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Hope Babcock,
Professor of Law, directs IPR’s Environmental Project. She joined IPR in the fall of 1991, after spending 11 years at the National Audubon Society, directing its Public Lands and Waters program and serving as Audubon’s General Counsel for five of those years. Professor Babcock graduated from Yale Law School in 1966, was in private practice here in Washington for many years, and also served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals at the U.S. Department of Interior during the Carter Administration. In addition to her extensive litigation experience, Professor Babcock has taught environmental law at Penn, Yale, Pace, Catholic, and Antioch, and has written on topics concerning environmental, natural resources and public lands law as well as environmental justice, environmental clinics, legal fiction, environmental norms, and Indian law. She also teaches courses in environmental and natural resources law at GULC. She has served on the boards of several public interest environmental organizations, as well as on National Academy of Sciences Committees and various governmental advisory committees. She was Chair of the Natural Resources Section of the AALS. Professor Babcock will be on sabbatical for the fall 2011 semester. An experienced environmental clinician will direct IPR's environmental projects in her absence.
Angela Campbell,
Professor of Law, has been teaching at IPR since 1988, and directs IPR’s First Amendment and Media Law Project. She graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1981 where she was editor-in-chief of the Federal Communications Law Journal. She spent two years as a Staff Attorney at IPR. After leaving IPR, she practiced law at the firm of Fisher, Wayland, Cooper & Leader, and at the Communications and Finance Section of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Campbell’s work at IPR is in the areas of communications law and policy. She is particularly interested in the regulation of mass media and new technologies, such as the Internet. She has published articles on media self-regulation, advertising on the Internet, children’s television regulation, universal service, first amendment rights of telephone companies, and legal writing.
Brian Wolfman,
Visiting Professor of Law, joined the faculty in 2009 after spending nearly 20 years at the national public interest law firm Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving the last five years as the Litigation Group’s Director. Before that, for five years, he conducted trial and appellate litigation as a staff lawyer at a rural poverty law program in Arkansas. Professor Wolfman has handled a broad range of litigation, including cases involving health and safety regulation, class action governance, court access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, public benefits law, and government transparency. He has argued five cases before the Supreme Court (winning four) and dozens of other cases before federal and state appellate courts and trial courts around the country. He directed Public Citizen’s Supreme Court Assistance Project, which helps “underdog” public interest clients litigate before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has testified before Congress and federal rules committees, served as an Advisor to the recently released American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, and is serving on an Institute of Medicine committee considering reform of federal medical device law. He regularly teaches an appellate courts course at Harvard Law School, and before joining the Georgetown faculty, he taught a variety of courses as an adjunct at Georgetown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and American. He has published a variety of articles mainly concerning class action policy and federal preemption of state law.
Adrienne Biddings received her JD, cum laude, from the University of Florida College of Law with a joint M.A. degree in Mass Communications. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of Miami. During law school, she was executive research editor for the Florida Entertainment Law Review and a research assistant for the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. She also taught Telecommunication Law and Regulation at the University of Florida. In summer 2008, she worked as a law clerk in Comcast’s legal & regulatory department in Washington, DC. Prior to attending law school, Adrienne worked as a promotions producer for an ABC affiliate in Miami, FL and technical director for a public access channel in Wilmington, NC.
Leah Nicholls received her B.A. in History and Philosophy, summa cum laude, and her M.A. in History from Boston University in 2004. She earned a J.D., Order of the Coif, and an L.L.M in International and Comparative Law in 2007 from Duke University School of Law, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law and the recipient of the David H. Siegel Memorial Scholarship and the Justin Miller Citizenship Award. During law school, Leah worked at Carolina Legal Services, the Arizona Center for Disability Law, and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and worked as a student attorney in Duke’s Guantánamo Defense, Children’s Education, and Poverty Law clinics. After graduation, Leah clerked for the Honorable Harriet O'Neill of the Supreme Court of Texas. Prior to joining IPR, Leah served as the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group.
Kelly Davis received her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas Law School in 2009 where she was an editor of the Texas Environmental Law Journal, President of the Environmental Law Society, participated in several clinics, and received several public interest awards. She received her undergraduate degree from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. Kelly clerked for the Honorable William Wayne Justice, Western District of Texas before joining IPR.
Guilherme Roschke has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from The George Washington University Law School. Following law school, Guilherme was awarded a Skadden Fellowship at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. His fellowship focused on protecting the privacy of victims of domestic violence, and included individual representation, technical assistance and policy work. Following his fellowship, Guilherme was a staff attorney at the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence, where he provided technical advice and developed trainings for lawyers representing victims of domestic violence. Prior to law school, Guilherme was a computer programmer with experience in corporate, non-profit and scientific environments. He often volunteered his technical and organizing skills for media activism projects. Guilherme is a member of the District of Columbia and New York bars.
Margie Sollinger came to IPR after working at Bread for the City, a nonprofit social services organization, where she provided direct representation to persons living in poverty. She received her B.A. in biology and environmental studies from Carleton College and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was an editor for the Journal of Law and Inequality. Her work experience during school included positions at the Center for Biological Diversity, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Better Government Association, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance. Following law school she clerked for the Honorable Warren M. Silver on the Maine Supreme Court. Margie lives in Northeast D.C. with her partner, Andy, a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and their rescue dog, Elf.
The last five listed staff members are IPR staff attorneys. Our staff attorneys generally serve two-year fellowships. Ms. Biddings, Mr. Roschke, and Ms. Sollinger will complete their fellowships in the summer of 2011 and be replaced at that time by new staff attorneys. |
