Speaker Biographies | Administrative Law Conference | December 8-9, 2016
Carlos F. Acosta, Inspector General, Prince George's County Police Department, Palmer Park, MD
Carlos F. Acosta currently serves in the Prince George’s County, Maryland Police
Department as the Inspector General. In that role Mr. Acosta functions as the
independent authority over the Internal Affairs Division, as well as being responsible for
investigating systemic or programmatic issues affecting the police department’s missions.
Immediately prior to this position, he worked at the United States Department of Justice
Criminal Division as the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and
Training (OPDAT) Mérida Program Manager. In that role he supported the Department of
Justice / Department of State mission of fighting organized crime via several programs, including
Prosecutorial Capacity Building, Strengthening Government of Mexico Law Enforcement Integrity
Systems, Certification of Forensic Laboratories, Extradition Training, Asset Forfeiture, Evidence
Preservation and Chain of Custody, and Pretrial Case Resolution.
Mr. Acosta has also served as the Deputy State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, Maryland. He was
directly responsible for the Homicide, Violent Crime, Gun, Felony Trial, Economic Crime and Grand Jury /
Screening Units, in addition to his administrative functions and trial work. Previously, Mr. Acosta was a
Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Gang Squad. Mr. Acosta
has also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in the
Organized Crime and Narcotics Trafficking Section. He began his prosecutorial career as a member of
the Montgomery County, Maryland Office of the State’s Attorney. Mr. Acosta, currently an adjunct
Associate Professor of Law, has been at the American University Washington College of Law since
1997. Mr. Acosta has served on the faculty of the National Advocacy Center (Columbia, SC). He has
been a lecturer both domestically and internationally for various Department of Justice agencies, as well
as for the Financial Action Task Force-Le Groupe d'Action Financière (FATF-GAFI) and the United
Nations Development Programme. Most recently, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and
Department of Justice, IG Acosta presented a week-long course in Kosovo on “Death Investigations” to
national police and prosecutors.
Mr. Acosta received both a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in English (Rhetoric) from the
University of Maryland. In 1991, he received his J.D. from the Southern Methodist University School of
Law in Dallas, Texas. He is licensed in the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
David J. Apol, General Counsel, U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Washington, DC
As General Counsel at the Office of Government Ethics, Mr. Apol is responsible for
interpreting ethics laws and regulations, providing guidance on ethics laws and
regulation, and recommending changes to ethics policy for the Executive Branch of the
United States Government.
Prior to his position as General Counsel at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE),
Mr. Apol served as the Chief Counsel for Administrative Law at the Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative, leading the administrative law program of a cabinet-level agency.
Before that, he served as an Associate General Counsel at OGE, where his accomplishments included
both working on ethics law reform in the United States and advising a foreign government on establishing
its own ethics laws at a critical time of political change. Prior to coming to OGE, Mr. Apol served as
Associate Counsel to the President, advising the President, the First Lady, and senior White House
officials on ethics issues and the Presidential nominee financial disclosure program. In that capacity, he
had the opportunity to work personally with ethics officials from almost every executive branch agency.
Mr. Apol was the Counsel for the Department of Labor’s Ethics Program from 1992 to 2000, where he
was charged with establishing and then managing a new Department-wide ethics program. He served as
a Counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee from 1987 to 1992 where he advised Senators and Senate
Staff and was involved in several high profile investigations. Prior to coming to Washington, Mr. Apol
served as a Judge Advocate General Officer in the U.S. Army where he was responsible for ethics,
administrative law, international law, and contract law for the Army’s Strategic Missile Defense Command.
He is a graduate of Wheaton College and the University of Michigan Law School
Alissa Ardito, Attorney-Advisor, Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)
Washington, DC
Alissa Ardito is an Attorney Advisor with the Administrative Conference of the United
States. Ms. Ardito was a lecturer and visiting fellow at Yale University in the Department
of Political Science. She has extensive experience in government service, having
previously worked as an attorney advisor at the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development. She has published articles on a variety of topics ranging from
political theory to free speech. Prior to government service, Ms. Ardito was a visiting
professor and post-doctoral fellow at Duke University in the Department of Political
Science. Ms. Ardito received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and J.D.
from the University of Virginia School of Law. Her book, Machiavelli and the Modern State, was recently
published by Cambridge University Press.
Edgar Asebey, Esq. Regulatory and Business Law
Pompano Beach, FL
Edgar J. Asebey is a regulatory and business attorney with extensive experience in
government regulation of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, food, dietary
supplement, and cosmetics companies. For over 20 years, he has counseled US and exUS clients on complex regulatory strategies and product approval matters and represents
clients before the Food & Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and Environmental Protection Agency. Early in his career,
Edgar worked as a patent and licensing advisor at the U.S. National Cancer Institute at
NIH and later founded and served as CEO of a drug discovery company specialized in
natural products drug discovery. Edgar holds a degree in molecular biology from The University of
Chicago and a law degree from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the Food & Drug
Law Institute (FDLI), the American Bar Association (ABA), BioFlorida, and the Dade County Bar
Association and a lifelong Cubs fan.
Aditya Bamzai, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
Charlottesville, VA
Aditya Bamzai’s primary teaching and research interests are in the fields of civil
procedure, administrative law, federal courts, national security law and computer
crime. He joined the University of Virginia School of Law’s faculty as an
associate professor in June 2016. His work has been published or is forthcoming
in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the George
Washington University Law Review and the Missouri Law Review, among other
journals.
Before entering the academy, Bamzai served as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the
U.S. Department of Justice, and as an appellate attorney in both private practice and for the National
Security Division of the Department of Justice. In the latter capacity, he argued a number of cases
relating to national security and the separation of powers before the federal courts of appeals. Earlier in
his career, he served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court and to
Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale University
and of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the editor-in-chief of the law review.
Kent Barnett, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, GA
Kent Barnett is an associate professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, where
he teaches administrative law, contracts, and consumer law. Focused on the separation
of powers and judicial review in the federal administrative state, his scholarship is
published or forthcoming in, among other places, the New York University Law Review,
Michigan Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Indiana Law
Journal, UC Davis Law Review, and North Carolina Law Review. Before coming to UGA,
he clerked for Judge John Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and
practiced law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in its complex commercial litigation and appellate groups. He
earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Centre College and his law degree summa
cum laude from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
Jack Beermann, Professor of Law, Boston University Law School
Boston, MA
Jack Beermann is a noted scholar in the area of civil rights litigation against state and local
governments and their officials. “Civil rights litigation is a very important part of our legal
system because it involves holding government officials accountable when they violate
constitutional and other important rights,” he says.
Professor Beermann has authored or co-authored four books on administrative law,
including a widely used casebook and the Emanuel Law Outline on the subject. “What
particularly fascinates me is studying the values underlying our public law system and how
social movements and history have affected those values,” he says.
His articles have appeared in prominent American journals such as the Stanford Law Review, UCLA Law
Review, Duke Law Journal and Boston University Law Review, and in foreign law journals including
Germany’s Rechtstheorie and China’s Administrative Law Review. Recent articles include “Congressional
Administration” in the San Diego Law Review and the “Constitutional Law of Presidential Transition” in the
North Carolina Law Review. In 1998, he co-authored an article that examined civil rights violations in the
popular television drama NYPD Blue and in 1993 he wrote “The Supreme Court’s Narrow View on Civil
Rights” for the prestigious Supreme Court Review.
Before joining the Boston University faculty in 1984, Professor Beermann clerked for Judge Richard
Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 2008, he was visiting professor
at Harvard Law School and in 1997, he was distinguished visiting professor at DePaul Law School. In
2004, 2005 and 2007, he taught at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and in 2002, he taught
at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He has lectured in Israel, Germany,
Australia, Morocco, Portugal and Canada. At BU, Professor Beermann currently teaches administrative
law, civil rights litigation, introduction to American law (for foreign LLM students) and local government
law.
Michael Bopp, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC
Michael Bopp is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher. He brings his extensive government and private-sector experience to
help clients navigate through the most difficult crises, often involving investigations
as well as public policy and media challenges. He is a member of the Firm's White
Collar Defense and Investigations and Crisis Management Practice Groups, where
he chairs the firm's Congressional Investigations Subgroup. He also chairs the
firm's Public Policy Practice Group and its Financial Markets Crisis Group, a multidisciplinary group formed to address client concerns stemming from the credit and
capital markets crisis. Mr. Bopp's practice focuses on congressional, internal corporate, and other
government investigations, public policy and regulatory consulting in a variety of fields, and managing and
responding to major crises involving multiple government agencies and branches.
Reeve Bull, Research Chief, Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS),
Washington, DC
Reeve T. Bull is the Research Chief of the Administrative Conference of the United
States. Mr. Bull has worked on projects related to international regulatory cooperation,
the use of science by administrative agencies, presidential review of agency rulemaking,
cost-benefit analysis, government contractor ethics, and e-rulemaking, amongst other
things. Mr. Bull has also served as an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University
Law School, teaching a course on Legislation and Statutory Interpretation. Mr. Bull is the
Co-Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section’s E-Rulemaking Committee, and he sits
on the Advisory Board of the Administrative Law Review. Mr. Bull has published
extensively on numerous topics in the fields of administrative law and regulation, including articles
appearing in the Administrative Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and Law and
Contemporary Problems.
Mr. Bull attended law school at Duke University, where he graduated with highest honors and was
inducted into the Order of the Coif. He was one of two recipients of the Willis Smith Award for compiling
the most outstanding academic record in the graduating class and the recipient of the James S. Bidlake
Memorial Award for achieving the highest grade in his first year legal writing section. Mr. Bull also served
as a Note Editor on the Duke Law Journal. Prior to law school, Mr. Bull attended the University of
Oklahoma, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in Chemistry and was inducted into
Phi Beta Kappa.
Ronald A. Cass, Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law;
President, Cass & Associates, PC;
Council, Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), Great Falls, VA
Ronald A. Cass has been the President of Cass & Associates since 2004. He is also
Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law where he served as Dean from 19902004. Cass was a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from 19761981 and at Boston University from 1981-2004. Outside of his professional activities, he
has also served as Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission (19881990), U.S. Representative to the World Bank Panel of Conciliators (2009-Present),
advisor to the American Law Institute, Chairman of the Federalist Society Practice Group
on Administrative Law, Past Chair of the American Bar Association Administrative Law
Section, and President of the American Law Deans Association. Cass received his B.A. with high
distinction from the University of Virginia and J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School
in 1973.
Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania Law School;
Director, Penn Program on Regulation, Philadelphia, PA
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political
Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he currently serves as the director
of the Penn Program on Regulation and has served as the law school’s Deputy
Dean for Academic Affairs. He specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory
processes, with an emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory
strategies and the role of public participation, negotiation, and business-government
relations in policy making. His most recent books include: Does Regulation Kill
Jobs?; Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation; Import
Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy; and Regulation and Regulatory Processes. Prior
to joining Penn Law, Coglianese spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F.
Kennedy School of Government. He also has taught as a visiting law professor at Stanford and
Vanderbilt, founded the Law & Society Association’s international collaborative research network on
regulatory governance, served as a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regulation &
Governance, and created and now advises the daily production of RegBlog.org. A co-chair of the
American Bar Association’s administrative law section committee on e-government and past co-chair of
its committee on rulemaking, he has led a National Science Foundation initiative on e-rulemaking, served
on the ABA’s task force on improving Regulations.Gov, and chaired a task force on transparency and
public participation in the regulatory process that offered a blueprint to the Obama Administration on open
government. He has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States,
Environment Canada, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.S.
Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Erica Dornburg, Associate/Consultant, The Regulatory Group, Inc., Arlington, VA
Heather Elliott, Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, AL
Heather Elliott is a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, where
she has taught and written in the areas of federal courts, civil procedure, and
environmental law since 2008. She was previously on the faculty at the Catholic
University of America, practiced in the appellate litigation group of law firm
WilmerHale, and served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She earned her B.A. from Duke University, her
M.Phil. in political science from Yale University, and her J.D. (Order of the Coif)
from the University of California Berkeley School of Law. Her work on standing doctrine has
been published in, among others, the Stanford Law Review, the Boston University Law Review,
and the Indiana Law Journal.
Ted Dean, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
Mr. Dean directs the Department of Commerce’s efforts to enhance the competitiveness
of the U.S. services industries, which account for approximately 80% of the private sector
economy of the United States. In that capacity he leads his division’s efforts to develop
trade policies, initiatives and programs aimed at ensuring the long term competitiveness
of the U.S. services industry. He also directs the analysis of trends affecting U.S.
businesses across the full services spectrum ranging from digital to finance, logistics
supply chain and professional services. Additionally, Mr. Dean works to ensure that U.S.
businesses have competitive access to export finance through the Department of
Commerce’s representation on the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
and the World Bank.
Mr. Dean has extensive international business experience, having run a consulting firm based in China
for over a decade and done business across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the Commerce
Department in November 2013, Mr. Dean was the President and Managing Director of BDA, a consulting
firm based in Beijing, China, where he advised companies and investors on their businesses in Asia. Mr.
Dean was also a founder of Americans Promoting Study Abroad, a former Chair of the American
Chamber of Commerce in China, and a former board member of the 100,000 Strong Foundation.
Mr. Dean received his BA from Yale College and his MBA from the University of Chicago. Born and
raised in Washington, DC, he currently resides in Chevy Chase, MD with his wife and two daughters.
Susan Dudley, Director, GW Regulatory Studies Center & Distinguished Professor of Practice,
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration, George Washington University,
Washington, DC
Susan Dudley is director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies
Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public
Policy and Public Administration.
She is vice president of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, a public member of the
Administrative Conference of the United States, on the board and the National
Federation of Independent Businesses Legal Center, and on the executive committee of
the Federalist Society Administrative Law Group.
Professor Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center, taught courses on
regulation at the George Mason University School of Law, served as a staff economist at OIRA, the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a consultant
to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated.
She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of
Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. Her book, Regulation: A Primer, with Jerry Brito, is available on Amazon.com.
Tyler Duvall, Partner, McKinsey & Co., Washington, DC
Tyler’s client work includes advising large capital project and infrastructure owners
and operators, including governments, on improving decision making, enhancing
the efficiency, and reducing the operating costs of infrastructure, as well as
undertaking strategic reviews of investment.
His recent projects include the following:
Assisting a major North American transit operator to reduce costs
Conducting asset due diligence for infrastructure investors
Advising a Latin American country on developing an economic-growth strategy with a major infrastructure
focus
Working with a Middle Eastern government to develop an aviation-policy framework
Tyler has also presented on transportation trends and issues to a variety of private-sector client
workshops, and speaks regularly on infrastructure and opportunities.
Before joining McKinsey, Tyler was Under Secretary (Acting) and Assistant Secretary for Transportation
Policy at the US Department for Transportation following his nomination by the President and
confirmation by the US Senate in 2006.
Before joining the US Department of Transportation, Tyler worked for Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan
Lovells) as a business and finance lawyer focused on mergers and acquisitions.
David Eagles. Director, Center for Presidential Transition, Partnership for Public Service, Washington,
DC
David Eagles joined the Washington, D.C. based Partnership for Public Service in 2015
as the Director of the Center for Presidential Transition leading the initiatives to assist the
presidential candidates and outgoing Administration in navigating and improving the
transition process, to promote presidential transition reforms with Congress, to develop
management recommendations for the next administration, and to train political
appointees to lead effectively.
David previously led strategic initiatives, operational transformations and major transitions
spanning the private, public and political sectors most recently serving as Vice President and Chief of
Staff to the CEO at Waste Management, the Fortune 200 firm. He was also a Vice President and
operating executive for multiple private equity owned portfolio companies, and a Senior Strategy and
Performance Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.
In the public sector, David was a leader for the Romney presidential transition team in 2012 and was
appointed in both the Bush and Obama Administrations as the Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development and as a Director for the Department of the Treasury’s financial stability efforts.
He has served at the senior executive service level and won the distinguished service award for his work
during the housing and financial crisis.
David received a MPP in Business and Government from Harvard University and a BS in Finance from
the University of Alabama.
Andrew Emery, Program Chair; President,The Regulatory Group, Inc.,
Arlington, VA
Andrew Emery is president of The Regulatory Group, Inc. Mr. Emery has
extensive experience working with agencies to develop regulations and guidance,
analyze public comments, conduct and review regulatory impact analyses,
perform regulatory research and develop rulemaking process documents. He has
also worked with national and international advisory groups chartered by Federal
agencies to address complex policy issues and recommend regulatory changes.
In addition, Mr. Emery is the primary instructor of more than 10 classes on the
regulatory process, regulatory drafting and compliance with regulatory analysis
requirements. He is active in the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and
Regulatory Practice, where he participates on the section’s Rulemaking and E-Rulemaking committees,
presents at the section’s conferences and institutes, and writes articles on agency rulemaking. For the
past three years Mr. Emery has been a co-Chair of the ABA's Administrative Law Conference held in
Washington, DC.
Timothy R. Epp, Assistant General Counsel, International Environmental Law, Office of General
Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, DC
Jill Family, Commonwealth Professor of Law and Government;
Director, Law and Government Institute, Widener University Commonwealth Law School,
Harrisburg, PA
Jill E. Family is Commonwealth Professor of Law and Government at Widener
University Commonwealth Law School and is Director of Widener’s Law and
Government Institute. At Widener, Professor Family teaches Immigration Law,
Introduction to Immigration Law Practice, Administrative Law and Civil Procedure. She
has a longstanding interest in government law that influences her teaching and her
scholarship. She holds a joint degree in public policy (MS) and law (J.D. high honors)
from Rutgers University, and a degree in history (cum laude) from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Professor Family is known internationally for her work exploring the links between immigration law and
administrative law. In addition to many US law journals, she has published in British and Spanish law
journals. She was a Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary School of Law in London.
Additionally, Professor Family served as a member of the governing council of the American Bar
Association’s Administrative Law Section. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and she was
the 2010 Fellow of the National Administrative Law Judiciary Foundation. She testified before a US
Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on issues at the intersection of administrative law and
immigration law.
Michael Fitzpatrick, Head of Regulatory Advocacy, Global Law & Policy, General Electric, Washington,
DC
Michael A. Fitzpatrick currently serves as Senior Counsel and Head of Regulatory
Advocacy for General Electric Company. He previously served as the Associate
Administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, where he helped lead the development of regulatory policy and
White House review of significant Executive Branch regulatory actions. He served as the
Executive Branch liaison to the ABA’s Administrative Law Section and has led several
U.S. delegations abroad for meetings with the European Union and Canada.
During the Presidential Transition, Fitzpatrick served as deputy lead of the Executive Office of the
President and Government Operations Agency Review Teams. From 2001 to 2009, Fitzpatrick was in the
Washington, D.C. office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he was a partner in the Litigation
Practice Group, specializing in white collar, complex civil, and regulatory matters. Before joining Akin
Gump, Fitzpatrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., and as a Senior
Advisor to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of
Management and Budget.
Fitzpatrick clerked for Judge William Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after
graduating from Stanford Law School.
Mark Freeman, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Washington, DC
Mark R. Freeman is supervising attorney with the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division at the U.S.
Department of Justice. Mr. Freeman has personally argued more than 60 appeals on behalf of the
government, including matters in all thirteen federal courts of appeals as well as the Supreme Court. His
cases have involved a wide array of subject matters, including many first-impression questions of
administrative and constitutional law. Mr. Freeman also supervises all civil intellectual property-related
appeals in which the United States or a federal agency is involved, including challenges to the Patent and
Trademark Office’s implementation of the America Invents Act.
Mr. Freeman joined the Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program after
serving as a law clerk for the Hon. Sandra Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the
Harvard Law Review. He lives with his wife and daughters in Arlington, Virginia.
William Funk, Lewis & Clark Distinguished Professor of Law,
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR
William Funk is the Lewis & Clark Distinguished Professor of Law, where he has taught
for 33 years. Prior to teaching, Professor Funk served as an Assistant General Counsel
in the Department of Energy, Legislative Counsel for the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the
Department of Justice. He is a former chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, a former chair of the Administrative Law
Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a current member of the
American Law Institute. In addition to numerous articles on administrative law in law
journals, Professor Funk is co-author of Administrative Procedure and Practice, 5th ed. (2014);
Administrative Law, Examples and Explanations, 5th ed. (2016); and the Federal Administrative
Procedure Sourcebook, 5th ed. (2016). He has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference
of the United States and has taught in Federal Judicial Center programs. Professor Funk is a graduate of
Columbia Law School and Harvard College.
James Gerkis, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY
James Gerkis is a partner in the Corporate Department with extensive experience in
sophisticated U.S. and global corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions,
venture capital, private equity, leveraged buy-out, capital markets, media and real
estate-related transactions.
Clients James has represented include iHeartMedia, KPS Capital Partners, Monomoy
Capital Partners, AR Capital, Realty Capital Securities, aSmallWorld Holdings, So
Front Row, Preferred Apartment Communities, Lightstone Group, Neuberger Berman,
Gas City, Suburban Propane Partners, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, Oxford Analytica and L-3
Communications.
James received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1983, where he was a Harlan
Fiske Stone Scholar and a Teaching Fellow. He did his undergraduate work at Columbia College, where
(having been admitted without finishing high school) he received a BA degree in Political Science in 1980.
James has made presentations relating to securities law and homeland security at several American Bar
Association conferences and is the author of many articles on various aspects of securities law,
homeland security and related subjects.
James Goodwin, Senior Policy Analyst,
Center for Progressive Reform, Washington, DC
James Goodwin, J.D., M.P.P., is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Center for
Progressive Reform. He joined CPR in May of 2008. Mr. Goodwin’s work at CPR
focuses on a wide variety of administrative law and regulatory policy issues,
including the rulemaking process, regulatory design, and cost-benefit analysis. He is
a published author with articles on human rights and environmental law and policy.
Mr. Goodwin graduated from Kalamazoo College, where he received a B.A. in
Political Science. He received his law degree from the University of Maryland
School of Law and his master’s degree in public policy from the University of
Maryland School of Public Policy.
Jamie Gorelick, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Washington, DC
As one of Washington's best-known litigators, Ms. Gorelick has represented
corporations and individuals in a wide array of matters, particularly in regulatory and
enforcement arenas. She leads WilmerHale's regulatory practices. Ms. Gorelick has
participated in transitions starting in the Carter Administration.
Ms. Gorelick was one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United
States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. She also served as
General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Earlier in her career, Ms. Gorelick was
Vice Chair of the Task Force on the Audit, Inspection and Investigation Components of the Department of
Defense. She was also Assistant to the Secretary and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy.
Ms. Gorelick has served on numerous government boards and commissions. She is currently a member
of the Defense Policy Board at the US Department of Defense. Previously, Ms. Gorelick was a member of
the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the "9111 Commission").
She also was a member of the CIA's National Security Advisory Panel, President George W. Bush's
Review of Intelligence Committee, and she co-chaired President Clinton's Advisory Committee to the
Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Ms. Gorelick is a member of the boards of Amazon.com and Verisign. She is a member of the Trilateral
Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She chairs the Board of the Urban Institute.
Robert Gordon, Senior Vice President, Finance and Strategy,
The College Board, Reston, VA
Robert Gordon leads strategy, finance and international efforts for the
College Board, working to ensure that our programs and investments
enable more students to achieve college and career success.
Robert has an extensive background in education and budgeting. He joins
the College Board from the U.S. Department of Education, where he served
as acting assistant secretary at the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and
Policy Development. Previously he served as acting deputy director at the
U.S. Office of Management and Budget, leading the agency’s work on the use of evidence and evaluation
in education and other fields. He held a key role at the New York City Department of Education,
orchestrating an overhaul of the city’s method of funding schools.
Robert has served as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, a law guardian at the Juvenile Rights
Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Robert earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University. He has two
children.
R. Juge Gregg, Trial Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division,
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC
R. Juge Gregg is an attorney in the Law and Policy Section of the Environment and
Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, where his work encompasses
a range of ethics, environmental, natural resources, international environmental, and
Indian law issues. Previously, he was an attorney in private practice in Sidley Austin’s
environmental group. Before joining Sidley, he was Senior Campaigner for the
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a nongovernmental organization that
investigates international environmental crime, where he oversaw EIA’s U.S.-based work
on illegal logging and the illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances. He also practiced
environmental law in Portland, Oregon for Perkins Coie. He teaches an annual course on international
environmental law at Stanford University’s Washington, D.C. program.
He Haibo, Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law; Beijing;
China Visiting Scholar, Program on East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Professor at Tsinghua University School of Law. His major field is Constitutional and
Administrative Law. Master of Law and Ph.D. in Law (Peking University, 1998 & 2001),
Master of Jurisprudence (University of Durham, 2004). A visiting scholar at Yale Law
School China Law Center (2007-08) and currently visiting scholar at Harvard Law
School East Asian Legal Studies Program.
His work, among other books, includes Administrative Litigation Law, which had a new
edition in 2016. His English articles include: “The Dawn of the Due Process Principle in
China,” Columbia Journal of Asian Law (2008); “Litigations without a Ruling: The Predicaments of
Administrative Law in China,” Tsinghua China Law Review (2011); “Why should Custody and Education
be Abolished?” Peking University Law Journal (2016).
While a doctoral student at Peking University, he represented a student suing the University, which
helped to push the door open for the “Student v. School” litigations in China and boosted the application
of due process principle in the court rulings. He also played an active role in the process of the
Administrative Litigation Law amendment in 2013-14.
Emily Hammond, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School,
Washington, DC
Emily Hammond is a nationally recognized expert in energy law, environmental law, and
administrative law. A former environmental engineer, she brings technical fluency to
cutting-edge issues at the intersection of law, science, and policy. Professor Hammond 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, including the Columbia Law Review, the Duke Law
Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. She is a co-author of
one of the nation’s leading energy law texts, Energy, Economics and the Environment, and
the environmental law text, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy, in addition to numerous book
chapters and shorter works.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Hammond is also chair-elect of the
Association of American Law Schools’ Administrative Law Section and a member scholar of the Center
for Progressive Reform. 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, University of Utah.
Prior to joining the GW law faculty, Professor Hammond served on the faculties at Wake Forest University
and the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she won numerous teaching awards and served
as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Director of the Law Center. She has visited at the
University of Texas, Florida State University, and the University of Georgia. Before entering academia,
Professor Hammond practiced with law with Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, and
clerked for Judge Richard W. Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Sean Heather, Vice President, Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
Sean Heather is vice president of the U.S. Chamber’s Center for Global Regulatory
Cooperation (GRC), which seeks to align trade, regulatory, and competition policy in
support of open and competitive markets. He is also executive director of both
international policy and antitrust policy. Heather has held a variety of positions during his
17 years at the Chamber, including chief of staff of the Congressional and Public Affairs
Division. In addition, he was part of the Chamber’s regional team, heading its Chicago
office.
During his career at the Chamber, Heather has worked on a number of diverse issues such as
international trade and investment, state capitalism, standards, antitrust, tax, labor, health care,
environment, energy, transportation, homeland security, immigration, technology, and corporate
governance.
Before joining the Chamber, Heather worked for the Illinois comptroller and with several political
campaigns across the state. He holds an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. from the University of
Illinois.
Mark Heuerman, Registration Chief Cousel, Division of Securities, Ohio Department of Commerce,
Columbus, OH
Mark Heuerman is the Registration Chief Counsel for the Ohio Division of Securities, and has been an
attorney with the Division for twenty-eight years. Mr. Heuerman reviews applications for registration by
description, qualification, and coordination. He also reviews exemption filings and responds to inquiries
on all registration and exemption matters. Mr. Heuerman represents the Division on the North American
Securities Administrators Association (“NASAA”) Corporation Finance Section Committee, and as Chair
of the Direct Participation Programs Policy Project Group. He has previously served on the NASAA Small
Business Capital Formation Committee, Registration and Exemption Project Group, Internet Enforcement
Task Force, and Disclosure Reform Task Force. He is also the Chair of the Division’s Registration and
Exemption Advisory Committee. Mr. Heuerman completed his undergraduate studies at Capital
University and earned his law degree and Master of Business Administration in finance from the
University of Toledo.
Lisa Heinzerling, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor of Law,
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor of Law at the Georgetown
University Law Center. She specializes in administrative law, environmental law, and food
law. She has published several books, including a critique of the use of cost-benefit
analysis in environmental policy, and many articles and book chapters. Peer
environmental law professors have four times voted her work among the top ten articles of
the year. Professor Heinzerling has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and
Yale Law School. She is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United
States and the chair of the board of directors of the Center for Science in the Public
Interest. From January 2009 to December 2010, Heinzerling served as a political appointee in the
Environmental Protection Agency, first as climate counsel to the EPA administrator and then as Associate
Administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy. Professor Heinzerling was lead author of the winning briefs in
Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to
regulate greenhouse gases.
Kristin Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor;
Harlan Albert Rogers Professor of Law; Associate Director, Corporate Institute,
University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN
Professor Kristin Hickman is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Harlan Albert
Rogers Professor of Law, and Associate Director of the Corporate Institute at the
University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Hickman teaches and writes in the areas
of tax law, administrative law, and statutory interpretation. Professor Hickman has written
extensively on issues of federal tax administration and judicial review in the federal
income tax and general administrative law contexts. She co-authors the Administrative
Law Treatise and a casebook on federal administrative law with Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
Her work has been cited twice in opinions of the United States Supreme Court and is
cited regularly in judicial opinions and court briefs. Before joining the academy, Professor Hickman
practiced tax law with the Skadden, Arps law firm and clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before law school, she practiced for
several years as a certified public accountant handling a variety of tax matters.
Jamie Horsley, Visiting Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution;
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Jamie Horsley is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow of the
Paul Tsai China Center, with which she has been affiliated for 15 years. Her project work
and research revolve primarily around issues of administrative law, governance and
regulatory reform, including promoting government transparency, public participation and
government accountability. She was formerly Executive Director of the Yale China Law
Center. Prior to joining Yale, she was a partner in the international law firm of Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Commercial Attaché in the U.S. Embassies in Beijing
and Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc.; and a consultant to The Carter
Center’s China Village Elections Project. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in Chinese
Studies from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Diploma in Chinese Law
from the University of East Asia. She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars for 2015-16, and is currently also a Visiting Fellow at The Brooking Institution’s John L. Thornton
China Center.
Linda Jellum, Visiting Professor of Law, Tulane Law School; Ellison Capers Palmer Sr. Professor of Law,
Mercer University School of Law, Macon, GA
Linda Jellum is the Ellison C. Palmer Professor of Tax. She teaches Tax Courses,
Administrative Law, and Statutory Interpretation. In addition to teaching, Professor
Jellum is a prolific scholar and has written extensively in the areas of Tax Law,
Administrative Law, and Statutory Interpretation. Her numerous articles have appeared
in top law journals, such as the Miami Law Review, the Virginia Tax Review, the UCLA
Law Review, and the Ohio State Law Journal. She has also authored multiple books
and book chapters on statutory interpretation.
Professor Jellum has been a leader in legal education. She is currently the Deputy Executive Director for
the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. Formerly, she served as the Deputy Director for the
Association of American Law Schools, and she is currently an officer for the American Bar Association
Section’s on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Before joining the faculty, Professor Jellum worked for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
While there, she served as lead attorney for the Department of Social and Health Services. Prior to
working as an assistant attorney general, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul Yesawich.
Professor Jellum received her J.D. from Cornell Law School and her undergraduate degree from Cornell
University. She has the unique honor of having sat for and passed five states’ bar exams.
William Jordan, C. Blake McDowell Professor of Law,
University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH
William S. Jordan, III is C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Professor of Law at The University of
Akron School of Law, where he teaches Administrative Law after practicing for eleven
years in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his J.D.,
cum laude, from the University of Michigan. He has served on the Council of the Section
of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association and as
Chair of the Judicial Review Committee. He is currently Chair of the Section's
Publications Committee and a contributing editor to Administrative and Regulatory Law
News. He is a co-editor, with Richard Murphy and Louis Virelli, of Charles Koch’s
Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (7th Ed.), published by Lexis-Nexis.
Judy Kaleta, Deputy General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Washington, DC
Judith S. Kaleta is the Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT). In that role, she provides advice to the Secretary of
Transportation and his leadership team and also serves as the Designated Agency
Ethics Official, Chief FOIA Officer, and the Dispute Resolution Specialist. Ms.
Kaleta has served as Assistant General Counsel for General Law, the Chief
Counsel of the Research and Special Programs Administration, Acting Chief
Counsel of the Federal Transit Administration, Special Assistant to the Chief
Counsel of the Federal Highway Administration, and staff attorney in the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Before joining DOT, Ms. Kaleta was an Assistant Attorney
General in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division. Ms. Kaleta has been
an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution.
She co-authored an article about the American Bar Association Standards for the Establishment and
Operation of Ombuds Offices, an article on agency review of regulations, and "The Caring Lawyer," an
article which encourages an approach to client interviewing based on the mediation process. A Chicago
native, Ms. Kaleta is a summa cum laude graduate of De Paul University and Loyola University of
Chicago School of Law.
Roberta Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
New York, NY
Roberta S. Karmel is Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Dennis J. Block
Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn Law School. She was
engaged in the private practice of law in New York City for over thirty years. She was a
Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977-80, a public director
of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. from 1983-89, and a member of the National
Adjudicatory Council of the NASDR from 1998-2001.
Professor Karmel is Chair Emerita of the Board of Trustees of the Practising Law Institute.
She is a Continuing Advisor to the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association and was a
member of the ABA Presidential Task Force on Financial Markets Regulatory Reform. She is a member
of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and on the Boards of Advisors of
Securities Regulation and Law Report and The Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation. She
was a Fulbright Scholar in 1991-92.
Professor Karmel is the author of over 50 articles in books and legal journals, and writes a regular column
on securities regulation for the New York Law Journal. She is a frequent lecturer on financial regulation.
Her book entitled Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Corporate
America was published by Simon and Schuster in 1982. Her book Life at the Center: Reflections on Fifty
Years of Securities Regulation was published by PLI in 2014.
Kristine Kassekert, Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School;
Associate Counsel for Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA
Ms. Kassekert is serving her second term as the Section of Public Contract Law
liaison to the Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division Council. Ms.
Kassekert currently serves as Associate Counsel for Marine Corps Systems
Command in Quantico, VA. She previously served as Senior Counsel for Dell
Services Federal Government, and as an Attorney in the Procurement, Fiscal &
Information Law Branch, General Law Division, at the Office of the General Counsel
at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. She
also serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University
Law School, where she earned an Award for Dedication in Teaching. Ms. Kassekert earned a Masters in
Laws (LL.M.) in Government Procurement as well as her J.D. at The George Washington University Law
School. She also holds a Masters degree in Russian and East European Studies from the Elliott School
of International Affairs at The George Washington University with concentrations in security studies and
transitional economics.
Dr. Martha Joynt Kumar, Director, White House Transition Director, Washington, DC
Dr. Martha Joynt Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at
Towson University. As a scholar with a research focus on the White House, she is
interested in presidential – press relations, White House communications operations,
and presidential transitions. Her most recent book, Managing the President’s
Message: The White House Communication Operation, won a 2008 Richard E.
Neustadt Award from the presidency section of the American Political Science
Association. Her previous books include White House World: Transitions,
Organization, and Office Operations and Portraying the President: The White House
and the News Media with Michael Grossman. Managing the President’s Message is coming out in April
2010 in a paperback edition with a postscript comparison of the communications operations of Presidents
Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Her most recent publication is “The 2008-2009 Transition
Through the Voices of the Participants,” which is in the December 2009 issue of Presidential Studies
Quarterly.
She is director of the White House Transition Project, which is a nonpartisan effort by presidency scholars
to provide information on presidential transitions and White House operations to those who came into the
White House in January 2009 as the group did in 2001. She worked with the transition operations of
presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and with the team representing President
George W. Bush. In the fall of 2008, she testified on effective practices for presidential transitions before
the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management,
Organization, and Procurement hearing: "Passing the Baton: Preparing for the Presidential Transition."
The project builds on the earlier White House 2001 Project, which was designed to build an institutional
memory for seven White House offices in order to provide the information to new staff coming into the
selected positions in 2001. The White House 2001 Project was funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and
was associated with the Transition to Governing Project of the American Enterprise Institute.
Professor Kumar has received grants from the Ford Foundation as well as The Pew Charitable Trusts. In
1998 she was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press Politics at the Kennedy School at
Harvard University. Professor Kumar was named by the University System of Maryland to be a Wilson H.
Elkins Professor for 2003-2004 and again for 2005-2006 to support her work on presidential
communications and to fund an interactive course she has taught each spring beginning in 2004: “White
House Communications Operations.” She interviews White House officials and reporters in Washington
with her students back at Towson hooked in through an Internet connection.
Kumar grew up in the Washington area and went to Connecticut College for her BA in government and
then an MA and a PhD in political science from Columbia University. In between her masters and doctoral
degrees, she taught at Tennessee State University in Nashville and worked as a researcher in the
Election Unit of the News Department at NBC. In 2008, she was elected as a fellow of the National
Academy of Public Administration. In addition to her scholarly work, Kumar is currently on the board of
directors and the executive committee of the White House Historical Association, the board of the
National Coalition for History, and serves as the representative to the National Archives for the American
Political Science Association. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Renée M. Landers, Section Chair, Professor of Law and Director Health Law Concentration,
Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA
Renée is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston and is the
Faculty Director of the school’s Health and Biomedical Law Concentration. She
teaches administrative law, constitutional law, and health law. She is a graduate
of Radcliffe College and the Boston College Law School and has served as
President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. She worked in private practice
and served as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of
Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Justice during the Clinton
Administration. She previously served on the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct, of which
she was vice chair from April 2009 until October 2010, and served on the task force that drafted the
revised Code of Judicial Conduct effective in 2016. Currently, she is a member of the Committee on
Judicial Ethics. In addition, she was a member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s committees studying
gender bias and racial and ethnic bias in the courts. Renée was president of the Boston Bar Association
in 2003-2004, the first woman of color and the first law professor to serve in that position. Renée is just
concluding a term as Chair Elect (2015-2016), and previously served as Vice Chair (2014-2015) and a
three year stint as Secretary of the Section (2011-2014). She has also served as a council member
(2000-2003), Nominating Committee member (2003-2004), Membership Committee chair (2004-2006),
and vice chair of the Health and Human Services Committee (1998-2000), and is a frequent speaker at
Section programs.
Jeffrey Lubbers, Professor of Practice in Administrative Law, American University,
Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
Jeffrey S. Lubbers was appointed Professor of the Practice of Administrative Law at
American University’s Washington College of Law in 2009, after being a Fellow in Law
and Government since 1996. He specializes in Administrative Law and related courses.
He has also taught at numerous other schools in the U.S. and overseas. He has served
as a consultant to numerous federal agencies, the ABA, the World Bank, USAID, OECD
and has made numerous trips to China to promote administrative law reform on behalf
of the Asia Foundation, and the Yale University China Law Center. He has an A.B.
degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School,
and is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Prior to joining American University, he served in various positions with the Administrative Conference of
the United States (ACUS), the U.S. Government’s advisory agency on procedural improvements in
federal programs until its closure by the 104th Congress in 1995. From 1982-1995 he was ACUS’
Research Director—a position in the Senior Executive Service. (ACUS reopened in 2010 and he was
appointed a Special Counsel, and is currently serving as Acting Research Director.) He served as Team
Leader for Vice President Gore’s National Performance Review team on Improving Regulatory Systems
in 1993. He is the author of the ABA’s Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking (5th ed. 2012), has coauthored the Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (5th ed. 2016), and served as the editor for the ABA’s
annual Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (16 volumes from 1998-2014).
Melanie Lubin, Securities Commissioner, State of Maryland Division of Securities
Balttimore, MD
Melanie Senter Lubin was appointed by the Maryland Attorney General as the Maryland Securities
Commissioner for the Securities Division, Office of the Attorney General. Before becoming Commissioner,
Ms. Lubin served as the Deputy Securities Commissioner and as an Assistant Attorney General and
Chief of both the Investment Adviser/Broker-Dealer and Securities Registration Units. Ms. Lubin is
beginning her fourth term as a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Securities
Administrators Association (NASAA) and also served as NASAA’s Treasurer. She serves as the state
securities representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Ms. Lubin is the current
chair of NASAA’s Central Registration Depository/Investment Adviser Registration Database (IARD)
Steering Committee, and is a member of NASAA’s Expungement Policy Task Force, its Senior
Issues/Diminished Capacity committee, and its Federal Legislation, Electronic Filing Depository, and
Technology project groups. Because of her focus on the regulation of financial professionals, Ms. Lubin
chaired NASAA’s Dodd-Frank Investment Adviser Switch project and has served the organization in
numerous other capacities including chair of the Investment Adviser Section. Ms. Lubin was the first
recipient of NASAA’s Investment Adviser Distinguished Service Award and has received NASAA’s Blue
Sky Cube, the top honor that the association awards.
Katie Jo Luningham, Attorney, Husch & Blackwell LLP, Kansas City, MO
Katie Jo Luningham is an attorney at Husch Blackwell LLP in Kansas City, focusing
exclusively on representing institutions of higher education. A member of Husch
Blackwell’s Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education group, she serves both the private
and public sector in compliance and governance issues. Katie Jo advises college and
university clients on compliance, governance and operations issues confronted in
postsecondary education environments, including issues related to Title IX gender
equity in athletics, pregnancy discrimination, sexual misconduct, the Clery Act, students,
risk management, and policy writing. Katie Jo regularly performs in-depth compliance
audits, policy reviews and training; she also participates in litigation and works on U.S. Department of
Education matters, including program reviews, on behalf of education clients. Katie Jo is a member of the
Missouri Bar and the National Association of College and University Attorneys.
Katie Jo has a B.A. from Baylor University, and a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School. While at Notre
Dame Law School, Katie Jo was also one of ten law students selected as a 2015 Burton Distinguished
Legal Writing Award Winner, one of the most prestigious national awards for student legal writing. She
received the award for her article titled Resisting Rulemaking: Challenging the Montana Settlement’s Title
IX Sexual Harassment Blueprint, which was published in the Notre Dame Law Review and examined the
application of administrative law arguments to sub-regulatory Title IX guidance issued by the Department
of Education.
Neysun Mahboubi, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Contemporary China,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of
Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Lecturer in Law at
Penn Law School. His primary academic interests are in the areas of administrative law,
comparative law, and Chinese law, and his current writing focuses on the development
of modern Chinese administrative law. He is co-chair of the international committee of
the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, has advised both the
Asia Foundation and the Administrative Conference of the United States on Chinese
administrative procedure reform, and moderates the Comparative Administrative Law
Listserv hosted by Yale Law School. Occasionally, he comments on Chinese legal developments for
CCTV America. He also has taught at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, the University of
Connecticut School of Law, and Yale Law School. Previously, he served as a trial attorney in the Civil
Division (Federal Programs Branch) of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a law clerk to Judge
Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. from
Columbia Law School and an A.B. (Politics and East Asian Studies) from Princeton University.
Gwenann Manseau, Senior Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
Gwenann Manseau is Senior Attorney in the Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce
(OCCIC) at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her principal area of practice is international trade law,
with particular focus on standards. Gwen is the lead attorney for the International Trade Administration
(ITA) on standards and technical regulations, and in 2009-10 was the lead negotiator for the U.S.
government in the development of ISO 26000 on Social Responsibility. She also provides general
guidance to ITA on other aspects of social responsibility including the OECD Guidelines for Multinational
Enterprises, environmental law including climate change issues, preference programs, export financing,
Middle East issues, and litigation involving international human rights law and the Alien Tort Statute, and
other trade-related legal matters. She has participated in several trade and international agreement
negotiations, including Free Trade Agreements and World Trade Organization (WTO) cases, specifically
concerning international standards and environment issues. Before becoming an attorney, Gwen worked
in academic publishing as a philosophy editor, and in several start-up internet companies. Gwen received
her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2005. She graduated cum laude from Princeton
University in 1996 with an AB degree in comparative literature.
Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC ‘
Carmel Martin is the Executive Vice President for Policy at American Progress. She
manages policy across issue areas and is a key member of CAP’s executive team.
Before joining American Progress, Martin was the assistant secretary for planning,
evaluation, and policy development at the Department of Education. In this position, she
led the Department’s policy and budget development activities and served as a senior
advisor to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Prior to coming to the Department of Education, Martin served as general counsel and
deputy staff director for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) as chairman of the Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee. She also previously worked at American Progress as the Associate
Director for Domestic Policy, and in the Senate as chief counsel and senior policy adviser to former Sen.
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and special counsel to former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD). Through her years in
Congress, she worked on legislation related to education, welfare, health care, and other issues of
national importance.
Early in Martin’s career, she worked as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the Educational
Opportunities Section at the Department of Justice, as well as in the private sector as a member of Hogan
& Hartson’s education practice. There she counseled and represented school districts and institutions of
higher education across the country. She graduated with a J.D. from the University of Texas School of
Law and a master’s degree in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. After
graduate school, Martin was a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas M. Reavley, judge in the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Martin has appeared on PBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox. She has been cited in publications including The New
York Times and The Washington Post. She was also named one of the five women who shape education
policy by the National Journal in 2014 and has testified as an expert witness in front of legislative
committees.
Jonathan Masur, John P. Wilson Professor of Law, David and Celia Hilliard Research Scholar,
Director of the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Program in Behavioral Law, Finance and Economics,
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
Jonathan Masur received a BS in physics and an AB in political science from Stanford
University in 1999 and his JD from Harvard Law School in 2003. After graduating from law
school, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit and for Chief Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California. He taught at the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and
Lecturer in Law before joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2007. Masur
received tenure in 2012. He served as Deputy Dean from 2012 to 2014 and as the Herbert
and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar from 2011 to 2013. He was named the John P.
Wilson Professor of Law in 2014 and received the Graduating Students Award for Teaching Excellence
the same year.
Masur's research and teaching interests include patent law, administrative law, behavioral law and
economics, and criminal law.
Doug McNitt, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Cisco, Fulton, MD
Doug McNitt is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Cisco. In this role, he is
responsible for Cisco’s global data and information security related legal activities,
supports Cisco’s security products and services businesses, and supports Cisco’s teams
who protect Cisco, our customers and solutions from cyber threats.
Doug joined Cisco in 2013 when Cisco acquired Sourcefire, Inc., where he had been
general counsel and secretary since 2007. Prior to Sourcefire, Doug served in-house as
executive vice president and general counsel for webMethods, Inc. for 7 years, and
associate general counsel for America Online for the prior 3 years.
Doug received a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1993, studied and taught Foreign
Affairs at the University of Virginia during 1988-89, and received an A.B. in International Relations with
minors in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University in 1987.
Richard H. Melnick, Associate County Attorney,
Office of the Montgomery County Attorney, Rockville, MD
Richard H. Melnick is an A-V Rated attorney with the Office of the County Attorney for
Montgomery County, MD, where he leads the Office’s Contract Unit. He is recognized for
his outstanding abilities in litigation, negotiation, and mediation. His practice is currently
focused on contract, procurement, information technology, construction, and commercial
law.
In addition, Mr. Melnick is President of the Montgomery County Bar Foundation, and
Immediate Past President of the Bar Association for Montgomery County (BAMC), where
he previously served as Treasurer, Secretary, and Executive Committee member, as well as Chair of its
Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. Mr. Melnick also has served on the Maryland State Bar
Association (MSBA) Board of Governors, and was Chair of the MSBA Alternative Dispute Resolution
Section. He also served as Chair of the 2007 Maryland Business Alternative Dispute Resolution
Conference, which received the MSBA President’s Award for Best Section Project to Serve the Public.
Furthermore, Mr. Melnick became a certified trained mediator in 1999. He facilitates the resolution of
disputes in District and Circuit Court, and helps train mediators. In 2005, the District Court for Maryland
selected Mr. Melnick as its Mediator of the Year. Moreover, he has served as Chair of the Maryland
Judiciary’s Mediator Excellence Council. Mr. Melnick also has served as an Adjunct Professor at the
University of Baltimore Law School, and is a frequent presenter at educational institutions and programs
involving issues that include: Negotiation; Business Law; Contract Drafting; Plain English Usage in
Drafting Documents; HIPAA Compliance; Administrative Law; and, Contractor vs. Employee Liability
Issues.
Mr. Melnick received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, cum laude,
majoring in Business Management & Finance, and then received his Juris Doctorate degree from the
University of Maryland School of Law. He also was the Judicial Clerk to the Honorable John J. Mitchell,
Chief Judge, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD.
Andrea Menaker, Partner, White & Case LLP, Washington, DC
Andrea Menaker is a Partner at White & Case, where she serves as counsel in complex
international arbitration cases, with a focus on investment treaty arbitration. Andrea has
represented both claimant investors and respondent States in arbitrations before the
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Additional
Facility, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and other arbitral institutions, as
well as in ad hoc arbitration under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Prior to joining White & Case,
Andrea was Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division for the US State Department where
she was lead counsel for the United States in investor-State arbitrations under the investment chapter of
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and participated in the drafting of investment and
dispute resolution provisions in United States' bilateral investment treaties and investment chapters of
free trade agreements. Andrea is a member of the Boards of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm
Chamber of Commerce and the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage. She recently served as Chair of the
Programme Committee for ICCA's 2016 Congress in Mauritius, and as an executive council member of
the American Society of International Law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute,
where she is serving as an Adviser on the Restatement (Third) Conflict of Laws. In 2011, Andrea was
ranked by Global Arbitration Review as one of the top 45 international arbitration practitioners worldwide
under the age of 45.
Richard Murphy, AT&T Professor of Law,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Professor Murphy is the AT&T Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of
Law, where he teaches administrative law, civil procedure, and antitrust. Before
becoming an academic, he had the very good fortune to clerk for the Honorable
Stephen S. Trott of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was an
associate at Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, in Minneapolis. He has authored law review
articles on the usual administrative law suspects, e.g., standing, the Chevron doctrine,
etc. Some of the ideas in some of these articles are not bad. He is a co-editor of an
administrative law casebook, a past member of the Governing Council of the
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, and a past Fall Conference chair. He is a graduate
of Carleton College and of University of Minnesota Law School.
Erlyne Nazaire, Senior Legal Editor, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, New York, NY
Erlyne is a Senior Legal Editor with Practical Law's Finance Service and is primarily
responsible for writing, editing and curating Practical Law's project finance and
cross-border resources. These resources include practice notes on construction
contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, public private partnerships, loan
documents and project risk assessment. In her capacity as Senior Legal Editor,
Erlyne has moderated webinars on cross-border investment issues, financial
covenants and public private partnerships. Before joining Practical Law, Erlyne was
an associate in Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's international practice group where she
represented clients in a wide range of cross-border transactions including project finance, private M&A
and joint ventures.
Paul Noe, Vice President, Public Policy, American Forest & Paper Association; Co-Chair, Legislation
Committee; former Counselor to the OIRA Administrator, Washington, DC
Paul Noe serves as Vice President, Public Policy of the American Forest & Paper
Association. Paul has extensive regulatory, legislative and technical experience, including
in environmental regulation, regulatory reform, renewable energy, biomass carbon
neutrality, chemicals and product stewardship, workplace health and safety, and
sustainability. He previously served as the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at the
Grocery Manufacturers Association. Paul also has broad experience in public service,
including as Counselor to the Administrator in the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (2001-2006), where he helped to lead the
development of regulatory policy and White House review of regulations in the Administration of George
W. Bush. He previously served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
under Chairmen Fred Thompson, Ted Stevens and Bill Roth (1995-2001), where his work focused on
reforming the regulatory process. He also has been a lawyer in private practice, most recently as a
partner with C&M Capitolink LLC, as well as counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Environment and Natural
Resources Group. Paul currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Legislation Committee in the American
Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and recently coauthored a
paper, “Beyond Process Excellence: Enhancing Societal Well-Being,” to be published in a book by
Brookings Institution Press entitled, “Achieving Regulatory Excellence.” In the Spring of 2016, he also
served as a Policy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he offered lectures in
environmental law, legislation, advanced regulatory policy, and administrative law.
Paul is a graduate of The Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a John M.
Olin fellow in law and economics and an editor on the law journal, and Williams College, where he was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Lars Noah, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law,
Gainesville, FL
Lars Noah is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida, where he has taught courses
in Administrative Law, Medical Technology, Public Health Law, and Torts, among other
subjects. Professor Noah has published numerous scholarly articles on a wide range of
subjects as well as a casebook that focuses on the regulation of pharmaceuticals and
medical devices: Law, Medicine, and Medical Technology (Foundation Press 4th ed. 2017).
He has served as a visiting professor at George Washington, Georgetown, Texas, U.C.
Hastings, Vanderbilt, and Washington & Lee, and he has worked with expert committees at
the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. Before entering
academia in 1994, Professor Noah clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit and then practiced law for three years at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He
received his B.A. and J.D. (both magna cum laude) from Harvard University.
Aaron Nielson, Associate Professor of Law,
Brigham Young University Law School, Provo, UT
Professor Nielson specializes in areas of civil procedure, federal courts, antitrust, and
administrative law. Prior to joining the BYU Law faculty, Professor Nielson worked in
Washington, D.C. as a partner in the office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he worked in
antitrust and appellate litigation.
"I'm thrilled to be here,” Professor Nielson said. "BYU is a wonderful place to teach
because the students have the horse power to explore complicated legal concepts, but
also are focused on developing the other skills they need to be effective practicing
attorneys. That is a powerful combination. It's an exciting place to be."
He received his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (’07), and LLM with first class honors
from University of Cambridge. While at Harvard, he served as national editor for the Harvard Journal of
Law and Public Policy. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he
graduated summa cum laude in economics and political science. Following law school, he served as a
law clerk on both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the District of Columbia
Circuit.
Andrew S. Oldham, Deputy General Counsel to Governor Greg Abbott, Austin, TX
Andrew Oldham is Deputy General Counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He previously served as
Attorney General Abbott’s Deputy Solicitor General where he argued dozens of cases in state and federal
courts, including two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Before moving to Texas, Mr. Oldham clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. at the U.S. Supreme Court
and Judge David B. Sentelle at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Oldham also worked
on a wide range of appellate and constitutional issues during his two-year tenure in the Office of Legal
Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and while in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is a
graduate of Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), the University of Virginia (B.A., highest honors), and
Cambridge University (M.Phil., first class).
James O’Reilly, University of Cincinnati College of Law;
Retired Associate General Counsel, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH
Prof. James O'Reilly teaches Public Health Policy & Systems at the University of Cincinnati. He co-chairs
the Section's FDA Committee along with Professor Katharine Van Tassel. His 49 textbooks include the 3volume text, Food & Drug Administration (West 2016, with Katharine Van Tassel) which the U.S.
Supreme Court has quoted as the "expert" treatise in the FDA field. He taught FDA law for 25 years. He is
a former Section Chair and is a longtime editorial board member of the Food & Drug Law Journal.
Dr. Marcos A Orellana. Director, Human Rights & Environment Program Center for International
Environmental Law (CIEL);
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University School of Law, Washington, DC
Dr. Marcos A. Orellana (LL.M., S.J.D.) is Director of the Human Rights and Environment
Program at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Adjunct Associate
Professor at the George Washington University School of Law. At CIEL Dr. Orellana has
focused on strengthening tools to secure global environmental justice, including in
relation to investment law and arbitration. Prior to joining CIEL, Dr. Orellana was a Fellow
to the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge,
UK. He also was a Visiting Scholar with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington
DC and Instructor Professor of international law at the Universidad de Talca, Chile. Dr.
Orellana has acted as legal counsel to the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs on international
environmental issues, such as the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development and the negotiations
of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Dr. Orellana has also acted as legal advisor to several
International Institutions, including the UN Environment Programme and the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights.
Sharon E. Pandak, Partner, Greehan Taves Pandak & Stoner PLLC, Woodbridge, VA
Sharon Pandak served as County Attorney, Prince William County, Virginia, for 15
years, and in that office for 25 years. Pandak continues to represent localities, other
public entities and associations interested in public policy as a partner of Greehan,
Taves, Pandak and Stoner PLLC, in Virginia. She is General Counsel for the
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Pandak graduated from the College
of William and Mary and its Marshall Wythe School of Law.
Pandak is an ABA Foundation Fellow. She served on the Virginia Bar Association
Executive Committee, and was past president of the Local Government Attorneys of VA and the County
Bar Association. She was a member of the VA State Bar Council where she served on the UPL and
Judicial Nominations Committees and Special Committee to Study the Code of Professional
Responsibility. She was a member of the VSB Professionalism Faculty. She served on the VA Supreme
Court’s Commission on Virginia Courts in the 21st Century. She currently serves on the VSB Board
Governors for the Education of Lawyers and the Local Government Law Section. Pandak served as the
CLE chair of the Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division for many years and currently serves as
the Division’s treasurer.
Eloise Pasachoff, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
Eloise Pasachoff is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she
teaches and writes about administrative law and education law. Her most recent article,
The President's Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control, was published in the Yale
Law Journal in 2016.
Marcus Peacock, Distinguished Research Professor,
The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, Washington, DC
Marcus Peacock is an expert on federal regulation, budgeting, and government
performance systems. He has held a number of high-level posts in the US
government including the Deputy Administrator at the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science
at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Marcus also served as a staff director
on committees in both the US House and Senate, directed a project on federal
subsidies at the Pew Charitable Trusts, and, earlier in his career, was a licensed
Professional Engineer.
Marcus is recognized for a number of achievements. While serving as EPA’s Chief Operating Officer, the
agency won the President’s Award for Excellence in Overall Management two years in a row -- the first
time an agency won the award back-to-back. At OMB, Marcus led the team that created the Program
Assessment Rating Tool (PART) used to measure the performance of federal programs. Subsequently,
the PART won Harvard University’s Innovations in Government Award and the American Society of Public
Administration’s Leadership Award. He also holds the distinction of being the first political appointee to
maintain a public blog.
Marcus has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern
California and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the National
Academy of Public Administration and a Senior Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Matthew Porterfield, Deputy Director and Adjunct Professor,
Georgetown University Law Center, Harrison Institute for Public Law, Washington, DC
Matthew Porterfield is Deputy Director and adjunct professor at the Harrison
Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He works on various
aspects of international economic law, with a particular focus on the relationship
between international trade and investment rules and environmental policy. His
publications include Exhaustion of Local Remedies in Investor-State Dispute
Settlement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, Yale Journal of International Law
Online (2015); State Practice and the (Purported) Customary International Law
Prohibition on Uncompensated Regulatory Expropriation, North Carolina Journal of
International Law &Commercial Regulation(2011); U.S. Farm Subsidies and the Expiration of the WTO's
Peace Clause, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2007); An International
Common Law of Investor Rights?, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law
(2006);and International Expropriation Rules and Federalism, Stanford Journal of Environmental Law
(January 2004). He earned his BA from the University of Vermont and JD, Magna Cum Laude, from
Vermont Law School and an LLM from Georgetown University.
Amanda Postiglione, Senior Attorney, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC
Amanda Postiglione is a Senior Attorney in the Budget and Appropriations Group at the Government
Accountability Office (GAO). She joined GAO in 2014 and previously worked at the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. Ms. Postiglione received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and
communication from George Mason University and her law degree from Georgetown University Law
Center. She is a member of the Virginia bar.
Susan Prosnitz, Program Chair, Deputy Chief Counsel, Regulations and Security Standards,
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Arlington, VA
Susan M. Prosnitz serves as Deputy Chief Counsel for Regulations and Security Standards
with the Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Chief Counsel. She advises the
agency on all matters relating to TSA’s broad regulatory program including federal
rulemaking actions and development of security related policies and programs. Before
joining the federal government, Ms. Prosnitz worked at Suffolk University Law School, where
she was the first Executive Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service.
Previously, Ms. Prosnitz served as the General Counsel to the Executive Office of Public
Safety and Security, which oversees all state public safety, criminal justice, and homeland
security agencies in Massachusetts. Following 9/11, Ms. Prosnitz was appointed by the Massachusetts
to serve as the Executive Director and General Counsel for the Special Advisory Task Force on Massport,
charged with conducting a top to bottom review of Logan Airport in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
She also served as Chief Counsel to the Massachusetts Highway Department, and as Chief of Litigation
for the Boston Police Department. Ms. Prosnitz has been appointed to several other task forces including
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Task Force on Hiring Practices in the Judiciary; the
Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes (appointed as co-chair) and the Statewide Racial and Gender
Profiling Committee (appointed as co-chair). Prior to her public service career, Ms. Prosnitz worked as an
associate with the law firm of Hinckley, Allen, and Snyder and as a law clerk for the Superior Court of
Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Duke University School of Law and received
executive leadership certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School, Georgetown University and American
University.
Jacquelyn Puente, Executive Director for External Affairs, COMCAST Corporation
Washington, DC
Jackie Puente is the executive director for external affairs at Comcast, responsible
for partnerships with diverse stakeholders on policy issues in media and technology
space. Throughout her career Jackie has served as a translator between public,
private, and nonprofit entities, and an advocate to empower communities with
access to technology and skills for economic progress.
Prior to joining Comcast, Jackie advised Fortune 100 company clients on a range of
technology, telecommunications, tax, and utilities issues. Jackie has a strong
reputation for building a coalitions on high profile and complex issues combining her
passion for digital media, public relations, advocacy, and community development.
Earlier, Jackie worked with Members of Congress at the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute
(CHLI), a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to creating a broader awareness of the
diversity of thought, heritage, interests, and views of the Hispanic community. Before joining CHLI in
2006, Jackie developed public private partnerships and initiatives with pharmaceutical and biomedical
industries, multilateral organizations, trade associations, and the U.S. government.
Jackie recently graduated from the National Association for Minorities in Communications (NAMIC)
Executive Leadership Development Program at the University Of Virginia Darden School Of Business.
She is an American University graduate, and a 2004 National Security Education Program Boren Scholar
in Moscow, Russia at Moscow International University.
Jackie is Chairwoman of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Corporate Alliance, and
is proud to serve on the NCLR Corporate Board of Advisors and President’s Council, US Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce’s Senior Executive Corporate Advisory Board (SECAB), the CNC Corporate
Advisory Board, and the Comcast NBCUniversal External Joint Diversity Council. She lives in
Washington, DC with her family.
David Rostker, Assistant Chief Counsel, Office of Advocacy,
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Washington, DC
Dave Rostker is Assistant Chief Counsel for Environment and Regulatory Reform
in the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. He represents the
interests of small entities in regulatory review of EPA regulations related to the
Clean Air Act, including greenhouse gas and air toxics regulations, and other
environmental statutes. He also represents the Chief Counsel in Small Business
Advocacy Review panels convened by EPA to consider the impacts of proposed
regulations on small entities. Prior to joining the Office of Advocacy, he was a
policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) for 14 years, mostly recently serving as a staff lead for reviews of regulations and information
collections from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, and was consulted frequently on questions of Paperwork Reduction Act policy and
procedures. He is currently a member of the Council of the ABA Section on Administrative Law and
Regulatory Practice. Dave graduated magna cum laude from the George Mason University School of
Law; he has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and bachelor’s in
physics from Princeton.
Sidney A. Shapiro, Fletcher Chair in Administrative Law, Wake Forest University;
Vice-President, Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), Winston-Salem, NC
Sid Shapiro is the Frank U. Fletcher Chair in Administrative Law at the
Wake Forest University Law School. He has written extensively about
administrative law and procedure including ten books, seven book
chapters, over fifty-five articles. He is currently working on a book on
administrative expertise. Professor Shapiro has been a consultant to
government agencies and has testified before Congress on regulatory
subjects. He is the Vice-President of the Center for Progressive Reform
(CPR), a nonprofit research and educational organization of universityaffiliated academics.
Anna Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law,
Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, NE
Professor Shavers joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska College of
Law in 1989. She received her B.S. degree from Central State University in
Wilberforce, Ohio and her M.S. in Business from the University of WisconsinMadison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma
Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the
University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the
Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and
the Nebraska bar in 1989. Other positions include: Associate, Faegre &
Benson Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN 1979-83; Director of University Student Legal Services, University of
Minnesota, 1983-86; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota, 1986-89. While at the
University of Minnesota, Professor Shavers established that law school's first immigration clinic. She has
also served as a mediator and arbitrator and has a strong interest in alternative forms of dispute
resolution. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Gender Issues and Civil
Procedure and is faculty co-advisor to the Multi-Cultural Legal Society and BALSA.
Professor Shavers believes that she has found the position for which she is ideally suited. She thoroughly
enjoys the interaction with students. She also enjoys having the time to devote to reading and questioning
various aspects of our legal system. Her primary interest is the area of immigration and its intersection
with gender issues. This area appeals to her because of her appreciation of the differences of people
from various cultures.
She currently serves as a Board Member of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship
Conference, Inc., Liaison for the ABA Administrative Law Section to the ABA Commission on Immigration
and Secretary and Publication Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. She has previously served
as Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair
of the ABA Administrative Law Section, member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member
of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is a frequent national and international
presenter on immigration and administrative law issues.
Ethan Shenkman, Deputy General Counsel. Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Washington, DC
Ethan G. Shenkman serves as Deputy General Counsel of the US Environmental
Protection Agency. As one of the agency’s chief legal officers, he oversees legal and
regulatory work relating to air quality and climate change. He also helps lead EPA’s
international legal activities, ranging from international environmental agreements to
international trade and investment regimes, and specializes in the intersection of
environmental issues and indigenous rights. He previously served as an appointee
(Deputy Assistant Attorney General) in the US Department of Justice, Environment and
Natural Resources Division. In that capacity, he supervised a wide range of legal cases
and received a number of awards and recognitions, including the Attorney General’s John Marshall
Award. He was also previously a litigation partner in a Washington, DC law firm, where he focused on
international litigation and arbitration. He received his BA from Yale University, and his JD from the
University of Virginia, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
Jonathan Siegel, F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Research Professor of Law,
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
Jonathan R. Siegel is the F. Elwood and Eleanor Davis Research Professor of Law at The
George Washington University Law School. He joined the faculty of GW Law in 1995. He
began his legal career with a clerkship for the Hon. Patricia M. Wald, Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Thereafter he worked as a member of
the Appellate Staff, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice. At the DOJ, he briefed
and argued appellate cases on behalf of the President and numerous other government
officials and agencies. At GW Law, Professor Siegel teaches Administrative Law, Federal
Courts, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, and Lawsuits against Governments.
Professor Siegel has been actively involved in the Administrative Conference of the United States since
2010. He has served as Director of Research and Policy, Special Counsel, and he currently serves as a
Public Member. Professor Siegel is also widely published in the field of Administrative Law, and has
published pieces in journals including The George Washington Law Review, Columbia Law Review,
Georgetown Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and many more. Professor Siegel
received his BA from Harvard College and his JD from Yale Law School.
Lisa Sotto, Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
New York, NY
Lisa Sotto is the managing partner of Hunton & Williams LLP’s New York
office and chair of the firm’s top-ranked Global Privacy and Cybersecurity
practice. Lisa was named among The National Law Journal’s “100 Most
Influential Lawyers,” was voted the world’s leading privacy advisor in
Computerworld magazine, and was recognized by Chambers and
Partners as a “Star” performer for privacy and data security. She was
recognized as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 United States for cyber
crime and data protection, and was featured as “The Queen of Breach”
in New York Super Lawyers Magazine. Lisa serves as Chairperson of the Department of Homeland
Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. She speaks frequently at conferences, testifies
regularly before the U.S. Congress and other legislative and regulatory agencies, and is the editor and
lead author of the legal treatise entitled Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook, published by Aspen
Publishers.
Rogers Stevens, Associate, Ballard Spahr LLP,
Philadelphia, PA
Rogers Stevens is an associate in the Labor and Employment Group. During law
school, Mr. Stevens served a two-year internship with the Mural Arts Program in
Philadelphia, assisting attorneys in intellectual property and insurance-related
matters.
Apart from his work as an attorney, Mr. Stevens is a musician, recording artist, and
founding member of the Los Angeles alternative-rock band Blind Melon.
Katharine Van Tassel, Consultant, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.;
Retired Professor of Law, Creighton School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska
Professor Katharine Van Tassel is an expert consultant assisting Georgetown
University with the curriculum for its new M.S. in Regulatory Affairs focusing on drug
and device regulation. After almost twenty years of law school teaching, Professor
Van Tassel retired from the Creighton University School of Law where she was the
founder and Director of the Health Law Programs. She is the former Director and
founder of the University of Akron’s Public Health Law & Science Center and Akron
Law School’s Health Law Programs.
Professor Van Tassel is the recipient of Akron Law School’s 2013 Faculty Scholar of the Year award. She
has published numerous law review articles in top, national law journals and several books, all with a
focus on health law, food and drug law, and FDA regulation of innovative technologies. Several of her law
review articles have cited by state supreme courts on issues of first impression. Her co-authored book,
Food and Drug Administration, 4th Ed., a 3-volume encyclopedia of food and drug law developments, has
been cited as an authoritative source by both state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
She is currently completing a book dealing with government and private sector issues relating to the
legalization of medical marijuana.
Ruth M.S. Vetter, Director, Department of Defense,
Standards of Conduct Office Washington, DC
Ms. Vetter was commissioned in the U.S. Army, branched Judge Advocate General’s
Corps in 2000. During her time on active duty, Ms. Vetter served in a wide variety of
assignments across the globe. Her active duty tours included: Third Infantry Division
(Mechanized) at Fort Stewart, Georgia with deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a
part of Stabilization Forces 8; the U.S. Army Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill, Fort Sill,
Oklahoma; U.S. Armed Forces-Korea in Seoul, Republic of Korea; and U.S. Army V
Corps in Heidelberg, Germany with deployment to Baghdad, Iraq as part of MultiNational Corps-Iraq.
Upon leaving active duty in February 2007, Ms. Vetter served as an Attorney-Advisor for the European
Regional Medical Command in Heidelberg, Germany before moving to the Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA) Office of General Counsel in March 2008 where she served until July 2015. She initially served as
Assistant General Counsel, Operations and Readiness Division advising DLA Operations (J3), then in
2010, she became an Associate General Counsel for Personnel and Ethics and the Ethics Program
Manager. Finally, Ms. Vetter headed the Administrative and International Law Division from January 2013
to July 2015. In 2012, Ms. Vetter was detailed to the Office of the White House Counsel where she
served as a Deputy Designated Agency Ethics Official for the White House. In this position, she was
involved in the ethics vetting process for Presidential Appointed Nominees and managed the financial
disclosure program for the Administration’s filers.
Ms. Vetter was selected as a member of the Senior Executive Service in July 2015 and currently serves
as the Director of the Department of Defense (DoD) Standards of Conduct Office. In this position, she
serves as the DoD Alternate Designated Agency Ethics Official (ADAEO). In addition to advising Office of
the Secretary of Defense officials on the gamut of ethics issues, she oversees the ethics and standards of
conduct programs throughout DoD and provides guidance to the 16 separate Designated Agency Ethics
Official (DAEO) components, including the Military Departments, the Defense Agencies, and the DoD
Field Activities.
Ms. Vetter’s civilian awards include the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Superior Civilian Service
Award, and the Commander’s Medal for Civilian Service. Her military decorations include the Bronze Star,
the Meritorious Service Medal, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the
NATO medal, and the Korean Service Medal.Ms. Vetter received her B.A. in Political Science from Taylor
University, Upland, Indiana in 1996 and J.D. from Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, IN, in
1999.
Wendy Vicente, Senior Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Silver Spring, MD
Wendy Vicente is a Senior Counsel in FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel. She has
handled three NAFTA proceedings as agency counsel, each brought by Apotex and
challenging various aspects of agency or judicial decision making. She primarily
defends FDA in cases brought under the Administrative Procedure Act challenging
the agency’s decisions relating to drug approvals and regulation of tobacco
products, and has served as agency counsel in numerous cases before the United
States Supreme Court. Before joining the government in 2004, she practiced patent
law and clerked for the Honorable Alan D. Lourie on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She earned her BS from the College of William and Mary, MS from
Cornell University, and JD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Walker, Associate Professor of Law,
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH
Christopher Walker is a law professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Walker clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy of
the U.S. Supreme Court and worked on the Civil Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of
Justice. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Administrative Law
Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law
Review, among others. Outside the law school, he serves as one of forty Public Members
of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a Council Member of the
American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He
blogs regularly at the Yale Journal on Regulation Notice and Comment blog.
Melissa Wasserman, Professor of Law,
The University of Texas at Austin Law School, Austin, TX
Melissa Wasserman joined the University of Texas law faculty in 2016. Her research
focuses on the institutional design of innovation policy, with a particular emphasis on
patent law and administrative law. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming
in both student edited law reviews and peer review journals including Stanford Law
Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Review of
Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Prior to joining the
Texas faculty, she served as Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. Her
work has been selected for presentation in the 2015 Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior
Faculty Forum and in 2012 she was awarded the University of Illinois College of Law’s Carroll P. Hurd
Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, which is given to the most outstanding piece of faculty
scholarship published in the previous year.
Professor Wasserman received her B.S. in chemical engineering with high honors from Pennsylvania
State University. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton for her work on the
thermodynamics of network-forming liquids at low temperatures. As a graduate student, Professor
Wasserman was both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and American
Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellow. She received her J.D. magna cum laude
from New York University School of Law, where she served as an articles editor of New York University
Law Review. Following law school, Professor Wasserman clerked for Judge Kimberly A. Moore of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and then was an academic fellow and lecturer at the Petrie
Flom Center for Health Law, Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.
Valerie Wenderoth, Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Department of State (DOS), Washington, DC
Valerie Wenderoth is an attorney-adviser within the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser
responsible for the entire area of financial and appropriations law (other than foreign assistance), as well
as other highly specialized areas, such as financial management and reporting, fiscal irregularities and
contingencies, public-private partnerships, and eGovernment.
Prior to joining the Department of State in November, 2007, Ms. Wenderoth held various positions within
the Office of the General Counsel for the Department of the Navy, including Deputy Assistant General
Counsel for Research, Development and Acquisition and Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Financial
Management and Comptroller. Ms. Wenderoth was also the Assistant to the General Counsel for
Legislation. Ms. Wenderoth began her law career as an assistant counsel at the Naval Sea Systems
Command, focusing on ship building and repair claims and litigation.
Ms. Wenderoth is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder where she earned a B.A. in History
and German. She earned her J.D. from the University of Denver, College of Law.
Adam White, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution;
Adjunct Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, Washington, DC
Adam J. White is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace. He
researches and writes on regulation, administrative law, and the courts for a variety of publications. He
also teaches Administrative Law as an adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia
Law School, and he teaches Supreme Court History for the Hertog Foundation. He serves on the
Section’s Council and co-chairs the Judicial Review Committee. He also serves on the executive
committee of the Federalist Society’s Administrative Law Practice Group, and on the board of directors of
the Resources First Foundation. He practiced law at Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC and Baker Botts
LLP, and he clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Matthew Lee Wiener, Executive Director, Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS),
Washington, DC
Matthew Lee Wiener is the Executive Director of the Administrative Conference of the
United States and President Obama’s nominee to be its chairman. He was previously
General Counsel to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, Counsel to the U.S. House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee, and a partner at Dechert LLP. He is an elected
member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation; cochairs the Adjudication Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice; and serves as an elected member of the
Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar’s Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section.
He has taught courses on congressional powers and the judiciary, legislation and statutory interpretation,
and remedies as a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, George
Mason University School of Law, and Rutgers University Law School. He received his J.D. from Stanford
Law School, where he was articles editor of the Stanford Law Review, and his A.B. mobleyrfrom the
College of William and Mary.
Steve Wolfson, Office of General Counsel, Cross-Cutting Issues Law Office,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, DC
Steve Wolfson is a senior attorney in the International Law Group at the Environmental
Protection Agency Office of General Counsel, where he leads EPA cooperation with
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection on environmental law and institutions.
Steve has represented the U.S. at environmental treaty negotiations and at World Trade
Organization litigation, and has developed and conducted environmental law training in
Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. A graduate of UCLA School of Law,
Steve has published on environmental governance and on Chinese environmental law,
has taught as an adjunct at Vermont, GW, and Howard Law Schools, and served as
Vice-Chair for Programs of the ABA SEER International Environmental Law Committee.
Hon. Erin Wirth, Past President, Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference;
Administrative Law Judge, Federal Maritime Commission, Washington, DC
Hon. Erin Masson Wirth is the Immediate Past President of the Federal Administrative Law
Judges Conference (FALJC). Judge Wirth has served as a United States Administrative
Law Judge with the Federal Maritime Commission since 2010. Previously, she was the
first female Administrative Law Judge in the Richmond, Virginia, hearing office of the
Social Security Administration. Judge Wirth has litigated a wide variety of cases
throughout the country, including as managing attorney for a Legal Aid office, attorneyadvisor at the Federal Trade Commission, private practice attorney, and criminal
prosecutor. Judge Wirth taught business law and frequently speaks about legal issues.
Her numerous publications include articles for law reviews, ABA publications, and West Group’s
American Law Review (ALR) series. Judge Wirth has been recognized by the White House, ABA, and
Military Officers Association of America for her work on behalf of military families. Judge Wirth earned her
Juris Doctor at the College of William and Mary Law School and her undergraduate degree at Smith
College.
Andrew Wright, Associate Professor, Savannah Law School
Savannah, GA
Professor Andrew Wright joined Savannah Law School after two years of service as
Associate Counsel to President Barack Obama at the White House. His research
focuses on separation-of-powers conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch.
At the White House, Professor Wright represented the Executive Office of the President
in a variety of matters with a special focus on congressional investigations of the
Executive Branch. Previously, he served for four years on the senior staff of the
Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform in the U.S. House of Representatives, culminating in two years
as Staff Director. Professor Wright began his legal career as Assistant Counsel to Vice President Al
Gore in the White House, where he served as an attorney on the White House Counsel’s investigations
team and sat on the White House immigration and tort reform policy working groups. In 2001, Professor
Wright served as General Counsel to the Gore Transition Office, representing former Vice President Gore
in legal matters related to winding up the affairs of his term. Professor Wright graduated magna cum
laude from Washington & Lee University in 1995 with a B.A. in politics. He received his J.D. from the
University of Virginia School of Law in 2000. Professor Wright was named a Founding Editor of national
security blog, Just Security, in September 2013.
Frank Zarb, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP, Washington, DC
Frank Zarb is a partner in the Corporate Department, where he concentrates his
practice on regulatory matters under the U.S. federal securities laws, as well as on
equity finance transactions regulated under those laws.
He counsels public and private companies, broker-dealers, hedge funds, as well as
other investors, on a wide range of transactional and securities regulatory compliance
matters including:
Equity investments and dispositions in public and private companies
Public registration, disclosures and preparation of periodic reports
Federal and state proxy requirements as well as shareholder proposals and communications
Corporate governance and stock exchange listing standards
Regulation of financial intermediaries, such the responsibilities of brokers to distribute proxy materials and
interim reports
New laws and regulations under the JOBS Act, the FAST Act and Dodd-Frank legislation
Frank’s practice is both domestic and international, beginning with his experience in senior positions with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a member of the Staff of the SEC’s Office of International
Corporate Finance, Frank has advised U.S. companies seeking to do business in the EU, Asia and the
Middle East, as well as companies from those regions doing business in the U.S., or otherwise seeking to
comply with the U.S. securities laws. In the Office of Chief Counsel, he focused on federal proxy rules,
and supervised a team of staff members who help to provide guidance in the course of proxy season.