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For more information, please contact [email protected]. o turn the pages of this slim booklet is to begin to know some of the most distinguished legal scholars in the world. Among these members of the TMichigan Law faculty are leaders in constitutional, international, tax, envi­ ronmental. and business law, and in many other areas of scholarship, as well. For students hoping to build a world-class legal education, there is no better foundation. But these printed pages exist in only two dimensions. while legal education, like the real world, exists in three. Stepping inside the magnificent buildings of the University of Michigan Law Quad brings these photographs and stories to life. Two-dimensional biographies become three-dimensional professors. Here, beneath the vaulted ceilings of Hutchins Hall, an internationally renowned intellectual property expert who testified before Congress yesterday will exchange views on Internet file sharing with a passing student. Here. profes­ sors with experience hard-won as advisers to presidents or advocates before the Supreme Court now turn their remarkable minds to preparing members of our extraordinary and diverse student body for a life in the law. It's the heart of a Michigan Law education. Welcome. Evan H. Caminker Dean and Branch Rickey Collegiate Professor of Law University of Michigan Law School AI icia Alva rez Reuven S. Avi-Yonah licia Alvarez is a clinical professor of law and Director of the Urban euven S. Avi-Yonah. the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director Communities Clinic. where she represents community-based organi­ of the International Tax LL.M. Program. specializes in corporate and zations.A Her areas of interest are issues facing low-income communities. inRternational taxation and international law. He has served as consultant She has also taught in the Michigan Clinical Law Program. focusing on to the U.S. Treasury and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and employment law. Prior to coming to Michigan, Professor Alvarez taught the Development on tax competition, and is a member of the Steering Group of Community Development Clinic at DePaul University College of Law. She the DECO's International Network for Ta x Research. He is also chair of the also taught in the Asylum Clinic and the civil litigation clinic. She has been ABA's Tax Section Committee on Tax Policy. His teaching interests focus a visiting professor at the Boston College Law School and the University of on various aspects of taxation and international law. Professor Avi-Yonah El Salvador. Professor Alvarez was a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador and is currently a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the has consulted with clinics throughout Latin America. She serves on the board of trustees of Diritto e Practica Tributario lnternazionale. He is also an ABA Clinical Skills Committee and the planning committee for the 2010 honorary research fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute Association of American Law Schools' Clinical Conference. Professor Alvarez at Monash University and an international research fellow at Oxford has served on the board of directors of University's Centre for Business Taxation. In addi­ the Society of American Law Teachers. tion to prior teaching appointments at Harvard (law) Before teaching she was a staff attor­ and Boston College (history), he has practiced law ney at Business and Professional with Milbank. Tweed. Hadley & McCloy, New York; People for the Public Interest and with Wachtel!, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York; and the Legal Assistance Foundation of with Ropes & Gray, Boston. Chicago. Professor Alvarez received her After receiving his B.A.. B.A.. magna cum laude, from Loyola summa cum laude, from University of Chicago and her JD .. Hebrew University, he cum laude, from Boston College earned three additional Law School. degrees from Harvard: an A.M. in history, a Ph.D. in history, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. "As a person interested in representing start-up com Samuel R. Bagenstos pan1es and venture capital Michael S. Barr firms. pursuing a JDJM B A amuel Bagenstos specializes in civil rights law, particularly as it pertains ichael S. Barr teaches financial institutions, international finance, at M1ch1gan 1s the best edu­ to the Americans with Disabilities Act. as well as constitutional law. His M transnational law, and jurisdiction and choice of law, and co-founded S cational dec1s1on I've ever research and teaching focus on the substance and enforcement of civil rights the International Transactions Clinic. He was also a senior fellow at the Center made. The formal tra1mng law, both constitutional and statutory. He is also an active appellate and for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution, and is now serving as I've received m accounting Supreme Court litigator in civil rights and federalism cases. In United States the U.S Department of Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. and finance at the bus1ness v Ge orgia, (2006). the U. S. Supreme Court upheld, as applied to his client's Professor Barr conducts large-scale empirical research regarding financial school ennched my course- case. the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act services and low-and moderate-income households and writes about a wide work at the Law range of issues in financial regulation. He recently co-edited Building Inclusive Prior to joining Michigan Law, Professor Bagenstos was a professor of School tremendously, and law, and, from 2007 to 2008, also Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Financial Systems (Brookings Press 2007, co-edited with Kumar & Litan) and was h1ghly regarded by law Development at Washington University School of Law. He clerked for Judge Insufficient Funds (Russell Sage 2008, with Blank). Professor Barr previously firms and clients durmg my Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit, served as Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's Special Assistant. as Deputy summer clerkships. Exposure then joined the Civil Rights Division Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, as Special to a vanety of learnmg of the U.S. Department of Justice. Advisor to President William J. Clinton, as a enwonments He also served as Law Clerk for special advisor and counselor on the policy has also been Invaluable Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of planning staff at the State Department. and as Beyond sharpening my skills the U.S Supreme Court. In 1993, a law clerk to U S Supreme Court Justice David in doctrinal analysiS, legal Professor Bagenstos earned his H. Souter and then-District Judge Pierre N. wntmg, and negot1at1on. I magna cum laude, Leva I, of the Southern District of J.D., had opportunities to mteract New York. He received his J.D. from Harvard, where he w1th venture capitalists, and from Yale Law School, an M. received the Fay Diploma even drafted and pitched Phil in International Relations and was Articles Office a business plan for a life Harvard from Magdalen College, Oxford Co-chair for the sciences company seekmg Law Re vie w University, as a Rhodes Scholar, Series A financmg." and his B.A., summa cum laude, Benjamin Potter, '06 with Honors in History, from Associate Yale University. He is presently Latham & Watkins on leave from his Law School Silicon Va lley duties. 3 Laura Beny Eve Brensike Primus ince joining the University of Michigan Law School in 2003, Professor ve Brensike Primus teaches criminal law. criminal procedure. and Beny has taught Corporate Finance, Enterprise Organization. habeas corpus. and she writes about structural reform in the criminal InSternational Finance, the Public Corporation. and an advanced seminar justiceE system. Before joining the Michigan Law faculty, she was an attor­ in law and finance. Her research interests include law and economics. ney in the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. In that office, Professor finance. political economy, development. and the Sudan. Her work has been Brensike Primus worked both as a trial attorney and as an appellate litigator. published in the American Economic Re vie w. American Law and Economics appearing several times before the state's highest court. She has also Re vie w, Journ al of Corporation Law. among others. and will be forthcoming participated in the lawmaking process. giving legislative testimony and in the Annual Re vie w of Law and Social Scie nce in 2010. In 2007 and 2008, helping to draft proposed legislation on criminal justice issues. Professor she advised the Government of Southern Sudan on corporate governance Brensike Primus holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Brown University and and transparency in the private sector. In September 2006, she presented a J.D . summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. In testimony based on her research on insider trading before the U.S. Senate law school, she was an articles editor on the Michigan Law Re vie w. a board Judiciary Committee. Before coming to Michigan, she practiced private and member tor the Henry M.