For Immediate Release
August 21, 2007

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As classes begin for the 2007-2008 academic year, Georgetown Law welcomes seven new members to its distinguished faculty.

 

Professor Jane Aiken joins the Georgetown Law faculty after ten years at Washington University School of Law where she was the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and director of the Civil Justice Clinic.  She has also taught at University of South Carolina School of Law and Arizona State University College of Law.  Highly regarded for her work in clinical legal education and evidence, she has written extensively on character evidence, domestic violence and critical pedagogy.  An honors graduate of Hollins College, she received a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law and an LL.M. from Georgetown Law.  Aiken is co-chair of the ABA Women’s Subcommittee on Criminal Justice.  She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Tribhuvan Law Campus in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2001, and a Carnegie Scholar in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in 2000 and 2001.  Her forthcoming book, "Teaching Justice," will be published in 2008.  She will be teaching evidence.

 

Professor Sonya Bonneau has been a legal writing professor at Syracuse University College of Law since 2006.  She was a partner at Hancock & Estabrook in Syracuse, where she practiced civil litigation in areas including appellate practice and procedure, commercial litigation, employment discrimination and antitrust law.  She also worked at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York and served as law clerk to Judge Norman A. Mordue of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.  Bonneau received a B.A. magna cum laude in English and history of art from Cornell University and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.  She will be teaching legal research and writing.     

 

Professor Michael Golden received a B.S. in commerce with concentrations in finance and marketing from the University of Virginia and a J.D. cum laude from Georgetown Law, where he was executive editor of the Georgetown Law Journal’s criminal procedure project.  After graduating from law school, he served as law clerk to Judge Frank Magill of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.  From 1999-2005, he was an associate at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., where he practiced appellate litigation.  He later served as a legal consultant for LexisNexis.  Golden’s research will focus on emerging questions of constitutional law and intellectual property rights.  He will be teaching legal research and writing.

 

Professor Adam Levitin specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law.  Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, he practiced in the business finance and restructuring department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.  He previously worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York and the Securities & Exchange Commission in Boston.  He also served as law clerk to Judge Jane Richards Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.  Levitin’s research focuses on financial institutions and their role in the consumer and business credit economy, including credit card competition issues, identity theft, and bankruptcy lending and debt trading.  He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, M.Phil and A.M. in history from Columbia University and an A.B. in Near Eastern languages and history from Harvard, all with honors.  He will be teaching bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations.

 

Professor Jonathan Molot has served on the faculty of George Washington University Law School since 1998 and was a visiting professor at Georgetown Law in 2005.  He writes and teaches in the areas of civil procedure, complex litigation, administrative law, statutory interpretation, federal courts and insurance law.  His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review and Virginia Law Review.  He clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C.  Molot graduated magna cum laude from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was articles co-chair of the Harvard Law Review, and where he will serve as visiting professor in the fall of 2007.  He will be teaching insurance law and a litigation risk management seminar at Georgetown Law.

 

Professor Alvaro Santos came to Georgetown Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was assistant professor in the Emerging Scholars Program. He specializes in international trade law, law and economic development and transnational labor law.  His research analyzes the impact of the global economy on domestic labor law and institutions. Santos is the author of The World Bank’s Uses of the "Rule of Law" Promise in Economic Development, in "The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal" (Cambridge, 2006), which he co-edited with David Trubek.  He received a J.D. with high honors from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he is an S.J.D. candidate. He has also taught at Tufts University and the University of Turin in Italy. Santos will be teaching law and economic development, international trade and a seminar on workplace regulation in the global economy.

 

Professor Rima Sirota comes to Georgetown Law from the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she advised and trained lawyers on professional responsibility issues in criminal and civil matters.  She has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law since 2006 and currently serves as an appointed hearing committee member for the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility.  Previously, Sirota was counsel for legal ethics and administration for the environment and natural resources division of the Justice Department.  Before joining the government, she practiced civil litigation at Baach Robinson & Lewis, where she was a partner, and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, both in Washington, D.C.  An honors graduate of Trinity College in Connecticut, she received a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.  She will be teaching legal research and writing.

 

With 115 full-time faculty members and 12 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.

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