For Immediate Release
May 12, 2011

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center is pleased to announce the addition of six new faculty members who are among the finest in their fields. They will bolster a tax program that is already regarded as one of the best in the country and strengthen Georgetown in a broad range of vital areas, including legal ethics, poverty law, education law, administrative law, civil procedure and the study of the legal profession.

"This is an extraordinary group of academics," said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor. "Georgetown will benefit for many years from this year's wonderful entering faculty."

 

John Brooks arrives at Georgetown from Harvard Law School, where he is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law and teaches a first-year legal research and writing course. His primary scholarly interests are tax law and policy. He received an A.B. cum laude in applied mathematics from Harvard and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and was awarded the Sidney I. Roberts Prize for best paper in the field of taxation. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 2007 to 2009, he practiced tax law at Ropes & Gray in Boston.

 

 

 

Itai Grinberg has spent the last four years with the Office of International Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he advised senior officials on international tax legislative issues, represented the U.S. on tax matters in multilateral settings, negotiated tax treaties with foreign sovereigns and drafted tax regulations in the international tax area. His research interests include cross-border taxation, taxation and development and U.S. tax policy. Prior to joining Treasury, he practiced law at Skadden Arps, focusing on a wide range of international tax controversy and planning matters. In 2005, he served as counsel to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, advising a bipartisan presidential commission that made proposals to fundamentally restructure the U.S. tax code. Grinberg graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and managing editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal.

 

 

Eloise Pasachoff joins Georgetown from Harvard Law School, where she, like Brooks, is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law and teaches a first-year legal research and writing course. Her primary teaching and research interests include education law, administrative law and governance and regulation. She received an A.B. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, an M.A. from Yale, an M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an executive editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. After law school, she worked at WilmerHale in New York and served as a law clerk to Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States.

 

 

Tanina Rostain is one of the most acclaimed legal ethics scholars of her generation and a leading figure in the study of the legal profession. She comes to Georgetown from New York Law School, where she is co-director of the Center for Professional Values and Practice and teaches courses in legal ethics in corporate practice, professional responsibility, sociology of the legal profession, corporate crime and evidence. She and Georgetown Law Professor Mitt Regan are currently working on a book about the role of lawyers and accountants in the U.S. tax shelter industry between 1994 and 2004. Rostain received a B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College, an M.A. in philosophy from Yale and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was articles editor for the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, she clerked for Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Ellen Ash Peters. She practiced law for several years before returning to Yale as a Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture. She also served as a faculty fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

 

 

Lawrence Solum is one of the nation's leading public law scholars, a prolific academic who has had a profound impact on the fields of civil procedure, constitutional theory and law and philosophy and who is the author of the acclaimed "Legal Theory" blog. He joins Georgetown from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he is co-director of the Program in Law and Philosophy and the Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law. Before arriving at Illinois, he taught at the University of San Diego School of Law and Loyola Law School, and visited at Georgetown Law, University of Southern California and Boston University. Solum received a B.A. with highest honors in philosophy from UCLA and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is the author of several books and dozens of articles and has been nominated as among the country’s top 20 most influential and important legal thinkers by Legal Affairs magazine.

 

 

David Super is generally regarded as among the most significant scholars of poverty law writing today, and in the past decade his innovative work has appeared in the law reviews of California, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. He joins the Law Center from the University of Maryland Law School, where he has received multiple teaching awards. He teaches courses in administrative law, civil procedure, evidence, the legal profession, legislation, local government law, property, public welfare law, regulatory theory and torts. He has also taught at Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Howard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Washington and Lee and Yale. For nine years, Super served as general counsel at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, focusing on food assistance and income security programs for low-income people. He spent four years as an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia and also worked for the National Health Law Program and the Food Research Action Center. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and with honors from Harvard Law School.

 

With 118 full-time members, the Georgetown Law faculty is the largest 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 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.