, 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.
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.
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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.
Kelly Davis received her JD with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she served as president of the Environmental Law Society and Recent Developments Editor of the Texas Environmental Law Journal, and received the Texas Law Fellowships Excellence in Public Interest Award. During law school, Kelly interned at Save Our Springs Alliance and Earthjustice DC, and worked as a clinical intern at UT’s Environmental Law Clinic and Housing Clinic. Prior to joining IPR, Kelly clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for the Honorable William Wayne Justice, U.S. Senior District Judge, and the Honorable Robert L. Pitman, U.S. Magistrate Judge. Kelly graduated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina with a B.A. in Social and Environmental Justice.
Laura Moy received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2011. Before law school, she was the resident expert in mobile phone location data at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where she developed new types of trial exhibits, testified in grand jury proceedings and trials, and trained prosecutors and support staff on the usefulness and proper handling of cell site records. While in law school, Laura served as co-chair of the Prisoners’ Rights and Education Project and Symposium Editor of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change. She worked as a clinical advocate at the Brennan Center for Justice, and was active in the Information Law Institute Privacy Research Group and Law Students for Human Rights. As an intern at the Software Freedom Law Center, she co-authored a paper describing legal, privacy, and security problems related to software operating on medical devices. Laura spent her summers working at the Brooklyn Family Defense Project and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and has a bachelor’s degree in government and anthropology from the University of Maryland.
Margot Pollans received her J.D. magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law in 2010. At NYU, she was a Furman Scholar, a Milbank/Lederman Law and Economics Scholar, and an articles editor of the NYU Law Review. She also interned at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and participated in the environmental law clinic at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to law school, Margot was a high school history teacher and a track and cross-country coach. She earned her B.A. in history and environmental science from Columbia University in 2004. During college, she spent a semester in an environmental field studies program at the Biopshere 2 in Arizona. Margot recently completed a clerkship for the Honorable David Tatel of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She lives in Capitol Hill, volunteers for the Common Good City Farm, and coauthors a baking blog.
Blake E. Reid received his B.S. in Computer Science and his J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Colorado, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law and the President of the Technology and Intellectual Property Society. During law school, Blake served in the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic, where he represented University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman in a successful bid to obtain an exemption from the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He also worked for the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, the University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office, and the law firms of Faegre & Benson LLP and Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. Prior to joining IPR, Blake clerked for Justice Nancy E. Rice of the Colorado Supreme Court. He is also the author of the essay “Substitution Effects: A Problematic Justification for the Third-Party Doctrine of the Fourth Amendment,” published in the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
