Georgetown Law Alumni Magazine - Res Ipsa Loquitur
Spring/Summer 2009 - Online Volume 1
Faculty Notes
Faculty and Administration Awards and Recognition
In December, Professor David Cole was awarded the Guardian of Civil Rights Award by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan, a grassroots organization that provides legal, educational and other help to Arab Americans.
The Federal Legislative and Administrative Clinic, under the leadership of Professor Chai Feldblum, was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008, which President Bush signed into law on September 25, 2008. The ADAAA restores the original intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by providing coverage to a broad range of individuals with physical and mental impairments.
Professor Vicki Jackson was appointed to the newly created position of associate dean for transnational legal studies. Her duties include working with faculty to support research, institutes and academic conferences on transnational legal issues, promoting scholarly collaborations with foreign institutions and identifying foreign visiting professors and scholars of interest.
Professor Adam Levitin’s article “Priceless: The Economic Costs of Credit Card Merchant Restraints” won the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers’ annual writing competition. The article was published in the June 2008 UCLA Law Review. Levitin received the award at the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers annual dinner at the American Bar Association’s Section Meetings in Vancouver April 18.
Professor Philip Schrag has been recognized for his contributions to the field of public interest law with the 2008 Equal Justice Works Outstanding Law School Faculty Award. He received the honor in Washington, D.C., on October 10. Schrag’s work was instrumental to the passage of the student loan forgiveness program for public service employees that Congress included in the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. The law was passed on September 7, 2007, and President Bush signed it into law on September 27, 2007. Schrag also received the 2008 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award for Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America (University of California Press, 2008), which he co-authored with David Ngaruri Kenney.
John Podesta(L’76) a distinguished visitor from practice at the Law Center, served as co-chair of the presidential transition team for the Obama administration. Podesta currently heads the Center for American Progress, an influential public policy and advocacy organization, and he teaches a congressional investigations seminar at the Law Center.
Adjunct Professor David Kris has been nominated to lead the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. Kris teaches a class on national security investigations and litigation here.
Dorinda Young, SSJ, Catholic chaplain at Georgetown Law, celebrated her golden jubilee as a Sister of St. Joseph with festivities at the Law Center on November 10. Sister Dorinda joined Georgetown’s main campus ministry in 1982 and moved to the Law Center part time in 1989. She’s been here full time since 1993. She organizes the on-campus “Prayer in Life” retreats and is a devoted Hoyas hoops fan.
