DIRECTOR

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and Coordinator of the Center’s Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security. He conducts research and teaches on legal, policy, and ethical issues that arise in international humanitarian law. international human rights law, international criminal law, military operations, and the use of artificial intelligence in the national security setting.

His recent work includes Drone Strikes: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing; BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm (co-author Lisa Rohrer); Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry; Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer.

Before joining Georgetown, Professor Regan was an associate at the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell and served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

SENIOR FELLOWS

Lori Berman is Director of Professional Development at Hogan Lovells and a prominent expert on lawyer professional development. She conducts research on factors shaping lawyer career paths in the law firm setting. She has taught courses at the Law Center on leadership, team skills, and client relationship skills.

Heather Bock is Chief Learning Officer at Hogan Lovells and former Executive Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession. She conducts research on organizational behavior, predictors of attorney success, and leadership in law firms, and has taught courses at the Law Center on building leadership, team, and client relationship skills.

Elise Groulx Diggs advises corporations, governments, international organizations, and NGOs on the human rights issues, legal and social risks associated with their investment projects and global supply chains. Ms. Diggs is ranked by Chambers & Partners Global Guide as one of the top lawyers in the world in the field of Business and Human Rights. She serves as the Convenor of the Advisory Board of the Business & Human Rights Project, American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Human Rights, and is also an officer of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). She is the co-author with Professor Regan of articles and book chapters on various issues related to Business and Human Rights, and works with Professor Regan to coordinate the Center’s Program on Lawyers, Business, and Human Rights.

Michael Frisch is Ethics Counsel to the Law Center, where he teaches courses on Legal Ethics. He previously was senior assistant bar counsel to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He was in private practice from 1978-84 and assistant federal public defender for Maryland from 1975-78. Professor Frisch worked as a research assistant for the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 and 1974.

Sarah Harrison is a Senior Analyst in the U.S. Program at Crisis Group, where she analyzes U.S. policy as it relates to global conflict and crises. Before Crisis Group, Sarah served for more than four years as Associate General Counsel at the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of General Counsel (OGC), International Affairs, where she advised on domestic and international legal issues related to U.S. national security and the activities of the U.S. armed forces. From 2015 to 2017, Sarah served as Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security. She is the co-author of a book chapter with Professor on foreign security assistance challenges for liberal democracies.

Ezequiel Heffes is the Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict in New York. Prior to joining Watchlist, Ezequiel worked for Geneva Call as a Senior Policy and Legal Advisor and for the ICRC in various operational positions in Colombia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He holds a PhD from the University of Leiden, an LLM in IHL and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy, and a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law.

Todd Huntley is the Director of the National Security Law Program and a Lecturer in Law at Georgetown University Law Center. In addition to teaching, Todd develops curriculum as well as other educational and professional development programs for students focusing on National Security Law. Todd is a retired Navy Captain and served as an active-duty Judge Advocate for more than 23 years.

Jonah Perlin is Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Coordinator of the Center’s Program on Technology, Ethics, and the Legal Profession. He teaches first-year legal practice and advanced legal writing courses and studies the intersection of technology and legal ethics, legal communication, legal education, and the practice of law. His scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, and Legal Communication & Rhetoric.

Jonah is deeply committed to supporting law students and junior members of the legal profession. He is the founder and host of the How I Lawyer Podcast, a Top-30 Careers Podcast that features the stories of lawyers from across the profession about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it well. The podcast which has been downloaded almost 300,000 times, is listened to by junior lawyers from across the United States and the world and is used by law school professors to teach professional identity formation. He is also a regular speaker on the skills necessary to build satisfying and successful legal careers.

Before returning to the Law Center from which he earned his law degree, Jonah was a commercial litigator at Williams & Connolly LLP and a law clerk for Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and then-Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He earned his AB from Princeton University and his AM from the University of Chicago Divinity School where he studied religious ethics.

Lisa Rohrer is Professor of Practice, Management, and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and former Research Director at the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession. Her academic and teaching experience centers around the leadership and strategy of professional service firms, with a particular focus on law firms. She has consulted with law firm leaders of major US and global firms around topics of leadership and strategy, and has led executive education at Harvard Law School. She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, and is the co-author with Professor Regan of BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm (University of Chicago Press 2021).