For Immediate Release
May 4, 2005

Contact:
Elissa Free, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff has appointed Professor Wendy Collins Perdue as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.

"We are very fortunate to have Wendy assume the leadership of the Graduate Programs. She is a gifted and experienced administrator with a comprehensive understanding of graduate and international studies," Aleinikoff said.

As Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Perdue will be responsible for the Law Center's graduate programs including its LL.M. programs in International Legal Studies, Taxation, Securities and Financial Regulation, and National Securities Studies.  Georgetown's graduate programs regularly include over 150 foreign lawyers from more than 50 nations.

"I am pleased to accept this appointment and I hope to build on the outstanding accomplishments of Dean Feinerman," said Perdue. "Our graduate programs bring together some of the finest lawyers from around the world.  The interactions among our faculty, our foreign students, and our U.S. students makes this a dynamic and exciting educational experience for all involved."

Perdue has been a professor at Georgetown Law since 1982 and has previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Associate Dean for the Juris Doctor Program.  She teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws, and constitutional law and has written extensively in the fields of conflict of laws and civil procedure as well as on issues concerning land use and its relation to public health. She is a co-author of Conflict of Laws: American, Comparative, International and Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Question.

Perdue served as a law clerk for Judge Anthony M. Kennedy of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate with the Washington law firm of Hogan and Hartson. She received her J.D. from Duke University.

She also serves as vice chairman of the Montgomery County Planning Board and as a commissioner of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

About Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools. It has the largest faculty in the nation and is preeminent 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, the Law Center has built an environment that cultivates an exchange of practical 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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