GEORGETOWN LAW Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2012 Student Stories Letter from the Dean or me, one of the best parts of being dean Fis getting to know our students. Whether I’m greeting them at a reception or chatting with them on campus, I never fail to be impressed by their energy, intelligence and drive. Every year our Office of Admissions receives thousands of applications. Students who gain admittance here are not only bright and accom- plished; they are also resourceful and creative. Those qualities are very much in evidence in the GEORGETOWN LAW Spring/Summer 2012 eight impressive application essays you’ll read in ANNE CASSIDY this issue (page 18). Editor Editorial Director It’s no wonder that these students chose Georgetown. We are, after all, dedicated to educating the whole person; we offer an opportunity to grow not ANN W. PARKS Staff Writer only in knowledge but also in moral vision. Here at Georgetown, we draw upon BRENT FUTRELL a rich Jesuit heritage that provides an ethical underpinning to all we do. Here CHAS McCARTHY MEGAN McCARTHY at Georgetown, we understand and applaud those who stand up for justice, as Designers these young people have. ELISSA FREE Our students learn best, of course, by doing. And we have a perfect illustra- Executive Director of Communications tion of this in our top-ranked clinics, institutes and innovative experiential KARA TERSHEL Director of Media Relations learning programs. In the Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which MEGAN FARMER, MIDGE GARDNER, LAURA MACRORIE, is highlighted in this issue (page 40), students learn firsthand about the legisla- SARAH MYKSIN, RICHARD SIMON, DAVE STONE, CHRISTINE HAMMER, JACQUELINE TEMKIN, DWAYNE tive process — even as two alumni serve as the first-ever legislative clerks. This TRAYLOR marriage of theory and practice could only happen in our nation’s capital. It’s a Contributors program no one can believe hadn’t been thought of before — and Georgetown MATTHEW F. CALISE Director of Alumni Affairs Law made it happen. KEVIN T. CONRY (L’86) And speaking of innovation, in this issue we celebrate 20 years of our Vice President for Strategic Development and External Affairs cutting-edge Curriculum B, also known as Section 3 (page 30). No other Associate Dean for External Affairs law school provides the same sort of alternative 1L curriculum that we do, a WILLIAM M. TREANOR program that one of our graduates likens to a Silicon Valley start-up and being Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs “part of creating things that have never been done before.” Section 3 provides a We welcome your responses to this publication. Write to: scholarly, philosophical, interdisciplinary approach to the first year of study. It Editor, Georgetown Law underlines our willingness to be experimental and flexible, even as we stay true Georgetown University Law Center to our core. As we live through this transformative moment in legal education, 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 we know we can rely on our traditions and our foresight — one keeping us anchored, the other allowing us to forge ahead. Or send e-mail to: [email protected] Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Sincerely, Georgetown Law magazine may be found on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2012, Georgetown University Law Center All rights reserved William M. Treanor Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs GEORGETOWN LAW Res Ipsa Loquitur Spring/Summer 2012 18 Student Stories Meet eight 1Ls the way our Admissions Office did — through their application essays. 30 20 Years of Section 3 For two decades Georgetown students have had a chance to learn not just the “how” of law, but also the “why.” 30 By Anne Cassidy 40 A New Kind of Clerkship It’s been called “an idea whose time has come” — and Georgetown Law is helping it happen. By Ann W. Parks 50 Faculty Article: The Future of International Financial Law 40 By Chris Brummer 2 FACULTY NOTES 18 FEATURES 6 LECTURES & EVENTS 60 ALUMNI 60 ALUMNI NOTICES 66 ALUMNI PROFILES 69 IN MEMORIAM 76 ALUMNI CALENDAR 74 CLE CALENDAR 78 ALUMNI EVENTS FACULTY NOTES Brooks, Koplow, Stromseth: Three at the Department of Defense eorgetown Law pro- Gfessors are no strang- ers to government service. But three recent Depart- ment of Defense appoint- ments are unique even by Law Center standards. In April 2009, Professor Rosa Brooks took a leave of ab- sence from Georgetown to become senior adviser and counselor to then Un- dersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy. Brooks SAM HOLLENSHEAD (2), RHODA BAER is known for her work with Rosa Brooks, David Koplow and Jane Stromseth. rule of law issues. Much of her scholarship addresses this One of the people who helped the new office move its key ini- issue, including her 2006 book Can Might Make Rights? Building tiatives forward was Brooks’ Georgetown colleague Professor Jane the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (Cambridge, 2006), co- Stromseth, who became senior adviser for rule of law and inter- authored by Professor Jane Stromseth and David Wippman. Brooks national humanitarian policy during an especially critical time last became a go-to person whenever rule of law questions arose, and summer — when President Obama directed a massive interagency in 2010 she was named deputy assistant secretary of defense by study to look at how to strengthen the government’s capacity to Flournoy, and then special coordinator for rule of law and inter- prevent and respond to mass atrocities and genocide. Stromseth national humanitarian policy. “This was DoD’s first dedicated of- has been coordinating the Department of Defense contributions to fice for rule of law and human rights issues,” says Brooks. “It was this study. “If you can strengthen early prevention you can stop bad tremendously exciting to help create something new.” (And in fact, things before they happen,” Stromseth says. Brooks received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding In the past, for example, evidence of mass atrocities reached Public Service for her work at the department.) the United States either after the fact or when the situation was so 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2012 • GEORGETOWN LAW FACULTY NOTES Faculty Awards and Recognition Professor Peter Edel- Georgetown University President Jack De- Professor Carlos M. man has received Gioia has appointed Professor Lawrence Vázquez has been the Harvard Club of O. Gostin a university professor. The uni- elected to the United D.C.’s annual Public versity’s most significant professional honor, Nations Committee Service Award for his the rank of university professor reflects on the Elimination work as an educator, significant accomplishments in scholar- of Racial Discrimina- advocate and public ship, teaching and service. A former associ- tion. His four-year servant. This is the ate dean for research, Gostin directs the term began in Janu- Edelman club’s highest honor; O’Neill Institute for National and Global Vázquez ary. The committee is Edelman received the Health Law. composed of 18 inde- award November 1 at the University Club pendent experts charged with monitoring in Washington. Professor Abbe Smith implementation of the International Con- Edelman has also been named chair of has been named vention on the Elimination of All Forms the board of directors of the American Con- “Law Teacher of the of Racial Discrimination. Members are stitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), Year” by the New York elected by state parties for their high moral which works for positive change by shaping University School of character and recognized competence in debate on important legal and constitutional Law Alumni Associa- the field of human rights. Vázquez received issues. ACS has 186 law school chapters in tion. She receives the the United States nomination for the com- 47 states. Edelman, who succeeds Universi- award in New York in mittee and was elected by member states ty of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone Smith April. of the United Nations based on his work in as ACS board chair, has been a member of the field of human rights. the ACS board since 2009. dire that “the options boiled down to either we send in the Marines or we don’t do any- thing,” Brooks says. Utilizing new and im- News from the Clinics and Centers proved technologies, such as refined satel- In recognition of its “invaluable con- with the BIA Pro Bono Project after lite imaging techniques, “would enable us to tributions made to the Board of Immi- they graduate. The Appellate Litiga- say to potential perpetrators, ‘We will know gration Appeals (BIA) Pro Bono Proj- tion Clinic is one of 14 clinical pro- if five trucks of soldiers go into this village, ect and to the vulnerable populations grams at Georgetown Law. Students we will know it as it’s happening’ — and that the project serves,” the George- in the program handle both civil and that potentially could have a very powerful town University Law Center Appel- criminal appeals involving issues such deterrent effect.” late Litigation Clinic has received the as immigration, habeas corpus and Professor David Koplow has also just Pro Bono Award from the Catholic civil rights. returned from a two-year leave at the De- Legal Immigration Network Inc. partment of Defense, serving as special Established in 2004, the Pro Bono James Jones, former chair of the counsel for arms control. He worked on Award is given annually to individuals, Hildebrandt Institute and managing a full array of arms control issues, from law firms and law schools that pro- partner of Arnold & Porter, is the new biological to cyber weapons; the highlight vide pro bono legal representation to senior fellow at the Center for the of his service was working on the New indigent immigrants before the Board Study of the Legal Profession.