, Professor of
Law, joined IPR in February 1988, and is head of 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 Graduate Fellow at IPR, where
she concentrated in the communications area and argued two cases
before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. After leaving
IPR, she worked as an associate at the firm of Fisher, Wayland,
Cooper & Leader, and as an attorney at the Communications and
Finance Section of the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
While at the Justice Department, she was involved in enforcing the
consent decree in U.S. v. AT&T, filing comments with
the FCC, and investigating mergers.
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, U.S. and Australian children's television
regulation, telephone company claims to a first amendment
right to offer video programming, and teaching advanced
legal writing in law school clinics. She also teaches a
seminar on comparative media law. Outside the office, she
enjoys spending time with her two children.
, Professor of Law, directs IPR's Environmental Project. She joined IPR in the fall of 1991 after being General Counsel of the National Audubon Society for five years. Professor Babcock graduated from Yale LawSchool in 1966. She was in private practice with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, in their Washington, D.C. Office, and a partner at Blum & Nash, also in Washington. Before becoming Audubon’s General Counsel in 1986, Professor Babcock was Deputy Counsel and Director of the Audubon Society's PublicLands and Waters Program. She served two years in the Carter Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals at the Department of Interior, and on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team. In addition to her extensive litigation and government relations experience, Professor Babcock has taught environmental law at Pennsylvania, Yale, Pace, Catholic, and Antioch law schools, and has published articles on environmental and natural resources law, environmental justice, Indian sovereignty, and state sovereign immunity. She also teaches courses in environmental and natural resources law at the Law Center. She has served on the boards of several public interest environmental organizations and has been on various governmental advisory committees. Her outside interests include running, tennis, swimming, and the outdoors. She has two sons, one of whom practices labor law in Washington, D.C., and three grandchildren. Professor Babcock lives with a significant other who is a semi-retired environmental policy analyst and economist , two boundlessly energetic large dogs, and an elderly cat.
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Professor of Law, directs the Institute's civil rights and general public interest project. Professor Vladeck joined the Law Center faculty in 2002 from Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally-prominent public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C. He spent over 25 years with the Litigation Group, becoming its Director in 1992. He has handled a broad range of litigation, including First Amendment, health and safety, civil rights, class actions 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 often testifies before Congress on regulatory and constitutional issues. His academic writing concentrates on regulatory issues, First Amendment questions, legal ethics, and matters relating to judicial administration. He has served on the Council of the Administrative Law Section of the ABA and as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Professor Vladeck began his legal career in 1976 as a graduate teaching fellow at the Law Center's Institute for Public Representation, and he joined the adjunct faculty in 1987. In addition to his work at the Institute, he also teaches civil procedure, federal courts, government processes, and a civil litigation seminar. Professor Vladeck is currently on leave.
, Visiting Professor of Law. Professor Wolfman 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, and he is an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on the Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, he regularly taught a course on appellate courts at Harvard Law School and previously taught at Georgetown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and American. At the Institute, Professor Wolfman directs the Institute’s civil rights and general public interest law project while Professor Vladeck is on leave.
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 M. 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 civil rights organizations, including 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. She is the author of the article "The Humanitarian Monarchy Legislates: The International Committee of the Red Cross and Its 161 Rules of Customary International Humanitarian Law," published in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law.
Jamie Pleune received her B.A. magna cum laude from Colorado College in 2000, and graduated from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 2007, where she was a Note and Comment Editor for the Utah Law Review, a recipient of the Stephen Traynor Legal Writing Award, and a recipient of the Khazeni Memorial Fellowship and the Robert W. Swenson Fellowship. Her work experience during law school included positions at the Sierra Club and Parsons, Behle & Latimer. She also published articles on standing and on the Clean Air Act. Jamie clerked for the Honorable Justice Jill N. Parrish on the Utah Supreme Court following graduation. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a ballot drive initiative coordinator for the Nature Conservancy in Utah, as a backcountry guide for adjudicated youth in Montan, an AmeriCorps volunteer in Montana, and as a deckhand in the Virgin Islands.
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 comes to IPR after working at Bread for the City, where she provided direct representation to low-income tenants in the District of Columbia. 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. During college and law school she interned at the Center for Biological Diversity 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.
