DEBORAH EPSTEIN; Associate Dean (Clinical Education and Public Service); Professor of Law; Director, Domestic Violence Clinic: B.A., Brown; J.D., New York University.

Dean Epstein joined the faculty in 1993, and serves as Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic and Associate Dean of the Clinical Education and Public Interest and Community Service Programs. Prior to joining the law faculty, Dean Epstein practiced at the civil rights firm of Bernabei & Katz, representing plaintiffs in sex discrimination suits, and clerked for Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Marvin Katz. From 1994-96, Dean Epstein co-chaired a multi-disciplinary effort to create a new Domestic Violence Unit within the D.C. Superior Court that fundamentally restructured the way that the local justice system handles civil and criminal family abuse matters. Until 2001, she co-directed the D.C. Superior Court's Domestic Violence Intake Center and directed the Emergency Domestic Relations Project, a public interest organization providing legal and educational services to indigent victims of intimate abuse. She is Chair of the D.C. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team, a member of the Mayor's Commission on Violence Against Women, the D.C. Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, and the Board of Directors of the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She is the author of several publications in the areas of domestic violence and sexual harassment law.

 

HOPE M. BABCOCK; Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation: B.A., Smith College; LL.B., Yale.

Professor Babcock served as general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987–91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon’s Public Lands and Water Program from 1981–87.  Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash & Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process.  From 1977–79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior.  Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School, and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools.  While at Pace, she  co-directed Pace's environmental clinic.  Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association, served on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team, and is former Chair of the Natural Resources Law section of the American Association of Law Schools.  Professor Babcock’s scholarly writings include articles on natural resources and environmental law, environmental justice, takings, and Indian law.

 

ANGELA J. CAMPBELL; Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation: B.A., Hampshire College; J.D., UCLA; LL.M., Georgetown.

Professor Campbell joined the faculty in 1988 and is Co-Director of the Institute for Public Representation where she is in charge of the First Amendment and Media Law project.  Prior to joining the Institute, she was an attorney with the Communications and Finance Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and in private practice as an associate with the law firm Fisher, Wayland, Cooper & Leader.  From 1981-83 she was a Graduate Fellow at the Institute.  Professor Campbell’s recent law review articles include A Historical Perspective on the Public’s Right of Access to the Media (2007), A Public Interest Perspective on the Impact of the Broadcasting Provisions of the 1996 Act (2006), and Restricting the Marketing of Junk Food to Children by Product Placement and Character Selling (2006).

 

JOHN M. COPACINO; Professor of Law; Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic and E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program: B.A., M.A.T., Duke; J.D., University of Virginia; LL.M., Georgetown.

Professor Copacino is Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic and the E. Barrett Pretty­man graduate program in criminal trial advocacy.  Prior to joining the faculty, he was the Director of the Juvenile Law Clinic at the Antioch School of Law.  He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and received an LL.M. as a Prettyman Fellow from the Law Center.  He has served as lead trial counsel in hundreds of criminal cases in the District of Columbia.  He regularly participates in local and national training programs for criminal defense lawyers.

             

MICHAEL DIAMOND; Senior Academic and Policy Fellow and Associate Director, Harrison Institute for Public Law: B.A., Syracuse; J.D., Fordham; LL.M., N.Y.U.

Professor Diamond is a Senior Academic and Policy Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center where he is the Associate Director of Georgetown’s Harrison Institute for Public Law program and Director of its Housing and Community Development Clinic.  Prior to his arrival at the Law Center, Professor Diamond taught at American University’s Washington College of Law and at Antioch University School of Law.  He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico and at Gonzaga Law School.  He has taught Contracts, Business Associations, Administrative Law, Housing and Economic Development and he has written extensively in these fields.  He has served as a consultant to the American Bar Association, the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative on proposed housing laws in Russia and Bosnia, and as a legal education specialist on a team conducting a mid term evaluation of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Economic Law and Improved Procurement System project in Indonesia.  He has also been of counsel to the law firm of O’Toole, Rothwell, Nassau, and Steinbach.  He has authored books on corporations and real estate law and has written several articles on poverty and community.

 

CHAI FELDBLUM; Professor of Law; Director, Federal Legislation Clinic: B.A., Barnard College; J.D., Harvard.

Professor Feldblum first joined the faculty as a visiting professor for the 1991–93 academic years.  In 1993, she established a new law school clinic, the Federal Legislation Clinic, and has served as the Clinic’s Director ever since.  Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Feldblum worked as a legislative counsel at the AIDS Action Council, and at the ACLU AIDS Project, focusing on federal legislation concerning AIDS.  She clerked for First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Frank M. Coffin in 1985, and for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun in 1986.  From 1989–90, Professor Feldblum played a leading role in the drafting and negotiating of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.  She has also worked extensively in advancing gay and lesbian rights, particularly in the drafting of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.  Professor Feldblum engages in scholarly work and practical advocacy in the areas of disability rights, lesbian and gay rights, and health and social welfare legislation.

 

STEVEN  H. GOLDBLATT; Professor of Law; Director, Appellate Litigation Clinic: B.A., Franklin & Marshall; J.D., Georgetown.

After graduating from the Law Center in 1970, Professor Goldblatt was an Assistant District Attorney and then a Deputy District Attorney of Philadelphia.  His recent writings include several briefs in the United States Supreme Court.  He has argued five cases in that Court including four on behalf of Appellate Litigation Clinic clients.  He is a director of Georgetown’s Supreme Court Institute and also serves as the Chair of the Rules Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He has served on the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee.  He has been chair of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Amicus Curiae Briefs Committee (1982-1999).  In 1985, he was a member of the ABA committee that issued the report, Appellate Litigation Skills Training: The Role of the Law Schools.  He served as reporter to the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Special Committee on Criminal Justice in a Free Society.  That committee’s report, Criminal Justice in Crisis, was published in 1988.  In 1992, he was the reporter to the ABA Task Force on Minorities in the Justice System.  Its July 1992 report was adopted by the ABA.

 

KRISTIN N. HENNING; Associate Professor of Law; Deputy Director, Juvenile Justice Clinic:  B.A., Duke University; J.D., Yale Law School; LL.M., Georgetown.

Professor Henning came to Georgetown in 1995 as a Stewart-Stiller Fellow in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Clinics.  As a Fellow she represented adults and children in the D.C. Superior Court, while supervising law students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic.  In 1997, Professor Henning joined the staff of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where she continued to represent clients and helped to organize a Juvenile Unit designed to meet the multi-disciplinary needs of children in the juvenile justice system.  Professor Henning served as Lead Attorney for the Juvenile Unit from 1998 until she left the Public Defender Service to return to the Law Center as Deputy Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic in 2001.  Professor Henning has been active in local, regional and national juvenile justice reform, serving on the Mid-Atlantic Advisory Board to the National Juvenile Defender Training, Technical Assistance and Resource Center as well as on local Superior Court committees such as the Delinquency Working Group and the Family Court Training Committee.  Professor Henning writes in the area of juvenile justice, criminal justice, and legal counseling.

 

LAURIE S. KOHN; Visiting Associate Professor of Law; Co-Director, Domestic Violence Clinic: A.B., Harvard College; J.D., Georgetown; LL.M., Georgetown.

Professor Kohn is the co-director of the Domestic Violence Clinic where she has taught since 1998.  Outside of the classroom, Professor Kohn regularly presents in community and academic settings on issues related to domestic violence and women’s rights.  Professor Kohn is the co-chair of the D.C. Bar’s Family Law Steering Committee, a commissioner on the D.C. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board, and a hearing commissioner for police misconduct cases in D.C.  Prior to joining the faculty of the Domestic Violence Clinic, Professor Kohn was an associate at the D.C. law firm of Crowell & Moring, LLP, where she specialized in medical malpractice and insurance coverage litigation.  Before entering private practice, Professor Kohn focused on disability rights, assisting in the legislative process for the Americans with Disabilities Act in Senator Kennedy’s office, and later in implementing and enforcing the ADA for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.  Professor Kohn also worked at the legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, focusing on reproductive rights and disability policy.  Professor Kohn has written several practice documents on representing victims of domestic violence including a practice manual for pro bono attorneys.  Professor Kohn’s scholarly writing focuses on domestic violence and constitutional law, evidence, and trial practice. 

 

DAVID KOPLOW; Professor of Law; Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies: B.A., Harvard, Queens College at Oxford; J.D., Yale.

Professor Koplow has been at Georgetown since 1981.  With Professor Schrag, he directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students provide pro bono representation to refugees who seek asylum in the United States because of persecution in their homelands due to race, religion, political opinion, etc.  Professor Koplow also teaches International Law I (the introductory survey of a range of public international law topics) and a seminar in the area of national security, arms control, weapons proliferation, and terrorism.  Professor Koplow has twice served in the U.S. government.  From 1978 to 1981, he served as attorney-advisor and as special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  From 1997 to 1999 he was Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs) at the U.S. Department of Defense.  He has served on the boards of directors of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, and section 2 of the D.C. Bar.  Most of his scholarly writing concentrates in the areas of international law, arms control, U.S. foreign affairs law, and verification of compliance with treaties.

 

WALLACE J. MLYNIEC; Lupo-Ricci Professor of Clinical Legal Studies; Director, Juvenile Justice Clinic: B.S., Northwestern; J.D., Georgetown.                                                    

Professor Mlyniec is the former Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Public Service Programs. In addition to the clinic, he has taught courses in Clinical Pedagogy, Family Law, Juveniles and the Courts, and Wrongful Convictions and assists with the training of fellows in the Prettyman Fellowship Program. He is the author of numerous books and articles concerning criminal law and the law relating to children and families, and most recently wrote an architectural history of the Law Center. He was the director of the Judicial Conference Study on ABA Criminal Justice Standards, the administrator of the Emergency Bail Fund, and served as a consultant to the San Jose State University and University of Maryland Schools of Social Work, the ABA’s National Resource Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, several law schools, the California Bar Examiners, and the architectural firm of Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott. He has been a member of the A.B.A. Juvenile Justice Committee since 1995 and was its chair from 1998 to 2005. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Juvenile Defender Center. Professor Mlyniec was a recipient of a Bicentennial Fellowship from the Swedish government to study their child welfare system. He is also the recipient of the William Pincus award for his contributions to clinical legal education and the Stuart Stiller award, the AALS Robert Drinan award, and the Lever award for legal service in the public interest. He served on the AALS Standing Committee on Clinical Education for several years and served as chair in 1992.

 

RICHARD L. ROE; Professor of Law; Director, D.C. Street Law Clinic: B.A., Yale; J.D., University of Maine.

Professor Roe directs the Law Center’s D.C. Street Law Clinic and specializes in educating the public about the law.  Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1983, he served as Program Director of the National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law and Executive Director of the Coalition for Law Related Education in Washington, D.C.  He has conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on teaching about the law to the public.  He is the co-author of the high school textbook, Great Trials in American History.  He has reviewed upcoming arguments in Preview of Supreme Court Cases, written several articles for Update on Law Related Education, edited the ABA publication Putting on Mock Trials and is the author of Valuing Student Speech in the California Law Review.  Professor Roe was the founder and Director of the D.C. Family Literacy Project, which taught prisoners and homeless families how to read with their children and other developmentally appropriate practices.  His present research focuses on learning theory and its implications for law and law teaching.

 

SUSAN DELLER ROSS; Professor of Law; Director, International Women’s Human Rights Clinic:  B.A., Knox; J.D., New York University.

Professor Ross has taught courses at Georgetown on International and Comparative Law on Women’s Human Rights, Family Law, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Gender and the Law.  In January 1999 she founded and directed a new clinical program at Georgetown – the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic.  From 1983 until then, she served as Director of Georgetown’s Sex Discrimination Clinic and taught clinical courses focused on women’s rights issues such as employment discrimination and domestic violence. Her publications include law school casebooks, Women’s Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook, Sex Discrimination and the Law (co-author), a book for lay audiences on The Rights of Women, and numerous articles on subjects such as polygamy, pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and parental leave.  She has also lectured and served as a consultant on international and comparative perspectives on women’s human rights in India, Mongolia, Lithuania, Guatemala, and Madagascar. In the Clinic, Georgetown faculty and students work collaboratively with women’s human rights advocates in African, Eastern European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries, on issues ranging from “honor” killings of women and female genital mutilation to sex discrimination in employment, marital property, and intestate succession.  Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1983, Professor Ross served as Special Litigation Counsel for Sex Discrimination in the Civil Rights Division at the US Justice Department and Clinical Director of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project.  She also worked in the General Counsel’s Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and taught as an adjunct or visiting law professor at George Washington, Columbia, NYU, and Rutgers (Newark).  She served in the Peace Corps from 1965-1967 in Ivory Coast, West Africa.

 

PHILIP G. SCHRAG; Professor of Law; Director, Center for Applied Legal Studies: A.B., Harvard; LL.B., Yale.

Professor Schrag teaches Civil Procedure and directs the Center for Applied Legal Studies, in which students represent refugees who are seeking political asylum in the United States.  He is also the Director of the Public Interest Law Scholars Program, through which selected law students who plan careers as public interest lawyers receive scholarship grants and special academic enrichment and guidance in that field.  Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he was assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund, Consumer Advocate of the City of New York, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, from which he received a Meritorious Honor Award in 1981.  Professor Schrag has also had a distinguished and varied career in civic service, which has included positions as a delegate to the District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention in 1982, an editor and consultant on consumer protection during the Carter-Mondale transition, a consultant to the New York State Consumer Protection Board, a consultant to the Governor’s Advisory Council of Puerto Rico, and an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Agency in the Czech Republic and Hungary.  In addition, he drafted New York City’s Consumer Protection Act of 1969.  He is also a prolific author, having written dozens of articles on consumer law, nuclear arms control, political asylum, and various other topics for both law journals and popular publications.  He is the author of twelve books, including A Well-founded Fear: The Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America (Routledge, 2000).

 

ABBE SMITH; Professor of Law; Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic and E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program: B.A., Yale; J.D., New York University.

Professor Smith joined the faculty in 1996.  From 1990 to 1996, she was Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, a clinical instructor in the criminal defense clinic, and a lecturer on law in Harvard’s “Trial Advocacy Workshop.” In addition to Georgetown and Harvard, Professor Smith has taught at American University Washington College of Law, Temple University School of Law, and City University New York School of Law.  In 2005-06, she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia.  Professor Smith’s scholarly writing is on criminal defense, clinical legal education, lawyers’ ethics, and juvenile justice.  She is the author of Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Story (forthcoming 2008) and co-author with Monroe Freedman, of Understanding Lawyer’s Ethics (4th ed. forthcoming 2008).  She is also a published cartoonist (Carried Away: The Chronicles of a Feminist Cartoonist, 1984).  From 1982 to 1990, Professor Smith was a trial attorney at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She has practiced criminal law in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Juvenile Defender Center and the Bronx Defenders, is a longtime member of the National Lawyers Guild, and is a frequenter presenter at public defender training conferences.

 

ROBERT K. STUMBERG; Professor of Law; Director, Harrison Institute for Public Law: B.A., Macalester; J.D., LL.M., Georgetown.

Professor Stumberg is director of the Harrison Institute for Public Law, which provides legal and policy services to public officials and nonprofit organizations.  His published work on how trade policy affects governance includes The WTO, Environment & Service; GATS & Electricity; Trade Policy & Prescription Drugs; Federalism & Political Accountability under Global Trade Rules (with Matthew Porterfield), Preemption & Human Rights; and Sovereignty by Subtraction:  The Multilateral Agreement on Investment.  His previous work was on legislation, economic development, community lending and housing policy.  After receiving his JD from Georgetown, he was a Georgetown teaching fellow, and he later served as Policy Director of the Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, DC.  He has served on the boards of directors of the Center for the Study of Services, publisher of Consumer Checkbook magazines; the AALS Section on Legislation, which he chaired; Susanna Wesley House, which he chaired; the Committee of 100 on the Federal City; the D.C. Housing Action Council; and the D.C. Mutual Housing Association.

 

DAVID VLADECK; Professor of Law; Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation: B.A., NYU; J.D., Columbia; LL.M., Georgetown

Professor Vladeck joined the Law Center faculty in 2002 after spending over 25 years at Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally prominent public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C., becoming its Director in 1992.  He has handled a broad range of litigation, including First Amendment, health and safety, civil rights, class actions, national security and open government cases.  He has argued a number of cases before the United States Supreme Court, state courts of last resort, and over 50 cases before the federal courts of appeal.  He also testifies before Congress, writes on administrative law, preemption and First Amendment and serves as a Scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform.  He was previously a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.  Professor Vladeck was a graduate teaching fellow at the Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation, and he joined the adjunct faculty in 1987.  He was a visiting professor at the Law Center from spring 1999 through spring 2000, teaching Civil Procedure and a seminar in first amendment litigation.  He has also taught Federal Courts, Government Processes, and seminars on civil litigation. 

Revised February 19, 2008 (MA)