Georgetown Law - Podcasts

Barristers Council Meeting

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010 04:00 -0500

Week 1 Panels

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 15 Jan 2010 02:00 -0500

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Barristers Council 1L Showcase

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 11 Jan 2010 05:00 -0500

Report Launch: Refugee Crisis in America: Iraqis and Their Resettlement Experience

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 07 Oct 2009 08:45 -0500

Welcome

Rachel Taylor, Interim Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center

Remarks on Refugee Resettlement

Larry Yungk, Senior Resettlement Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Report Presentation

Georgetown Law Students

Luke Polcyn, Soraya Fata, Dania Ayoudi, Raha Wala, Gabriel Pacyniak, Ian Kysel

"Refugee Crisis in America: Iraqis and Their Resettlement Experience" is the culmination of months of research by a team of Georgetown Law students. The students sought to determine the extent to which Iraqi refugees have been afforded protection and a durable solution through the U.S. Refugee Admission Program (USRAP). They conducted extensive interviews with refugees, policy makers, members of Congress, state refugee coordinators, and NGO's in Washington, D.C., Detroit, San Diego, and Amman, Jordan.

The full report is available here (pdf).

REPORT IS EMBARGOED UNTIL OCTOBER 7, 2009 AT 10:00 A.M.

The project was proposed and designed by members of the student group Georgetown Human Rights Action, in partnership with the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute.

Their findings include:

1.) Iraqi refugees in Jordan lack basic legal protections.

2.) Resettlement remains an imperfect, but important solution for Iraqi refugees.

3.) The USRAP does not adequately promote the long-term self-sufficiency and integration of Iraqi refugees.

4.) The USRAP is compromised by a lack of strategic planning and coordination.

Medical Malpractice & Health Care Costs: Can Tort Reform Bend the Curve?

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009 09:30 -0500

M. Gregg Bloche, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Amy Goldstein, National Social Policy Reporter, The Washington Post

David Hyman, Richard & Marie Corman Professor of Law, Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute

Kathryn Zeiler, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

The panelists will discuss the connection between the tort system and medical spending; the likely impact of proposed tort reforms on medical mistakes, malpractice system costs, and compensation for medical injuries; and the role of politicians and the press in the public debate over health care. More information about the program can be found at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/documents/MedMal_blurb.pdf.

This event is sponsored by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

A Celebration of Public Interest Law and Presentation of the Drinan Award

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 01 Oct 2009 04:00 -0500

WHAT:	A Celebration of Public Interest Law and Public Service at Georgetown Law and Presentation of the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Law Alumni Public Service Award to John D. Podesta, Georgetown Law Class of 1976
SPEAKERS:	John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center John D. Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress, and Georgetown Law Class of 1976
WHEN:	Thursday, October 1, 2009, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center Sport & Fitness Center Lobby 550 First Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
NOTE:	An overview of public interest and public service programs at Georgetown Law is available here (pdf). Podesta is the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress. Prior to founding the Center in 2003, he served as White House Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton. He served in the president's cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council. While in the White House, he also served as both an assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff, as well as staff secretary and senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security, and regulatory policy. Most recently, he served as co-chair of President Obama's transition. Drinan was a professor at Georgetown Law from 1981 until his death in 2007. He served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts for five terms and as the dean of Boston College Law School. A leading voice in the human rights movement for more than half a century, Drinan traveled on humanitarian missions around the globe and was affiliated with numerous organizations devoted to the furtherance of human rights. He was the author of 12 books and received countless honors for his humanitarian work, including the American Bar Association (ABA) Medal and the Congressional Distinguished Service Award. The Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Law Alumni Public Service Award, created in 1996, honors Georgetown Law alumni whose careers, like Fr. Drinan’s, enhance human dignity and advance justice. Past recipients of the Drinan Award include George J. Mitchell (Class of 1961), Joan B. Claybrook (Class of 1973), Gene B. Karpinski (Class of 1977), and E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr. (Class of 1951).

States in the Lead: How States Can Continue to Guide Federal Climate, Energy and Transportation Policy

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 -0500

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Luncheon

Welcome: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Remarks: Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Panel 1: New Approaches to Transportation and Land Use Planning

Will Schroeer, Policy Director, Smart Growth America

Brian Taylor, Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Director of Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA

Brandon Hofmeister, Special Counsel for Energy and Climate Policy, Office of Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.)

Moderator: Peter Byrne, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

2:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel 2: Innovative Technologies: Electricity/Renewables/Efficiency

Henry Durrwachter, President, Utility Wind Integration Group

Malcolm Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration

Deborah Erwin, Renewable Energy Adviser, Wisconsin Public Service Commission

Moderator: Ann Carlson, Professor, UCLA School of Law

4:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

This workshop is sponsored by the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center and the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

Presentation Honoring the Contributions of Ambassador Mark R. Dybul

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 25 Sep 2009 11:00 -0500

Opening Remarks

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Presentation of Award

His Excellency Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Acceptance of Award

Ambassador Mark R. Dybul, Distinguished Scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu is widely regarded as a leading public figure in global health. He has led Ethiopia's Ministry of Health since 2005, a period during which the country has seen substantial health gains across many indicators. Tedros is also the chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and the former chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. He is an internationally recognized researcher on malaria.

Mark Dybul is a distinguished scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Prior to joining Georgetown, he served as the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In his role, he oversaw all U.S. government engagement in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and served as chair of the group's finance and audit committee.

This event is sponsored by the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

Georgetown Law Establishes Delaney Family Professorship in Public Interest Law

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009 03:30 -0500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce the appointment of Georgetown Law Professor Philip Schrag to the newly established Delaney Family Professorship in Public Interest Law. He will be formally installed in a ceremony at the Law Center on September 23. Professor Schrag's Inaugural Lecture of the Delaney Family Professorship is available here.

"Phil Schrag is a prolific scholar on a wide variety of public interest topics, including consumer protection, immigration, financing higher education and clinical legal education. This professorship is a well-deserved honor," said Aleinikoff. "We are deeply grateful to April McClain-Delaney and John Delaney for their generosity in endowing the professorship and for their outstanding service to Georgetown."

At Georgetown Law, Schrag is the director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies. He recently stepped down as director of the Public Interest Law Scholars Program.

Schrag has been a longtime advocate for law students who wish to pursue public interest careers. His work was instrumental to the passage of the student loan forgiveness program for public service employees that Congress included in the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, passed and signed into law in 2007.

The reforms sought by Schrag and others will enable thousands of current and future student borrowers to choose their careers without being unduly influenced by their debt burdens. It will also allow government agencies and non-profit organizations to retain talented professionals who might otherwise seek higher-paying jobs in order to repay student loans.

Schrag has also been a tireless advocate on behalf of refugees seeking political asylum in the United States. Last year, Schrag and his former client, David Ngaruri Kenney, published, Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America (University of California Press, 2008), the chilling story of Kenney’s attempt to escape persecution in his native Kenya and gain asylum in this country. Yale Professor Bruce Ackerman described it as "a fabulous book – a love story, a law story, a struggle against death, a battle for justice, and much more."

On September 1, New York University Press published Schrag’s latest book, Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform, co-authored with Georgetown Law Visiting Professor Andrew I. Schoenholtz and Temple University Beasley School of Law Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Georgetown Law LL.M. 2006. The book is an expanded version of their 2007 Stanford Law Review article, "Refugee Roulette," which uncovered immense disparities in refugee adjudications in U.S. immigration agencies and courts. The authors demonstrated that the outcome of an asylum case depends to a great extent on the personality, background and prior experience of the adjudicator, rather than the merits of the claim. A story about the study appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 31, 2007.

Schrag is the author of fourteen books, including A Well-Founded Fear: the Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America (1999) and Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law (Aspen, 2d. ed. 2002), co-authored with his wife, Professor Lisa Lerman, Georgetown Law LL.M. 1984, who teaches at Catholic University Law School.

In 2008, Schrag was recognized for his contributions to public interest law with the Deborah L. Rhode Award from the Association of American Law Schools and the Equal Justice Works Outstanding Law School Faculty Award. In honor of his immigration law work, he received the Daniel Levy Memorial Award from Lexis/Nexis.

John Delaney, Georgetown Law class of 1988, has been the founder of several financial services firms, specializing in financing small to mid-sized businesses, including HealthCare Financial Partners and CapitalSource. Delaney is a member of the Georgetown University board of directors, OneCalifornia Bank and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

April McClain-Delaney, Georgetown Law class of 1989, is the Washington director for Common Sense Media, a non-profit organization led by individuals with experience in child advocacy, public policy, education, media and entertainment. The organization provides family reviews and ratings of media and entertainment choices for kids and families, including movies, television programs, video games and Websites. McClain-Delaney oversees the Delaney Family Foundation and currently serves on the Georgetown Law board of visitors. She is active on the boards of various children’s and family charities, and she and her husband participate in a variety of philanthropic causes that focus on education and at-risk families.

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 representing more than 60 countries.

Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 21 Sep 2009 09:00 -0500

Introduction: Pamela Harris, Executive Director, Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute

Professor David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Topic:

First Amendment

Cases:

U.S. v. Stevens (Free Speech challenge to federal law barring depictions of animal cruelty)

Salazar v. Buono (Establishment Clause challenge to display of cross on federal land)

Professor Julie O'Sullivan, Georgetown University Law Center

Topic:

Criminal Law

Cases:

Graham v. Florida & Sullivan v. Florida (life without parole sentences for juveniles in non-homicide cases)

Black v. United States & Weyhrauch v. United States (honest services)

Professor Howard Shelanski, Georgetown University Law Center

Topic:

Business Law

Cases:

Bilski v. Doll (scope of patentable subject matter)

Professor Chris Brummer, Georgetown University Law Center

Topic:

Securities Law

Cases:

Merck v. Reynolds (measuring statute of limitations in securities fraud cases)

Jones v. Harris Associates (reviewability of mutual fund management fees under federal law)

Professor Susan Low Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center

Changes on the Court: Departure of Justice Souter and Arrival of Justice Sotomayor

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON PANELISTS:

Professor Cole is an expert on constitutional law, criminal justice, and national security. He recently published The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable, a new book about the CIA interrogation program, and is the author of Justice at War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America's War on Terror. He is the co-author of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, which captured the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2007, and Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. He is the author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, winner of the American Book Award in 2003, and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, named best nonfiction book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review and best book on a subject of national policy by the American Political Science Association. He has received numerous honors for his civil rights and civil liberties work. In addition to teaching at Georgetown Law, Cole is legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

Professor O'Sullivan joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1994 after serving in the Office of Independent Counsel in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she worked on the "Whitewater" investigation. She was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, where she first prosectued so-called "general crimes" - mostly drug cases - and then moved on to prosecute major white-collar crimes. As a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, she worked on mergers and acquisitions litigation as well as white-collar criminal cases. O'Sullivan served as law clerk to Judge Levin H. Campbell of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She teaches federal white collar crime and international criminal law at the Law Center and is an expert in the areas of federal sentencing guidelines and the independent counsel statute.

Professor Shelanski joined the Georgetown Law full-time faculty after serving as a visiting professor. He is currently the deputy director for antitrust of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics. He comes to the Law Center from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has been professor and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology since 1997. Shelanski has twice before served in government. In 1999-2000, he was chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission, and in 1998-1999, he was a senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He received a B.A. in history from Haverford College, a J.D. from Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and a Ph.D. in economics from Berkeley. After law school, Shelanski clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. His areas of teaching include antitrust, telecommunications and contracts.

Professor Brummer is an expert in international financial regulation. His research focuses on globalization, financial markets and financial market regulation. He recently served as an academic Fellow for the Office of International Affairs at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before coming to Georgetown, he served on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School and practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Brummer earned an A.B. in German literature summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, a Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with honors and was a member of the law review. He is fluent in French and German. He teaches international financial regulation and a globalization and systemic risk seminar at Georgetown Law.

Professor Bloch teaches constitutional law, federal courts, communications law and a seminar on 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 joining Georgetown Law, she served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. In addition to teaching, 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 District of Columbia Courts and has worked with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in numerous capacities.

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 Judge Harry T. Edwards of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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, Georgetown Law 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 representing more than 60 countries.

Twenty-four members of the Georgetown Law full-time faculty have served as U.S. Supreme Court law clerks.

Constitution Day Panel - "Defining Human Rights: What Role Does International Law Play in Our Constitutional System?"

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 17 Sep 2009 09:30 -0500

John Bellinger, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP and former Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State

David P. Stewart, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and former Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, U.S. Department of State

Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former Judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

This Constitution Day event is sponsored by the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, The American Society of International Law, and The Constitution Project.

Prior to the panel discussion, The Constitution Project's 2009 Constitutional Commentary Award will be presented to Michael Kirk for his production of Frontline's "Bush's War" by 2007 honoree and Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie Savage of the New York Times.

Streetlaw - Youth Business Initiative

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 06 Aug 2009 05:00 -0500

Justice Souter Addresses the ABA in Chigago

Georgetown University Law Center — Saturday, 01 Aug 2009 12:00 -0500

An earlier version of this address was delivered by Justice Souter on May 20, 2009 during at the 2009 Conference of the Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary. The Conference was sponsored by Georgetown Law, and co-sponsored by the Aspen Institute.

The Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

Georgetown University Law Center — Saturday, 25 Jul 2009 09:00 -0500

Please click the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks(linked above)

Bob Berring, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Panel I: The Future Research Value of Blogs(linked above)

Chris Borgen, Associate Professor of Law, St. John's University

Lee Peoples, Associate Professor of Law Library Science, Associate

Law Library Director, and Director of International Programs, Oklahoma City University School of Law

Margaret Schilt, Faculty Services Librarian, D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Panel II: Blogs and Reliability

Tom Goldstein, Partner, Akin Gump

Toby McIntosh, Director of Editorial Quality Review, BNA

Mike Wash, Chief Information Officer, U.S. GPO

3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel III: Blog Preservation
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress

Linda Frueh, Regional Director, Washington D.C., Internet Archive

Carolyn Hank, Triangle Research Libraries Network Doctoral Fellow at the

School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Women's Human Rights in Africa

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 23 Jul 2009 03:30 -0500

Featuring presentations by the 2008-2009

Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellows

Jane Quaye, LAWA Fellow from Ghana

Accessing the Formal Justice System in Ghana from a Human Rights Perspective:

Making the Case for Victims of Gender-Based Violence

Janet Maina, LAWA Fellow from Kenya

Promoting Equality in Kenyan Education through Gender-Sensitive Budgeting

Emilia Lobti, LAWA Fellow from Cameroon

Using International Human Rights Instruments to Address

"Pullakoh" and Psychological Violence against Women in Cameroon

Jane Kamangu, LAWA Fellow from Kenya

The Principles of Non-Discrimination and Equal Protection of the Law:

A Case Study of Unwed Mothers and Children Born out of Wedlock in Kenya

Moza Jadeed, LAWA Fellow from Kenya

The Status of Child Domestic Workers in Kenya: A Violation of Girls' Rights

Elizabeth Atenmkeng, LAWA Fellow from Cameroon

Customary Law, Widow Inheritance Rights, and Access to Justice in Cameroon

Moderated by Julia L. Ernst

Executive Director, Georgetown Law's WLPPFP/LAWA Program

6th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009 09:00 -0500

Please click the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast

Welcome by Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Georgetown University Law Center (linked above)

Plenary Session I: Bringing Immigration Policymaking into the 21st Century (linked above)
Immigration over the last quarter of a century has forever changed the demographics landscape of the United States. Nearly 40 million foreign born already live in the United States, long waiting lists for family and employment-based visas have been with us for some time, and in this decade, for the first time, immigration courts handled over 300,000 matters annually. At the start of the Obama administration, this panel will consider how well positioned the government is to make immigration policy in a coherent and thoughtful manner and to administer the immigration system of justice—removal adjudications—in a fair, efficient, and effective way.

Session Moderator: Andrew Schoenholtz, Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Session Speakers:
Donald Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, Migration Policy Institute

Tara Magner, consultant to the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont
Esther A. Olavarria, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security

Plenary Session II: Prospects for Immigration Reform: What to expect from Washington?
Both John McCain and Barack Obama held similar views about the need for and elements of immigration reform, so immigration as an election campaign issue fell from the stage. With the deepening economic crisis gripping the administration and Congress, immigration reform has fallen further from the ranks of top-tier issues likely to command congressional attention in the coming months. Yet the problems and dysfunctional impacts of the current system continue to dominate the workings and circumstances of countless communities and workplaces around the nation. In addition, immigration issues are ever-present in legislative debates, whether the issue is re-authorization of E-Verify as part of budget bills or the possibility of stimulus funding being spent to generate jobs that might be filled by unauthorized workers. This panel will examine the prospects for reform from the standpoint of the executive branch, Congress, and constituencies likely to be most affected by new measures.

Session Moderator: Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute

Session Speakers:
Serena Hoy, Senior Counsel, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada
Rick Johnson, Vice President, Lake Research Partners
John Morton, Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Department of Homeland Security

Remarks by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security

Discussion on the Economic Recession and its Impact on Immigration
Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute

Plenary Session III: Communities Laying the Groundwork for Immigration Reform and Beyond
Effective immigration policies serve to encourage and support the integration of newcomers and facilitate the attainment of citizenship. Nowhere is this better understood than at the community level, where immigrants interact daily with the broader community. Many organizations and individuals are involved in helping newcomers acclimate and move toward full participation within their adopted communities. Current immigration policies, however, often stymie these efforts. There are significant backlogs for immigrants wanting to adjust their immigration status, including for naturalization. Increasingly, state and local elected officials are adopting harsh measures affecting the immigrant communities, driving many, especially the unauthorized, further underground. And, because current immigration policies have not addressed the large population of unauthorized immigrants in the United States, large segments of the immigrant community have no recourse to status adjustment, which is a critical component to integration. This panel will explore how community organizations can and are helping to prepare immigrants to become citizens and full participants in the community. The audience will learn about practical approaches, as well as recommended policy changes, from the perspectives of those engaged with immigrant communities. Efforts, both underway and proposed, to build the case for comprehensive immigration reform and to help prepare immigrants for eventual opportunities to adjust their immigration status will be examined.

Session Moderator: Mark Franken, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

Session Speakers:
Josh Bernstein, Director of Immigration, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Angelica Salas, Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
Diana Tellefson, Executive Director, United Farm Workers Foundation, Southern California

Plenary Session IV: Immigrant Integration: A Full Federal Policy Agenda
While the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform remain murky, the Obama Administration will almost certainly have to grapple with a wide range of policies and legislation that will have profound impacts on immigrant integration in the United States. Three key issue areas will be addressed: health care reform and the implementation of the recently enacted SCHIP bill extending benefits to legal immigrant children and pregnant women; the education of immigrant and English Language Learner children, focusing on the No Child Left Behind Act reauthorization and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending; and the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act and its implication for immigrant workers.

Session Moderator: Michael Fix, Co-Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute

Session Speakers:
Leighton Ku, Professor in the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Forrest P. Chisman, Executive Vice President, Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
Peter Zamora, Senior Education Counsel, Office of Senator Jeff Bingaman

Supreme Court Institute Panel Discussion on President Obama�s Nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Confirmation Process

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 03 Jun 2009 12:30 -0500

Panelists

Joan Biskupic (L’93), Supreme Court correspondent, USA Today, and author of the forthcoming American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and of Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

Susan Low Bloch, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Roy Englert, a partner at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner and Sauber, who served in the Office of the Solicitor General and has argued 18 cases before the Supreme Court

Richard Lazarus, Georgetown Law professor and faculty co-director of the Supreme Court Institute

Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and author of its “Sidebar” column

Patricia Millett, co-head of Akin-Gump’s Supreme Court practice, who has argued 26 cases before the Supreme Court (more than any other woman in private practice)

Moderated by:

Pam Harris, incoming executive director of the Supreme Court Institute and of counsel in O’Melveny’s Washington, D.C. office, where she works on Supreme Court and appellate litigation.

About Georgetown University Law Center

Conference on the State of the Judiciary - Striking the Balance: Fair and Independent Courts in a New Era

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 20 May 2009 09:00 -0500

Please click the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast.

Welcome (linked above)

9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Walter Isaacson, CEO, The Aspen Institute

Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

Opening Remarks

9:15 - 9:35 a.m.

Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States

Panel I

9:35 – 10:35 a.m.
"The New Administration and the Courts"
Introductory Remarks: Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., Managing Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Antonia Hernandez, President and CEO, California Community Foundation

Linda Greenhouse, Journalist-in-Residence and Senior Fellow, Yale Law School

Charles Ogletree, Professor, Harvard Law School

Stephen Carter, Professor, Yale Law School (Moderator)

Panel II

10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
"Diversity on the Bench: What Does It Mean to Have Courts That Look Like America?"
Introductory Remarks: Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

James C. Duff, Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts

Karen K. Narasaki, President and Executive Director, Asian American Justice Center

William Marshall, Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law

Theodore A. McKee, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Jane Aiken, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

12:00 – 1:55 p.m.
Lunch and Program (not recorded)
Welcome: Elliot Gerson, Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partnerships, The Aspen Institute

Remarks: David Souter, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

SPECIAL NOTE: NO BROADCAST COVERAGE OF JUSTICE SOUTER'S REMARKS

Panel III

2:20– 3:20 p.m.
"A Storm in the State Courts: Examining the Elected Judge Paradigm"
W. Mark Lanier, Founder, The Lanier Law Firm

Ruth McGregor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Theodore B. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Harold See, Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR (Moderator)

Plenary Session and Closing Remarks

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Introductory Remarks: Alice Henkin, Director, Justice and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Meryl J. Chertoff, Director, Sandra Day O'Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center

Closing Remarks
Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

2009 Georgetown Law Commencement Ceremony

Georgetown University Law Center — Sunday, 17 May 2009 01:30 -0500

David Vladeck

David Vladeck, Incoming Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center; Director of the Center on Health Regulation and Governance, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University; Georgetown Law LL.M. '77

An honorary degree will also be awarded to Seth Waxman, a partner at WilmerHale, distinguished visitor from practice at Georgetown University Law Center and former Solicitor General of the United States.

Healy Lawn
Georgetown University Main Campus
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057
(Rain Site: McDonough Arena on Main Campus)

Kickoff of the Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 23 Feb 2009 05:20 -0500

5:30 p.m.

Gov. Chris Gregoire (D-Wash.)

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.)

6:30 p.m.-please click here for Part II

Lisa Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Nancy Sutley, Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality

The Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center, also known as the Georgetown Climate Center or GCC, is the only center focused on the nexus of state and federal law and policy for climate change and energy. The GCC intends to make a positive and tangible difference in the design and implementation of climate and energy policies.

More information about GCC is available here.

For a transcript of the event, click here.

Author John Grisham on his book, "The Innocent Man"

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 23 Feb 2009 04:00 -0500

"The Innocent Man" is the true story of former minor league baseball aspirant Ronald "Ron" Williamson, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 rape and murder of a young woman in Oklahoma. Grisham chronicles Williamson's life on death row and his eventual exoneration, which was aided by the Innocence Project, a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people. Grisham is a member of the organization's board of directors.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Innocence Project as part of Criminal Justice Reform Month, a series of programs and events aimed at educating students about criminal justice issues and addressing challenges in the criminal justice system.

The Role of Science in Advancing Global Health Diplomacy

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 09:00 -0500

Please click the name of each segment to watch the corresponding webcast.

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Welcome (link above)
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
Roger Glass, Director, Fogarty International Center

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
The Role of Global Health Science in Foreign Relations
Carol Jacobs, Chair of the Board, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and Chair, Barbados HIV/AIDS Commission
Jim Kim, Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health and former Director of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization
Jimmy Kolker, Chief of HIV/AIDS Programme Division, UNICEF and former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda
Elias Zerhouni, former Director, National Institutes of Health

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
The Role of Governance Issues in Global Health
Lawrence Gostin, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Vice-Director and Head of International Affairs, Federal Office of Public Health of Switzerland
Allyn Taylor, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo. and former Executive Director, World Health Organization

12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
John Monahan, Executive Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown Law Forum - "Decision 2008: November 4 and Beyond"

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008 08:15 -0500

Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor

E.J. Dionne Jr., Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; and Columnist, The Washington Post
Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated Columnist

Celinda Lake, Pollster and Political Strategist; President, Lake Research Partners

Clarence Page, Syndicated Columnist, Chicago Tribune

Byron York, White House Correspondent, National Review

The Georgetown Law Forum is a speaker series on major legal and policy issues of the day.

McCain v. Obama in the Supreme Court of the United States: A Hypothetical (One Hopes)

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 20 Oct 2008 10:00 -0500

David F. Levi, Dean andProfessor, Duke Law School, and former Chief Judge, United StatesDistrict Court for the Eastern District of California (Chief Justice)

Thomas R. Phillips, Partner, Baker Botts LLP, and retired Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas (Associate Justice)

Patricia M. Wald,former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C.Circuit, and former Judge for the International Criminal Tribunal (Associate Justice)

Glen D. Nager, Partner and Chair of the Issues & Appeals Practice, Jones Day (For petitioners John McCain, et al.)

Walter Dellinger, Partner and Chair of the Appellate Practice, O'Melveny & Myers LLP (For respondents Barack Obama, et al.)

This event is a simulated adjudication of the hypothetical Supreme Court case, McCain v. Obama.The case was created by Edward B. Foley, director of The Ohio StateUniversity's Election Law@Moritz, as an experiment to demonstrate howsuch a dispute can be resolved in a non-partisan manner that producesconfidence in both the courts and the election system.

Under the hypothetical facts of McCain v. Obama,severe weather conditions in Colorado led to an extension of pollingplace hours in Denver, but not the rest of the state. The provisionalballots cast during these extended hours, if they are counted, willdetermine the winner of the presidential election - but whethercounting them would violate the U.S. Constitution is the subject of thecourt case.

To ensure bi-partisanship, the chief justice was mutually selected by the other two justices.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute, The Ohio State University Election Law@Moritz and the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

Conference on the State of the Judiciary- Our Courts and Corporate Citizenship

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 02 Oct 2008 09:00 -0500

Please click the name of the segment to watch the corresponding webcast.

9:00 � 9:05 a.m.
Welcome (link above)
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:05 � 9:15 a.m. (link above)

Opening Remarks

Sandra Day OConnor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

9:15 - 9:20 a.m. (link above)

Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University

9:20 � 9:40 a.m. (link above)
Keynote Address
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman, United States Federal Reserve
"Markets and the Judiciary"

9:40 � 10:35 a.m.
Panel I
"Independent Courts as a Precondition to Open Markets"
Kenneth Frazier, Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.
C. Boyden Gray, former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
Bradford L. Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation
Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

10:45 � 11:45 a.m.
Panel II
"Can Corporations be Brought Back to Courts as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism? Should They?"
Kenneth Feinberg, Managing Partner and Founder, The Feinberg Group LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Randy J. Holland, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Ramona E. Romero, Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Firm Partnering, DuPont
Fern M. Smith, JAMS, The Resolution Experts

Catherine Herridge, National Correspondent, FOX News (moderator)

12:00 � 1:45 p.m.
Lunch: Report on Judicial Salaries
D. Brock Hornby, Judge, United States District Court, District of Maine
Bernard W. Nussbaum, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Meryl J. Chertoff, Director, Sandra Day OConnor Project on the State of the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)

3:15 � 3:35 p.m.
Remarks
Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

3:35 � 4:35 p.m.
Panel III
"State Judicial Races � How Can Corporations Help Stop the Campaign Funding 'Arms Race?'"
Louis Butler, Justice, Retired, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Thomas Gottschalk, Of Counsel, Kirkland and Ellis LLP
Theodore Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Adam Liptak, National Legal Correspondent, New York Times (moderator)

5:30 � 5:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Sandra Day OConnor, Associate Justice, Retired, United States Supreme Court

5th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference - 2008 and Beyond: Immigration Challenges the New Administration Will Confront

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 20 May 2008 09:00 -0500

Please click on the name of the segment to view the corresponding webcast.

9:00 a.m.(above)

Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of Opening Speaker

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.

Keynote Speaker(with welcome)

Leticia Van de Putte, Texas State Senator and Immediate Past President, National
Conference of State Legislatures

10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Immigration, the Presidential Campaign Platforms and the 2008 Elections

Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute (Moderator)

Brian Nienaber, Vice President, The Tarrance Group

Frank Sharry, Executive Director, America's Voice

Arturo Vargas, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and
Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Nationality, Political Membership, Citizenship and Immigration Policy

Donald Kerwin, Executive Director, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

(CLINIC) (Moderator)

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Margaret D. Stock, United States Military Academy, West Point

1:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Afternoon Speaker

Jonathan Scharfen, Acting Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS), U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:45 - 2:45 p.m.

The States Step In: The Devolution of Immigration Policy

Michael Fix, Vice President, Migration Policy Institute (Moderator)

Muzaffar Chishti, Director, Migration Policy Institute Office at New York University

Cristina Rodriguez, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law

Laura Valera, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

2:45 - 3:45 p.m.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Five Years Later

Andrew Schoenholtz, DeputyDirector, Georgetown University Institute for the Study

ofInternational Migration, and Visiting Professor, Georgetown UniversityLaw Center

Stewart A. Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Charles H. Kuck, Managing Partner, Kuck Casablanca LLP and President Elect, American

Immigration Lawyers Association

Lisa Powell, Chief Investigative Counsel, Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of

Government Management

This event is sponsored by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), Migration Policy Institute,
and Georgetown Law.

2008 Georgetown Law Commencement Ceremony

Georgetown University Law Center — Sunday, 18 May 2008 02:00 -0500

Joel I. Klein

Healy Lawn- Georgetown University Main Campus
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20057
(Rain Site: McDonough Arena on Main Campus)

Joel I. Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education

An honorary degree wasawarded to Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Emerging Privacy Issues Between the US and the EU: Bridging the Transatlantic Gap

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 28 Apr 2008 03:30 -0500

MODERATOR:

Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

PANELISTS:

Sophia in't Veld, Member of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Netherlands)

Baroness Sarah Ludford, Member of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (United Kingdom)

Alexander Alvaro, Member of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Germany)

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Member of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Netherlands)

Ignasi Guardans Cambo, Member of European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Spain)

Adam Levitin, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

NOTE:

TheUnited States and the European Union are confronting many commonprivacy challenges - promoting trust and confidence for Internetcommerce, developing safeguards for behavioral targeting and searchhistories, security breach notification and identity theft. There arealso areas - identification requirements, border control and passengerrecord transfers - where national security requirements
appear to conflict with privacy laws. The panelists will discuss current efforts to address these challenges.

The Intersection of Immigration and Gang Reduction Policy

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 16 Apr 2008 01:00 -0500

Shay Bilchik, Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform

Ilana Brunner, Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Bobby Scott (D- Va.) (Invited)

Luis Cardona, Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator, Montgomery County (Md.)

Department of Health and Human Services

Carol Chodroff, U.S. Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch

Jeffrey Wennar, Montgomery County (Md.) State Attorney's Office

Patrick Word, Detective Corporal, Gaithersburg (Md.) Police Department

This event is sponsored by Georgetown Human Rights Action, which will present findings from its new report, "Between the Border and the Street: Migrant Youth on the Margins." The report is based on research conducted by Georgetown Law students during a fact-finding mission to Guatemala last August, as well as research conducted in the Washington, D.C., area. The report provides a comparative perspective on gang reduction policies and migration in the United States and Guatemala, and offers recommendations for U.S. policymakers.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu

40 Years After In re Gault: The Role of Juvenile Defense Counsel and Obstacles to Zealous Advocacy in D.C.

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 14 Apr 2008 04:30 -0500

4:30 � 4:45 p.m.
Welcome
Anita Josey-Herring, Presiding Judge of the Family Court, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Wally Mlyniec, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Director, Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Clinic

4:45 � 5:00 p.m.
Remarks
Patti Puritz, Executive Director, National Juvenile Defender Center

5:00 � 6:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Kristin Henning, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Deputy Director,
Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Clinic (Moderator)
Patricia Broderick, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Zoe Bush, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Geoffry Harris, D.C. Law Students in Court Program
Hannah McElhinny, Chief, Juvenile Section, D.C. Public Defender Service
Wanda Williams, Attorney, D.C. Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Panel

6:15 � 6:30 p.m.
Remarks
Gerald Gault, Appellant, In re Gault

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center � 12th Floor
120 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium and Launch of GEMALaw

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 11 Apr 2008 03:00 -0500

Please click on the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast

3:00 � 4:15 p.m.(link above)
Panel 1: Contract Negotiations in Sports and Entertainment
Stan Kasten, Founding Partner and President, Washington Nationals
Maurita Coley, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, former Senior Vice President, BET and Georgetown Law Class of 1981
Lisa A. Williams-Fauntroy, Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs, Discovery Communications, and Georgetown Law Class of 1994
Donald Fishman, Assistant General Manager and Director of Legal Affairs, Washington Capitals
Jimmy Lynn,Vice President, Diversity Partnerships and Strategic Relationships, AOLOffice of Diversity and Inclusion and Adjunct Professor, GeorgetownUniversity

4:30 � 5:45 p.m.
Panel 2: Urban Planning in Sports and Entertainment
Gregory ODell, CEO, District of Columbia Sports and Entertainment Commission (Invited)
Edward L. Cohen, Principal, Lerner Enterprises, Principal Owner, Washington Nationals and Georgetown Law Class of 1971
Peter Biche,President of Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer,Washington Sports & Entertainment and Georgetown UniversityMcDonough School of Business Class of 1978
J.R. Clark, Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

5:45 � 6:00 p.m.
Presentation of the GEMALaw Alumni Achievement Award

The panelists will discuss the approachesand challenges of contract negotiations in the sports and entertainmentindustry and the process of urban planning regarding sports andentertainment facilities, such as the new Washington Nationals Stadium.

The Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance (GEMA) and theGeorgetown Sports and Entertainment Law Society have joined forces toform GEMALaw.This event marks GEMALaws official launch. GEMALaw is for students,alumni, faculty, parents and friends in the Georgetown community whoshare an interest in legal issues affecting the sports, entertainmentand media industry.

The first GEMALaw Alumni Achievement Award will be presented to Edward L. Cohen,Principal, Lerner Enterprises, Principal Owner, Washington Nationalsand Georgetown Law class of 1971. The award is given to a GeorgetownLaw alumnus who represents outstanding professional accomplishment aswell as a long-standing devotion to the sports, entertainment and mediaindustry.

Inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 10 Apr 2008 09:15 -0500

Please click on the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast.

9:30 � 10:30 a.m.
A Conversation Regarding the Role of the Justice Department in the War on Terror (above)
Neal Katyal, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Jack Goldsmith,Henry L. Shattuck Professor, Harvard Law School, and former AssistantAttorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
Jamie Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale, and former Deputy Attorney General of the United States

10:35 � 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Toward a New International Law for 21st Century Conflicts
Matthew Gerke, Fellow, Center on National Security and the Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Deborah Pearlstein, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs
Gary Solis, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and former Professor, United States Military Academy
Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor, Columbia Law School

1:45 � 3:15 p.m.
Panel: National Security Law Challenges for the New Administration
Justin Florence, Fellow, Center on National Security and the Law (Moderator)
Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Marcia Cooke, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Florida
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, George Washington University Law School, and Legal Editor, The New Republic
Kenneth Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice

4:00 � 5:30 p.m.
Investiture and Inaugural Lecture
"The Principled War on Terror"
Neal Katyal, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: The Future of Human Rights

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 08 Apr 2008 09:00 -0500

Please click on the name of each segment to view the corresponding webcast (starting 4/9/08)

9:00 � 9:30 a.m. (link above)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law and Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
John D. Podesta, President, Center for American Progress, and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center

9:30 � 10:30 a.m. (with Welcome- above)
Keynote Address
Madeleine Albright,Principal, The Albright Group, Mortara Distinguished Professor ofDiplomacy, Georgetown University, and former U.S. Secretary of State
Introduction: John D. Podesta, President, Center for American Progress
and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center

10:35 a.m. � 12:00 p.m.
Panel: "How the U.S. Should Deal with Human Rights Abuses of Allies and Partners"
Moderator: Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Steve Coll, President and CEO, New America Foundation
James Sasser, former U.S. Ambassador to China
John Shattuck,CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; former Assistant Secretary ofState for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; and former U.S. Ambassadorto the Czech Republic
Jennifer L. Windsor, Executive Director, Freedom House

12:00 � 1:15 p.m.
Luncheon Discussion
William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Joseph Zogby, Democratic Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the
Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

1:30 � 2:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Introduction: Richard Goldstone,former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa and DistinguishedVisitor from the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center

2:35 � 4:00 p.m.
Panel: "Introducing Social and Economic Rights into U.S. Policy"
Moderator: Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Leonard Rubenstein, President, Physicians for Human Rights
Meg Roggensack, Policy Director, Free the Slaves
Eric P. Schwartz, Executive Director, Connect US

4:05 � 4:35 p.m.
Tribute to Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)

This is the third annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights. It is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law and the Center for American Progress.

Theannual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights was established by SamuelDashs family and friends, Georgetown Law alumni and the law firm ofCozen OConnor to honor Dashs contributions to international humanrights and domestic civil rights.

Dash,who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1965, and was on the board ofthe International League of Human Rights, traversed the globe inpursuit of justice. He led a human rights mission to Northern Irelandto investigate the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" incident, and traveled to theSoviet Union and Chile. In 1985, he was the first American to visitNelson Mandela in prison and became involved in mediation efforts thateventually led to Mandela's release.

Dashalso served as chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committeesinvestigation into the Nixon administrations involvement in theDemocratic National Committee break-in, which ultimately led toPresident Nixons resignation.

Dash died in 2004.

Perfecting the Union: What Barack Obama's Candidacy says about the National Discourse on Race and Religion

Georgetown University Law Center — Monday, 07 Apr 2008 05:30 -0500

Panel Discussion Celebrating the Publication of "Asylum Denied"

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 03 Apr 2008 03:30 -0500

Media Advisory
WHAT:	A panel discussion celebrating the publication of "Asylum Denied: A Refugees Struggle for Safety in America"
WHEN:	Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:30 � 5:30 p.m.
MODERATOR:	David Cole,Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Author, "Enemy Aliens:Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism"
WHO:	Philip G. Schrag, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Co-author, "Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America" David Ngaruri Kenney, Co-author, "Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America" Jerry Fowler,President, Save Darfur Coalition, and Director of the Film, "A Good Manin Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide" T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center, and Author, "Forced Migration Law and Policy"
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001

The Fifty-Seventh Annual Beaudry Moot Court Competition

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 18 Mar 2008 08:00 -0500

ABC School District,
        Petitioner

                v.

   James A. Parker
      Respondent

Judges:
             Paul Clement, U.S. Solicitor General

             The Honorable Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

                 The Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
                  Columbia Circuit

                  The Honorable Arthur Gajarsa, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

                  The Honorable D. Brooks Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Finalists:
                for Petitioner - Laura Brookover and Jeffrey T. Hantson

                for Respondent - Ryan Creighton and Ari Meltzer

Philip A. Hart Auditorium, McDonough Hall - Georgetown University Law Center

The Fifty-Seventh Annual Beaudry Moot Court Competition [Part 2]

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 18 Mar 2008 08:00 -0500

Sexual Orientation and Military Preparedness: An International Perspective

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 12 Mar 2008 06:00 -0500

Thomas F. Field, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Stuart O'Brien, Chief Petty Officer and Directorate of Navy Personnel Research, Australia

Michelle Douglas, Director, International Relations Group, Department of Justice, Canada

Patrick Lyster-Todd, Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy of Great Britain (Retired)

Avner Even-Zohar, former Captain, Israeli Defense Forces

Michael Rankin, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)

Since 1990, many U.S.allies have allowed gay and lesbian individuals to serve openly intheir militaries. This is the first international conference to examinethe effects of these policy changes on military preparedness.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Office of the Dean,International Law Society, Military Law Society and Outlaw.

Accountability of Private Security Contractors

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 11 Mar 2008 06:00 -0500

Richard Goldstone, former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Gary Solis, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

W. Hays Parks, Senior Associate Deputy General Counsel, International Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense

Doug Brooks, President, International Peace Operations Association

Jim Bond, Senior Counsel for Foreign and International Law, DynCorp

Jennifer Daskal, Senior Counterterrorism Counsel, Human Rights Watch

Jeffrey A. Green, President, J.A. Green and Company, LLC

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law International Law Society and Military Law Society.

Georgetown Law Forum - "Decision 2008: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?"

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 07:15 -0500

Wolf Blitzer

E.J. Dionne Jr., Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; and Columnist, The Washington Post
Brian Kelly, Editor, U.S. News & World Report
Charles Krauthammer, Columnist, The Washington Post
Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review
Maralee Schwartz, Deputy Business Editor and former National Political Editor, The Washington Post

The Georgetown Law Forum is a speaker series on major legal and policy issues of the day.

Address by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 12 Feb 2008 08:00 -0500

Rep. Ellison will discuss his recent trip to Guantanamo Bay, civic engagement, civil rights, voting rights and discrimination.
This event is sponsored by the Black Law Students Association, Muslim Law Students Association, Georgetown Law Democrats and the Georgetown Law Office of the Dean of Students.

Georgetown Journal of International Law Symposium - Global Responsibility: Myth or Reality?

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 05 Feb 2008 09:10 -0500

9:30 � 10:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Matthew Drossos, Editor in Chief, Georgetown Journal of International Law

Paige M. Willan, Symposium Editor, Georgetown Journal of International Law

10:00 a.m. � 12:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Donald Langevoort, Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Larry Cata Backer, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law

Naomi Cahn,Associate Dean for Faculty Development and John Theodore Fey ResearchProfessor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Daniel Runde, Head of Partnership Development, International Finance Corporation

Jacob Werksman, Adjunct Professor of Law,Georgetown University Law Center and Program Director, Institutions andGovernance Program, World Resources Institute

John P. Williams, Managing Partner, Duncan & Allen

12:45 � 1:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Matthew Drossos, Editor in Chief, Georgetown Journal of International Law

Participants will examine whetherinternational law does, can and should provide incentives forinternational business to consider "public" goals, such as protectingthe environment, promoting fair labor standards or reducing corruption.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of International Law.

Justice Ginsburg and Baroness Hale: The British and United States Legal Systems

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 24 Jan 2008 03:00 -0500

Ginsburg was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Clinton and took her seat in August 1993.

Hale was the first woman to join the British House of Lords as a "Lord of Appeal in Ordinary" in 2004.

This event is sponsored by the Supreme Court Fellows Program Alumni Association and the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute.

Second Annual International Law in Context Lecture: The Struggle for Law: Some Dilemmas of Cultural Legality

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 17 Jan 2008 04:00 -0500

Delivered by Professor Roger Cotterrell
Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory
Queen Mary, University of London

The Future of Habeas Corpus and Executive Power: Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 04 Dec 2007 06:00 -0500

David Vladeck, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

Shayana Kadidal, Managing Attorney, Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights

Tom Wilner, Shearman and Sterling and Habeas Counsel to Guantanamo Detainees

Richard Samp, Washington Legal Foundation

The participants will take an in-depth look at the next day's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States,the key cases that will determine the future of habeas corpus andexecutive power. Warren, Kadidal and Wilner will present the argumentsfor the Guantanamo detainees. Samp will present a position in favor ofthe government.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Global Warming and the SEC: Should Companies be Required to Disclose More about Global Warming Risks?

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 30 Nov 2007 12:00 -0500

John D. Echeverria, Executive Director, Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute (GELPI)

Roel C. Campos, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Sean Donahue, Partner, Donahue & Goldberg LLP

Kevin A. Ewing, Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani

Julie Gorte, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing, Pax World Management Corp.

Donald C. Langevoort, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Richard Rosenzweig, Managing Director, Natsource

Earlier this fall, a coalition of majorinstitutional investors, asset management firms, the New York AttorneyGeneral, Environmental Defense and Cerespetitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance onthe obligations of public companies to disclose financial risks theyface from climate change and greenhouse gas regulations. The petitionhas been docketed as SEC File No. 04-547 and is available at: www.sec.gov/rules/petitions/2007/petn4-547.pdf. The participants will discuss this petition and the issues surrounding it.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute (GELPI) and the Georgetown Environmental Law Society.

A Web story is available at, http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/webstory/SEC.html.

Conference: �The Mukasey Hearings Revisited: Legal Experts Analyze the New Attorney General�s Views on National Security and Separation of Powers�

Georgetown University Law Center — Thursday, 29 Nov 2007 12:00 -0500

Neal Katyal, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Lead Counsel, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (DC)

James F. Flug, Senior Heyman Fellow, Harvard Law School (Cambridge)

Jamie Gorelick, Partner, Wilmer Hale and former Deputy Attorney General (DC)

Charles Fried, Professor, Harvard Law School and former Solicitor General (Cambridge)

Walter Dellinger, Professor, Duke Law School and former Acting Solicitor General (DC)

Viet D. Dinh, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy (DC)

David Barron, Professor, Harvard Law School and former Attorney-Adviser, Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (Cambridge)

The confirmation hearings for Attorney General Michael Mukasey raised numerous legal and constitutional issues relating to national security, civil liberties, and the separation of powers.

The positions of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the attorney general present a rich variety of views of the constitution and the balance of power among the three branches of government.

The panelists will analyze these positions and consider what the views of the new attorney general will add to the mix.

This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown Laws Center on National Security & the Law and Harvard Law Schools Heyman Fellows Program, Office of Public Interest Advising; Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

A Web story is available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/webstory/Mukasey.html.

Discussion Celebrating the Publication of "Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark"

Georgetown University Law Center — Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007 05:00 -0500

Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor and former Dean, University of Chicago Law School, and Author, "Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark"

Neal Katyal, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor, American University Washington College of Law

This event is sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and the Freedom Forum.

Colloquium on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child

Georgetown University Law Center — Friday, 16 Nov 2007 09:00 -0500

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9:00 � 9:15 a.m. (link above)
Welcoming Remarks
John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:15 � 9:45 a.m. (link above)
"An Overview of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child"
Tom Kennedy, Chair, Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Vice President, Covenant House

9:45 � 10:45 a.m.
"Education, Health and Justice � A Focus on the Issues"
John Folkemer,Maryland State Medicaid Director, and Deputy Secretary for Health CareFinancing, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Dave Marsden, Delegate, Virginia House of Delegates
Tommy Wells, Member, District of Columbia City Council

11:00 a.m. � 12:00 p.m.
"The Convention on the Rights of the Child as a Tool for Change"
Mai Fernandez, Legal and Strategic Director, Latin American Youth Center

The participants will discuss the standards outlined in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and reflect upon the Conventions potential impact on the lives of children in the U.S.

The colloquium will focus on childrens health, juvenile justice andeducation issues in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.Specifically, elected and appointed leaders from these threejurisdictions will comment on the outcomes for children and how agreater focus on the CRC could improve performance.

This colloquium is one of over a dozen that will be held concurrentlyon campuses across the country. It is timed to coincide with theanniversary of the adoption of the Convention on November 20, 1989.

This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown Law, Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Georgetown Center for Child and Human Development, Georgetown University Department of Psychology, Campaign for Youth Justice and Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A Web story is available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/webstory/child.html.

Tunisia - A Model of Middle East Stability or an Incubator of Extremism?

Georgetown University Law Center — Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 09:30 -0500

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9:30 � 9:45 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

9:45 a.m. � 11:00 p.m.
Panel I (part 1 of 2)
"Stifling One of the Most Open Civil Societies in the Middle East and North Africa"

Chair: Neil Hicks, Director, Human Rights Defender Program, Human Rights First

Clement Henry,Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin, "An Overview ofTunisia under Presidents Habib Bourguiba (1956-1987) and Zineel-Abidine Ben Ali (1987-?): Did the 'Architect of Change' Learn fromthe Mistakes of the 'Supreme Combatant'?"

Moncef Marzouki,former President, Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), and formerSpokesperson, National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT):"Tunisian Civil Societys Achievements and Disappointments"

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel I (part 2 of 2)

Khadija Cherif,President, Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD): "Threatsand Challenges to Women in a Country that Claims Gender Equality"

Mokhtar Trifi,President, Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH): "What Future Rolefor the Crippled and Oldest Human Rights Group in the Arab World?"

Representative of the Tunisia Government (TBD)

1:30 � 3:45 p.m.
Panel II
"A War on 'Islamist Extremism' or on Freedom of Association and Expression?"

Chair: Daniel Brumberg, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University

Naziha Rjiba, Deputy President, Observatory for the Freedom of the Press, Publishing and Creation (OLPEC), and Editor, Kalima Magazine: "Coping with the Intensifying Siege of Freedom of Expression and Association"

Ahmed Rahmouni, President, Association of Tunisian Magistrates (AMT), and Mohamed Abbou,Member, International Association for the Support of PoliticalPrisoners (AISPP) and the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia(CNLT): "The Need to Reform the Judiciary and to Protect ItsIndependence"

Omar Mestiri, Member, National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT), and Managing Editor, Kalima Magazine: "Presentation of a CNLT Documentary on Torture in Tunisian Jails"

Radhia Nasraoui,President, Association Against Torture in Tunisia (ALTT): "TheIntensification of the Use of Torture Since the Adoption in 1988 of CATand Its Consequences"

3:45 � 5:30 p.m.
Panel III
"What Can the International Community Do to Help Protect Basic Rights in Tunisia?"

Chair: Sarah Leah Winston, Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, Human Rights Watch

Joel Campagna, Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists

Claire Tixeire, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Representatives of Tunisian Human Rights Groups (TBD)

Representative of Amnesty International (TBD)

Representative of International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Tunisia Monitoring Group (TBD)

5:30 � 5:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks (with panel III)
Clement Henry, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin