For Immediate Release
July 13, 2006

Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

Professor Louis Michael Seidman

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce the appointments of Georgetown Law Professors Louis Michael Seidman as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law and Randy Barnett as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory.  Seidman and Barnett will be formally installed at ceremonies during the 2006-2007 academic year.

"Mike Seidman and Randy Barnett are among the most thoughtful and creative legal scholars in the nation. Their professorships are well-deserved honors," Aleinikoff said.

Seidman joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1976, where he teaches courses in constitutional and criminal law.  He was the James Monroe Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law.   

Prior to coming to Georgetown, Seidman served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and as a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service.  He is the co-author of a constitutional law casebook and the author of several articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law.  His most recent books are "Equal Protection of the Laws" (Foundation, 2002) and "Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review" (Yale, 2001). 

Professor Randy Barnett

Barnett will join the Georgetown Law full-time faculty this fall after serving as a visiting professor.  Most recently, he was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor at the Boston University School of Law, where he taught constitutional law, contracts and cyber law, as well as torts, criminal law, evidence, agency and partnership and jurisprudence.  He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Northwestern University and served as a prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago.  In 2004, he argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzales v. Raich in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barnett has produced more than 80 articles and reviews, as well as seven books, including, "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" (Princeton, 2004), "Contract Cases and Doctrine" (Aspen, 3rd ed. 2003), and "The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law" (Oxford, 1998).  

The Carmack Waterhouse Professorships at Georgetown Law, which include professorships in law, medicine, ethics and public policy and state and local government, were established by the late Carmack Waterhouse, Georgetown Law class of 1935, and his wife, Mary, with a gift from their estate.  Waterhouse was a patent attorney with the Atomic Energy Commission until his retirement in 1967.  He died in 1995.

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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