Georgetown Law - Webcasts

WTO Academy Conference

[11/20/09 08:30 AM (est)]

A Vain and Idle Enactment

[11/13/09 12:30 PM (est)]

WHAT:	*"A Vain and Idle Enactment: Could McDonald v. Chicago* Un-Slaughter the Privileges or Immunities Clause?"**
WHEN:	Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
PANELISTS:	Alan Gura, Partner, Gura & Possessky, PLLC; Lead Counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Lead Counsel, McDonald v. Chicago; Georgetown Law Class of 1995 Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center Kurt Lash, James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law, Loyola Law School; Author, The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause (Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming) David Gans, Program Director, Constitutional Accountability Center; Author, The Gem of the Constitution: The Text and History of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
NOTE:	This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Journal, the Georgetown Law chapters of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, and the Georgetown Law Militia. The panelists will discuss the current Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago, in which the Court will decide whether the 2nd Amendment is incorporated to apply to the states. Following up on its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court may decide to breathe life into the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment, a clause which has essentially remained "vain and idle" since the Slaughterhouse cases in 1873. The panelists will provide a historical understanding of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, whether it can properly serve as a vehicle for incorporation, and the implications that would result if the Court adopts this position. A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/. Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.

Kerry Max Cook 10th anniversary of his freedom

[11/11/09 06:30 PM (est)]

30th Anniversary of Sino-American Diplomatic Relations, Photo Exhibition Opening & Reception

[11/09/09 06:45 PM (est)]

O'Neill Institute Empirical Health Law Conference

[11/06/09 09:15 AM (est)]

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GEORETOWN LAW

Empirical Health Law Conference

Georgetown University Law Center
November 5-6, 2009
McDonough 200, Georgetown University Law Center, 2nd Floor
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001

AGENDA
Friday, November 6, 2009
8:30 am: Continental Breakfast
9:25 am: Welcome and Introduction
Nan Hunter, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
9:30 am – 10:15 am: “Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?”
David Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Tamar Klaiman, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University Medical Center
10:15 am – 11:00 am: "Stark Contrasts: The Impact of Prohibiting Physician Self-Referrals on the Prevalence
of Overtreatment in Health Care."
Brian Chen, Shorenstein and Spogli Institutes, Stanford University
Jean Mitchell, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm: “Malpractice Standards of Care and Regional Variations in Physician Practice Styles”
Michael D. Frakes, Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center Academic Fellow
William McGreevy, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University Medical Center
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Round Table Lunch in Gewirz, 12th floor
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm: "An Empirical Study of HPV Vaccination Policy Making in the States"
Michelle Mello, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Kathryn Zeiler, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm: "Mental Health Care Consumption and Outcomes: Considering Preventative Strategies
Across Race and Class."
Barak D. Richman; Duke University School of Law
Brad Herring, PhD Program in Health Economics & Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Break
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm: “The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients”
Ronen Avraham, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Randall R. Bovbjerg, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
4:00 pm: Closing Remarks
Kathryn Zeiler, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center

Aspen Institute Event

[11/02/09 12:00 PM (est)]

Ryan Lecture: "When Law and Love Are Not Enough: King Lear and the Spectacle of Terror"

[10/28/09 04:00 PM (est)]

WHAT:	Thomas F. Ryan Lecture: "When Law and Love Are Not Enough: King Lear and the Spectacle of Terror "	Susan Heinzelman
WHO:	Susan Sage Heinzelman, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin
WHEN:	Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor 120 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001
NOTE:	Heinzelman will offer a reading of King Lear that explores its contemporary relevance to a world at war with terrorism.

Georgetown Law Forum: "Health Care Reform: Overdue Medicine or a Cure Worse Than the Disease?"

[10/27/09 08:00 PM (est)]

WHAT:	Georgetown Law Forum: "Health Care Reform: Overdue Medicine or a Cure Worse Than the Disease?"	Wolf Blitzer
WHEN:	Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center Hart Auditorium, McDonough Hall 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001
MODERATOR:	Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor
PANELISTS:	Sen. John Barrasso, M.D. (R-Wyo.), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee E.J. Dionne Jr., Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; and Columnist, The Washington Post Judy Feder, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post Rep. Stephen Lynch, (D-Mass.), member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
NOTE:	The Georgetown Law Forum is a speaker series on major legal and policy issues of the day. This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Office of Admissions, Law Alumni Office, and the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

Executive Compensation and TARP: Finding Equity in a Third Rail Issue with Kenneth Feinberg

[10/27/09 09:00 AM (est)]

WHAT:	Inaugural Georgetown Law - Aspen Institute Symposium: "Executive Compensation and TARP: Finding Equity in a Third Rail Issue"
WHO:	A conversation with Kenneth Feinberg, Senior Master for Executive Compensation Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, moderated by Clive Crook, Columnist, The Financial Times A panel discussion on the TARP and corporate governance will follow featuring: Chris Brummer, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Nell Minow, Editor and Co-Founder, The Corporate Library John Olson, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center Michael Oxley, Of Counsel, Baker Hostetler and former Congressman (R-Ohio) and Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
WHEN:	Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 9:00 a.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
NOTE:	Feinberg will describe his work setting the pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation's largest companies, which have received hundreds of billions of dollars in federal assistance to survive. A well-known Washington lawyer and mediator whose last high-profile assignments were putting a financial value on the lives of victims of the 9/11 attack and victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, Feinberg is deciding the pay for the top 25 executives at the American International Group, Citibank, Chrysler Credit, General Motors, GMAC and Bank of America, among others. This event is sponsored by Georgetown Law and the Justice and Society Program of The Aspen Institute.

Legal Solutions in Health Reform

[10/26/09 09:00 AM (est)]

9:00 a.m.: Welcome and Introduction
Nan Hunter, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center.

9:10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.: Discrimination in Federal Health Reform
Sara Rosenbaum, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Steve Hitov, National Health Law Program

10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.: The Constitutionality of Mandates to Purchase Health Insurance: A debate
of opposing viewpoints as to whether an individual mandate to purchase insurance is constitutional
Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center
David B. Rivkin, Jr., Baker Hostetler

11:35 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.: Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues
Timothy S. Jost, Washington & Lee School of Law
M. Gregg Bloche, O’Neill Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
Stuart Butler, Heritage Foundation

12:50 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.: Key Note Speaker
Jacob Hacker, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University

1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Closing Remarks
Sara P. Hoverter, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center

The Role of the Courts in Patent Law and Policy

[10/23/09 09:00 AM (est)]

Friday, October 23, 2009

Conference Course Materials
Please note that you will receive the rest of the course materials at the conference.

Welcome and Panel 1: Subject Matter Divergence: Policy Levers and the Courts

Panel 2: Reasonable Royalties: An Economic Rethinking

Panel 3: New Thinking on Validity Challenges: Notice and Burden of Proof

Two leading universities in intellectual property law from both coasts – Georgetown Law and Stanford Law School – have joined together to host a unique conference on the role of the courts in patent law.

The Supreme Court’s renewed interest in reviewing patent cases – often in a new light – makes the courts’ role today more important than ever. This conference will focus exclusively on the crucial role of the courts. Judges from the Federal Circuit and the district court, leading academics, representatives of the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and counsel for some of America’s most admired and innovative companies will provide a rare opportunity for attendees to learn how patent doctrine affects innovation and competition, and to explore the courts’ role in shaping patent doctrine.

At a time when Congress is considering major changes to patent law and when the courts are grappling with increasingly complex patent issues, this conference offers a special opportunity to hear from federal judges about cutting-edge issues in patent law and from leading scholars, policy makers, and practitioners about new research on patent law policy and validity challenges. Industry presentations will also offer attendees the ability to hear directly about practical issues in patent law and enforcement.

Discussion Celebrating the Publication of The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable

[10/07/09 02:00 PM (est)]

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

[10/07/09 08:45 AM (est)]

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?

[10/06/09 09:30 AM (est)]

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.

Public Interest Law - Student Video

[10/01/09 04:30 PM (est)]

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

[10/01/09 04:00 PM (est)]

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

[09/25/09 12:00 PM (est)]

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

[09/25/09 11:00 AM (est)]

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

[09/23/09 03:30 PM (est)]

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

[09/21/09 09:00 AM (est)]

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.