors and Campaign Disclosure Laws in Direct Democracy, 4 Elect. L.J. 295 (2005) (with Daniel A. Smith).

Step One of Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, in A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies 55-84 (J.F. Duffy & M. Herz eds., 2005).

Paying for Politics, 78 S. Cal. L. Rev. 591 (2005) (with John de Figueiredo).

The Purposes of Framework Legislation, 14 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 717 (2005).

Democracy in the Wake of the California Recall, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 239 (2004) (chosen as “Recommended Reading” in the Green Bag’s Reader of Good Legal Writing from 2006).

McConnell v. FEC and Disclosure, 3 Elect. L.J. 237 (2004).

Legislating Chevron, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2637 (2003).

Is the Party Over? Courts and the Political Process, 2002 Sup. Ct. Rev. 95 (2003).

Voting with Cues, 37 Rich. L. Rev. 1011 (2003).

The Impact of Bush v. Gore on Future Democratic Politics, in The Future of American Democratic Politics: Principles and Practices 141 (G.M. Pomper & M.D. Weiner eds. 2003).

The William J. Brennan Lecture in Constitutional Law: The Future of Campaign Finance Laws in the Courts and in Congress, 27 O.C.U. L. Rev. 665 (2002) and in The Constitution and Campaign Finance Reform 579 (2d ed., F.G. Slabach ed. 2006).

Attention to Context in Statutory Interpretation: Applying the Lessons of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation to Omnibus Legislation, Issues in Leg. Scholarship, Dynamic Statutory Interpretation (2002): Article 1, available at http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss3/art1.

Institutional Lessons from the 2000 Presidential Election, 29 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 975 (2001).

Leaving the Decision to Congress, in The Vote: Bush, Gore, and the Supreme Court 38 (Sunstein & Epstein eds.) (2001).

Political Intermediaries and the Internet “Revolution,” 34 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 1055 (2001).

Money in the Initiative and Referendum Process: Evidence of its Effects and Prospects for Reform, in The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking 73 (M.D. Waters ed. 2001) (with Elisabeth R. Gerber).

Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress, 50 Duke L.J. 1277 (2001), in Congress and the Constitution 242 (N. Devins & K. Whittington eds. 2005), and in International Library of Essays on Rights: Volume on Bills of Rights (M. Tushnet ed. 2007) (with Adrian Vermeule).

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PUBLICATIONS (continued):

Issues in Implementing Referendums in Israel: A Comparative Study in Direct Democracy, 2 Chi. J. of Internat’l Law 159 (2001).

The Congressional Budget Process: Strengthening the Party-in-Government, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 702 (2000).

Interest Groups and Public Interested Legislation, 28 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 137 (2000).

Legal Scholarship in the Age of Legislation, 34 Tulsa L.J. 679 (1999).

The Law and Economics of “Informed Voter” Ballot Notations, 85 Va. L. Rev. 1533 (1999).

Money, Agenda Setting, and Direct Democracy, 77 Tex. L. Rev. 1845 (1999).

Accountability and Restraint: The Federal Budget Process and the Line Item Veto Act, 20 Cardozo L. Rev. 871 (1999).

A Fiscal Constitution with Supermajority Voting Rules, 40 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 471 (1999).

Rethinking the Structures of Decisionmaking in the Federal Budget Process, 35 Harv. J. Legis. 387 (1998).

Harnessing Politics: The Dynamics of Offset Requirements in the Tax Legislative Process, 65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 501 (1998).

Who Directs Direct Democracy?, 4 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 17 (1997), reprinted in 1 Pakistan L. Rev. (2001).

Enhancing the Political Safeguards of Federalism?: The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, 45 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1113 (1997).

Term Limitations and the Myth of the Citizen-Legislator, 81 Cornell L. Rev. 623 (1996).

Market Discipline by Depositors: A Summary of the Theoretical and Empirical Arguments, 5 Yale J. Reg. 215 (1988) (with Jonathan Macey).

The Modified Payoff of Failed Banks: A Settlement Practice to Inject Market Discipline into the Commercial Banking System, 73 Va. L. Rev. 1349 (1987) (student note).

ESSAYS, EDITORIALS, and BOOK REVIEWS:

How the Financial Crisis is Reshaping Democratic Politics: Term Limits Reconsidered, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Oct. 3, 2208, at 4; and Balkinization blog, September 30, 2008, available at http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-financial-crisis-is-reshaping.html (with Richard Pildes).

Entry on Legislative Immunity, in 3 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed., 2008). Elizabeth Garrett Page 6

ESSAYS, EDITORIALS, and BOOK REVIEWS (continued):

The Political Process, 34 Pepperdine L. Rev. 554 (2007) (symposium on The Roberts Court’s Rookie Year).

Faith in Reason: Voter Competence and Local Bond Propositions, USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy Research Paper 07-01 (Jan. 2007) (with Mathew D. McCubbins), available at http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/lusk/keston/research/index.html.

Crypto-Initiatives in Hybrid Democracy, 78 S. Cal. L. Rev. 985 (2005).

Redistricting: Another California Revolution?, Initiative and Referendum Institute Report 2005-1, available at http://www.iandrinstitute.org/Apportion.htm.

Who Chooses the Rules?, 4 Election L.J. 139 (2005) (comment on Dennis Thompson, Just Elections).

Book Review of George I. Lovell, Legislative Deferrals, 109 Am. Hist. Rev. 934 (2004).

Accounting for the Federal Budget and Its Reform, 41 Harv. J. on Legis. 187 (2004) (commenting on Howell Jackson, Accounting for Social Security and Its Reform).

Teaching Law and Politics, 7 N.Y.U. J. Leg. & Pub. Pol'y 11 (2003).

Book Review of David Schultz, Money, Politics, and Campaign Finance Reform in the States, newsletter of the Section on Representation and Electoral Systems, American Political Science Association, Oct. 2003, at 10-11.

Budget Magic Tricks, The World and I, July 2003, at 54.

Thus Always Two Tyrants?, 2 Elect. L.J. 285 (2003) (reviewing Lisa Jane Disch, The Tyranny of the Two Party System).

Law and Economics: Introductory Remarks to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Conference, 31 N.M. L. Rev. 107 (2001) (transcript of remarks and panel discussion).

Entry on Term Limits in the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Levy, Karst, & Winkler eds.) (2d ed. 2000).

Book Review of Bernard Grofman (ed.), Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives, 96 Public Choice 210 (1998).

Becoming Lawyers: The Role of the Socratic Method in Modern Law Schools, 1 Green Bag 2d 199 (1998) (reviewing Lani Guinier, Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change).

Book Review of Mark Tushnet, Making Civil Rights Law and Making Constitutional Law, 1997 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 140.

Book Review of John M. Carey, Term Limits and Legislative Representation, 93 Public Choice 517 (1997).

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ESSAYS, EDITORIALS, and BOOK REVIEWS (continued):

Remarks on Anti-Abuse Rules, 74 Taxes 197 (1996).

PRESENTATIONS:

Direct Democracy and Public Choice, Northwestern University Law School, Searle Law and Political Economy Colloquium (September 2008); NYU Law School Law, Economics and Politics Colloquium (November 2008); Columbia Law School, Public Law Workshop (February 2009).

New Voices in Politics: Justice Marshall’s Jurisprudence on Law and Politics, Fifth Annual Wiley A Branton Symposium: Thurgood Marshall: His Life, His Work, His Legacy, Howard University School of Law (October 2008).

Fiscal Challenges: Managing Budget Policy in Times of Economic Turmoil, University of Southern California (May 2008).

The Dual Path Initiative Framework, Direct Democracy: Voice of the People or Undermining Representative Government, Second Annual Western Conference of the Federalist Society (February 2008).

Framework Legislation and Federalism, Separation of Powers as a Safeguard of Federalism Symposium, Notre Dame Law School (October 2007).

Tax Reform and the Report of the President’s Bipartisan Tax Reform Panel, Ernst & Young Domestic Tax Conference, Chicago (June 2007); Munger Toles & Olson Luncheon Group (July 2007).

When Voters Build Cities: How Direct Democracy is Shaping and Reshaping the American Landscape, Conference on When Voters Make Laws: How Direct Democracy is Reshaping American Cities, University of Southern California (April 2007) (with Mathew D. McCubbins).

The Politics of Advice: Substance, Structure and Sunshine, Distinguished Alumna (Social Sciences) Lecture, University of Oklahoma (February 2007).

Cases Affecting the Law of Politics, Roberts’ Rookie Year – A Symposium on the First Year of the Roberts Court, Pepperdine Law School (August 2006).

Transparency in the U.S. Budget Process, Conference on Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy, USC (February 2006); SPPD Policy Luncheon, Sacramento (January 2008).

Hybrid Democracy, Roundtable Discussion at Conference on Democracy on the Brink: The California Special Election (November 2004); Southwestern Law School Distinguished Lecture Series (February 2006); USC on the Road and Roundtable for Legislators at the California Policy Institute (February 2006); Ohio State University Law School Faculty Workshop (March 2006); Keynote Address, Moritz Legislation Clinic Conference, The People as Legislators, in Columbus, Ohio (March 2006); Pepperdine Law School Faculty Workshop (April 2006).

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PRESENTATIONS (continued):

The Recommendations of the President’s Bipartisan Tax Reform Panel, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry’s Roundtable of Business Leaders (October 2005); Keynote Address for the USC Tax Institute (January 2006); UCLA Tax Workshop (January 2006); Conference on Tax Reform, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C. (March 2006); PriceWaterhouseCoopers (U.K.) Breakfast for Tax Executives (December 2006).

The Henry Lecture: The Promise and Perils of Hybrid Democracy, University of Oklahoma Law School (October 2005).

Tax Reform, Tax Policy Workshop, Tel Aviv University (February 2005).

Comment on “Big Picture” Perspectives on Administrative Law and Process, Conference on Administrative Law and Process in the U.S. and Abroad, University of San Diego Law School and UC- San Diego Political Science Department (January 2005).

Hybrid Democracy and Crypto-Initiatives, Comment on Kousser & McCubbins, Social Choice, Crypto- Initiatives and Policy Making by Direct Democracy, Conference on the Impact of Direct Democracy, UC- Irvine (January 2005).

California’s Hybrid Democracy, Conference on Perspectives of Democracy, California State University, Fullerton (September 2004); Workshop on Democratic Governance at the AALS Annual Meeting (January 2005); Senior Curriculum Series, Pasadena (February 2005).

Roundtable on Dennis Thompson, Just Elections, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (September 2004).

Conditions for Framework Legislation, Conference on The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State, University of Alberta’s Centre for Constitutional Studies, Banff, Canada (July 2004).

Roundtable on “What is Legal Interpretation?” Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of San Diego Law School (April 2004).

Initiatives on the November Ballot, Western Knight Center’s Seminar on Covering Campaign Finance: From the Checkbook to the Ballot Box, USC (April 2004); California State PTA Meeting, Long Beach (May 2004).

The Effect of McConnell v. FEC on Election Reform, Senior Curriculum Series, Pasadena (February 2004).

The Budget Process and Tax Legislation, Loyola Graduate Tax Program (February 2004).

Democracy in the Wake of the California Recall, Symposium: The Law of Democracy Since Bush v. Gore, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Philadelphia (February 2004); Chancery Club, Los Angeles (February 2004).

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PRESENTATIONS (continued):

The Purposes of Framework Legislation, Joint Seminar of the University of San Diego School of Law and Public Policy Research Project at University of California San Diego (November 2003); Washington University (St. Louis) Law School’s faculty workshop (March 2004), USC Committee on Innovative Governance Faculty Salon (April 2004), Conference on Pluralism and Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (June 2004), University of Michigan Law & Economics Workshop (September 2004); Stanford Law School Faculty Workshop (February 2005).

Comments on Legal Aspects of the California Recall, Symposium on the Recall, University of Southern California (September 2003).

Comment on Eskridge, Ferejohn & Gandhi, Strategic Statutory Interpretation, Conference on Modeling the Constitution sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Politics, Cal-Tech University (May 2003).

Teaching Legislation: The Impact of Differing Legislative Views on the Pedagogical Process, Journal of Legislation and Public Policy Symposium, New York University School of Law (2003).

Legislating Chevron: Agencies and the Courts, Symposium on the Judging Judicial Review: Marbury in the Modern Era, Michigan Law School (2003).

Is the Party Over? Courts and the Political Process, faculty workshop at University of Southern California (2002); Pattee Lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School (2003).

The Impact of Bush v. Gore on Future Democratic Politics, National Symposium on the Future of Democratic Politics, Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers University, and the Eagleton Institute of Politics (December 2001); faculty workshops at University of Virginia Law School (2001) and Northwestern University Law School (2002); Constitutional Law Colloquium at Georgetown University Law School (2002) and Legal Scholarship Colloquium at Interdisciplinary Center Law School, Herzlya, Israel (2002).

Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress (with Adrian Vermeule), Symposium on Congress and the Constitution, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, William & Mary School of Law (2002).

Lawmaking through Omnibus Legislation, Section on Legislation Panel, AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans (2002).

The William J. Brennan Lecture in Constitutional Law: The Future of Campaign Finance Laws in the Courts and in Congress, Oklahoma City University Law School (November 2001).

Comment on Young & Levinson, Who’s Afraid of the Twelfth Amendment, and Fuentes-Rohwer & Charles, Should We Rethink the Electoral College?, Symposium on the Law of Presidential Elections: Issues in the Wake of Florida 2000, Florida State University College of Law (2001).

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PRESENTATIONS (continued):

The Courts and the Election of the President, Conference on Election 2000: The Role of the Courts, the Role of the Media, the Roll of the Dice, Northwestern University Law School (2001).

Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress, Faculty Workshops at University of San Diego Law School, Loyola (Los Angeles) Law School, UCLA Law School, and Boston University Law School (2001).

Comment on Morris, Internet Voting and the Changing Face of Politics, Symposium on Internet Voting and Democracy, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California (2000).

Political Parties: The Missing Ingredient in Election Law Cases, Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series, University of Oklahoma (2000).

The Future of Law and Economics, Judicial Conference of the Tenth Circuit, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2000).

Issues in Implementing Referendums in Israel: A Comparative Study in Direct Democracy, Conference on Referenda and Direct Democracy: Moral and Legal Dilemmas, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Israel; Department of History, Jewish Studies Program Brown Bag Lunch Series, University of Oklahoma (2000).

Comment on Croley, Public Interested Regulation, Symposium on Regulatory Theory and Administrative Law, Florida State University College of Law (2000).

Strengthening the Party-In-Government: A Partial Explanation for the Congressional Budget Process, Symposium on Law and Political Parties, Columbia University Law School (1999).

Money in Initiative and Referendum: Does It Have an Effect?, The National Initiative and Referendum Conference, Washington, D.C. (1999).

The Law and Economics of “Informed Voter” Ballot Notations, Olin Symposium, University of Virginia Law School (1999); American Political Science Association National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (1999); Emory Law School (1999); University of Oklahoma Law School (2000).

How Empirical Must Constitutional Theory Be?, Georgetown/Maryland-PEGS Discussion Group on Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1998).

Money, Agenda Setting, and Direct Democracy, Texas/Brennan Center Symposium on Money, Politics, and Equality, University of Texas Law School (1998); NYU Constitutional Law Colloquium (1999).

Rethinking the Structures of Decisionmaking in the Federal Budget Process, Law and Society Annual Conference, Aspen, Colorado (1998).

The Legal Significance of the Sipuel Case and the Role of Thurgood Marshall in Constitutional Change, University of Oklahoma Law School (1998).

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PRESENTATIONS (continued):

Accountability and Restraint: The Federal Budget Process and the Line Item Veto Act, Symposium on the Nondelegation Doctrine from Constitutional and Policy Perspectives, Cardozo Law School (1998); Faculty Workshops at Harvard Law School, University of Minnesota Law School, Cornell University Law School, University of Southern California Law School (1998).

Harnessing Politics: The Dynamics of Offset Requirements in the Tax Legislative Process, Tax Policy Workshop, Georgetown University Law School (1997).

From Consensus to Conflict: The Procedural Transformation of Federal Budgeting, Harvard Seminar on Current Research in Taxation at Woodstock, Vermont (1997); Workshop on Taxation in a Democracy, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School (1997).

Enhancing the Political Safeguards of Federalism?: The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, Federalism Conference, University of Kansas Law School (1996); Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop (1996); Colloquium on Tax Policy and Public Finance, New York University Law School (1997); Special Program for Bankruptcy Judges sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center at the University of Chicago Law School (1997).

Term Limitations and the Myth of the Citizen-Legislator, Public Choice Conference, Houston, Texas (1996).

EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW, J.D. 1988 • Thomas Marshall Miller Prize (Outstanding Graduate Selected by the Faculty) • Alumni Association Award (Valedictorian) • Order of the Coif • Articles Editor of Virginia Law Review

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, B.A. in History with Special Distinction 1985 • Phi Beta Kappa (elected as a junior)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Member, American Law Institute (elected October 2008).

Chair of the Finance Committee, National Governing Board, Common Cause; Policy and Nominating Committees (2006-present); Treasurer of the Board (2008-present); Vice-Chair of the Board (2006-2008); Board Member (2005-present).

Member, Pacific Council on International Policy (elected 2008).

Tax Policy Committee, (2007-present); Education Policy Committee (2008-present), Barack Obama Presidential Campaign.

Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Elizabeth Garrett Page 12

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued):

Board of Advisers, USC Bedrosian Center on Governance and Public Enterprise (2007-present).

Member of the Editorial Board of Election Law Journal and Law and Political Economy.

Advisory Board of the SSRN journals on Legislation and Statutory Interpretation and Law and Positive Political Theory.

Co-Organizer, Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy, University of Southern California Law School, Harvard Law School, and the Irvine Foundation (February 2006).

Co-Organizer, Democracy on the Brink: California’s Special Election, University of Southern California Law School (November 2005).

Co-Organizer, Conference on Direct Democracy, University of Southern California Law School and University of California – Irvine (January 2005).

Organizer, The 2004 Election: What Does It Mean for Campaigns and Governance?, USC Law School (October 2004).

Member, Board of Visitors of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma (2002-2007).

Vice Chair, Committee on Legislative Process and Lobbying, American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and the Regulatory Process (2000-2005).

Co-Organizer of Post-Mortem on the California Recall, University of Southern California (November 2003).

Chair (2003-04), Chair-Elect (2002-03), Member of the Executive Committee (2004-present), Section on Legislation, American Association of Law Schools.

Area Organizer for Regulatory and Administrative Law Panels, Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, Washington, D.C. (2001).

Program Chair, Theories of the Political Process and Theories of Interpretation, Section on Legislation, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco (2001).

Associate Reporter for the Scope of Judicial Review portion of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and the Regulatory Process’ Project on the Administrative Procedure Act (2000- 2002).

Governing Board, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago (1999-2001).

Member, Planning Committee for the AALS Workshop on Administrative Law (1999).

Academic Participant, Federal Bar Association’s Fifth Invitational Airlie House Conference on Tax Process (1998).

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (continued):

Member, Twentieth Century Fund’s Citizens for Independent Courts (1998-2000).

Remarks on the Prospects for Fundamental Tax Restructuring, University of Chicago’s National Tax Conference (1996).

Panelist on Structural Tax Reform, Federal Bar Association's Annual Tax Law Conference (1995); Summer Meeting, Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association (1995); Tax Foundation Seminar, Federal Tax Policy at the Crossroads (1996).

Commentator on Anti-Abuse Rules and the Interpretation of Tax Laws, University of Chicago's National Tax Conference (1995).

Participant, Symposium on Positive Political Theory, California Institute of Technology and University of Southern California (1995).

Policy Consultant for Senator David L. Boren (1994). Consulted primarily on The Comprehensive Tax Restructuring and Simplification Act of 1994 (subtraction-method consumption tax legislation).

Coordinating Committee for the Federal Bar Association's Third Airlie House Conference on Tax Process (1994).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Admitted to Practice Law in Texas and District of Columbia.

Member of American Bar Association, Texas Bar Association, and District of Columbia Bar Association.

Member of the American Law & Economics Association and American Political Science Association.

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Board of Directors, USC Care Medical Group, Inc. (2007-present).

Executive Advisory Board of the Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center (2007-present).

Chair (2004-05), Law School Appointments Committee, University of Southern California Law School.

Chair (2003-04) and Member (2004-05), Administration and Finance Committee, University of Southern California Law School.

Member, University Committee on Academic Review, University of Southern California (2004-05).

Member, Subcommittee on Federal Relations, University of Southern California (2005-06).

Member, Faculty Committee of the Urban Initiative, University of Southern California (2004-2005). Elizabeth Garrett Page 14

ACADEMIC SERVICE (continued):

Member, Minority Affairs Committee of the Law School Admission Council (1999-2001).

Author of “How to Approach and Take a Law School Examination” available at http://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/preparation_exams.html and published in Law School Admission Council, A Practical Guide for Law School Academic Assistance Programs (2000).

Member of Ph.D, Committee for Brian Pinaire, Graduate Program in Political Science, Rutgers University (2003) (now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University); Member of S.J.D. Committee for Rasa Bartkuke, Central European University (2003).