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A Message from the Dean

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Faculty: Who We Know

Our Community

10 Washington, DC: A World-Class City 12 GW + DC 14 International Students at GW Law 17 Career Services 19 Special Programs 20 General Degree Information 23 Business and Finance Law 29 Environmental and Energy Law 35 Government Procurement Law 41 Intellectual Property Law 47 International and Comparative Law 53 Litigation and Dispute Resolution 57 National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law and National Security and Cybersecurity Law 63 Degrees for Non-Lawyers 64 LLM Programs: Full-Time Faculty and Deans

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" One of the many reasons I was thrilled to join GW Law as the first woman dean is that this is a community of vibrant, intentional change. People see problems, and they solve them.“ DEAN DAYNA BOWEN MATTHEW

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A Message from the Dean Congratulations on earning a seat in GW Law’s entering class. GW has been at the center of the law for more than 150 years, educating generations of top attorneys for our nation and the world. We offer an experience unique among American law schools. Our remarkable law school in the heart of Washington, D.C., is home to an extraordinary community of nationally renowned legal scholars and teachers, exceptional students, dedicated staff, and accomplished and successful alumni. Whether you are a recent graduate or have been practicing law for some time, I am positive that you will find our courses challenging and rewarding. Thanks to our privileged location in our nation’s capital, top government officials, Supreme Court justices, and other key Washington and international figures frequently visit our classrooms and speak at special events at our law school. One of the many reasons I was thrilled to join GW Law this year as the first woman dean is that this is a community of vibrant, intentional change. People see problems and they solve them. I came to GW to be in a place where preeminent scholars help the nation’s leaders solve society’s most pressing problems. Pursuing your degree at GW Law will place you in an elite community of more than 31,000 alumni worldwide. GW Law counts among its graduates prime ministers and chief justices, leaders of human rights NGOs, CEOS of multinationals, prosecutors, and internationally recognized private attorneys, to name a few. Our students aspire to change the world, and they graduate as impactful professionals with the tools to excel in the global legal marketplace. Welcome to the GW Law family. I look forward to making history together. Sincerely,

Dayna Bowen Matthew Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law

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Welcome to the GW Law Community

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Why GW Law?

The GW Law Advantage GW Law offers students a legal education unlike any other— an education premised on law in action in Washington, D.C., the center of the most dynamic legal and policy activity in the United States. GW Law’s campus is within close proximity of major international organizations and federal government agencies, law firms, nongovernmental organizations, courts, and international dispute settlement bodies. Proximity to these entities provides our students with myriad opportunities to address real-world problems and offer realworld solutions while gaining practical experience. Our students benefit from a world-renowned faculty, degree programs that address society’s most debated legal and policy issues, a broad and in-depth curriculum, and strong academic and personal support. Simply put, there is no better place than GW Law to study and participate in the engaging life of the law.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (center) greets Associate Professor Robin Juni (left) and Professor Mary Cheh. Supreme Court justices regularly visit and interact with the law school community.

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Our faculty is our greatest asset. Faculty: Who We Know The men and women who teach at GW Law are among the most frequently cited law professors in the nation, regularly appearing in print, online, and on air in major media outlets.

They are respected scholars and the authors of leading casebooks and works for general readership, alike. Many remain involved in practice, whether arguing cases before the Supreme Court or serving as counsel to foreign governments. GW Law faculty members travel the world to teach and learn at premier educational institutions and affect dialogue and decision making at seats of global influence, including the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the United Nations International Law Commission. In addition, they have served in the Obama and Bush administrations and held prestigious clerkships, a number of these for sitting members of the Supreme Court. As a complement to our full-time faculty, the law school’s adjunct faculty reflects the extraordinary wealth of talent in and around Washington, D.C. Federal judges (and one Supreme Court justice), partners in law firms, counsel to U.S. government agencies, and officials from major international institutions teach specialized courses in their fields of expertise. In addition to our regular classroom teachers, a steady stream of lecturers and visitors to our campus—including judges from the European Court of Human Rights, the general counsel to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the general counsel to the World Bank— adds a diverse, comparative dimension to the environment.

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Professor Sonia Suter

Professor Sean Murphy

Professor Karen Brown

Professor Robert Glicksman

Professor Ralph Steinhardt

Professor Dawn Nunziato

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For more than 150 years, GW Law has been at the forefront of the legal community.

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GW Law

Our Community As the first law school in the nation’s capital, GW Law has long been an integral part of the legal and educational community in Washington, D.C.

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY The George Washington University is the largest institution of higher education in Washington, D.C., and one of the largest private employers in the city. GW’s main campus, which houses the law school, lies in historic Foggy Bottom, an easy walk or subway ride from major institutions such as the U.S. Department of State, the Organization of American States, federal and local courthouses, the World Bank, and the U.S. Capitol. The university comprises 10 undergraduate and graduate schools, more than 1,250 faculty members, more than 10,000 undergraduates, and more than 13,000 graduate students. Its size and proximity allow GW to offer students access to the resources of a world-class institution—from a 183,000-square foot fitness center to one of the city’s leading performing arts centers.

GW LAW Since its founding in 1865, GW Law has been at the forefront of the legal profession. Some of our earliest faculty members were Supreme Court justices, and our early graduates wrote patents for 19th and 20th century icons, such as Bell’s telephone, Eastman’s roll film camera, and the Wright Brothers’ prototype flying machine. We continue to make history in areas as diverse as energy law, cybersecurity, and government procurement law. What’s more, our students engage with the legal community that surrounds them in the vibrant, diverse, and dynamic city that is Washington, D.C. Part corporate hub, part government seat, part college town, part cultural center, D.C. is an ideal place to study the law.

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Washington, D.C.

A World-Class City Washington, D.C., has been called the most livable city on the East Coast. Each neighborhood has a unique character, and few cities can match D.C.’s urban energy, international flavor, and cultural offerings. D.C. is the headquarters of all three branches of the federal government, major national and international organizations, and hundreds of embassies and think tanks, and its population is highly educated and multinational.

As with any great international city, D.C. is home to worldclass museums, including 17 of the 20 museums of the Smithsonian Institution—many of which are free or offer student discounts—as well as bookstores, theaters and concert halls, seasonal festivals, professional sports teams, coffee bars, and an eclectic mix of restaurants. GW Law students can easily access almost any part of the D.C. metro area using Metrorail and Metrobus. From the Foggy Bottom–GWU Metro stop, located right on campus, students can arrive within minutes at internships on Capitol Hill, a game at Nationals Park, or an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. The city is also a hub for travel. Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York are one, two, and three hours away by train, respectively. Reagan National Airport is conveniently reached from the Foggy Bottom Metro station, and two other airports are less than an hour away, making both international travel and exploration within the United States a breeze. The D.C. metropolitan area can be a great place for raising a family. In addition to numerous strong public school systems, there is a wide variety of kid-friendly activities (many of them free). Favorite sites include the National Zoo, the Air and Space Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the monuments along the National Mall. Foggy Bottom and GW Law are close to several other D.C. areas that provide students and their families with a variety of diversions. Rock Creek Park, to the west of Foggy Bottom and more than twice the size of New York City’s Central Park, features biking and jogging trails, horseback riding, concert facilities, a nature center, and a planetarium.

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Four blocks from GW Law, the White House—seat of the nation’s executive branch—and nearby Executive Office Building provide several outplacement opportunities in fields such as constitutional law and administrative law.

2 WORLD BANK

Through its work helping fund improvements in developing countries, the World Bank—only a block from GW Law—is a valuable resource for students interested in international law and finance law.

Located right across the street from the law school, the IMF oversees the global financial system and gives students the chance to observe international law and finance law in action.

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The executive branch’s agency of foreign affairs, the State Department is a Foggy Bottom landmark three blocks from GW Law. It provides students with a first hand look at international law at the highest level.

development on both continents. GW Law students can find field placements in fields as varied as trade law and drug law.

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5 U.S. COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT

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Five blocks from the law school, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims hears claims made against the U.S. government. At the same location, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has nationwide jurisdiction in a number of subject areas. GW Law students can find clerkships with judges in both courts.

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Made up of 35 nations in North and South America, the OAS works to preserve peace and further

As the nation’s official center for performing arts, the Kennedy Center hosts a variety of cultural events and is home to the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Ballet, and the Washington National Opera.

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These three monuments to American presidents are some of the most recognizable landmarks in DC. All are within walking distance of the law school.

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GW Law students are active participants in the legal dialogues

taking place every day in the nation’s capital. At the law school, students are minutes away from the institutions that will help them hone their skills and influence the way law is practiced.

Metro Center

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The famed Smithsonian “Castle” is the headquarters of the institution, which oversees 18 Washington museums, including the National Air and Space Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

12 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)

Students interested in enviromental law can find field placements at this federal agency charged with protecting human health and the environment. The EPA’s headquarters is a short Metro ride from GW Law.

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Recent field placements on Capitol Hill have included the Senate Health, Education, and Pensions Committee; the Senate Judiciary Committee; and the House Republican Judiciary Committee. The Hill is easily accessible from GW Law by Metro.

The highest court in the land is an ideal venue for students to observe high-profile legal proceedings, as well as pursue clerkships and field placements. During the past 10 years, seven GW Law grads have gone on to clerk for Supreme Court justices. The court is accessible by Metro.

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With the world’s largest collection of legal materials, the Library of Congress is an excellent research resource for law students in all areas of specialization.

17 U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The federal trials court for Washington, D.C., offers clerkship opportunities in the chambers of its judges. The district court is Metroaccessible from GW Law.

18 U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

This Alexandria, Virginia, office is a center of the intellectual property law community. Recent GW Law students have been placed in the Office of the Commissioner. The USPTO is easily reached by Metro and is a 20-minute drive from the law school.

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GW Law students frequently find field placements at the government’s legal headquarters, working in fields ranging from counterterrorism to intellectual property litigation. The Justice Department is a short Metro ride from the law school.

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Our international students find a welcoming, engaging community. International Students at GW Law Each year, a select group of lawyers trained at law schools outside of the United States comes to GW Law to pursue graduate legal studies. The knowledgeable staff of the Graduate and International Programs office facilitates for these students a smooth transition to the United States and to the GW campus. The office provides services that range from academic advising and course selection to assistance with issues including housing, campus resources, and life in Washington, D.C. The office also organizes a variety of social, cultural, and informational programs and assists students in developing individual plans for their next steps after degree completion, whether the students plan to remain in the United States to gain practical training before returning to their home countries or plan to sit for a U.S. bar exam.

LLM–JD TRANSFER PROGRAM

On average, we receive applications from prospective students in more than 70 countries and welcome students from at least 40 countries in each LLM class. The top countries represented (in descending order) most frequently include the United States, Saudi Arabia, India, Korea, Brazil, Germany, China, Iran, Peru, France, Colombia, and Japan. Our typical class includes recent law school graduates, military judge advocates, solo practitioners, law clerks, human rights activists, prosecutors, corporate counsel, judges, and government officials, as well as Fulbright scholars.

After completing the LLM degree, some F-1 visa holders remain in the United States for one year of Optional Practical Training before returning to their home countries. Others return directly to work at the corporations, law firms, or posts from which they took leave to pursue the degree. A few remain in the United States for longer than a year. Between 30 and 50 percent of the law school’s international LLM graduates take a U.S. bar exam each year.

Our law school is diverse, and our students learn well from one another. Because international students at GW Law do not pursue a separate course of study from their U.S. counterparts, our U.S. and international LLM students take courses together, as well as with JD students. In our classrooms, therefore, international and U.S. students work side-byside and find fertile ground for discussions that incorporate global perspectives and insights from both experienced and burgeoning legal minds.

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A limited number of international LLM students are eligible to be admitted into the GW Law Juris Doctor ( JD) degree program after completion of the LLM degree. If admitted to the JD program, a student might be eligible to transfer 28 hours of credit from the institution that granted his or her first law degree, thereby allowing the student to complete the JD with two years of further study after completing the GW LLM.

CAREER OPTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

To assist students with their career planning, our senior career counselor is dedicated exclusively to working with U.S. and international LLM students. In addition, the Graduate and International Programs staff and faculty advisors work with each of our students to develop an individual plan of study for degree completion and qualification for the bar.

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Career Services Our LLM students benefit from a dedicated counselor in the Graduate and International Programs office who works closely with students to help them establish individual job search strategies. Experienced in both private and public practice, the counselor offers expertise and knowledge in preparing students for a wide range of career options, including opportunities with government agencies, law firms, federal and state courts, international organizations, nonprofit organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector employers. The Career Counselor also serves as the LLM Bar Advisor and assists students throughout the year on various bar exam issues.

A GLOBAL ALUMNI NETWORK With more than 31,000 alumni throughout the world and in every area of practice, GW Law connects students with a vast network of mentors, advisors, and career contacts. The Alumni Career Advisor Network puts current students and recent graduates in touch with alumni who can provide career advice and professional opportunities. GW Law graduates live and work in more than 100 countries. A number of international and national alumni groups and events around the world help our alumni to network, support other graduates, and keep in touch with the law school. In addition, the dean and various faculty members regularly travel across the United States and abroad, and they use these opportunities to connect with alumni.

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Our students gain wide access to the legal world.

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Special Programs FIELD PLACEMENT PROGRAM At GW Law, students experience the practical and engaging work of the law by participating in a nearly infinite number of opportunities to work with a broad range of domestic and international organizations. Our prime location gives students a vast range of choices for field placement work. In addition, we rely on our alumni, including more than 150 judges, to help students find ideal opportunities. Recent placements include: American Civil Liberties Union Federal Communications Commission Inter-American Development Bank Office of the White House Counsel Organization of American States Recording Industry Association of America U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of State U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Patent and Trademark Office U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee The World Bank World Organization for Human Rights

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Professor Bradford Clark held a discussion for the university community in honor of Constitution Day.

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General Degree Information The law school offers two graduate law degrees: the Master of Laws (LLM) and the Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD). Graduate law students take courses with Juris Doctor (JD) students. Graduate students are able to combine traditionally taught courses with in-depth seminars, internships, skills training, and clinical experience for a complete legal education. In addition, our Master of Studies in Law (MSL) has been designed specifically for non-lawyers who wish to gain greater knowledge of the law (see page 63 for more information about the MSL program).

JOINT MASTER OF LAWS–MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMS GW offers joint degree programs for LLM candidates with two other schools of the university. The LLM–MPH is offered with the Milken Institute School of Public Health for students who are pursuing a general LLM or the LLM degree in environmental law. The LLM–MA (in the field of history with a concentration in U.S. legal history; in the field of women’s studies; or in the field of public policy with a concentration in women’s studies) is offered with the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences for students who are pursuing the LLM degree in international and comparative law. Students must be admitted both to the law school and, separately, to the school that confers the other master’s degree. Each school must separately approve a student’s application to pursue a joint degree program. The joint degrees must be conferred simultaneously and only after all requirements for both degrees have been met.

THE MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) DEGREE GENERAL LLM PROGRAM Graduates of non-U.S. law schools may pursue the General LLM as a means of studying a range of issues in U.S. law. The General LLM program accepts a limited number of U.S. law school graduates to study in areas other than those covered in the specialized programs. U.S. law school graduates applying to the General LLM program must submit a proposed program of study that includes courses to be taken and a general statement outlining the intended area of concentration for the thesis. Before admission, the student is paired with a faculty member in that area who will assist in further developing a curriculum and supervising the student’s thesis. Recent General LLM candidates have focused in such areas as labor law, constitutional law, health care law, criminal law, and antitrust law. Areas of interest are limited only by the availability of faculty advisors.

SPECIALIZED LLM PROGRAMS In addition to the General LLM, specialized fields of study include Business and Finance Law, Energy and Environmental Law, Environmental Law, Government Procurement Law, Government Procurement and Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, International and Comparative Law, International Environmental Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, National Security and Cybersecurity Law, and National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law.

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THE DOCTOR OF JURIDICAL SCIENCE (SJD) DEGREE

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE LLM DEGREE

The Doctor of Juridical Science degree offers a small number of highly qualified students who have already earned the Master of Laws degree the opportunity to concentrate on scholarly research and writing in a specific area of interest. The program is designed for students with an interest in legal scholarship, principally those interested in teaching, whose outstanding academic record indicates they would be able to produce a publishable dissertation.

U.S. LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES U.S. law school graduates must fulfill the following requirements: Completion of 24 credit hours, including the required curriculum and written work in the specialized programs; attendance for an enrollment period of a minimum of two consecutive semesters; and achievement of a cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.67 at the time all requirements are met. Students may attend either full or part time.

NON-U.S. LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES Non-U.S. law school graduates must fulfill the following requirements: Completion of 24 credit hours, including the required curriculum and written work in the specialized programs; attendance for an enrollment period of a minimum of two consecutive semesters; completion of Legal Research and Writing for International LLM Students, and Fundamental Issues in U.S. Law; and achievement of a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 at the time all requirements are met (2.67 for non-U.S. law school graduates who previously earned an LLM from a U.S. law school). A thesis is not required, although students may choose to complete a thesis in connection with the degree. Non-U.S. law school graduates generally are expected to complete all degree requirements in one academic year. For more detailed information on LLM degree requirements and academic regulations, see the Law School Bulletin at www.law.gwu.edu/bulletin.

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Mary L. Schapiro, J.D. ‘80, 29th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, gave the keynote address at the C-LEAF conference “Navigating Dodd – Frank: Are We Avoiding Another Financial Crisis?” in October 2012.

Business and Finance Law THE LLM IN BUSINESS AND FINANCE LAW HIGHLIGHTS GW LAW’S UNIQUE STRENGTHS, WHICH include an expert faculty, extensive curriculum, access to the Washington, D.C., and international regulatory communities, as well as important links to the New York and international financial markets. The program enjoys strong ties to regulators, business leaders, and scholars both domestically and abroad, including in China, Korea, and India.

GW Law offers an integrated and intensive program for the study of the laws governing economic and financial markets and institutions. Our full-time faculty members are authors of countless books and articles in the areas of business and finance. The program’s adjunct faculty includes experienced private practitioners, seasoned general counsel, and distinguished regulators and judges. The curriculum includes everything necessary to master the basics and beyond. We offer courses supporting concentrations in commercial law, corporate law, securities regulation, finance, and international business and trade. Students are welcome to design a curriculum that suits their own interests and career plans.

GW Law provides close proximity to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and dozens of other government authorities, associations, organizations, and think tanks committed to the regulation and study of financial markets. This proximity, coupled with the interest and involvement of our faculty, creates numerous opportunities for learning and networking outside the classroom, including participation in the law school’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF).

Senator Elizabeth Warren addresses a C-LEAF event on campus.

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CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS A minimum of 16 credit hours from the courses listed below, including two (2) credits graded on the basis of a research paper, are required. For non-U.S. law school graduates, the curriculum requirement must include Corporations, unless they have previously completed equivalent coursework. For both U.S. and non-U.S. law school graduates, Corporations may be counted toward the 16-credit requirement. For students who choose to write a thesis, Thesis and a minimum of 12 credits in the field of study are required.

Admiralty Advanced International Trade Law Anti-Corruption and Compliance Antitrust Law

International Investment Law and Arbitration International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

Selected Topics in Tax Policy Law Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic Sports and the Law

International Negotiations

State and Local Taxation

International Project Finance

Tax Policy Seminar

International Taxation

Trade and Sustainable Development

Business Planning

International Trade Law

Chinese Business Law

Introduction to Transactional Islamic Law

Unincorporated Business Organizations and Agency Law

Banking Law Business and Bankruptcy and Reorganization

Commercial Paper—Payment Systems Consumer Protection Law Corporate Finance Corporate Taxation Corporation Law Seminar Creditors’ Rights and Debtors’ Protection Employee Benefit Plans Energy Law and Regulation Energy Law Seminar Entertainment Law Environmental Issues in Business Transactions Federal Income Taxation Field Placement Graduate Clinical Studies Graduate Independent Legal Writing Insurance

Land Use Law

U.S. Export Control Law and Regulation White Collar Crime

Law and Accounting Law and Economics Law of the European Union Law of Real Estate Financing Legal Drafting (Mergers and Acquisitions) Legal Drafting (Transactional) Mergers and Acquisitions Modern Real Estate Transactions Negotiations Nonprofit Organizations: Law and Taxation Partnership and LLC Taxation Public Law Seminar Regulated Industries Regulation of Derivatives

Contracts will be available, with the permission of the program director, to those students who have not completed equivalent coursework.

COURSES RELATED TO BUSINESS AND FINANCE LAW These courses are related to, but do not count toward, the Business and Finance curriculum requirement. Administrative Law Copyright Law Environmental Law Formation of Government Contracts

International Arbitration

Regulation of Mutual Funds and Investment Advisers

International Banking and Investment Law

Secured Transactions

International Organizations

Securities Law Seminar

Law of the Sea

International Business Transaction Seminar

Securities Regulation

Legislation

Selected Topics in Advanced Antitrust Law

Legislative Analysis and Drafting

Selected Topics in Banking Law

Patent Law

Selected Topics in Corporate Law

Performance of Government Contracts

Selected Topics in Public Law

Space Law

International Business Transactions International Commercial Law The International Competition Law Regime International Finance

International Dispute Resolution

Local Government Law

Selected Topics in Securities Law

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin. 24

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS: BUSINESS AND FINANCE LAW SMALL BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (SBCED) CLINIC

BANKING AND SECURITIES LAW SOCIETY

GW Law provides free startup legal assistance to selected area businesses and nonprofit organizations that cannot afford to pay a lawyer. Most clients are microbusinesses comprising one to three persons with less than $35,000 in startup capital.

The Banking and Securities Law Society and Corporate and Business Law Society student organizations encourage the exploration of contemporary issues in banking law and in corporate and business law, respectively. Through a variety of student and alumni events and programs, these groups work to educate members, raise awareness of opportunities available in the field, and facilitate the development of professional contacts.

CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS & FINANCE GW Law’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) is a think tank designed as a focal point in Washington, D.C., for the study and debate of major global issues in areas of economic and financial law. The center offers the opportunity for those completing a thesis as part of the LLM Program in Business and Finance Law to participate in the C-LEAF Working Paper Series, which showcases the work of both students and faculty.

FIELD PLACEMENT The Field Placement Program maintains lists of agencies and organizations that provide internships for law students and helps match each participant with an organization that most closely aligns with his or her area of interest. The law school’s location and the experience of the full-time and adjunct faculty provide students interested in business and finance law with access to exceptional internship opportunities.

CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW SOCIETY

THE MANUEL F. COHEN MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES The Manuel F. Cohen Memorial Lecture Series was created by the friends and colleagues of Manny Cohen in 1979 as a living memory to Cohen, a leader in the field of securities law, a dedicated public servant, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a legal scholar, and a teacher at the law school for nearly two decades. The lectures have been presented by notable figures, including David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group; and Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation.

THE FALK ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (FAME) FAME was launched as an initiative to equip lawyers to take on entrepreneurial opportunities. The program's goal is to emphasize experiential learning by exposing students to hands-on entrepreneurial activity both in the classroom and in the start-up world.

Professor Lisa Fairfax

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FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

DIRECTOR Jeremiah Pam Director, Business and Finance Law Program

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Professor of Clinical Law

F. Scott Kieff Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law; Director, Planning and Publication, C-LEAF

William E. Kovacic

Oppenheim Professor of Law

Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Professor of Law; Director, Competition Law Center

Jeremy Bearer-Friend

Jeffrey Manns

Michael B. Abramowicz

Associate Professor of Law

Karen B. Brown Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law

Steve Charnovitz Associate Professor of Law

Donald C. Clarke David Weaver Research Professor of Law

Lawrence A. Cunningham Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law; Director, GW Law in New York

Lisa M. Fairfax Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law

Theresa A. Gabaldon Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law; Director, Academic Programs and Administration, C-LEAF

Miriam Galston Associate Professor of Law

Susan R. Jones

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Professor of Law

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell Professor of Law and History

Richard J. Pierce, Jr. Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law

ADJUNCT FACULTY The Business and Finance Law faculty includes more than 50 adjunct faculty members who are prominent legal professionals from leading law firms, nonprofit organizations, U.S. government agencies, and international organizations including: • Basel Institute on Governance • Covington & Burling • Environmental Defense Fund • Federal Trade Commission • Miller & Smith Companies • Repatriation Group International • Sidley Austin • U.S. Department of Justice • U.S. Department of the Navy • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission • U.S. Tax Court • Vinson & Elkins • WilmerHale • The World Bank

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

Rhoda Weeks-Brown, General Counsel for the International Monetary Fund, gave a keynote address at a recent Innovation in Business and Finance Law Conference at GW Law.

GW Law grad David Falk (shown here with Professor and former Dean Blake D. Morant, seated) recounts his journey from GW Law grad to sports agent for basketball legend Michael Jordan.

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Environmental and Energy Law Degree Programs: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ES TABLISHED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ENVIRONMENTAL L AW ER A , GW ’S Environmental and Energy Law Program has been at the forefront of environmental legal education in the field for 50 years and has taught specialized energy law courses since the 1950s. Today, with our wide variety of environmental law courses and our expanded focus on energy law, we are able to provide the next generation of environmental and energy lawyers with the tools they need to tackle the local, national, and international challenges facing the planet and its inhabitants, including climate change, fisheries depletion, air and water pollution, natural resources, water scarcity, the development of new sources of energy, and the growing emphasis on sustainability.

Located in Washington, D.C., where environmental and energy law policy is debated and created, GW Law allows students to gain firsthand experience inside and outside of the classroom. LLM students, including students from outside of the United States, regularly intern with government agencies and nonprofit organizations while they are at GW through a variety of environmental placements with our Graduate Environmental Placement program through the Field Placement Program.

Associate Dean Emily Hammond testifies before a congressional committee.

Inside the classroom, students benefit from the expertise of talented teachers with years of practical experience. GW Law provides one of the most extensive environmental and energy curricula in the country, offering more than 25 courses in environmental law and nine courses in energy law. In addition to courses taught by our outstanding full-time faculty, we are able to attract adjunct faculty who occupy senior positions in government, environmental organizations, energy organizations, and private law firms.

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CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS LLM IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW A minimum of 16 credit hours from the following courses is required. For U.S. law school graduates, this requirement must include four (4) credits graded on the basis of a research paper that may either be in the form of a Thesis or two research papers, each of which is written in connection with a two-credit course that is graded on the basis of a research paper. Non-U.S. law school graduates also must complete one research paper, as part of a two-credit course graded on the basis of a research paper, or complete Thesis. For students who choose to write a thesis, a minimum of 12 additional credits in the field of study are required. Students are encouraged to write a thesis. Advanced International Trade Law

Environmental and Toxic Torts

Trade and Sustainable Development

Air Pollution Control

Water Pollution Control

Animal Law Seminar

Federal Facilities Environmental Law Issues

Atomic Energy Law

Graduate Environmental Placement

Coastal, Navigation, and Wetlands Resource Law

Graduate Independent Legal Writing

Control of Solid and Hazardous Wastes (RCRA & CERCLA)

International Environmental Law

Energy Law and Regulation

International Trade Law

Energy Law Seminar

Land Use Law

Environmental Crimes

Natural Resources Law

Environmental Issues in Business Transactions

Oil and Gas Law

Environmental Law Environmental Law Seminar Environmental Lawyering Environmental Negotiations

International Climate Change Law International Project Finance Law

Wildlife and Ecosystems Law

Torts and Property also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count these courses toward the 16 credits required in the field.

Regulated Industries Regulation of Toxic Substances Risk Selected Topics in Environmental Law Sustainable Communities Law and Policy Seminar

LLM IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW A minimum of 16 credit hours from the following courses is required. For U.S. law school graduates, this requirement must include four (4) credits graded on the basis of a research paper(s). For non-U.S. law school graduates, completion of two (2) credits graded on the basis of a single research paper or Thesis is required. For students who choose to write a thesis, a minimum of 12 additional credits in the field of study are required. Students are encouraged to write a thesis.

Air Pollution Control

International Climate Change Law

Atomic Energy Law

International Project Finance

Energy Law and Regulation

Oil and Gas Law

Energy Law Seminar

Regulated Industries

Environmental Negotiations

Selected Topics in Environmental Law

Graduate Independent Legal Writing

Water Pollution Control

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Torts and Property also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count this course toward the 16 credits required in the field.

LLM IN GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW A minimum of 16 credit hours from the following courses is required. For U.S. law school graduates, this requirement must include four (4) credits graded on the basis of a research paper(s). For non-U.S. law school graduates, completion of two (2) credits graded on the basis of a single research paper or Thesis is required. For students who choose to write a thesis, a minimum of 12 additional credits in the field of study are required. Students are encouraged to write a thesis. Air Pollution Control

Government Contracts Cost and Pricing

Performance of Government Contracts

Control of Solid and Hazardous Wastes (RCRA & CERCLA)

Government Contracts Overview

Water Pollution Control

Graduate Independent Legal Writing

Formation of Government Contracts

LLM IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW A minimum of 16 credit hours from the following courses is required. The curriculum requirement must include completion of Environmental Law and one of the following three courses: Air Pollution Control, Water Pollution Control, or Control of Solid and Hazardous Wastes (RCRA & CERCLA). In addition, students also must complete either International Business Transactions or International Organizations. For U.S. law school graduates, this requirement must include four (4) credits graded on the basis of a research paper(s). For non-U.S. law school graduates, completion of two (2) credits graded on the basis of a single research paper or Thesis is required. For students who choose to write a thesis, a minimum of 12 additional credits in the field of study are required. Students are encouraged to write a thesis. Environmental Law and one of the following 3 courses:

International Business Transactions International Climate Change Law

Air Pollution Control

International Environmental Law

or Water Pollution Control

International Law

or Control of Solid and Hazardous Wastes (RCRA & CERCLA)

International Organizations

Advanced International Trade Law Environmental Law Seminar (International Environmental Governance)

Torts and Property also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count these courses toward the 16 credits required in the field.

International Trade Law Law of the Sea Selected Topics in Environmental Law Trade and Sustainable Development

Graduate Independent Legal Writing

COURSES RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW These courses are related to, but do not count toward, the curriculum requirements for the programs listed. Administrative Law

International Dispute Resolution

Admiralty

Legislative Analysis and Drafting

Food and Drug Law Formation of Government Contracts

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Genetics and the Law

Performance of Government Contracts

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin.

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FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

INTERIM DIRECTOR Lin Harmon-Walker Interim Director and Visiting Associate Professor of Law

SENIOR ADVISOR Donna Attanasio Senior Advisor for Energy Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law

ADJUNCT FACULTY The Environmental and Energy Law Program includes more than 25 adjunct faculty members who are prominent practitioners in the field. They come from leading law firms, nonprofit organizations, U.S. government agencies, and international organizations including: • American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

FULL-TIME FACULTY

• Arnold & Porter

Steve Charnovitz

• Bonner Kiernan Trebach & Crociata

Associate Professor of Law

• Bureau of Land Management

Robert L. Glicksman

• Center for Biological Diversity

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law

• Center for International Environmental Law

Emily Hammond

• Environmental Defense Fund

Jeffrey and Martha Kohn Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Glen Earl Weston Research Professor

• Environmental Law Institute

Richard J. Pierce, Jr. Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law

• Goulston & Storrs • General Microgrids • Holland & Knight • Humane Society of the United States • Latham & Watkins • Myer Glitzenstein & Crystal • Natural Resource Defense Council • Nixon Peabody • Paul Hastings • Public Justice

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• Reed Smith • Shulman Rogers • U.N. Human Rights Council • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers • U.S. Bureau of Land Management • U.S. Department of Agriculture • U.S. Department of Energy • U.S. Department of the Interior • U.S. Department of Justice • U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of General Counsel • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • U.S. Senate • Van Ness Feldman • The World Bank

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW DEGREE PROGRAMS ANNUAL SHAPIRO SYMPOSIUM

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INITIATIVE

Each year, GW Law hosts one of the most highly regarded environment/energy law symposia in the country. The Shapiro Symposium typically attracts law faculty and practitioners from across the country and around the world. Past topics have focused on “The Electricity Mix of the Future;” “Advanced Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and Data Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure in Compliance and Enforcement;” the “Role of Planning in Public Land Management;” and “The Public Trust Doctrine in the 21st Century.” The 2021 Symposium will address the future of environmental and energy law and will feature prominent environmental and energy law professors who attended GW Law (most of them LLM graduates) to speak on the future of the law in their areas of expertise.

The Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) is a thoughtleadership platform for the consideration and development of energy policy. The initiative’s mission is to advance the development of legal structures that govern our increasingly diverse and complex energy systems by (a) providing a forum for open debate on leading-edge energy policy issues; (b) conducting research that significantly advances the knowledge base related to sustainable energy law and policy; and (c) educating students, policy makers, and industry participants on issues related to sustainable energy production, delivery and use based on fact and non-partisan analysis. SEI also interacts with an energy-focused student group, Energy Connectors. This past year, pre-COVID-19, SEI hosted a discussion on microgrids and customer engagement in the E.U. and the United States; another discussiom on emerging trends in Chile and the United States with a delegation from the Universidad del Desarrollo; and a discussion on International Investments, Arbitration, and Climate Change led by the Honorable Charles Brower, who is on the adjunct faculty at GW Law, and Alexandre de Gramont, partner at Dechert LLP. SEI’s energy alumni group, Energy Connectors, has hosted convivial student-alumni events.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION The student-run Environmental Law Association focuses on both traditional environmental law issues and energy law. The group organizes a variety of activities, including high-profile environmental and energy law panels, an annual environment and energy awareness week, periodic outings to explore the natural resources of the D.C. area, career panels, and Meet the Professors Night. Law students at all degree levels are welcome.

GRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLACEMENT Students can individualize their degree programs through internships with government agencies or nonprofit organizations concerned with environmental and energy issues. Students have engaged in legal analysis and policy formulation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality; the Environmental Protection Agency; the U.S. Departments of Justice, Energy, Interior, and Defense; the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; as well as many D.C.-based nonprofit environmental organizations and trade associations. These placements are facilitated through the law school’s Field Placement Program.

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Government Procurement Law GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: SEE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW

GW LAW IS THE ACADEMIC BIRTHPLACE of the study of government procurement law—the law governing “the business of government.” We are the world’s preeminent public procurement program, educating successful government procurement lawyers and professionals for more than 60 years. The program’s internationally known faculty, myriad curricular offerings, and cutting-edge public programs are at the forefront of innovation in this crucial area of law.

Located in the heart of Washington, D.C., our proximity to the hub of government procurement law and policy provides our students with unparalleled opportunities to gain practical knowledge and experience while obtaining their degree. Whether they hold an externship with a federal agency or with the World Bank, argue a moot court case before federal judges, or negotiate a contract in an experiential course, our students gain preparation for the demands of a complex procurement law practice through our practicebased offerings. Our expansive and diverse curriculum provides students with a richer understanding of how procurement systems operate, both in the United States and abroad, and exposes

students to varying perspectives on emerging issues in the law. Our distinguished faculty, recognized as thought leaders in the field, produce scholarship that changes the way the world thinks and talks about public procurement. We have a vast and dedicated alumni base comprised of leaders in the government procurement bar. The program also enjoys strong ties to policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and scholars around the world. We offer an unmatched variety of degrees and opportunities in the government procurement field, providing our graduates with the knowledge, connections, and opportunities to become future leaders and policymakers in the acquisition community domestically and abroad.

Professor Steven Schooner advises a student.

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GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT LAW

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS A minimum of 14 credits from the following courses is required, including four (4) credits graded on the basis of a research paper. This typically entails completion of a thesis or two research papers written in connection with two separate two-credit courses. For students who choose to write a thesis, Thesis course and a minimum of 10 credits from the following courses are required. U.S. law school graduates enrolled in the program are expected to complete a thesis. Waiver of the thesis may be granted by the program directors. Acquisition Policy Making

Government Procurement of Intellectual Property Seminar

Procurement Reform

Advanced International Trade Law Analytical Writing for Government Contracts

Graduate Government Contracts Placement

Selected Topics in Government Procurement

Anti-Corruption and Compliance

Human Rights Lawyering

Comparative Public Procurement

International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic

Congressional Investigations Seminar

Regulated Industries

Space Law

International Dispute Resolution

State and Local Procurement

International Trade Law

Suspension and Debarment

Law of the European Union

Trade and Sustainable Development

Federal Grants Law

Law of the Sea

U.S. Export Control Law and Regulation

Foreign Government Contracting

Legal Drafting (Mergers and Acquisitions)

White Collar Crime

Corporations Federal Facilities Environmental Law Issues

Formation of Government Contracts Government Contracts Advocacy Government Contracts Cost and Pricing Government Contracts Moot Court Government Contracts Overview Government Contracts Seminar (Various Topics)

Legal Drafting (Transactional) Mergers and Acquisitions Negotiations Performance of Government Contracts Procurement in International Development

Contracts I and Contracts II also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count these courses toward the 14 credits required in the field.

COURSES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT LAW These courses are related to, but do not count toward, the Government Procurement Law curriculum requirement. Administrative Law

Health Care Law

Antitrust Law

International Business Transactions

Negotiation and Conflict Management Systems Design

Business Planning

International Commercial Law

Patent Law

Corporate Taxation

Labor Law

Public Law Seminar

Cybersecurity Law and Policy

Law and Accounting

Disaster Law

Legislation

Reading Group (Block Chain Law & Tech)

Employment Discrimination Law

Legislative Analysis and Drafting

Environmental Law

Local Government Law

Federal Courts

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Government Lawyering

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin.

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RESEARCH, THESIS, AND PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES LLM students who elect to write a thesis do so under the supervision of a full-time faculty member. The student’s faculty advisor assists in identifying and selecting an appropriate topic and works with the student on developing the focus and direction of the thesis. The thesis represents the culmination of students’ formal academic study and challenges them to develop innovative expertise as they synthesize and rationalize existing doctrine, critique the state of the law, and advance carefully grounded proposals for reform. Additional opportunities for in-depth research are provided through the government contracts seminar courses, which require the preparation of a research paper. For many of these papers, students may select and pursue a topic of their choosing, further developing their expertise in an area of particular interest. Program faculty members also are available to assist students in identifying publication opportunities for their theses and research papers. A number of theses and research papers are published in the Public Contract Law Journal, Public Procurement Law Review, Journal of Contract Management, and other major periodicals. Student scholarship also is eligible for prizes in, among others, the American Bar Association Public Contract Section’s annual writing competition.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT LAW GRADUATE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS PLACEMENT Home to the federal government, the government contracting industry, international development banks, and leading government procurement associations and think tanks, Washington, D.C., provides students with extraordinary access to the best government procurement externships in the world. Our students work on sophisticated legal projects at a wide variety of government procurement placements, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the World Bank, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Management and Budget, and NASA. These placements are facilitated through the law school’s Field Placement Program.

ARNOLD & PORTER GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS MOOT COURT COMPETITION The Arnold & Porter Government Contracts Moot Court Competition is an annual intrascholastic competition open to both JD and LLM students. Each participant has the opportunity to argue both sides of a government contracts case before senior practitioners, including sitting judges from the various Boards of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The competition problem and the best briefs are published each year in the Public Contract Law Journal.

THE PUBLIC CONTRACT LAW JOURNAL The Public Contract Law Journal, which is produced jointly by the law school and the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, is the premier journal read by practitioners of government procurement law. The journal, published quarterly, is edited and managed by JD and LLM students.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS STUDENT ASSOCIATION The Government Contracts Student Association (GCSA) aims to encourage student interest in and engagement with the field of government procurement. In addition to promoting events and training, GCSA seeks to connect students with practitioners in this unique field in which several legal disciplines intersect. Members will have opportunities to learn more about this field from guest speakers and to network with local attorneys.

CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA The Government Procurement Law Program regularly hosts conferences and colloquia featuring leading experts in the field from around the world. These events play an important role in influencing critical government procurement policies that impact global government procurement regimes. Recent events include our annual procurement law conference with Kings College London, the International Forum for Business Ethical Conduct’s Annual Conference, and a global webinar series on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on procurement.

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GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT LAW

FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

ASSISTANT DEAN Jessica Tillipman Assistant Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies and Government Contracts Advisory Council Professorial Lecturer in Government Contracts Law, Practice, and Policy

FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS Joshua I. Schwartz E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law

Christopher R. Yukins Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law

ADJUNCT FACULTY

• Perkins Coie

The Government Procurement Law Program includes adjunct faculty members who are prominent legal professionals in the field. They come from leading law firms, nonprofit organizations, U.S. government agencies, and international organizations including:

• Reed Smith

• U.S. Department of Defense

• Dentons

• U.S. Government Accountability Office

• Feldsman Tucker Leifer Fidell • Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Laura A. Dickinson

• Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Steven L. Schooner Nash and Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law

Professor William Kovacic 38

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• United Nations Office for Project Services

• Asmar, Schor & McKenna

• Northrop Grumman

Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Director, Competition Law Center

• Tucker Ellis

• Arnold & Porter

FULL-TIME FACULTY

William E. Kovacic

• Thompson Coburn

• U.S. Civilian Board of Contract Appeals

• NASA

Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law

• Smith Pachter McWhorter & Allen

• Vinson & Elkins • Wiley Rein • World Bank

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

Professor Christopher Yukins greets practitioner Jennifer S. Zucker at the annual Government Procurement Program Alumni and Friends Luncheon.

Assistant Dean Jessica Tillipman discusses procurement integrity with a delegation of government officials from Vietnam.

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Intellectual Property Law GW LAW HAS BEEN A NATIONAL LEADER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP for more than 100 years. In fact, when the law school established a master’s of patent law program in 1895, its alumni already had written the patents for Bell’s telephone, Mergenthaler’s linotype machine, and Eastman’s roll film camera, among hundreds of other inventions; dozens more alumni had worked in the U.S. Patent Office. Today, GW Law is internationally known for its intellectual property law program, with significant strength in the areas of patent, copyright, trademark, privacy, communications, internet and cyberlaw, and genetics. In the early 1950s, long before the term “intellectual property” was widely used, GW Law recognized the close relations among patents, trademarks, and copyrights by establishing the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Foundation, the country’s first research institute in any of those areas. In recent years, as intellectual property law issues have become more tightly interwoven with issues in commercial law, privacy, internet and cyberlaw, communications law, and the regulation of genetics and medicine, GW Law has been among the first to add faculty and courses in those areas. At the same time, we have not neglected our core strength in patents and have continued to develop an unparalleled patent law faculty and curriculum. The result: an Intellectual Property Law LLM Program that is second to none and that equips students to respond successfully to the innovations of the coming century.

Tina Chappell, Board of Directors Member for the Federal Circuit Bar Association and former Associate General Counsel for Intel Corporation, presented at a recent Patents in Telecommunications Conference.

The LLM degree program is designed for both U.S. and non-U.S. law school graduates interested in intensive study of U.S., international, and comparative intellectual property law. Many U.S. attorneys complete the program to gain the specialized knowledge necessary to practice, teach, or regulate in a legal field that has been one of the most important and most interesting for the last several decades. Many non-U.S. attorneys complete the program to get their first in-depth look at U.S. intellectual property law, while qualifying to take a bar examination that will enable them to practice in the United States, such as in New York.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS A minimum of 14 credits from the following courses is required, including two (2) credits graded on the basis of research paper. For students who choose to write a thesis, Thesis and a minimum of 10 credits from the following courses are required. Advanced Trademark Law

Intellectual Property Law Seminar

Trade Secrets Law

Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law Seminar

International and Comparative Patent Law

Trademark Law and Unfair Competition

Chemical and Biotech Patent Law

International Copyright Law

Computer Law

International Intellectual Property

Internet Law

Design Law

Law in Cyberspace

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the U.S. International Trade Commission

Legal Drafting (IP)

Property also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count this course toward the 14 credits required in the field.

Entertainment Law The Federal Circuit Government Procurement of Intellectual Property Seminar Information Privacy Law Intellectual Property Antitrust Seminar

USPTO Post-Grant Patent Proceedings

Licensing of Intellectual Property Rights Patent Appellate Practice Patent Enforcement Patent Law Patent Strategies and Practice Selected Topics in Intellectual Property Law

COURSES RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW These courses are related to, but do not count toward, the Intellectual Property Law curriculum requirement. Antitrust Law

Law and Medicine

Formation of Government Contracts

Sports and the Law

Genetics and the Law

Telecommunications Law

Intellectual Property Law

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin.

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FIELD PLACEMENT

ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES

The Washington, D.C., area has the country’s highest concentration of internship opportunities with nonprofit and trade groups, courts, and government agencies specializing in intellectual property, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Copyright Office, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Through field placements, students gain mentorship from members of the local intellectual property community, as well as up to four hours of academic credit (five hours of work per week are required for each credit). GW Law’s Intellectual Property Law Program maintains a list of approved placements.

The IP program hosts several ongoing lecture series and symposiums featuring noted and emerging IP scholars from the United States and abroad. Events include the IP Speaker Series, which brings professors from other law schools to discuss their research; the biannual A. Sidney Katz Lecture; the Christopher A. Meyer Memorial Lecture in Copyright Law; and the Post-Grant Roundtable.

RESEARCH AND WRITING Each LLM student must write either: (a) a substantial research paper in connection with a seminar or independent legal writing for at least two credits, or (b) a thesis for four credits. Our students have published their work not only in general law reviews in the United States (including GW’s Law Review and International Law Review) but also in specialized journals such as the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal and The Federal Circuit Bar Journal (both housed at GW); Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society; International Review of Industrial Property, Copyright, and Competition Law; and the counterpart German language journals of the Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property, Competition, and Tax Law in Munich.

MUNICH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SUMMER PROGRAM Participants in the Munich Intellectual Property Summer Program—held each summer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Munich, Germany—study current intellectual property issues with a focus on international law in the city known as Europe’s intellectual property capital. Leading academics in the field offer courses on topics such as international patent law, copyright law, and internet law. Special lectures and study visits to international IP institutions are part of the program.

AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY JOURNAL FEDERAL CIRCUIT BAR JOURNAL GW Law is home to these two leading IP journals. Both are edited by students under faculty supervision and are distributed to judges, attorneys, professors, and law students in the field.

THE DEAN DINWOODEY CENTER The Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies, directed by Associate Dean John Whealan and Professors Martin Adelman and Robert Brauneis, sponsors research, lectures, conferences, and activities on a broad range of intellectual property issues. The center is funded in part by the Bureau of National Affairs in memory of its founder, Dean Dinwoodey, LLB ’29.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

ASSOCIATE DEAN AND CO-DIRECTOR

FULL-TIME FACULTY Michael B. Abramowicz

John M. Whealan Intellectual Property Advisory Board Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies

CO-DIRECTORS Martin J. Adelman Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies

Robert Brauneis Michael J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies; Member, Managing Board, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

Professor of Law

Susan R. Jones Professor of Clinical Law

Dmitry Karshtedt Associate Professor of Law

F. Scott Kieff Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law

Dawn C. Nunziato

ADJUNCT FACULTY The adjunct faculty for the LLM Program in Intellectual Property Law includes approximately 25 faculty members who are prominent legal experts in the field. They come from U.S. government agencies, leading law firms, nonprofit organizations, U.S. government agencies, and international organizations including: • Banner Witcoff • Covington & Burling • Crowell & Moring

William Wallace Kirkpatrick Research Professor

• Davis Wright & Tremaine

Joan E. Schaffner

• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

Associate Professor of Law

Roger E. Schechter Professor of Law

Daniel J. Solove John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law

Sonia M. Suter The Kahan Family Research Professor of Law; Founding Director, Health Law Initiative

• Debevoise & Plimpton • Finnegan • Fish & Richardson • Hogan Lovells • Latham & Watkins • Laurence & Phillips IP Law • McDermott Will & Emery • PBS KIDS • Paul Hastings • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman • Ropes & Gray • Singer Cashman • Sentinel Worldwide • Traphagen Law • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit • U.S. Department of Defense • U.S. Department of Justice • U.S. International Trade Commission • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office • Williams & Connolly • Zacharia Law

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Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

IP students find a variety of enrichment opportunities, including (clockwise) the Rothwell IP Moot Court Competition and the annual GW Law-sponsored reception at the AIPLA Conference. Bottom: Professor Sonia Suter

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International and Comparative Law INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: SEE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW PROGRAM AT GW LAW PREPARES THE NEXT GENERATION of leaders in the legal profession to work in a complex and dynamic world, one defined largely by the ability of professionals to solve problems that increasingly involve multiple jurisdictions and a range of international and comparative law issues. The program offers one of the most extensive international law curricula in the country, with more than 50 specialized courses. Students may focus their studies in the general program curricula or in one of two concentrations: (a) international human rights or (b) international arbitration, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution.

GW Law’s approach to international law is unique. It is built upon the recognition that international and comparative law does not stand alone but rather permeates every field of law. Our Washington, D.C., location and close proximity to the State Department, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, law firms, nonprofit organizations, and other international entities enables students to both observe and discuss the application of law, policy, and regulations with practitioners, thereby allowing them to grasp the complexity of contemporary

global issues. Because of its location, the law school is able to draw on a distinguished corps of adjunct faculty members— noted practitioners, government officials, and jurists who offer seminars in their fields of specialization—and to attract distinguished scholars and lawyers from around the world. Our students have a range of opportunities to perform research; pursue externships; attend numerous events related to the field; participate in moot court competitions, clinics, and journals; and study abroad.

His Excellency George Cristian Maior, LLM ’92, Ambassador of Romania to the United States, led a recent on-campus discussion of international legal issues relating to Crimea.

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INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS LLM IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

A minimum of 12 credits from the following courses are required,* including two (2) credits graded on the basis of research paper. For students who choose to write a thesis, Thesis and a minimum of 12 credits from the following courses are required. Advanced International Trade Law

International Copyright Law

Law of the European Union

Chinese Business Law

Immigration Criminal Enforcement

Law of the Sea

Chinese Law and Legal Institutions

International Criminal Law

Law of War

Comparative Constitutional Law

International Dispute Resolution

Nation Building and the Rule of Law

Comparative Law

International Environmental Law

National Security Law

Comparative Law Seminar

International Family Law

Nuclear Nonproliferation Law and Policy

Comparative Public Procurement

International Finance

Public International Law Seminar

Counterterrorism Law

International Human Rights Clinic

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the U.S. International Trade Commission

International Human Rights of Women

Procurement in International Development

International Intellectual Property

Refugee and Asylum Law

International Investment Law and Arbitration

Regional Protection of Human Rights

Field Placement** Human Rights Lawyering

International Law

Trade and Sustainable Development

Immigration Clinic

International Law of Human Rights

U.S. Export Control Law and Regulation

Immigration Law I

International Litigation

U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Immigration Law II International Arbitration

International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

International Banking and Investment Law

International Negotiations

International Business Transactions

International Organizations

International Business Transactions Seminar

International Project Finance

International Climate Change Law

International Trade Law

International Commercial Law

Introduction to Transactional Islamic Law

International and Comparative Patent Law

Islamic Law

International Taxation

Space Law

*Conflict of Laws also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count this course toward the 12 credits required in the field. **With the permission of the program director.

CONCENTRATION IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Students wishing to pursue a concentration in International Human Rights must complete 10 credits specifically in this area of study as a part of (and not in addition to) the credits required to complete the LLM in International and Comparative Law. Within these 10 credits, two credits of experiential learning are required, which can be obtained by pursuing related Field Placement, Moot Court, or the International Human Rights Clinic. Students also need to complete a writing requirement on a topic related to international human rights. Courses in the GW-Oxford Summer Program in International Human Rights Law (see list of courses below)

Immigration Law I

Nation Building and Rule of Law

Immigration Law II

Public International Law Seminar

Individual and Group Rights

Refugee and Asylum Law

International Human Rights Law Clinic

Regional Protection of Human Rights

Human Rights Lawyering

International Human Rights of Women

Immigration Clinic

International Law of Human Rights

Selected Topics in Public International Law

Human Rights and Environmental Protection

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CONCENTRATION IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION, MEDIATION, AND OTHER FORMS OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION Students wishing to pursue a concentration in International Arbitration, Mediation, and Other Forms of Dispute Resolution must complete 10 credits specifically in this area of study as a part of (and not in addition to) the credits required to complete the LLM in International and Comparative Law. Within these 10 credits, two credits of experiential learning are required, which can be obtained by pursuing related Field Placement, Moot Court, Graduate Clinical Studies, or Legal Practicum. Students also need to complete a writing requirement on a topic related to their concentration area. Alternative Dispute Resolution

International Dispute Resolution

Mediation

Arbitration Commercial Arbitration

International Investment Law and Arbitration

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Conflicts of Laws

International Litigation

Negotiations

International Arbitration

International Negotiations

GW–OXFORD SUMMER PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

The program is held during the summer at the University of Oxford. Credit earned in these courses may be applied toward LLM program requirements in International and Comparative Law and the Concentration in International Human Rights. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights— Law and Practice

Human Rights in a Digital Age

Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights Law

Human Rights and Military Responses to Terrorism

Human Rights in the Marketplace

International Human Rights and Refugee Law International Rights of Women War, Peace, and Human Rights

Human Rights Advocacy and Dissemination

COURSES RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW These courses are related to, but do not count toward, the International and Comparative Law curriculum requirement. Admiralty

Disaster Law

Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law Seminar

Homeland Security Law and Policy

Conflict of Laws

Law in Cyberspace

Law and Anthropology

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin.

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SPECIAL PROGRAMS: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW OXFORD–GW SUMMER PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Complementing and enriching the program is the Oxford– GW Summer Program in International Human Rights Law, held in Oxford each summer. The program is intended to prepare students to contribute to the improvement of human rights conditions in their homelands and around the world.

IMMIGRATION CLINIC Students in the Immigration Clinic handle immigration law matters under faculty supervision. Because the clinic’s clients come from all over the world, cultural sensitivity is essential and diverse language skills are welcome.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC The International Human Rights Clinic introduces students to the practice of law in the cross-cultural context of international human rights litigation and advocacy.

COMPETITION LAW CENTER Directed by Professor William Kovacic, the Competition Law Center sponsors research and promotes education in the field of competition law—also known as antitrust law— particularly relating to issues of international enforcement and the harmonization of national laws and policies.

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW LECTURES AND CONFERENCES GW Law hosts regular lectures and conferences on international and comparative law. All members of the law school community are encouraged to attend.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW SOCIETY LLM students are encouraged to join the law school’s International Law Society (ILS), one of the largest student groups on campus. ILS regularly hosts lectures and social events, as well as an annual International Law Week during the spring semester that culminates with a gala at one of the embassies in Washington, D.C.

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW SOCIETY Another active student group, the GW Human Rights Law Society, hosts a wide range of events related to human rights and also hosts an annual conference.

GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES Established in 2011 with the generous support of the Microsoft Corporation, the series brings to the law school prominent experts in the fields of free speech and human rights.

INTERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC COURTS International Law in Domestic Courts, published online by Oxford University Press, provides commentary on domestic judicial decisions involving international law issues around the world. Both JD and LLM students may be considered for participation in the journal.

FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

ASSOCIATE DEAN Rosa Celerio Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies; Burnett Family Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy

FULL-TIME FACULTY Martin J. Adelman Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Alberto M. Benítez Professor of Clinical Law

Paul Schiff Berman

William E. Kovacic Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Professor of Law; Director, Competition Law Center

Renée Lettow Lerner

• GW's Elliott School of International Affairs

Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law

Peter Raven-Hansen Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law Emeritus

Stephen A. Saltzburg

Lobingier Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence

Arturo Carrillo Professor of Clinical Law

Donald C. Clarke David Weaver Research Professor of Law

Robert J. Cottrol Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law

Laura A. Dickinson Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law

David Fontana Samuel Tyler Research Professor

• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights • International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights • Jenner & Block

Steven L. Schooner

• Law Offices of Charles H. Camp

E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law

Dinah L. Shelton

• Jones Day • Law Office of Sara Kropf • MassPoint Legal and Strategy Advisory • NATO Administrative Tribunal • Partovi Law Immigration Solutions

Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law Emeritus

• Sherman & Sterling

Ralph G. Steinhardt

• Steinman & Rodgers

Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence

Edward T. Swaine Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor

Steve Charnovitz Associate Professor of Law

• Greenberg Traurig

Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law;

Joshua I. Schwartz

Thomas J. Buergenthal

• Faegre Drinker, Biddle & Reath

Sean D. Murphy

Francesca Bignami

Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law

• Environmental Law Institute • Fish & Richardson

Walter S. Cox Professor of Law

Karen B. Brown

• Environmental Defense Fund

Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor

Nash & Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law

Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law

• Dell Services Federal Government

ADJUNCT FACULTY The International and Comparative Law Program includes more than 35 adjunct faculty members who are prominent legal professionals. They come from leading law firms, nonprofit organizations, U.S. government agencies, and international organizations including:

• Sidley Austin • U.S. Army • U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services • U.S. Department of Justice • U.S. Department of the Navy • U.S. Department of State • U.S. International Trade Commission • The World Bank • Zeman & Petterson

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

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Litigation and Dispute Resolution GW LAW’S LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTION in the wide range of professional skills and values that lawyers need to successfully represent clients in a legal profession that is increasingly competitive and demanding. Geared to accommodate the schedules of working professionals, the program is led by professionals who are respected nationwide by fellow academics and by practicing lawyers and judges. Faculty members challenge students to develop and enhance the lawyering skills required for effective representation in today’s complex practice of law, and the program provides students with opportunities to put those skills into action. A successful lawyer—whether a litigator or not—must master skills associated with trial, negotiation, settlement, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution, including international dispute resolution. GW Law’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program is dedicated to providing comprehensive instruction in professional skills and values. The curriculum complements the theoretical study of the law with actual experience in interviewing clients; drafting, preparing, and filing pleadings and motions; investigating facts; appearing before government agencies; mediating; arbitrating; and conducting trials before judges and juries. All this takes place in the heart of the Washington, D.C., legal community, just minutes away from dozens of important national and international organizations. That close proximity means GW Law students not only learn professional legal skills, but they also use them in meaningful ways.

ACCOMMODATING THE WORKING LAWYER’S SCHEDULE

Each course (except the College of Trial Advocacy) meets in one three-hour session per week during the 13-week semester. Classes are held in the evenings, and students may choose to complete the program in either one or two years.

INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION

Trial advocacy and dispute resolution skills can be mastered only through hours of training and practice. Individualized instruction is the most effective way to convey the full spectrum of trial advocacy and dispute resolution skills and is an absolute necessity to ensure that each student is making progress. To guarantee a high level of contact between faculty and students, enrollment is limited to a small number of graduate students.

Associate Dean Alfreda Robinson

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LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS Twenty-four (24) credits from the following courses are required. Students may substitute six (6) hours in substantive or other litigation-related courses, with the approval of their program director, and are encouraged to do so. Advanced Evidence

The College of Trial Advocacy

Advanced Trial Advocacy

Ethics in Adjudication and Settlement

Negotiation and Conflict Management Systems Design

The American Jury

International Dispute Resolution

Pre-Trial Practice in Civil Cases

Arbitration

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Pre-Trial Practice in Criminal Cases

COURSES RELATED TO LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION These courses are related to the Litigation and Dispute Resolution curriculum and may count toward the elective requirement. Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure

Environmental Lawyering

Introduction to Advocacy

Admiralty

Environmental Negotiations

Lawyers, Lobbying, and the Law

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

Environmental and Toxic Torts

Litigation with the Federal Government

Advanced Evidence Seminar

European Intellectual Property Law

Mediation

Advanced Field Placement

Evidence

Military Justice

Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition

Family Justice Litigation Clinic

Mock Trial Competition

The Federal Circuit

Modern Real Estate Transactions

Antitrust Law

Federal, Criminal, and Appellate Clinic

Neighborhood Law and Policy Clinic

Appellate Practice

Field Placement

Patent Appellate Practice

The Art of Lawyering (International)

Field Placement Tutorial

Pre-Trial Advocacy

Civil Procedure

Forensic Science

Prisoner and Reentry Clinic

Civil Procedure Seminar

Fundamentals of Lawyering

Professional Responsibility and Ethics

Client Interviewing and Counseling

Government Contracts Advocacy

Comparative Military Law

Government Lawyering

Professional Responsibility and Ethics Seminar

Complex Litigation

Health Rights Law Clinic

Public Interest Lawyering

Computer Crime

Human Rights Advocacy and Dissemination

Public Justice Advocacy Clinic

Congressional Investigations Seminar Consumer Mediation Clinic

Human Rights Lawyering

Rising for Justice

Criminal Appeals and Post-Conviction Services Clinic

Immigration Clinic

Scientific Evidence Seminar

Immigration Law I

Selected Topics in Civil Procedure

Criminal Law

Immigration Law II

Trial Advocacy

Criminal Law and Procedure Seminar

Intensive Clinical Placement

Vaccine Injury Clinic

Criminal Procedure

International Arbitration

White Collar Crime

Criminal Tax Litigation

International Criminal Law

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the U.S. International Trade Commission

International Human Rights Clinic

Environmental Crimes

International Negotiations

International Litigation

Remedies

Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program Co-Directors Professor Stephen Saltzburg and Associate Dean Alfreda Robinson (center at podium) with adjunct faculty members (left to right) James Falk, Sr., Robert Weinberg, Francis Gilligan, and Zol D. Rainey.

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin.

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FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

ASSOCIATE DEAN AND CO-DIRECTOR Alfreda Robinson Associate Dean for Trial Advocacy and Professorial Lecturer in Law

Ava J. Abramowitz

Susan C. Lynch

Former U.S. Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice

The Honorable Jeffrey Axelrad

Judge John Mott

U.S. Department of Justice

Superior Court for the District of Columbia, Retired

Wayne R. Cohen Cohen & Cohen

Attorney

CO-DIRECTOR

Polly Craighill Office of the Legislative Counsel, U.S. Senate

Zol D. Rainey

Stephen A. Saltzburg Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law

James Falk, Sr.

Larry Ray

Falk Law Firm

Attorney/Mediator/Arbitrator

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Joshua Gardner

Chad T. Sarchio

U.S. Department of Justice

Drug Enforcement Administration

Charles B. Craver

Francis Gilligan

Sandra Lee Strokoff

Office of Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. House of Representatives

Eileen Barkas Hoffman

Attorney/Mediator

Administrative Conference of the United States

Robert Weinberg

Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law

Scott B. Pagel Associate Dean for Information Services; Director, Law Library; Professor of Law

ADJUNCT FACULTY The Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program’s adjunct faculty members are sitting judges on U.S. courts and prominent legal professionals from leading law firms and U.S. government agencies, including:

Barry M. Nudelman

Robin Juni GW Law

Alan J. LoRe Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Lynn Sylvester

Williams & Connolly

Judge Melvin Wright Superior Court for the District of Columbia

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

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National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law; National Security and Cybersecurity Law THE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS GW LAW’S unique strengths: an expert faculty, a comprehensive curriculum, and access to the extensive Washington, D.C., national security law community. The dozens of research centers and think tanks that conduct research in foreign relations and national security law include GW’s on-campus National Security Archive, which provides a trove of declassified documents pertaining to national security for advanced research. Easy access to Capitol Hill allows students the opportunity to observe the work of House and Senate subcommittees firsthand.

The two separate but integrated degree programs offered by GW Law—the LLM in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law and the LLM in National Security and Cybersecurity Law—prepare graduates to enter or move forward in growing practice areas that they address. The breadth of courses in this practice area allows students to explore laws on the use of securing the critical cyber infrastructure, cyber breaches, armed forces and intelligence operations abroad, counterterrorism, homeland security, disaster relief and crisis management, congressional investigations and oversight, classified information, origins of the federal government’s foreign relations powers, electronic surveillance and privacy, cybersecurity, immigration, criminal immigration enforcement, nonproliferation, treatment of detainees, the law of war, and related topics. GW Law’s national security and cybersecurity curriculum is robust. While several U.S. law schools offer one or two courses in this field, few others approach the number of courses available at GW Law. Our full-time faculty members

GW Law welcomed Lt. Col. Shane Reeves and Maj. Ronald Alcala, JD ’04, both from the U.S. Military Academy, for a recent discussion on law, business, and national security.

have written leading casebooks in the field, and the adjunct faculty include the U.S. Department of Justice’s domestic terrorism expert; the former general counsel of FEMA; leading experts on cyber law issues and on privacy and surveillance; a draftsman of the Military Rules of Evidence; the head of appellate litigation for the military commission’s prosecution team; and a U.S. Department of Justice attorney who litigates leading national security law cases. GW Law’s location in the nation’s capital, the heart of the evolving field of national security and cybersecurity law, offers students access to the extensive foreign relations, cybersecurity, intelligence, and national security law community that surrounds us. We are across the street from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; two blocks from internationally known law firms on K Street; three blocks from the U.S. Department of State; and a subway ride away from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Transportation Security Administration, the Supreme Court, and a host of nongovernmental and policy agencies. Through GW Law’s Field Placement Program, our students routinely undertake externships for academic credit at these institutions.

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NATIONAL SECURITY AND U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW

CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS LLM IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW

Students who choose not to write a thesis must complete National Security Law and U.S. Foreign Relations Law and a minimum of 14 credits from the courses listed below, including at least two (2) credits graded on the basis of a research paper. Those who write a thesis must take a minimum of 10 credits from the courses listed below; they are not required to complete a research paper in addition to the thesis. Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy

Legislation

Comparative Military Law

Litigation with the Federal Government

Computer Crime

Military Justice

Congressional Investigations Seminar

Nation Building and the Rule of Law

Counterintelligence Law and Policy

National Security Law

Counterterrorism Law

National Security Law Seminar: Domestic Terrorism

Cybersecurity Law and Policy Disaster Law Field Placement Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Homeland Security Law and Policy Immigration Criminal Enforcement Immigration Law I

National Security Law Seminar: Congressional Oversight and Investigations

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Law of Secrecy Selected Topics in National Security Law: Problems Trying Terrorists Selected Topics in National Security Law: Technology Foundations for Cybersecurity Selected Topics in National Security Law: Transnational Security Selected Topics in Public International Law

Nuclear Nonproliferation Law and Policy

Space Law

Public International Law Seminar: Arms Control

U.S. Foreign Relations Law

U.S. Export Control Law and Regulation

Public International Law Seminar: Contemporary Challenges with Respect to the Law of the Sea

Veterans Advocacy

International Law

Reading Group: Crisis and Legal Controversy in the CIA

International Law of Human Rights

Refugee and Asylum Law

International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Foreign Access to U.S. Technology

Law of the Sea

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Guantanamo Bay Detention: Ethics, Law and Policy

*Constitutional Law I and II also will be available; only students with a non-U.S. law degree who plan to take the New York bar examination may count these courses toward the 14 credits required in the field.

Information Privacy Law Intelligence Law International Criminal Law

Law of Separation of Powers Law of War

Veterans Law

LLM IN NATIONAL SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY LAW All students must complete National Security Law and Cybersecurity Law and Policy, along with six (6) credits from the following classes:

Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy

Intelligence Law

Space Law

Computer Crime

Internet Law

Computer Law

Law in Cyberspace

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Foreign Access to U.S. Technology

Constitutional Law Seminar: Cyber, Privacy, and Speech

Public Law Seminar: Telecommunication and Technology Policy Advocacy

Counterintelligence Law and Policy

Reading Group: Block Chain Law and Technology

Information Privacy Law

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Technology Foundations for Cybersecurity Telecommunications Law

Most courses are offered at least once per year. Course listing is based on 2020-21 Law School Bulletin. 58

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Students who choose not to write a thesis must take a minimum of eight (8) additional credits from either the courses listed above or below, including at least two (2) credits graded on the basis of a research paper. Students who choose to write a thesis must complete four (4) additional credits from the classes listed above or below; they are not required to complete a research paper in addition to the thesis. Comparative Military Justice

Legislation

Congressional Investigations Seminar

Military Justice

Counterterrorism Law

Nation Building and the Rule of the Law

Disaster Law

National Security Law Seminar: Domestic Terrorism

Field Placement Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Homeland Security Law and Policy Immigration Criminal Enforcement Immigration Law I International Criminal Law International Law International Law of Human Rights International Money Laundering, Corruption, and Terrorism

National Security Law Seminar: Congressional Oversight and Investigations Nuclear Nonproliferation Law and Policy

Selected Topics in National Security Law: Guantanamo Bay Detention: Ethics, Law, and Policy Selected Topics in National Security Law: Law of Secrecy Selected Topics in National Security Law: Problems Trying Terrorists Selected Topics in National Security Law: Transnational Security U. S. Export Control Law and Regulation

Public International Law Seminar: Arms Control

U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Public International Law Seminar: Contemporary Challenges with Respect to the Law of the Sea

Law of the Sea

Reading Group: Crisis and Legal Controversy in the CIA

Law of Separation of Powers

Refugee and Asylum Law

Law of War

SPECIAL PROGRAMS: NATIONAL SECURITY AND U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW NATIONAL SECURITY LAW ASSOCIATION The National Security Law Association (NSLA) was created to help educate future lawyers about issues related to national security and to provide a forum for discussion of pertinent issues among students, practitioners, and faculty. The association sponsors panel discussions, keynote speakers, and career networking events. Each semester, the NSLA holds an annual National Security Law Career Fair. In addition, NSLA hosts networking events for members to meet practitioners of national security law. Recently, NSLA has held panels on the International Criminal Court, the legal ramifications of the U.S. government employing private security contractors, and intelligence surveillance.

MILITARY LAW SOCIETY The Military Law Society (MLS) is a student organization that helps students interested in or connected with the military navigate law school and locate employment opportunities with the military or associated organizations after law school. MLS helps students to build their

networks with faculty members and other legal professionals connected to the military in the nation’s capital. Through MLS announcements, panels, and events, students are able to connect with paid internship and externship (for academic credit) opportunities, and MLS provides “best practices” for how to approach these work experiences. MLS provides curricular advising sessions with the National Security Program Director, providing guidance on national security and military law classes and the necessary skills to succeed as Judge Advocates. Many 3L MLS members are mentors to 1L and 2L members, helping them with a broad range of topics connected to the military or to law school. MLS hosts numerous events, including networking panels with Judge Advocates from each service branch, brown-bag lunches to discuss specific aspects of national security law or military justice, and military courts of criminal appeals oral argument hearings. In addition, MLS gives students opportunities to volunteer in ways that are unique to the Washington, D.C., area, such as wreath laying at Arlington Cemetery, escorting veterans with honor flights, or helping with race-day activities during the Marine Corp Marathon.

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FACULTY Full biographical information for full-time faculty members and deans begins on page 64.

DIRECTOR Lisa M. Schenck Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professorial Lecturer in Law

FULL-TIME FACULTY

• U.S. Department of Defense

The adjunct faculty for the LLM Program in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law includes prominent professionals in the field from settings including:

• U.S. Department of Justice

• Bergmann & Moore

Alberto M. Benítez

• Citizen & Immigration Services

Professor of Clinical Law

• Clifford Chance (London)

Arturo Carrillo

• CNA Corporation

Professor of Clinical Law

• FEMA Law Associates

Laura A. Dickinson

• Fluet, Huber & Hoang

Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law

• Greenberg Traurig

Sean D. Murphy Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law

Todd D. Peterson Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law

Stephen A. Saltzburg Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law; Co-Director, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program

Joshua I. Schwartz E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law; Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program

• GW's Elliot School of International Affairs • Holland & Knight • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights • International Centre for Asset Recovery • Jenner & Block • Journal of National Security Law and Policy • MassPoint Legal and Strategy Advisory • Missile Defense Agency

Anita M. Singh

• National Security Agency

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Fundamentals of Lawyering

• National Security Counselors

Daniel J. Solove

• Red Branch Consulting

John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law

Ralph G. Steinhardt Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence

ADJUNCT FACULTY

• Raytheon • Repatriation Group International • Robertson & Anderson • U.S. Army

Edward T. Swaine

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor of Law

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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• U.S. Department of State • U.S. District Court • U.S. Immigration Court • U.S. Navy Office of the General Counsel

Full biographical information for our adjunct faculty members is available at www.law.gwu.edu/faculty.

GW Law’s Military Law Society and National Security Law Association hosted the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals for an oral argument. Four GW Law students submitted amicus briefs for both parties and appeared before sitting judges for the hearing.

Alum John Rizzo, former Acting General Counsel for the CIA, discusses his career at a recent event. He teaches a course on counterterrorism law at GW.

The Military Law Society regularly hosts a JAG Career Panel.

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Degrees for Non-Lawyers MASTER OF STUDIES IN LAW THE MASTER OF STUDIES IN LAW (MSL), designed for professionals who are not interested in earning a law degree or practicing law but who work in jobs where deeper knowledge of the law can augment career preparation or professional advancement, offers a rigorous but manageable curriculum. Students may build their 24-credit MSL program by choosing to focus in one of nine concentration areas. Graduates will be awarded the MSL degree, with a notation regarding their area of concentration.

To ensure maximum flexibility, the program can accommodate both full-time students interested in completing the degree in one year and part-time students who may wish to take one or two courses a semester or summer session, if relevant course work is offered. All enrolled students will take courses alongside JD and LLM students, thereby benefitting from the experience of faculty, budding legal professionals, and seasoned practitioners.

CONCENTRATION AREAS: Business and Finance

Government Procurement

Criminal Law and Procedure Cybersecurity

Government Procurement and Cybersecurity

Environmental and Energy Studies

Health Care

First Amendment Speech and Expression

Intellectual Property

General

For more detailed information about course offerings, please visit www.law.gwu.edu/msl.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Michael B. Abramowicz

Jeremy Bearer-Friend

Oppenheim Professor of Law

Associate Professor of Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law Intellectual Property Law

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law

EDUCATION BA, Amherst College JD, Yale University Professor Abramowicz specializes in law and economics, spanning areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, corporate law, administrative law, and insurance law. His research has been published in numerous law reviews. He also has published a book, Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making, with Yale University Press.

Martin J. Adelman Theodore and James Pedas Family Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law; Co-Director, Intellectual Property Law Program; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies

EDUCATION BA, Brown University MA, University of California at Berkeley JD, Stanford Law School Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend’s research views taxpaying as a civic act that shapes a citizen's relationship to government. His scholarship examines the omission of race and ethnicity from tax data collection and tax data analysis, the use of administrative discretion to shape the civic features of taxpaying, and the potential of elective in-kind contributions to government in lieu of, or in tandem with, cash payments. He also writes on the taxation of business entities. He regularly advises journalists, think tanks, presidential campaigns, and congressional staff on tax law.

Alberto M. Benítez Professor of Clinical Law

PROGRAMS Intellectual Property Law International and Comparative Law

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

EDUCATION BA, MS, JD, University of Michigan

EDUCATION BA, JD, State University of New York at Buffalo

Professor Adelman has written numerous law review articles on patent law, the economics of patent law, and patent-antitrust law. From 1977 to 1988, he was one of the co-authors and currently is the sole author of Patent Law Perspectives (Matthew Bender). He is a co-author of Cases and Materials on Patent Law (West Group, 1998, 2003).

Professor Benítez directs the Immigration Law Clinic and teaches the course in immigration law. He has taught at the law schools of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. As a visitor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he helped develop the school’s immigration clinic.

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Paul Schiff Berman

Robert Brauneis

Walter S. Cox Professor of Law

Michael J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Co-Director, Intellectual Property Law Program; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies; Member, Managing Board, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, Princeton University JD, New York University Professor Berman is the former Dean of GW Law and of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly journal articles, including Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence for Law Beyond Borders (Cambridge University Press, 2012). For the 2006–07 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Previously, he was the Jesse Root Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

EDUCATION BA, University of California, Santa Cruz JD, Harvard University

Francesca Bignami

Karen B. Brown

Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law

Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law International and Comparative Law

EDUCATION BA, Harvard University MSc, University of Oxford JD, Yale University Professor Bignami’s expertise is in the expanding field of European Union law. Her writings cover such topics as comparative privacy law, comparative administrative law, and rights and accountability in global governance.

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law

Professor Brauneis’s interests include property, copyright, trademark, and intellectual property theory. He is a member of the managing boards of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and the Creative and Innovative Economy Center. From 2007 to 2008, he served as president of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court.

EDUCATION BA, Princeton University JD, LLM, New York University Professor Brown has co-authored a book on international tax transactions, co-edited a book on tax reform, and written numerous articles and book chapters. In addition, she has delivered many presentations on federal taxation. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Fiscal Association.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Thomas J. Buergenthal

Steve Charnovitz

Lobingier Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence

Associate Professor of Law

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law Environmental and Energy Law International and Comparative Law

EDUCATION BA, Bethany College JD, New York University LLM, SJD, Harvard University

EDUCATION BA, JD, Yale University MPP, Harvard University

Professor Buergenthal joined the law school faculty in 1989. In 2000, he was elected to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where he served for a decade before returning to the law school in fall 2010. Considered one of the world’s leading international human rights experts, Professor Buergenthal was a Judge and President of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights as well as President of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank. He was a member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Truth Commission for El Salvador.

Before joining the GW Law faculty, Professor Charnovitz practiced law for six years at WilmerHale. Previously, he was the director of the Global Environment and Trade Study (GETS) at Yale University. He also has served as the policy director of the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council; a legislative assistant to the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (Wright and Foley); and an analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor, where his assignments included worker rights in U.S. trade negotiations, trade adjustment assistance, and technical cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

Arturo Carrillo

Donald C. Clarke

Professor of Clinical Law

David Weaver Research Professor of Law

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law International and Comparative Law

EDUCATION BA, Princeton University JD, George Washington University LLM, Columbia University

EDUCATION BA, Princeton University MSc, University of London JD, Harvard University

Professor Carrillo has directed the International Human Rights Clinic since 2005. He served as a senior advisor on human rights to the U.S. Agency on International Development in Colombia.

Professor Clarke, a specialist in Chinese law, joined the law school after teaching at the University of Washington School of Law and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, as well as practicing for three years at a major international firm with a large China practice. His recent research has focused on Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China’s economic reforms, and he has published extensively.

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Robert J. Cottrol

Lawrence A. Cunningham

Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law

Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor of Law; Director, GW Law in New York

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, PhD, Yale University JD, Georgetown University A specialist in American legal history, Professor Cottrol’s recent research contrasts the role of law in the development of systems of slavery and racial hierarchy in the United States and Latin America. He has lectured on American law at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and at the University of Buenos Aires and La Universidad del Museo Social in Argentina.

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law EDUCATION BA, University of Delaware JD, Yeshiva University Professor Cunningham teaches contracts, corporations, and law and accounting. He is the author of Introductory Accounting, Finance and Auditing for Lawyers (West, 5th ed., 2010); co-editor of Corporations and Other Business Organizations (LexisNexis, 7th ed., 2010); and, from 1993 to 2001, was co-editor of the treatise, Corbin on Contracts. His dozen books include The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Contracts in the Real World.

Charles B. Craver Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law

PROGRAM Litigation and Dispute Resolution EDUCATION BS, MILR, Cornell University JD, University of Michigan Professor Craver is co-author of Employment Law Treatise (vol. 2, 5th ed. 2014), Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Advocate’s Perspective (4th ed. 2011), Labor Relations Law (12th ed. 2011), Employment Discrimination Law (7th ed. 2011), Legal Employment Law Hornbook (4th ed. 2009), Negotiating (2007), and several other books in the field. He is the author of The Art of Negotiation in the Business World (2014), Effective Legal Negotiation and Settlement (7th ed. 2012), The Intelligent Negotiator (2002), and Can Unions Survive? (1993). Over the past 35 years, Professor Craver has taught negotiation skills to more than 90,000 lawyers throughout the world.

Laura A. Dickinson Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law

PROGRAMS Government Procurement Law International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law EDUCATION BA, Harvard University JD, Yale University Before joining GW Law, Professor Dickinson was the Foundation Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on human rights, national security, foreign affairs privatization, and qualitative empirical approaches to international law. Her monograph, Outsourcing War and Peace, was published by Yale University Press in 2011.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Lisa M. Fairfax

Theresa A. Gabaldon

Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law

Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law; Co-Director, Business and Finance Law Program; Director, Academic Programs and Administration, C-LEAF

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law EDUCATION BA, JD, Harvard University Professor Fairfax teaches courses in the business area including corporations, securities regulation, and seminars on securities law and corporate transactions. Her scholarly interests include corporate governance matters, shareholder activism, fiduciary obligations, securities fraud, and privatization and education. She is also a contributing author on a book focusing on the legal, social, and ethical implications of the Martha Stewart case and a permanent writer for the blog The Conglomerate.

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law EDUCATION BS, University of Arizona JD, Harvard University Before joining GW Law, Professor Gabaldon was a member of the law faculties of the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona. Before entering academia, she was an associate and then a partner with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix. Her areas of specialization are corporate and securities law, contract law, and professional responsibility. Her primary research interests are in the field of securities regulation.

David Fontana Samuel Tyler Research Professor

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, University of Virginia JD, Yale University Before joining GW Law, Professor Fontana clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is the author and co-author of papers on constitutional or comparative constitutional law that have been published by leading scholarly journals in law, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review. He writes about constitutional issues for a number of general interest publications, including most frequently The New Republic, and he has consulted with Congress, presidential campaigns, and foreign constitution-drafters on issues of constitutional law.

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Miriam Galston Associate Professor of Law

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law EDUCATION BA, Cornell University PhD, University of Chicago JD, Yale University Professor Galston has taught courses on corporations and other business relationships, state debtor and creditor rights and federal bankruptcy law, state and federal law of nonprofits, and jurisprudence. She has written articles and essays in book collections in the areas of legal theory, the history of legal ideas, and public policy issues affecting exempt organizations. She also has served for many years as co-chair of the Subcommittee on Political and Lobbying Activities of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association.

Robert L. Glicksman

Lin Harmon-Walker

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law

Interim Director, Environmental and Energy Law Program; Visiting Associate Professor of Law

PROGRAM Environmental and Energy Law EDUCATION BA, Union College MA, Harvard University JD, Cornell University Professor Glicksman is an internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law issues. His areas of expertise include environmental, natural resources, administrative, and property law. Before joining GW Law, he taught at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law in 1995. He is co-author of two law school casebooks, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen Publishers, 6th ed.) and Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press), as well as numerous chapters and articles.

Emily Hammond Jeffrey and Martha Kohn Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Glen Earl Weston Research Professor

PROGRAM Environmental and Energy Law EDUCATION BS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University JD, University of Georgia Professor Hammond is a nationally recognized expert in energy law, environmental law, and administrative law. A former environmental engineer, she brings technical fluency to issues at the intersection of law, science, and policy. She is a leading authority on nuclear energy, electricity markets, regulatory jurisdiction, and the various responses of legal institutions to scientific uncertainty. Her articles have appeared in numerous top-ranked journals, and she is a co-author of one of the nation’s leading energy law texts, Energy, Economics and the Environment. She has served as a hearing examiner for state administrative proceedings and has provided service to the International Atomic Energy Agency. She was recently honored as a Distinguished Young Environmental Scholar by the Stegner Center at the University of Utah.

PROGRAM Environmental and Energy Law EDUCATION BA, The College of Idaho JD, Lewis and Clark Law School Professor Harmon-Walker’s career has encompassed law practice, where she handled environmental insurance defense and coverage cases; nonprofit organization leadership as Executive Director of Friends of Trees, Oregon Mediation Association, and Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network; and academic management and teaching at top-ranked U.S. environmental law programs. Her international experience has included training Brazilian energy officials and judges in environmental dispute resolution, and soliciting partnerships and support for motions at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the UN Association and is co-author of Comparative and Global Environmental Law and Policy.

Susan R. Jones Professor of Clinical Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BA, Brandeis University MA, JD, Antioch School of Law Professor Jones is the supervising attorney of the Small Business and Community Economic Development Clinic. Before joining the Law School, she was a private civil and administrative law practitioner. She has held teaching positions at City University of New York Law School at Queens College, where she taught lawyering skills and clinical simulations and was the 2004 Haywood Burns Visiting Chair in Civil Rights, as well as at American University’s Washington College of Law and at Antioch School of Law.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Dmitry Karshtedt

William E. Kovacic

Associate Professor of Law

Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Director, Competition Law Center

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BA, Harvard University PhD, University of California at Berkeley JD, Stanford University Professor Karshtedt’s research focuses on patent law and his legal scholarship has appeared in numerous journals. Before going into law, Professor Karshtedt completed a PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley and worked as a staff scientist for a semiconductor materials startup. Following law school, he practiced in the Patent Counseling and Innovation Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and clerked for the Honorable Kimberly A. Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Later, he was a Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

F. Scott Kieff

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law Government Procurement Law International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, Princeton University JD, Columbia University Before joining GW Law, Professor Kovacic was a Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. Previously, he served as General Counsel for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and from 2006 to 2011, he served as an FTC Commissioner, including, for part of that time, as the Chairman of the Commission. He is a recognized expert in the fields of antitrust law and government contracts law. He has authored or co-authored numerous books and articles in the field. Since 1992, he has served as an advisor on antitrust and consumer protection issues to numerous foreign governments.

Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology JD, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kieff joined GW Law in 2009 after serving as a Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery. He is the Ray and Louis Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation and serves on Hoover’s Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force. In addition, he is a faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute. President Barack Obama nominated Professor Kieff as a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission in September 2012.

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Renée Lettow Lerner Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, Princeton University MLitt, University of Oxford JD, Yale University Professor Lerner joined the law school in 1997, after serving as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She later served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lerner’s interests, reflected in her writings, include English and U.S. legal history, civil and criminal procedure, and comparative law.

Jeffrey Manns

Sean D. Murphy

Professor of Law

Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

EDUCATION BA, University of Virginia DPhil, University of Oxford JD, Yale University Professor Manns’s teaching and research interests focus on securities regulation, financial institutions, and mergers and acquisitions law. As a law student, he served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and his note on terrorism reinsurance received the Israel H. Peres Prize for the best student publication in the Yale Law Journal. Before joining GW Law, he clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Willkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law in Washington, D.C., most recently with Latham & Watkins.

Dalia Tsuk Mitchell Professor of Law and History

EDUCATION BA, Catholic University JD, Columbia University LLM, University of Cambridge SJD, University of Virginia Before entering academia, Professor Murphy served as legal counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and in the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser. He recently co-authored a new edition of the first casebook in the field of foreign relations law, Foreign Relations Law and National Security, and is the author of Principles of International Law, as well as numerous articles on international law. He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission.

Dawn C. Nunziato William Wallace Kirkpatrick Research Professor

PROGRAM Business and Finance Law EDUCATION LLB, Tel Aviv University MPhil, Yale University LLM, SJD, Harvard University Professor Mitchell’s research focuses on the history of U.S. legal thought with particular emphasis on the role that groups and organizations played in legal scholars’ visions for the modern state. Her book, Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism, won the 2007 American Historical Association’s LittletonGriswold Prize for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society. She also is co-author of a casebook on corporate law.

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BA, MA, JD, University of Virginia Professor Nunziato is an internationally recognized expert in the area of free speech and the internet. Her primary teaching and scholarship interests are in the areas of internet law, intellectual property, and law and philosophy. Her articles have appeared in a variety of law reviews and journals. Her book Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age was published by Stanford University Press.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Scott B. Pagel

Richard J. Pierce, Jr.

Associate Dean for Information Services; Director of the Law Library; Professor of Law

Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law

PROGRAM Litigation and Dispute Resolution EDUCATION BA, Michigan State University MALS, University of Michigan JD, University of California at Berkeley Associate Dean Pagel has worked in academic law libraries since 1977. Before becoming Director of the Jacob Burns Law Library in 1993, he was Director of the law library and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He also has served as the Assistant Law Librarian at Columbia Law School and as the Public Services Librarian at Golden Gate University. He is active in the American Association of Law Libraries and has written articles on law library management issues, legal bibliography, labor law research, and immigration law research.

Todd D. Peterson

PROGRAMS Business and Finance Law Environmental and Energy Law EDUCATION BS, Lehigh University JD, University of Virginia Professor Pierce is the most frequently cited scholar in the country in the field of administrative law and government regulation. He is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and is the author or co-author of Administrative Law Treatise (5th ed., 2010) and Administrative Law and Process (5th ed., 2009), as well as numerous other books and over 120 articles on government regulation, regulatory economics, and the effects of various forms of government intervention on the performance of markets.

Peter Raven-Hansen Glen Earl Weston Research Professor Emeritus of Law

Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor

PROGRAM National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law EDUCATION BA, Brown University JD, University of Michigan Professor Peterson teaches civil procedure, federal courts, and separation of powers. He writes principally in the areas of separation of powers and the federal judicial system. He has served as a consultant to the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal and as co-chair of the D.C. Circuit Special Committee on Race and Ethnic Bias. Previously, he served as partner at the Washington, D.C., firm of Ross, Dixon & Masback, where he specialized in commercial litigation, and as an attorney adviser and later as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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PROGRAM International and Comparative Law EDUCATION BA, JD, Harvard University Professor Raven-Hansen teaches national security law, counterterrorism law, and civil procedure and evidence. He is a co-author of the casebooks National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law and also author of National Security Law and the Power of the Purse, and First Use of Nuclear Weapons, as well as various articles on national security law.

Alfreda Robinson

Joan E. Schaffner

Associate Dean for Trial Advocacy and Professorial Lecturer in Law; Co-Director, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program

Associate Professor of Law

PROGRAM Litigation and Dispute Resolution EDUCATION BA, MA, University of Chicago JD, George Washington University Before joining the law school administration in 1989, Associate Dean Robinson was in private practice. Before that, she served as a Senior Trial Counsel and Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, where she was in charge of litigation involving various commercial activities at the trial and appellate levels.

Stephen A. Saltzburg Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law; Co-Director, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law Litigation and Dispute Resolution National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law EDUCATION BA, Dickinson College JD, University of Pennsylvania Professor Saltzburg founded and began directing GW Law’s master’s program in litigation and dispute resolution in 1996. He has served as a Special Master in two classaction cases in the District of Columbia District Court and is currently a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BS, JD, University of Southern California MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Schaffner teaches Civil Procedure, Sexuality and the Law, Remedies, and Legislation and Regulation, and is Editor-in-Chief of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. Professor Schaffner’s current scholarship focuses on animal protection law. A prolific author of law review articles, Professor Schaffner is also the author of Introduction to Animals and the Law, co-author and editor of A Lawyer’s Guide to Dangerous Dog Issues and Litigating Animal Law Disputes: A Complete Guide for Lawyers, and several book chapters. Professor Schaffner has received numerous awards and was a 2017 Fellow to the American Bar Foundation.

Roger E. Schechter Professor of Law

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BA, George Washington University JD, Harvard University Professor Schechter teaches a variety of intellectual property courses, including copyright law and trademark law. He is a member of the advisory council of the McCarthy Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Law of the University of San Francisco and sits on the advisory board of Bloomberg BNA’s Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Lisa M. Schenck

Joshua I. Schwartz

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professorial Lecturer in Law; Co-Director, National Security Law Program

E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law; Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program

PROGRAM National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

PROGRAMS Government Procurement Law International and Comparative Law

EDUCATION BA, Providence College MPA, Fairleigh Dickinson University JD, University of Notre Dame JSD, LLM, Yale University LLM, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School Associate Dean Schenck joined the law school in 2009 after serving in the Army for more than 25 years. In 2002, she was appointed as a military judge on the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals and received the Judge Advocates Association Outstanding Career Armed Services Attorney Award (Army) the following year. In 2005, Dean Schenck was the first woman appointed as a Senior Judge on that court. She concurrently served as an Associate Judge on the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review. She retired in 2008 as a U.S. Army colonel and became the Senior Adviser to the Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault in the Military Services.

Steven L. Schooner

Professor Schwartz served for five years in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for briefing and arguing cases before the Supreme Court. In addition to his law degree, he holds a master’s degree in city and regional planning. He teaches in the fields of property, administrative law, government contracts, and legislation. He is serving a second term as a member of the Advisory Committee for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Dinah L. Shelton Manatt/Ahn Professor Emeritus of International Law

PROGRAM International and Comparative Law

Nash and Cibinic Professor of Government Procurement Law; Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program

EDUCATION BA, JD, University of California at Berkeley

PROGRAM Government Procurement Law International and Comparative Law

Much of Professor Shelton’s recent work has focused on the intersections between human rights and environmental law. She recently published (with co-author Don Anton) the book Environmental Protection and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press). She was the first woman nominated by the United States to become a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which was established by the Organization of American States to promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere. She was elected to a four-year term in June 2009.

EDUCATION BA, Rice University JD, College of William and Mary LLM, George Washington University Before joining the law school, Professor Schooner was the Associate Administrator for Procurement Law and Legislation at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget. He previously served as a trial and appellate attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also practiced with private law firms and, as an active duty Army judge advocate, served as a commissioner at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.

EDUCATION BA, Harvard University MRP, JD, Cornell University

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Anita M. Singh

Ralph G. Steinhardt

Associate Professor and Associate Director, Fundamentals of Lawyering

Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence

PROGRAM National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

EDUCATION BA, BS, Southern Methodist University JD, MA, University of Pennsylvania

EDUCATION BA, Bowdoin College JD, Harvard University

Before joining the GW Law faculty, Professor Singh was Chief of Staff and Counselor of the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she oversaw the operations of nearly 400 attorneys and other professionals responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks, and other national security threats. She began her public service as a career attorney in the Attorney General’s Honors Program, working in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and went on to hold positions in multiple DOJ leadership offices and at the National Security Council staff at the White House.

Professor Steinhardt pioneered the application of international human rights law in U.S. courts and has served as counsel to several high-profile individuals alleging violations of international human rights law. He is the author of the casebook International Civil Litigation, as well as a book on the Alien Tort Claims Act.

Sonia M. Suter The Kahan Family Research Professor of Law; Founding Director, Health Law Initiative

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law

Daniel J. Solove John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law

PROGRAMS Intellectual Property Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law EDUCATION BA, Washington University JD, Yale University Professor Solove is a leading authority on privacy. His writings include the casebook Information Privacy Law, as well as four other books on information privacy in the digital age. He is a frequent panelist and speaker on national security law–related subjects, including electronic surveillance and data mining.

EDUCATION BA, Michigan State University MS, JD, University of Michigan Professor Suter joined the Law School faculty in 1999 after holding a Greenwall Fellowship in bioethics and health policy at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins universities. Before attending law school, she earned a master’s degree and achieved PhD candidacy in human genetics. She then worked as a genetic counselor for two years. Her scholarship focuses on legal issues in medicine and genetics as well as bioethics.

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LLM PROGRAMS: FULL-TIME FACULTY AND DEANS Edward T. Swaine

Jessica Tillipman

Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor

Assistant Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies and Government Contracts Advisory Council Professorial Lecturer in Government Contracts Law, Practice, and Policy

PROGRAMS International and Comparative Law National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law EDUCATION BA, Harvard University JD, Yale University Before joining the law school faculty in 2006, Professor Swaine was an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He also previously served as the Counselor on International Law at the U.S. Department of State. He is co-author of a leading casebook on foreign relations and national security law.

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PROGRAM Government Procurement Law EDUCATION BS, Miami University JD, George Washington University Assistant Dean Tillipman previously managed the law school’s externship program, including the supervision of nearly 700 students per year. She also teaches an anticorruption seminar that focuses on corruption control issues in government procurement. Before joining GW Law, she was an associate in Jenner & Block’s Washington, D.C., office, where she was member of the firm’s Government Contracts and White Collar Criminal Defense and Counseling practice groups.

John M. Whealan

Christopher R. Yukins

Associate Dean for Intellectual Property Law Studies; Co-Director, Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Law Studies; Co-Director, Intellectual Property Law Program

Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law; Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program

PROGRAM Intellectual Property Law EDUCATION BS, Villanova University MS, Drexel University JD, Harvard University Before joining GW Law in 2008, Associate Dean Whealan worked at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he served as Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor since 2001. During his tenure, he argued approximately 30 cases before the Federal Circuit and, with his staff, was responsible for briefing and arguing more than 250 cases. He also assisted the U.S. Solicitor General on virtually every intellectual property case before the Supreme Court between 1999 and 2008. Associate Dean Whealan also served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 2007 to 2008.

PROGRAM Government Procurement Law EDUCATION BA, Harvard University JD, University of Virginia Professor Yukins has many years of experience in public procurement law. He was for several years a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled trials and appeals involving bid protests and contract claims against the U.S. government. He teaches courses on government contract formations and performance issues, bid protests, Contract Disputes Act litigation, and comparative issues in public procurement, and focuses especially on emerging public policy questions in U.S. procurement.

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