BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON PANELISTS:
Professor Edelman, a long-time advocate for disadvantaged youth and the underprivileged, is an expert in poverty, welfare, juvenile justice and constitutional law. He joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1982 and has taught constitutional law, federal legislation, public interest lawyering and social welfare law and policy. He took leave from the Law Center during President Clinton’s first term to serve as counselor to Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation. Prior to coming to Georgetown, Edelman served as director of the New York State Division of Youth and as vice president of the University of Massachusetts. He was a legislative assistant to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and issues director for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980. Before that, he was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg and Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also worked in the U.S. Justice Department as special assistant to Attorney General John Douglas.
Edelman is the author of "Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope" and the co-author of "Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men." He has been honored for his work by the D.C. Bar and the National Child Labor Committee.
Professor Lederman returned to the Georgetown Law faculty this fall after serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel in 2009 and 2010. He was also an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel from 1994 to 2002. Before that, he was an attorney at Bredhoff & Kaiser, where his practice focused on federal litigation, including appeals, on behalf of labor unions, employees and pension funds. He served as law clerk to Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and to Judge Frank M. Coffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Prior to rejoining the Department of Justice, he was a regular contributor to several blogs and websites, including "SCOTUSblog," "Opinio Juris," "Slate" and "Balkinization." In 2008, with David Barron, he published a two-part article in the Harvard Law Review examining Congress's authority to regulate the Commander in Chief's conduct of war. A visting professor at the Law Center before joining the full-time faculty in 2008, Lederman has taught constitutional law, religion and law, lawmaking, executive branch lawyering, separation of powers, and legal justice.
Professor Gottesman served as an adjunct professor at the Law Center from 1978 to 1988, and joined the faculty as a full-time professor in 1989. He has taught constitutional law, contracts, employment discrimination law, evidence, property and torts. Specializing in the fields of labor law, constitutional law and civil rights, Gottesman practiced with the Washington, D.C., firm of Bredhoff and Kaiser from 1961 to 1988, and has argued numerous cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1977 to 1981, he served, by appointment of President Carter, on the Judicial Nominating Commission for the District of Columbia, reviewing hundreds of candidates for vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Gottesman is a member of the board of trustees of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and the Law Committee of the American Association of University Professors.
Visiting Professor Wolfman is co-director of the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law. He joined the Law Center faculty in 2009 after spending nearly 20 years (the last five years as director) at the national public interest law firm, Public Citizen Litigation Group. He has also been director of Public Citizen's Supreme Court Assistance Project, which helps "underdog" public interest clients litigate before the U.S. Supreme Court. Before coming to Georgetown, he conducted trial and appellate litigation as a staff lawyer at a rural poverty law program in Arkansas. He has handled a broad range of litigation, including cases involving health and safety regulation, class action governance, court access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, public benefits law and government transparency. Prior to joining the Georgetown Law faculty, he taught a course on appellatte courts at Harvard Law. He has also taught at Stanford, Vanderbilt and American.
Professor Bloch joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1983. She has taught constitutional law, federal courts, communications law and the Supreme Court. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of constitutional and administrative law and is the co-author of "Supreme Court Politics: The Institution and Its Procedures." Before coming to Georgetown, she served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and to Chief Judge Spottswood Robinson of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She also practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering. Bloch is a member of the American Law Institute, a participant on the Twentieth Century Fund Project on the Judiciary and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is a member of the District of Columbia Judicial Evaluation Committee, has been a Commissioner on the Judicial Nominating Commission for the D.C. Courts and has worked with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in numerous capacities. Now a regular contributor to the website, "TheLAW.COM," she has also been an editorial adviser to "Justice," the journal of the Department of Justice.
Pamela Harris is a visiting professor at Georgetown Law and executive director of the Supreme Court Institute. Until 2009, she was a partner and then of counsel at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, where she was a member of the Supreme Court and appellate practice, specializing in public interest litigation. She was also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, as co-director of Harvard's Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Clinic. Before joining O'Melveny, Harris taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she specialized in constitutional criminal procedure and the law of church and state. From 1993 to 1996, she worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. She served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a frequent speaker on constitutional law, criminal procedure and the Supreme Court.
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