FALL/WINTER 2018 No institution exemplifies Georgetown Law’s ties to the Supreme Court better than our celebrated Supreme Court Institute GEORGETOWN LAW Fall/Winter 2018 ANN W. PARKS, Esq. (G’14, LL.M.’16) Editor BRENT FUTRELL Director of Design INES HILDE Associate Director of Design MIMI KOUMANELIS Executive Director of Communications TANYA WEINBERG Director of Media Relations and Deputy Director of Communications RICHARD SIMON Director of Web Communications JACLYN DIAZ Communications and Social Media Manager BEN PURSE Senior Video Producer JERRY COOPER Communications Associate CONTRIBUTORS Julie Bourbon, Barbara Grzincic, Melanie D.G. Kaplan, Greg Langlois, Sara Piccini, Abby Reecer, Mark Smith, Anna Louie Sussman MATTHEW F. CALISE Director of Alumni Affairs GENE FINN Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations WILLIAM M. TREANOR Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs Front and back cover photos: Brent Futrell Contact: Editor, Georgetown Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 [email protected] Address changes/additions/deletions: 202-687-1994 or e-mail [email protected] Georgetown Law magazine is on the Law Center’s website at www.law.georgetown.edu Copyright © 2018, Georgetown University Law Center. All rights reserved. Orientation 2018 Michelle Wadolowski (L’21) contemplates the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo Credit: Brent Futrell 2018 Fall/Winter 1 INSIDENEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE / 10 / 14 Four Cases, Three Circuits, Three Weeks A Civil, Civic Conversation Georgetown Law’s Appellate Litigation Clinic is often compared to a Parkland student, Georgetown Law student speak at an O’Neill boutique appellate firm. But even a well-seasoned firm might have Institute panel on gun violence, health and the Second Amendment. blanched at the clinic’s pace this spring. / 16 / 30 We Are All Textualists The School for SCOTUS Georgetown Law chapter hosts Federalist Society’s 2018 National From the start, Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute was a Student Symposium. hit with the Court and with the Supreme Court bar — but now, the students are getting involved. 2 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS / 48 / 70 Street Law at 45 Commencement 2018 At the 45th anniversary of Street Law, Georgetown Law celebrates At the Law Center’s 146th Commencement, D.C. Delegate Eleanor the man who has been the heart and soul behind it — retiring Holmes Norton and Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Professor Rick Roe. Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit receive honorary degrees. 04/ Thoughts from the Dean 05/ News 30/ Feature: The School for SCOTUS 48/ Feature: Street Law at 45 64/ Campus 90/ Alumni 106/ Class Notes / 86 Trailblazers Georgetown Law welcomes four new faculty members. 2018 Fall/Winter 3 NEWSTHOUGHTS / CONVINCING FROM THE EVIDENCE DEAN \ The School for SCOTUS When a group of Georgetown Law professors were tasked with coming up with an audacious goal in the fall of 1998, the obvious response was to create a Supreme Court Institute. Today, we cannot imagine Georgetown Law without it. Students all witness a moot court as part of their first-year legal practice class and can easily go to the Supreme Court a few days later to hear the real argument. They might participate in a unique Judicial Clerkship Practicum, assisting the professors and practi- tioners who serve as volunteer justices. It’s an experience that students can get nowhere else ­­— and practitioners and justices alike continue to praise the service to the legal community. We tell the story of this remarkable innovation in “The School for SCOTUS” on page 30. As we were preparing this issue for publication, the country witnessed a Supreme Court nomination that divided the nation. At this time, perhaps more than ever, the civil, balanced, informed dialogue that Georgetown provides surrounding the nation’s highest court and the cases before it is a service to the nation of critical importance. We start the school year with wonderful news. Following the two most success- ful fundraising years in our history, Georgetown Law raised $30 million this past academic year — the best fundraising year yet. Because of the generous support from you, our community of alumni, faculty, parents, students and friends, Georgetown Law has reached a new level of philanthropy, one that is profoundly important to our students and our academic mission. A special thanks to Bruce (L’80) and Ann Blume, who contributed $10 million to create the Blume Public Leadership Institute to support our public interest law scholars program (story on page 91). Our dedication to educating the future leaders of the legal profession is more important than ever, and as our new 1Ls begin their legal education, I could not be more optimistic about their future. William M. Treanor Dean of the Law Center Executive Vice President, Law Center Affairs 4 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS / NEWS Professor Neal Katyal faces the press after arguing Trump v. Hawaii in the Supreme Court in April. Katyal issued a statement after the June 26 decision (see page 13). Photo Credit: Brent Futrell 2018 Fall/Winter 5 BRIEFSNEWS / CONVINCING EVIDENCE Professor Laura Donohue testified before Congress on the topic of warrantless searches of electronic devices at U.S. borders. The July 11 hearing was conducted before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. Donohue, Georgetown Law’s director of the Center on National Security and the Law and director of the Center on Privacy and Technology, was the first expert of the day to testify. Professor David Hyman testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions in June on how to reduce health care costs and why health care is so expensive in the United States. Professor from Practice Jennifer Hillman testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 8 regarding possible tools to address Chinese market distortions. Ambassador (and Visiting Professor) Stephen J. Rapp: Bridging the Divide In Spring 2018, the Human Rights Institute hosted a lecture by Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor of Human Rights for 2017-2018, entitled “Bridging the Divide Between International Human Rights Inquiries and Criminal Prosecutions.” Rapp served as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Office of Global Criminal Justice under President Obama from 2009 to 2015. 6 Georgetown Law CONVINCING EVIDENCE \ NEWS Human Rights Institute a campaign of harassment and to the prevention and resolution Releases New Fact- threats against him that continues of financial crisis, with a particular Finding Report: “Trapped” to this day. emphasis on insolvency and the By cloaking their smear cam- restructuring of debt, including The Human Rights Institute re- paigns as journalism, the defendants sovereign debt. leased its latest fact-finding project denigrate the First Amendment, Prior to beginning work at the report, “Trapped: Cycles of Vio- said Andrew Mendrala, supervising IMF in 1990, Hagan was in private lence and Discrimination Against attorney of the Civil Rights Clinic. practice, first in New York and sub- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans- “The First Amendment does not New Research sequently in Tokyo. Hagan received gender Persons in Guyana,” in June. and cannot protect deliberate lies Shows Arrests his J.D. from Georgetown Law and The report examines the broad designed to incite incessant harass- of D.C. Girls also received an M.S. in Interna- spectrum of discrimination and vi- ment and violence against private Rising Sharply tional Political Economy from the olence the LGBT community faces citizens,” Mendrala said. “This case Arrests of girls in London School of Economics and in Guyana. Based on interviews is a simple defense of democracy. A D.C. have risen Political Science. from a wide range of stakeholders, well-informed public is essential to a dramatically, even it presents a nuanced set of fndings healthy democracy. But a deliber- while arrests of through stories and patterns of boys have fallen, ately misinformed public is fatal to “Unite the Right” abuse and discrimination in every according to it.” Organizer Settles major facet of life including health, new research Charlottesville Lawsuit education, employment, and access presented by Brought by Georgetown to justice. The report highlights IMF General Counsel Sean Georgetown Law ICAP that systematic violations of human Hagan (L’86) to Serve as Law’s Juvenile Justice Initiative In July, one month before the rights do not exist in a vacuum, but Visiting Professor and Rights4Girls. one-year anniversary of the violent are connected and informed by oth- Sean Hagan Following the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlot- er violations and the law, policies, (L’86) will launch of the tesville, the lead organizer became and attitudes of the government join the new report, the final defendant to enter into a and its people. Georgetown “Beyond the consent decree resolving a lawsuit Walls: A Look Law faculty brought in state court by George- at Girls in as a visiting town’s Institute for Constitutional Witness to Tragedy, a D.C.’s Juvenile Victim of Fake News professor in the Justice System,” Advocacy and Protection on behalf Conspiracies Sues Alex 2019-2020 academic year, teaching in March, of the city and others. Under the Jones and Others courses relating to international Washington, terms of the decree, the organizer organizations, global governance, D.C., juvenile promised that he will not facilitate Georgetown Law’s Civil Rights international finance and public justice system organized, armed paramilitary Clinic filed suit in federal court in corruption. leaders and activity at any future rallies in Char- Virginia in March on behalf of Hagan has served as general advocates lottesville.