For Immediate Release
May 29, 2008

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Paul Clement

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce that outgoing U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement will join Georgetown Law in June as a visiting professor and senior fellow at the Supreme Court Institute. From 1998 to 2004, he taught a seminar on the separation of powers as a Law Center adjunct professor.

"Paul Clement is a supremely talented advocate and one of the nation’s brightest legal minds," said Aleinikoff. "We look forward to welcoming him back to the Law Center."

Clement became the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States in 2005. A native of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, he received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Following his law school graduation, Clement clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then went on to serve as an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, as chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights and as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding, where he headed the firm’s appellate practice.

Clement joined the Department of Justice in 2001. Prior to his confirmation as Solicitor General, he served as Acting Solicitor General for nearly a year and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General. He has argued 49 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including McConnell v. FEC, Tennessee v. Lane, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, United States v. Booker and Gonzales v. Raich.

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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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