For Immediate Release
August 26, 2009

Contact:

Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As classes begin for the 2009 -2010 academic year, Georgetown Law welcomes seven new members to its distinguished faculty.

 

Chris Brummer is an expert in international financial regulation. His research focuses on globalization, financial markets and financial market regulation. He recently served as an academic Fellow for the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before coming to Georgetown, he served on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School and practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Brummer earned an A.B. in German literature summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, a Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with honors and was a member of the law review. He is fluent in French and German. He will be teaching international financial regulation and a globalization and systemic risk seminar at Georgetown Law.

 

 

 

Laura Donohue recently completed a clerkship with Senior Judge John T. Noonan of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She received an A.B. in philosophy with honors from Dartmouth College, an M.A. with distinction in peace studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge and a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School. Donohue served as a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center, and at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Prior to this, she was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Emergency Powers and Counter-Terrorist Law in the United Kingdom 1922-2000 (Irish Academic Press, 2000). She will be teaching national security law at the Law Center.

 

 

Michael Doran, who has been a visiting professor at Georgetown Law, comes to the Law Center from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught courses in federal income tax, corporate tax, property, social security reform, and employee pension and welfare benefits. He twice served in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked on legislative and regulatory matters involving executive compensation, retirement plans, individual savings incentives, health and welfare benefits, and social security reform. Doran is an affiliated scholar with the Urban Institute. He received a B.A. in philosophy Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He will be teaching taxation and property at the Law Center.

 

 

 

Melissa Henke comes to Georgetown Law from Hogan & Hartson, where she represented clients in a wide range of commercial litigation matters, including breach of contract and business torts, and defended against federal and state class actions involving the healthcare field. In 2007 and 2008, she served as the senior associate in the firm’s pro bono practice group, where she litigated matters involving civil rights, employment discrimination, wrongful convictions and immigration. Before joining Hogan & Hartson, she clerked for Judge Gary Allen Feess of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She also served as an adjunct professor of legal research and writing at George Washington University Law School. Henke graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky. She received her J.D. with highest honors from George Washington University Law School. She will be teaching legal research and writing at Georgetown Law.

 

 

 

Howard Shelanski also joins the Georgetown Law full-time faculty after serving as a visiting professor. He is currently the deputy director for antitrust of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. He comes to the Law Center from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has been professor and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology since 1997. Shelanski has twice before served in government. In 1999-2000, he was chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission, and in 1998-1999, he was a senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He received a B.A. in history from Haverford College, a J.D. from Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and a Ph.D. in economics from Berkeley. After law school, Shelanski clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. His areas of teaching include antitrust, telecommunications and contracts.

 

 

 

Joshua Teitelbaum has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School since 2007. His research and teaching interests include law and economics, torts, corporate and securities law, and judicial behavior. He has clerked for Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and practiced corporate law at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Teitelbaum received a B.A. in economics from Williams College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University. He will be teaching a law and economics workshop and a course on deals: the economics of structuring transactions at Georgetown Law.

 

 

 

 

Philomila Tsoukala joined the Law Center as a visiting professor, where she has taught family law, legal justice, and a seminar on the family and the market. She has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law in the Emerging Scholars Program, as a Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School and as a teaching Fellow at Harvard College. Tsoukala holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree from Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, and an LL.B. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She will be teaching family law, legal justice and a course on European Union law at Georgetown Law.

 

 

 

 

With 118 full-time faculty members and 13 full-time professors of legal research and writing, Georgetown Law has the largest faculty of any law school in the nation. The Law Center’s faculty teaches the most diverse curriculum of any law school as well, with hundreds of courses ranging from public interest and constitutional law to corporate, international and trade law. 

 

 

About Georgetown University Law Center 

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest full-time faculty in the nation and is pre-eminent in several areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. Drawing on its Jesuit heritage, it has a strong tradition of public service and is dedicated to the principle that law is but a means, justice is the end. With this principle in mind, Georgetown Law has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of ideas and the pursuit of academic excellence. It brings together an extraordinarily varied group of teachers, scholars and practitioners, as well as an outstanding student body representing more than 60 countries.

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