DIANE P. WOOD
CURRICULUM VITAE
July 28, 2015
Chief Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Everett Dirksen United States Courthouse, Room 2688
219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604-1818
Tel. (312) 435-5521
Fax (312) 408-5117
E-mail: [email protected] and
[email protected]
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
2013–present: Chief Judge (sworn in on October 1, 2013).
1995–2013: Circuit Judge (commission June 30, 1995).
The University of Chicago Law School
1995–present: Senior Lecturer in Law.
1990–1995: Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of International Legal Studies (on leave
from August 1993–July 1995, while serving at the U.S. Department of Justice).
1989–1992: Associate Dean.
1988–1990: Professor of Law.
1981–1988: Assistant Professor of Law.
Additional Professional Experience
1993–1995: Deputy Assistant Attorney General for International, Appellate, and Legal Policy
Matters, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, D.C.
1992–1993: Consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
Committee on Competition Law and Policy, Working Party No. 3 on International Cooperation.
Report published as Merger Cases in the Real World: A Study of Merger Control Procedures,
with Professor Richard P. Whish, OECD 1994.
1990, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007 (summers): Visiting Professor of Law,
University of San Diego Institute of International & Comparative Law (Paris 1990, 1997, 1999,
2001, 2003, 2007; London 1991, 2004) (subjects taught: International Business Transactions,
Law of the European Community).
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1986–1987: Consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, on the revision of
the 1977 Antitrust Guide for International Operations.
1985–1986: Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY.
1980–1981: Assistant Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
1978–1980: Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. Principal work: trial and
appellate antitrust litigation, antitrust counseling, general litigation, and international law.
1977–1978: Attorney-adviser, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic and Business
Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Principal work: representation of the
United States in the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development working group on international
negotiations for a Code of Conduct on Transfer of Technology; development of a U.S. position
on an international treaty prohibiting bribery and illicit payments; development of a model draft
bilateral investment treaty.
1976–1977: Law clerk to Hon. Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.
1975–1976: Law clerk to Hon. Irving L. Goldberg, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit.
EDUCATION
B.A. with highest honors, special honors in English, The University of Texas at Austin, 1971.
Course of study: Plan II (honors liberal arts); elected to Phi Beta Kappa as junior.
J.D. with high honors, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas 1975. Order of the
Coif; Friar Society (in first group of women to be admitted).
J.D. Honoris Causa, Georgetown University Law Center, 2003.
J.D. Honoris Causa, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2004.
J.D. Honoris Causa, The John Marshall Law School, 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
“Legal Scholarship for Judges,” 124 Yale L.J. 2592 (2015).
“Is It Time to Abolish the Federal Circuit’s Exclusive Jurisdiction in Patent Cases,” 13 Chi.-Kent
J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2014).
“Magna Carta and Sovereign Immunity: Strained Bedfellows,” in Magna Carta and the Rule of
Law (ch. 3, Danieli Evans, co-author) (Daniel Barstow Magraw et al. eds., American Bar
Association), (2014).
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“Enhanced International Cooperation in Competition Cases: The Role of the Courts,” for the
Hearing on Enhanced Enforcement Co-operation, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (2014).
Interview with Gavin Broady, “The Great Persuader: 7th Circ. Chief Judge Diane Wood,”
Law360 (2014).
“The Structure of Sovereignty,” 18 Lewis and Clark L. Rev. 215 (2014).
“Back to the Basics of Erie,” 18 Lewis and Clark L. Rev. 673 (2014).
“When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to Reshuffle: The Art of Decisionmaking on a MultiMember Court,” 2014 Green Bag Alm. 213 (2014).
Induction Symposium, Stewarding Democracy: Am. Insts. & the Pub. Good, Bull. 14 (Am.
Acad. of Arts & Scis. Winter 2013).
“Law, Politics & Community in Shakespeare—A Lesson from Shakespeare to the Modern Judge
on Law, Disobedience, Justification & Mercy,” in Shakespeare and the Law—A Conversation
Among Disciplines & Professions 282 (Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum & Richard Strier,
eds.) (2013).
“State Aid Management in the United States,” 12 Eur. St. Aid Q., no. 1, 2013, at 40.
Preface to “Subversion & Sympathy—Gender, Law & the British Novel” vii (Martha C.
Nussbaum & Alison L. LaCroix, eds.) (2013).
Steven F. Molo, “Interview with Judge Diane P. Wood,” The Circuit Rider: The Journal of the
Seventh Circuit Bar Association, Dec. 2012, at 3–8.
“The Importance of the Humanities & Social Sciences,” Bulletin 46 (Am. Acad. of Arts & Scis.
Winter 2012).
“A Dialogue with Federal Judges on the Role of History in Interpretation,” 80 Geo. Wash. L.
Rev. 1889 (2012).
“Remembering Irving Goldberg,” The Storied Third Branch 1 (October 2012).
“Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The Ambivalent Experience of the United States,” in
Equalizing Access—Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India, United States & South
Africa 151 (Zoya Hasan & Martha C. Nussbaum, eds.) (2012).
“When to Hold, When to Fold & When to Reshuffle: The Art of Decisionmaking on a MultiMember Court,” 100 Cal. L. Rev. 1445 (The Brennan Center Jorde Symposium on
Constitutional Law) (2012).
Interview, in Lincoln Schatz, The Network: Portrait Conversations 219 (2012).
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“Theory and Practice in Antitrust Law: Judge Cudahy’s Example,” 29 Yale J. on Reg. 403
(2012).
Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors Reception for the Visit to the State of Illinois,
“Remarks of Judge Diane P. Wood,” Oct. 17, 2011.
“The Quiet Convergence of Arbitration and Litigation”—Keynote Address, World Arbitration
and Mediation Review (WAMR), Volume 5, No. 3 (2011).
“Summary Judgment and the Law of Unintended Consequences,” 36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 231
(2011).
Trade Regulation casebook, (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 1997, 5th ed. 2003, 6th ed. 2010), (with
Robert Pitofsky and Harvey Goldschmid).
“The Changing Face of Diversity Jurisdiction,” 82 Temp. L. Rev. 593 (2009)
“Antitrust Settlements in the United States,” European Competition Law Annual 2008: Antitrust
Settlements under EC Competition Law (ch. 8) (Hart Publishing, 2010).
“Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach,” 10 Chicago Journal of
International Law 415 (2010).
“The Invisible Constitution and the Rule of Law,” 52 Am. Acad. of Arts & Sci. Bull. 59 (2009)
(with Laurence H. Tribe, Frank H. Easterbrook, & Geoffrey R. Stone).
“Square Pegs in Round Holes: The Interaction Between Judges and Economic Evidence,” 5
Comp. Pol’y Int’l 51 (2009).
“The Bedrock of Individual Rights in Times of Natural Disaster,” 51 How. L.J. 747 (2008).
“Snapshots from the Seventh Circuit: Continuity and Change, 1966–2007,” 2008 Wis. L. Rev. 1.
“The Winding Road Toward Equality for Women in the United States,” Special Lecture 3,
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (June 2008).
“Private Dispute Resolution in International Law,” ch. 14, Research Handbook in International
Economic Law, Andrew T. Guzman and Alan O. Sykes, eds. (2007).
“‘Original Intent’ Versus ‘Evolution’,” The Scrivener, Summer 2005; and 2007 Green Bag Alm.,
pg. 267.
“Cuno v. Daimler Chrysler, Inc.: State ‘Aids’ from an American Perspective,” 6 Eur. State Aid
L. Q. 3. Andreas Bartosch, ed., 2007.
“Reflections from the Bench,” UT Law Alumni Focus 14 (Winter 2006).
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“Antitrust Modernization: Who Needs It? Who Wants It?” Current Competition Law, vol. IV, at
423 (Philip Marsden & Michael Hutchings, ed., British Institute of International and
Comparative Law 2005).
“Antitrust at the Global Level,” 72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 309 (2005).
“Our 18th Century Constitution in the 21st Century World,” 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1079 (2005).
“Reflections on the Judicial Oath,” 8 Green Bag (2d Series) 177 (2005).
“Antitrust in the US Supreme Court: A Review of the 2003–2004 Term,” 3 Competition L. J.
101 (2004).
“The U.S. Antitrust Laws in a Global Context,” 2004 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 265.
“Cooperation and Convergence in International Antitrust: Why the Light Is Still Yellow,” ch. 7,
at 177, Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy, Richard A.
Epstein and Michael S. Greve, eds. (2004).
“A Comparison of Merger Review and Remedy Procedures in the United States and the
European Union,” ch. 4, Merger Remedies in American and European Union Competition Law,
François Lévêque & Howard Shelanski, eds. (2003).
“Soft Harmonization Among Competition Laws: Track Record and Prospects,” Summer 2003
Antitrust Bulletin 305.
“A U.S. Perspective on Ducks,” ch. 5, The Role of the Judge in International Trade Regulation:
Experience and Lessons for the WTO, T. Cottier & P. Mavroidis, eds.(2003).
“The Brave New World of Arbitration,” 31 Cap. U. L. Rev. 383 (2003).
“The Rule of Law in Times of Stress,” 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 455 (2003).
“The Courts and Private Antitrust Actions,” ch. 18, Annual Proceedings of the Fordham Law
Institute: International Antitrust Law & Policy, Barry E. Hawk, ed. (2003).
“Administrative Antitrust Authorities: Adjudicative and Investigatory Functions,” ch. 19, Annual
Proceedings of the Fordham Law Institute: International Antitrust Law & Policy, Barry E. Hawk,
ed. (2003) (with William T. Lifland, Carl Baudenbacher, Joachim Bornkamm, William E.
Kovacic, & Emil Paulis).
“International Harmonization of Antitrust Law: The Tortoise or the Hare?,” 3 Chi. J. Int’l L. 391
(2002).
“Techniques of Judicial Federalism,” Working Paper X, Panel Three: Courts and Judges,
European Competition Law Annual: 2000, The Modernisation of EC Antitrust Policy (2001).
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“The Evolution of Antitrust Law in the United States,” ch. 1, Trade Practices Act: A TwentyFive Year Stocktake,” eds. Frances Hanks and Philip Williams, Federation Press 2001
(Australia).
“Intellectual Property in the Courts: The Role of the Judge,” ch. 19, Expanding the Boundaries of
Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society, R. Dreyfuss, D.
Zimmerman, and H. First, eds., (2001).
“Foreword,” An International Antitrust Primer (2nd Ed.), Mark R. Joelson, ed. (2001).
“Health, Heart and Mind: The Contributions of Richard A. Posner to Health Law and Policy,” 17
J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y ix (2000).
“Commentary on The Futures Problem, by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.,” 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1933
(2000).
“Diffusion and Focus in International Legal Scholarship,” 1 Chi. J. Int’l L. 141 (2000).
“International Law and Federalism: What is the Reach of Regulation?” 23 Harv. J. L. & Pub.
Pol’y 97 (1999).
“The Qualities of a Justice: Harry A. Blackmun,” 99 Colum. L. Rev. 1409 (1999).
“Sex Discrimination in Life and Law,” 1999 U. Chi. Legal F. 1 (1999).
“The Role of Economics and Economists in Competition Cases,” 1 OECD J. Comp. L. & Pol’y
82 (1999).
“Is Cooperation Possible?” 34 New Eng. L. Rev. 103 (1999).
“Antitrust and the Courts – Roundtable,” ch. 21, Annual Proceedings of the Fordham Law
Institute: International Antitrust Law & Policy, Barry E. Hawk, ed. (1999) (with Christopher
Bellamy, Maureen Brunt, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Giuseppe Tesauro, & Howard Wetston).
“Justice Harry A. Blackmun and the Responsibility of Judging,” 26 Hastings Const. L. Q. 11
(1998).
“Regulatory Cooperation for Effectiveness and Compliance: Strategies for Joint Action Among
Securities, Banking, and Antitrust Regulators,” 1997 Proceedings of the American Society of
International Law 223, 228–31 (1998) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter, Kathleen M. O’Day, and
Paul A. Leder).
“Generalist Judges in a Specialized World,” 50 SMU L. Rev. 1755 (1997).
“The Role of the Judge in Competition Enforcement,” Robert Schuman Centre Annual on
European Competition Law 1996 at 359 (Kluwer 1997).
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“The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement: An Antitrust Perspective,” ch. 14 of B.
Hoekman and P. Mavroidis, Law and Policy in Public Purchasing (1997).
“Judicious Advice for the Occasional Appellate Lawyer,” 11 Chi. Bar Ass’n Record 16 (April
1997).
“U.S. Antitrust Laws and the Global Market: National and Extraterritorial Enforcement,” 9 Loy.
Consumer L. Rep. 170 (1997) (with Christian Johnson, Harry First, & Steven Rasher).
“The Trade Effects of Domestic Antitrust Enforcement,” ch. 14, Economic Dimensions in
International Law: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives, Jagdeep S. Bhandari & Alan O.
Sykes, eds. (1997).
“Regulation in the Single Global Market: From Anarchy to World Federalism?” 23 Ohio N.U. L.
Rev. 297 (1996).
“A Cooperative Framework for National Regulators,” 72 Chi. Kent L. Rev. 521 (1996).
“International Standards for Competition Law: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come,” PSIO
Occasional Paper, WTO Series No. 2, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1996).
“Bridging Cultural Differences,” Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy: A Conference Report,
Report Number 1173-96-CH (1996).
“The Internationalization of Antitrust Law: Options for the Future,” 44 DePaul L. Rev. 1289
(1995).
“Justice Harry A. Blackmun and the Virtues of Independence,” 71 N.D. L. Rev. 25 (1995).
“Tribute to Judge Irving L. Goldberg: The Consummate Humanist,” 73 Tex. L. Rev. 977 (1995).
Merger Cases in the Real World: A Study of Merger Control Procedures, with Professor Richard
P. Whish, OECD 1994.
“United States Antitrust Law in the Global Market,” 1 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 409 (1994).
“Who Should Regulate the Space Environment: the Laissez Faire, National, and Multinational
Options,” in Preservation of Near Earth Space, Cambridge University Press 1994.
“Justice Blackmun and Individual Rights,” 97 Dickinson L. Rev. 421 (1993).
“User Friendly Competition Law in the U.S.C.,” ch. 2 of Procedure and Enforcement in EC and
US Competition Law: Proceedings of the Leiden Seminar on User-Friendly Competition Law,
Sweet & Maxwell 1993.
1993 Supplement to J. Atwood & K. Brewster, Antitrust and American Business Abroad, 2d ed.
1981, 1993.
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“The Impossible Dream: Real International Antitrust,” 1992 U. Chi. Legal F. 277.
“International Competition in a Diverse World: Can One Size Fit All?” 1991 Fordham Corporate
Law Institute ch. 5, at 71.
Conference Paper, “Allocating Authority in a Federal System,” published in the proceedings of
the USSR-US Conference on Law and Economic Cooperation, ABA, Moscow, September 1990.
“Fine-Tuning Judicial Federalism: A Proposal for Reform of the Anti-Injunction Act,” 1990
BYU L. Rev. 289.
“Court-Annexed Arbitration: The Wrong Cure,” 1990 U. Chi. Legal F. 421.
“International Jurisdiction in National Legal Systems: The Case of Antitrust,” 10 Nw. J. Int’l L.
& Bus. 56 (1989).
“‘Unfair’ Trade Injury: A Competition-Based Approach,” 41 Stan. L. Rev. 1153 (1989).
“Competition Rules for the Computer Industry: A Study of Market Power and Its Abuse,”
presented at the Fourth International Conference on Law and Computers, Supreme Court of
Cassation of Italy, Centre for Electronic Documentation, Rome, May 1988.
“Adjudicatory Jurisdiction and Class Actions,” 62 Ind. L. J. 597 (1987).
“Conflicts of Jurisdiction in Antitrust Law: A Comment on Ordover and Atwood,” 50 Law &
Contemp. Probs. 179 (1987).
“Governmental Involvement and International Antitrust Enforcement,” 1987 Fordham Corporate
Law Institute 17.
“Antitrust 1984: Five Decisions in Search of a Theory,” 1984 Sup. Ct. Rev. 69.
“Class Actions: Joinder or Representational Device?” 1983 Sup. Ct. Rev. 459.
“Counseling the Foreign Multinational on United States Antitrust Laws,” ch. 16, von
Kalinowski, ed., Antitrust Counseling and Litigation Techniques (Matthew Bender).
“The Antitrust Law and International Joint Ventures,” ch. 2, Fitzpatrick, ed., Transnational Joint
Ventures (Business Laws, Inc. 1989).
Book note, Marke & Samie, Antitrust and Restrictive Business Practices: International,
Regional, and National Regulation, Binder I, 79 Am J. Int’l L. 503 (1985).
Book review, Horn & Schmitthoff, eds., The Transnational Law of International Commercial
Transactions, 12 Int’l J. Legal Info. 39 (1984).
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Book review, Korah, Competition Law of Britain and the Common Market, 11 Int’l J. Legal
Info. 295 (1983).
Book review, Fugate, Foreign Commerce and the Antitrust Laws, 11 Int’l J. Legal Info. 182
(1983).
Comment, “Federal Venue: Locating the Place Where the Claim Arose,” 54 Tex. L. Rev. 392
(1976).
Comment, “Coordinating the EPA, NEPA, and the Clean Air Act,” 52 Tex. L. Rev. 527 (1974).
LECTURES AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
July 9, 2015: Speaker at the Australian Bar Association’s 2015 Main Conference entitled,
“Survival of the Fittest: Challenges for Advocates in the 21st Century,” Boston, Massachusetts,
“Cooperation in an Adversarial System.”
June 14, 2015: Panelist at the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta, London, United Kingdom,
“Magna Carta: The Road Ahead.”
June 6, 2015: Keynote speaker at the Richard Linn Inn of Court Ninth Annual Dinner, Chicago,
Illinois, “Specialized Courts for Specialized Fields.”
May 28, 2015: Panelist at the Seventh Circuit Conference for Appellate Assistant Attorneys
General and Federal Defenders, Chicago Chapter, Chicago, Illinois.
May 28, 2015: Panelist at the Annual Appellate Lawyers Association Roundtable Luncheon,
Chicago, Illinois, “Seventh Circuit Roundtable Discussion.”
May 4, 2015: Speaker at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the
Seventh Circuit 64th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “State of the Circuit 2015.”
April 24, 2015: Panelist at the National Association of Women Judges Mid-Year Meeting and
Leadership Conference, Chicago, Illinois, “Women in the Legal Profession.”
April 15, 2015: Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, video
produced by WYCC-TV, Chicago, Illinois.
April 14, 2015: Panelist at the Legal Services Corporation, Washington, DC, “White House
Forum Panel Discussion on Importance of Access to Justice and the Judiciary.”
April 9, 2015: Panelist at the Union League Club and The Great Books Foundation, Chicago,
Illinois, “With Malice Toward None: 150 Years Since Surrender at Appomattox.”
March 23, 2015: Speaker at Yale Law School hosted by Yale Law Review, New Haven,
Connecticut, “Legal Scholarship for Judges.”
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March 3, 2015: Panelist at the Federalist Society and the Georgetown Center for the
Constitution, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, “Diversity Jurisdiction:
Where Should Court Battles Be Fought?”
February 20, 2015: Speaker at The Donahue Lecture Series, Suffolk University Law Review,
Boston, Massachusetts, “The Allocation of Jurisdiction Between Federal and State Courts from
50,000 Feet Up.”
February 19, 2015: Speaker at the University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities,
Durham, New Hampshire, “Humanities in a Democracy.”
February 12, 2015: Speaker at the Women’s Leadership Coalition at Northwestern University
School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “The Progression of Women in the Law,” A Conversation with
Chief Judge Diane Wood and Kelsi Brown Corkran.
January 27, 2015: Speaker at Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, “Civil
Procedure Reform: A Conversation with Chief Judge Diane Wood.”
January 22, 2015: Speaker at the Forensic Expert Witness Association, Chicago Chapter Dinner,
Chicago, Illinois.
December 9, 2014: Speaker at the Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, Annual Lecture
Series, Baltimore, Maryland, “What Has Happened to Habeas Corpus?”
November 16, 2014: Panelist at the Appellate Judges’ Educational Institute 2014 Summit,
Dallas, Texas, “Q&A with Judges and Lawyers.”
November 8, 2014: Panelist at the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting,
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “International Law in the United
States Courts.”
October 30, 2014: Panelist at the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “The
Constitutional Legacy of James Madison.”
October 9, 2014: Speaker delivering opening remarks at the National Conference of Bankruptcy
Judges, 88th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
October 3, 2014: Speaker at the “Heart of the Matter” conference hosted by the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma City University, and the Oklahoma Humanities
Council, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “The Vital Role of the Humanities.”
September 15, 2014: Panel moderator at the Legal Services Corporation 40th Anniversary
Celebration, Washington, DC, “State Supreme Court Chief Justices Panel.”
September 3, 2014: Speaker addressing visiting French law students, hosted by Chief District
Judge Ruben Castillo, Chicago, Illinois, “Courtroom in the Classroom.”
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August 13, 2014: Keynote speaker at the Equality Illinois “Raising the Bar” Reception, Chicago,
Illinois, regarding the importance of diversity in the legal field.
August 7, 2014: Panelist at the 14th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, University
of California, Berkeley, California.
July 18, 2014: Speaker at the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence 14th Annual
Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, “Qualities of a Good Judicial Opinion.”
July 14, 2014: Panelist at the Institute of Judicial Administration New York University School of
Law, Appellate Judges Seminar, New York, New York, “The Decisional Process.”
June 26, 2014: Panelist at the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law, Chicago, Illinois,
“Judges’ Panel Event.”
June 23, 2014: Introductory remarks after “Heart of the Matter” video, British Academy and
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference, London, United Kingdom.
June 17, 2014: Expert speaker at the Hearing on Enhanced International Co-operation of
Working Party No. 3 of the Competition Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation
and Development, Paris, France.
May 28, 2014: Panelist at the Appellate Lawyers Association Annual Roundtable Luncheon,
Chicago, Illinois.
May 22, 2014: Panelist at the National Academy of Arbitrators, Chicago, Illinois, “The Future of
Labor and Employment Arbitration: The View from the Bench.”
May 12, 2014: Speaker at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the
Seventh Circuit 63rd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, “State of the Circuit 2014.”
April 24, 2014: Speaker at the Bohemian Lawyers’ Association of Chicago, Cicero, Illinois,
“Federal Appellate Advocacy – An Overview.”
April 23, 2014: Speaker at The Lawyers Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, “The Increasing
Challenge of Pro Se Litigants.”
April 10, 2014: Panelist at the Judge Kravitz Symposium, Lewis and Clark Law Review,
Portland, Oregon, “Panel on Applying the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
March 21, 2014: Speaker at the Chicago Bar Association Dinner Honoring Judge William J.
Bauer, Chicago, Illinois.
March 21, 2014: Panelist at the Illinois State Bar Association continuing education seminar,
Northern Illinois University College of Law, DeKalb, Illinois, “Myra Bradwell: The Practice of
Law in the Wake of Her Legacy.”
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March 5, 2014: Panelist at the Chicago Bar Association continuing education seminar, Chicago,
Illinois, “Practice in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.”
February 20–21, 2014: Welcome address at the Seventh Circuit Bar Association Foundation
Symposium on Rethinking the War On Drugs, Chicago, Illinois; panel moderator, “Where Do
We Go from Here?”
February 18, 2014: Interview with WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” regarding the “Rethinking the
War on Drugs” symposium.
February 15, 2014: Welcome address and introduction of Alan Alda at the Reception for
Academy Fellows at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois.
February 7, 2014: Panelist at the Crime in Law and Literature Conference, The University of
Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois.
January 31, 2014: Administration of oath of judicial office and remarks at the Investiture
Ceremony of U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood, Chicago, Illinois.
January 23, 2014: Panelist at the Federal Bar Association Chicago Chapter Employment Law
Seminar, “Judges Update: Summary Judgment, Burden Shifting, Causation, Class Certification,
Wage and Hour Litigation.”
January 10, 2014: Panelist at the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure,
Phoenix, Arizona, “The Rules Process: Triggers and Boundaries.”
January 9, 2014: Panelist at the Chicago Humanities Summit, presented by the Chicago
Humanities Festival, the Modern Language Association, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Chicago, Illinois.
October 25, 2013: Speaker at the Center for Free Competition Conference on Competition Law:
Private Enforcement, Santiago, Chile, “Private Enforcement of Competition Law: Recent
Examples from the Seventh Circuit.”
September 26, 2013: Keynote speaker at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College
of Law’s fourth U.S. Supreme Court IP Review, Chicago, Illinois, “Is It Time to Abolish the
Federal Circuit’s Exclusive Jurisdiction in Patent Cases?”
September 24, 2013: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 18, 2013: Panelist at the 2nd Annual GAR [Global Arbitration Review] Live, New
York, New York, “Session one: The Year in Review Session.”
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September 9, 2013: Speaker addressing visiting French law students at Northern Illinois
University, hosted by Chief District Judge Ruben Castillo, Chicago, Illinois, “Courtroom as
Classroom.”
August 22, 2013: Panelist at the Illinois State Bar Association and Seventh Circuit Bar
Association event commemorating the 120th Anniversary of the first-ever national meeting of
women lawyers, Chicago, Illinois, “30 Female Blackstones Gather in Chicago – 2013 and
Beyond: Building on Our Accomplishments.”
July 1, 2013: Speaker at the Regional Competition Center for Latin America, Second Training on
Competition for Latin American Judges, Washington, DC, “Why Competition Matters: The U.S.
Perspective.”
June 14, 2013: Panelist at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy’s 2013 National
Convention, Washington, DC, “A View from the Bench.”
May 16, 2013: Speaker at the Justice Academy of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, “Implications of the
Internet and Social Media (A Global and Long Lasting Matter: Freedom of Expression – United
States Perspective).”
May 9, 2013: Panelist at the Chicago Federal Bar Association’s 2013 Federal Criminal Practice
Program, Chicago, Illinois, “Child Pornography Panel.”
April 29, 2013: Panelist at the special event commemorating the publication of “Restoring
Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi,” hosted by Sidley Austin LLP,
Chicago, Illinois.
April 25, 2013: Panelist at “The Seventh Circuit: A Tradition of Legal Innovation and
Excellence,” presented by the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, Chicago, Illinois.
April 24, 2013: Panelist at The University of Chicago Law Women’s Caucus, Women in the
Judiciary event, Chicago, Illinois.
April 6, 2013: Speaker at Harvard Law Review Spring Banquet, Boston, Massachusetts, “You
Went to Law School for This????”
February 22, 2013: Speaker at the American Constitution Society Annual Dinner, Oregon
Chapter, Portland, Oregon, “Pro-Bono Publico in a ‘What’s in it for Me’ World: Best Practices
for Equal Access to Justice.”
February 21, 2013: Speaker at Lewis and Clark Law School, the Hon. Betty Roberts Women in
the Law Speaker, Portland, Oregon, “The Structure of Sovereignty.”
December 4, 2012: Speaker at the American Antitrust Institute’s 6th Annual Private Antitrust
Enforcement Conference, National Press Club, Washington, DC, “Antitrust (and Other)
Litigation Post-Twiqbal and Post-Walmart: Helpful Adjustments or Unintended Consequences?”
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November 13, 2012: Panelist at the U.S.-Russian meetings, Moscow State University, Procedural
Law Department, Moscow, Russia, “Current Developments in Civil Procedure,” and
“Developing ADR in the United States.”
November 12, 2012: Speaker at the U.S.-Russian Seminar on Civil Procedure, The Supreme
Commercial Court of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, “Discovery Process.”
November 8, 2012: Panelist at the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Fall Forum,
Washington, DC, “Panel I: The Role of the Federal Courts in Antitrust Enforcement.”
October 25, 2012: Panelist at New York University School of Law’s Journal of International
Law and Politics and Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law’s symposium
entitled, “Tug of War: The Tension Between Regulation and International Cooperation,” New
York, New York, “U.S. Application of Foreign Law: Competency and Diplomacy.”
October 16, 2012: Keynote speaker at the Peoria County Bar Association’s 9th Annual Diversity
Luncheon, Peoria, Illinois.
October 15, 2012: Speaker at The American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education video
webcast seminar on Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration: The
“Internationality” of the ALI Restatement, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Conduct of Post-Award
Actions and Possibilities for Remand.”
September 29, 2012: Panelist at the 25th Annual Supreme Court Preview, Institute of Bill of
Rights Law, William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia, “International Law” and
“The Conservative Legal Movement and Judicial Activism.”
September 19, 2012: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 5, 2012: Speaker at the New South Wales Bar Association, The John Lehane
Memorial Lecture, Sydney, Australia, “Adrift in a Sea of Data: Electronically Stored
Information.”
August 22, 2012: Speaker addressing visiting French law students, hosted by Chief District
Judge Ruben Castillo, Chicago, Illinois, “Courtroom as Classroom.”
August 3, 2012: Panelist at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois,
regarding the impact of Walmart v. Dukes decision.
August 3, 2012: Keynote speaker at the Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers Annual
Awards Luncheon, Chicago, Illinois, “Aristotle’s Golden Mean, or, How to Stay on the Straight
and Narrow in Your Legal Writing.”
July 18, 2012: Keynote speaker at the National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law
Judges’ Conference, San Diego, California, “Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions.”
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June 28, 2012: Keynote speaker at the National Center for Learning and Citizenship’s Every
Student a Citizen Central Regional Meeting, Wheaton, Illinois, “Getting from Here to There: The
Three ‘E’s’.”
June 8, 2012: Speaker at The European State Aid Law Institute’s 10th Experts’ Forum on New
Developments in European State Aid Law, Round Table of the National Judiciaries, “State and
Local Subsidies in the United States.”
June 7, 2012: Speaker at the Third Annual Chicago Forum on International Antitrust Issues,
presented by Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic
Growth, Chicago, Illinois, “Development in U.S. Antitrust Law as Applied to Foreign
Commerce.”
June 5, 2012: Keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Western District of Wisconsin Bar
Association, Madison, Wisconsin, “Are the Civil Rules Ready for More Changes?”
May 30, 2012: Panelist at the Robert Pitofsky Symposium at Georgetown University Law
Center, Washington, DC, “Panel 4: Bob as Chairman.”
April 27, 2012: Panelist at the Presidential and Judicial Oversight of Administrative Agencies
conference, presented by the Duke Center for Judicial Studies, Duke University School of Law
School, Durham, North Carolina, “Panel 4: Judicial Oversight in Patents and Antitrust.”
April 23, 2012: Speaker at Courts & Legal Process workshop at Columbia Law School, New
York, New York, “When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to Reshuffle: The Art of
Decisionmaking on a Multi-Member Court.”
April 16, 2012: Speaker at the 2011–2012 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium, New York
University School of Law, New York, New York, “When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to
Reshuffle: The Art of Decisionmaking on a Multi-Member Court.”
April 13, 2012: Keynote speaker at The University of Texas School of Law Chancellors
Centennial installation ceremony, Austin, Texas.
March 21, 2012: Panelist at the Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter’s March Monthly
Luncheon, Chicago, Illinois, “The Future of Class Actions in the Seventh Circuit After Walmart
and Concepcion.”
March 5, 2012: Speaker at the Tulane University School of Law Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture
on Federal Litigation, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Re-Imagining Erie for the 21st Century.”
February 17, 2012: Panelist at the Law and Literature Conference, The University of Chicago
American Studies Center, Chicago, Illinois, “Manhood in American Law and Literature.”
November 18, 2011: Speaker at the CJA & Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’
Annual Criminal Defense Seminar, Chicago, Illinois, “Criminal Appeals in the Seventh Circuit.”
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November 4, 2011: Panelist at The George Washington University Law School’s Law Review
Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Farrand’s Records of the Federal
Convention, Washington, DC, “The Records and the Judiciary.”
November 3, 2011: Moderator at the Federal Judicial Center’s National Symposium for United
States Court of Appeals Judges, Washington, DC, “The Effects of Collegiality on Appellate
Decision Making.”
October 25, 2011: Speaker at the 2011–2012 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium, Berkeley Law
School, University of California, Berkeley, “When to Hold, When to Fold, and When to
Reshuffle: The Art of Decisionmaking on a Multi-Member Court.”
October 17, 2011: Speaker at the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors Reception
honoring volunteer lawyers and firms for their pro bono service.
October 13, 2011: Speaker at the Chicago Bar Association’s Administrative Law Judges
Committee meeting, Chicago, Illinois, “What Appellate Judges Want in Administrative
Opinions.”
September 20, 2011: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
August 30, 2011: Speaker addressing visiting French law students, hosted by Chief District
Judge Ruben Castillo, Chicago, Illinois, “Courtroom as Classroom.”
July 22, 2011: Speaker at the Defense Research Institute’s Class Action Seminar, Washington,
DC, “Collective Actions in Employment Law.”
July 12, 2011: Speaker at the New Appellate Judges Seminar presented by the Dwight D.
Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration, New York University School of Law, New York,
New York, “Craft of Judging.”
June 20, 2011: Speaker at the Religion and Equality in an Age of Pluralism International
Colloquium hosted by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, the Philosophical Society
of Finland, and the Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, “Another Gathering Storm? Tensions
between Free Exercise and Establishment of Religion in the United States.”
June 17, 2011: Panelist at the 2011 American Constitution Society for Law and Policy National
Convention, Constitution at the Crossroads: Progress Imperiled?, Washington, DC, “Text,
History and Principle: What Our Constitution Means and How to Interpret It.”
June 9, 2011: Panel moderator at “The First Amendment Online: Search, Privacy &
Personalization,” presented by The Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities and Antitrust,
Intellectual Property and Telecommunications Practice Groups and its Chicago Lawyers
Chapter, Chicago, Illinois.
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June 3, 2011: Moderator at the International Court of Justice: Rethinking the U.S. Relationship,
presented by George Washington University Law School in cooperation with the U.S.
Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser and co-sponsored by the American Society of
International Law, Washington, DC, “Comparative Perspectives.”
May 21, 2011: Commencement speaker at The University of Texas at Austin Plan II Honors
Program graduation ceremony, Austin, Texas.
May 12, 2011: Speaker at the Brazil-United States Judicial Dialogue, presented by the Brazil
Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC,
“Constitution, Fundamental Rights and Democracies.”
May 12, 2011: Commentator at the Brazil-United States Judicial Dialogue, presented by the
Brazil Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC,
“Due Process of Law, Constitutional Guarantees and Appeals."
April 7, 2011: Keynote speaker at the Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Bar Association’s
Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Update on the Civil Rules Advisory Committee.”
March 4, 2011: Speaker at the American Bar Association’s 27th National Law-Related Education
Conference, Chicago, Illinois, “Civility and Free Expression in a Constitutional Democracy.”
March 23, 2011: Keynote speaker at the Fault Lines in International Commercial Arbitration
Conference presented by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s Academic Council and The
American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, “The Quiet Convergence of
Arbitration and Litigation.”
March 14, 2011: Participant in the pilot project of the Russian-American Judicial Partnership
with participation of the Russian Constitutional Court, “The Rule of Law and the Correlation
Between Public and Private Interests in Solving Economic Disputes,” Washington, DC, The
Second Judicial “Peer-to-Peer” Dialogue entitled “Protection and Restriction of Property Rights:
Strategies of Solving Economic Disputes and New Challenges (Experience of the Russian
Constitutional Court and the U.S. Courts).”
February 14, 2011: Speaker and panelist at the Women’s Leadership Coalition at Northwestern
University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “From One Side of the Bench to the Other: A
Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Courtroom.”
January 28, 2011: Participant in the pilot project of the Russian-American Judicial Partnership
with participation of the Russian Constitutional Court, “The Rule of Law and the Correlation
Between Public and Private Interests in Solving Economic Disputes,” Saint Petersburg, Russia,
The First Judicial “Peer-to-Peer” Dialogue entitled “The Role of the Russian Constitutional
Court in Solving Economic Disputes and Improving Economic Policy and Common Grounds for
the U.S.-Russia Judicial Dialogue.”
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November 19, 2010: Panelist at the Illinois Association of School Boards’ Joint Annual
Conference, Chicago, Illinois, “ESEA Reauthorizations and a Civic Blueprint for Illinois High
Schools.”
November 17, 2010: Speaker at the Northwestern University School of Law Public Interest Law
Group’s 18th Annual Public Interest Law Week program entitled, “Bridging the Divide,”
Chicago, Illinois.
November 8, 2010: Speaker at the Office of the Illinois Attorney General’s Distinguished
Speakers Series, Chicago, Illinois, “Tectonic Shift or Much Ado About Nothing? Pleading A
Federal Case After The Twombly-Erickson-Iqbal Trilogy.”
October 7, 2010: Keynote speaker at the Dinner Honoring The Federal Judiciary in the Southern
District of Texas and Special Honoree, Judge John D. Rainey, hosted by The Federal Bar
Association – Southern District of Texas Chapter, Houston, Texas.
September 30, 2010: Moderator at the Transatlantic Law Forum: The Financial Crisis, The
European Treaties, and the U.S. Constitution, a joint initiative presented by the American
Enterprise Institute (Washington, DC) and the Council on Public Policy (Bayreuth, Germany),
Washington, DC, “Panel III: Bailouts, Competition, and Moral Hazard.”
September 27, 2010: Speaker at The Fifth Annual William J. Holloway, Jr. Lecture presented by
The Oklahoma City Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
“Summary Judgment and the Law of Unintended Consequences.”
September 21, 2010: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 14, 2010: Speaker at The University of Texas Law Alumni Association’s Chicago
Alumni Reception, Chicago, Illinois, “Overhauling the Legal System.”
August 25, 2010: Speaker addressing visiting French law students, hosted by Chief District
Judge Ruben Castillo, Chicago, Illinois, “Courtroom as Classroom.”
August 4, 2010: Keynote speaker at the 58th Biennial Convention of the Phi Alpha Delta Law
Fraternity, International, Tampa, Florida.
July 20, 2010: Panelist at the Sixth Annual Federal Judicial Panel presented by the Women in IP
Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
June 23, 2010: Speaker at the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area’s
continuing education program entitled “Litigation Tips from the Other Side of the Bench: Trial
Court, Appellate Court and Supreme Court Judges Share Their Practical Litigation Tips,”
Chicago, Illinois, “Litigation Tips from the Other Side of the Bench/May It Please the Court…
But Does It?”
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May 7, 2010: Panelist at The Third University of Chicago Law School Summit entitled “Are
Markets Efficient? Legal Implications of Economic Theories of Market Behavior,” Chicago,
Illinois, “What are the Implications for Law, Finance, Accounting and Regulatory Reform?”
May 3, 2010: Moderator at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association &
Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit, Chicago, Illinois, “Legal Seminar – Pleading After
Iqbal: The Rules, The Courts and The Constitution.”
March 23, 2010: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, hosted by Akin Gump,
Washington, DC, featuring a moderated conversation covering a wide range of topics.
March 16, 2010: Speaker at the 2010 Grotius Lecture, Transnational Corporations: National
Regulation, International Cooperation and International Judicial Assistance, British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, London, United Kingdom, “Kingman Brewster’s
Jurisdictional Rule of Reason, Fifty Years Later.”
February 5, 2010: Speaker at the Midwinter Meeting, American Bar Association, Section of
Labor and Employment Law, Employee Benefits Committee, San Antonio, Texas, “Pleading an
ERISA Case After Iqbal: The View from the Bench.”
January 29, 2010: Speaker at the Texas Attorney General’s 2010 Distinguished Speakers Series,
Austin, Texas, “The Business of the Federal Courts: A View from the Middle.”
January 27, 2010: Speaker at the Chicago Women Antitrust Lawyers Network luncheon,
Chicago, Illinois, “The Growth of International Antitrust.”
January 17, 2010: Commencement speaker at the John Marshall Law School’s graduation
ceremony, Chicago, Illinois.
November 20, 2009: Speaker at the Summit for Appellate Judges, Lawyers, and Staff Attorneys,
Lake Buena Vista, Florida, “A Special Perspective on Appellate Judging.”
November 14, 2009: Panelist at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Northwestern University
School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Laughter and the First Amendment.”
November 14, 2009: Speaker at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Northwestern University
School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Reflections on FCC v. Pacifica Thirty Years Later.”
October 27, 2009: Speaker presenting opening remarks and introduction of U.S. Senator Richard
Durbin, at the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago’s Annual Benefit Reception, Chicago,
Illinois.
October 20, 2009: Panelist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, Paris, France, “The Application of
Antitrust Law to State Owned Enterprises.”
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October 12, 2009: Speaker at the Arlin M. and Neysa Adams Lecture, Temple University
Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “The Changing Face of Diversity
Jurisdiction.”
October 9, 2009: Panelist at the Defense Research Institute’s Annual Meeting Seminar, Chicago,
Illinois, “Topic: The Difference Between ‘May’ and ‘Shall’ and Other Important Issues in the
Proposed Changes to Rules 26 and 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
October 9, 2009: Speaker at the Defense Research Institute’s Annual Meeting Seminar, Chicago,
Illinois, “Appellate Advocacy and Handling the Big Case.”
October 1, 2009: Speaker at the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association and North Carolina
Association of Women Attorneys, Charleston, South Carolina, “Bringing the Constitution to Life
for the Next Generation.”
September 29, 2009: Speaker at the Appellate Lawyers Association, Chicago Bar Association,
Chicago, Illinois, “Ten Best, Ten Worst Strategies for Oral Argument.”
September 22, 2009: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 4, 2009: Speaker at the American Enterprise Institute Transatlantic Law Forum: The
Business of Law, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, “Change and Continuity in
Competition Law.”
August 27, 2009: Speaker addressing visiting French law students, Chicago, Illinois,
“L’Expérience d’un Juge Fédéral.”
August 5, 2009: Speaker at the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago’s 2009 Supreme Court
Update Summer Institute, Chicago, Illinois, “A Conversation with Judge Diane Wood.”
August 5, 2009: Panel moderator at the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago’s 2009
Supreme Court Update Summer Institute, Chicago, Illinois, “Judiciary Act of 2009.”
July 29, 2009: Speaker at the Australian National University College of Law, John Fleming
Centre for Advancement of Global Research, Canberra, Australia, “Dispute Resolution in TransBorder Cases: Can the Courts Catch Up with the World?”
July 28, 2009: Speaker at the Australian National University College of Law, Canberra,
Australia, “Federalism in the United States, as it affects the courts.”
June 17, 2009: Speaker at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Academic Society for
Competition Law, George Washington University School of law, Washington, DC, “Competition
Policy Around the World: Emerging Consensus, or Differing Concepts?”
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June 8, 2009: Speaker at The University of Texas Teacher Institute, Texas Humanities Program
on the U.S. Constitution and American History, The University of Texas at Austin, College of
Liberal Arts, Austin, Texas, “Contemporary Constitutional Questions in the Classroom.”
June 5, 2009: Speaker at the Practicing Law Institute’s Antitrust Conference, Chicago, Illinois,
“A Sitting Judge’s View of Antitrust.”
May 16, 2009: Speaker at the Shakespeare and the Law Conference, The University of Chicago
Law School, Chicago, Illinois, “Law, Disobedience, Justice, and Mercy.”
April 30, 2009: Panelist at the Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership, The University
of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, “Perspectives & Reflections on Justice O’Connor’s
Remarks.”
April 17, 2009: Speaker at the Bi-Annual Conference of the Journal of Private International Law,
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, “Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile:
Private International Law in Courts Today.”
April 16, 2009: Panelist discussing private international law at the Special Tribute to Andreas
Lowenfeld, Bi-Annual Conference of the Journal of Private International Law, New York
University School of Law, New York, New York.
April 4, 2009: Speaker at the Texas Law Review Banquet, The University of Texas School of
Law, Austin, Texas, “Why be a Lawyer?”
March 25, 2009: Panelist at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Section of
Antitrust Law, Washington, DC, panel discussion with Judge Douglas Ginsburg regarding
changes in antitrust law over the years.
March 10, 2009: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, Chicago Chapter, DePaul
University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, regarding practice before the Seventh Circuit.
February 24, 2009: Speaker at The University of Chicago Law School Federal Appeals
Litigation Clinic, Chicago, Illinois, regarding appellate advocacy.
February 16, 2009: Panelist at the Female Judges Panel, Northwestern University School of Law,
Chicago, Illinois, panel discussion regarding experience and career as a woman attorney and
judge.
February 8, 2009: Speaker at the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago’s Educating for
Democracy: Creating a Blueprint for Illinois High Schools, Wheaton, Illinois, “Bringing the
Constitution to Life in Illinois High Schools.”
February 2, 2009: Speaker at The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois,
“Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach.”
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December 30, 2008: Speaker at the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, “Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach.”
November 8, 2008: Panel moderator at the Chicago Humanities Festival, American Academy of
Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “The Invisible
Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
November 8, 2008: Speaker at the Chicago Humanities Festival, American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Thinking Big: The Rule of
Law.”
October 16, 2008: Speaker at the Transatlantic Law Forum entitled, “Citizenship in the United
States and Europe,” American Enterprise Institute Legal Center, Washington, DC, “Citizenship,
Alienage, and Personhood in the United States.”
October 2, 2008: Speaker at the Jevons Institute, Judicial Review of Competition Cases,
Washington, DC, regarding developments in antitrust law and judicial handling of economic
evidence.
September 25, 2008: Panelist at the 35th Annual International Antitrust Law & Policy
Conference, Fordham Corporate Law Institute, New York, New York, panel discussion
regarding the impact of judicial decisions on merger control.
September 23, 2008: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 4, 2008: Speaker at the Women Lawyers’ Association, Ajou University, Seoul,
Korea, “Equal Rights for Women in the United States: An Overview.”
September 4, 2008: Speaker at Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, “The Constitutional
Guarantee of Equal Protection of the Law.”
September 3, 2008: Speaker at the International Symposium of the Constitutional Court of
Korea, Seoul, Korea, “Constitutional Adjudication and Executive Power.”
September 2, 2008: Speaker at Ajou University, Seoul, Korea, “Free Speech in Schools and
Universities.”
June 14, 2008: Panelist at the Class Actions in Europe and North America Conference at Villa
La Pietra, presented by New York University School of Law, the American Law Institute, and
the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
June 6, 2008: Speaker at the European Union Competition Law & Policy Workshop, Florence,
Italy, “Antitrust Settlements in the United States.”
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May 17, 2008: Speaker at The University of Texas School of Law graduation ceremony, Austin,
Texas, delivering the Sunflower Ceremony Address.
April 25, 2008: Speaker at the North American Dispute Resolution Series, International Centre
for Dispute Resolution, Chicago, Illinois, “Judicial Perspectives on International Arbitration.”
April 11, 2008: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, Northwestern University School
of Law, Chicago, Illinois, regarding the workload of the federal courts of appeals.
April 10, 2008: Panelist at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of International
Law, Washington, DC, “Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.”
March 21, 2008: Panelist at the DuPage County Bar Association, Wheaton, Illinois, regarding
tips for appellate advocacy.
March 27, 2008: Speaker at the McGeorge School of Law, Jurist in Residence, Sacramento,
California, “Federalism in the Federal Courts.”
March 20, 2008: Speaker at the Conference on Affirmative Action in Higher Education, New
Delhi, India, “Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The Ambivalent Experience in the
United States.”
March 18, 2008: Speaker at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Kolkata, India, “The
Winding Road Toward Equality in the United States.”
March 17, 2008: Speaker at the Panchayat Talk on Human Rights, Kolkata, India, question-andanswer session with local municipal officials about challenges women face.
March 10, 2008: Speaker at the Administrative Law Judges’ Lunch Meeting, Chicago Bar
Association, Chicago, Illinois, regarding judicial review of administrative actions.
March 1, 2008: Panelist at The 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers Leadership Forum entitled, “How
slicing through legal complexity can improve global business performance,” Dana Point,
California, “U.S. Circuit Judges’ Panel.”
February 19, 2008: Interviewee (videotaped) at the American Bar Association, Section of
Antitrust Law, Public Education and Oral History Committee, Chicago, Illinois, regarding
background and various historical developments in the area of antitrust law.
January 31, 2008: Panelist at the American Constitution Society, University of Pennsylvania
School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Holding the Middle: The Circuit Court’s Important
and Complex Role in Appellate Review,” regarding the institutional differences between
appellate courts with mandatory jurisdiction and those with discretionary jurisdiction.
November 15, 2007: Speaker at the Houston Bar Association, Antitrust Section, Houston, Texas,
“Antitrust in the Supreme Court’s 2006 Term: The Triumph of Economic Analysis.”
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November 5, 2007: Speaker at Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina,
regarding various issues related to the impact of international law in the United States.
October 26, 2007: Speaker at Katrina and the Rule of Law in the Time of Crisis, Wiley A.
Branton Symposium, Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC, “The Bedrock of
Individual Rights in the Times of Natural Disaster.”
October 25, 2007: Speaker at the Symposium on Corporate Human Rights Responsibility: Its
Growing Relevance and Enforceability, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago,
Illinois, “Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights.”
October 10, 2007: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Immigration Adjudication.”
September 18, 2007: Speaker at the L.L.M. Orientation at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Civil Law and Common Law.”
September 11, 2007: Speaker at Courtroom as Classroom, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit, Chicago, Illinois, “Juger aux Etats-Unis: L’Expérience d’un Juge Fédéral.”
July 26, 2007: Participant at the Presentation to Nigerian Officials (via videolink), African
Regional Service, U.S. Department of State, Paris, France, regarding rules of judicial ethics and
anticorruption measures.
July 11, 2007: Participant at the Presentation to Moroccan Officials (via videolink), African
Regional Service, U.S. Department of State, Paris, France, regarding rules of judicial ethics and
anticorruption measures.
June 18, 2007: Speaker at the Conference in International Law, American Association of Law
Schools/American Society for International Law, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, “What
is Wrong with the Way We Teach and Write International Law.”
May 18, 2007: Speaker at Civitas International Programs, Center for Civic Education, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, “The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Human Rights.”
April 24, 2007: Speaker at The Nineteenth Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, University of
Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, “Snapshots from the Seventh Circuit: Continuity
and Change, 1966 to 2007.”
November 17, 2006: Speaker at the King’s College London, University of London, The
European State Aid Law Institute conference entitled, “The Law of the EC State Aid,” London,
United Kingdom, “CUNO v. Daimler Chrysler, Inc.: State ‘Aids’ from an American
Perspective.”
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November 14, 2006: Facilitator at the Federal Judicial Center American Society of International
Law’s International Law and Litigation for U.S. Judges conference, Washington, DC,
“International Law Applied: Audience Response Quiz.”
November 13, 2006: Moderator at the Federal Judicial Center American Society of International
Law’s International Law and Litigation for U.S. Judges conference, Washington, DC,
“International Law in the Domestic Courts of Other Nations.”
November 8, 2006: Panelist at the International Association of Judges Regional Meeting of
Asian, North American, Oceanian Group, hosted by St. John’s University School of Law, New
York, New York, “What Are the Limits of Trans-Judicial Communication?”
November 3–4, 2006: Panelist at the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges, San Francisco, California, “Bankruptcy Appeals Subcommittee program:
Stays and Mootness,” and “Circuit Splits & Supreme Court Update.”
September 29, 2006: Keynote speaker at The Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and The
Loyola University Chicago Law Journal’s presentation of “Matsushita at 20: Proof of
Conspiracy, Summary Judgment, and the Role of the Economist in Price Fixing Litigation,”
Chicago, Illinois.
September 20, 2006: Panelist at the International Bar Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois,
participating in the Dispute Resolution Section’s panel on arbitration entitled, “IBA Rules on
Conflict of Interest.”
August 14–18, 2006: Speaker on a United States Agency for International Developmentsponsored visit to Guatemala, on behalf of the Committee on International Judicial Relations;
presented addresses entitled, “US Judicial Legal System and the Promotion of Women’s Rights”
and “The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Women’s Human Rights.”
June 26, 2006: Speaker at the American Bar Association’s Summer Teacher Institute entitled,
“Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History,” presenting prepared remarks
entitled, “The Sedition Trials and the Judges’ Role.”
April 17–21, 2006: Speaker on a United States Agency for International Development Women’s
Legal Rights Initiative-sponsored visit to Madagascar, addressing various governmental officials,
judicial officers, and law students; presented addresses entitled, “U.S. Judicial Legal System,”
and “The U.S. Judicial Legal System and the Enforcement of Women’s Legal Rights.”
April 7, 2006: Speaker at the Class Action Symposium, University of Missouri-Kansas City
School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri, “The Future of Class Actions.”
March 27, 2006: Panelist at The University of Texas School of Law panel discussion on judicial
clerkships, Austin, Texas, providing insight to law students interested in pursuing clerkships.
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November 11, 2005: Panelist at the Illinois State Bar Association International and Immigration
Law Section’s seminar entitled, “Presenting an Asylum Case: Tips for Trial and Judicial
Review,” Chicago, Illinois, “A View from the Bench: Judicial Review – Its Ups and Downs.”
November 10, 2005: Moderator at the annual National Lawyers Convention of The Federalist
Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, Washington, DC, “Originalism & Unenumerated
Constitutional Rights.”
October 25, 2005: Speaker at the Chicago Bar Association Seminar entitled, “The Impact of the
Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 on the Prosecution and Defense of Class Actions,” Chicago,
Illinois, “The View From the Court of Appeals.”
October 12, 2005: Moderator at The Chicago Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution
Society’s presentation of “Can Principled Federalism be Progressive?,” Chicago, Illinois.
October 11, 2005: Speaker at the Inaugural Harry A. Blackmun Lecture, The Ohio State
University Moritz College of Law,Columbus, Ohio, “Justice Blackmun and the Common Law
Tradition.”
September 28, 2005: Panelist at the International Bar Association Conference, Prague, Czech
Republic, “Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Motivations and Problems,” and “Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction: Advantages and Solutions.”
September 23, 2005: Panelist at The 9th Annual National Institute on Class Actions, presented by
The American Bar Association Section of Litigation and the Center for Continuing Legal
Education, Chicago, Illinois, participating in a mock Supreme Court argument entitled, “Class
Actions in the Marble Palace: What if the Supremes Took on Rule 23(b)(2)?”
August 6, 2005: Speaker at the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing luncheon meeting, Chicago,
Illinois, “‘Original Intent’ versus ‘Evolution’: The Legal Writing Edition.”
July 29, 2005: Speaker at the American Constitution Society’s 2005 National Convention
themed, “The Constitution in the 21st Century,” Washington, DC, “Moral Values and the
Constitution.”
July 15–22, 2005: Co-moderator at the “Law, Morality, & Justice” Justice and Society Seminar,
The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, leading discussions with Professor Peter Edelman of
Georgetown University on broad issues of justice.
July 11–12, 2005: Panelist at the Appellate Judges Seminar – New Appellate Judges Series,
presented by the Institute of Judicial Administration, New York University School of Law, New
York, New York, “Conferencing & Process of Decision-Making: Intermediate Appellate Courts”
and “High Quality Justice in a High Volume World: Issues of Accountability and Independence:
Intermediate Appellate Courts.”
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May 13, 2005: Panelist at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference, Hollywood, Florida, “When
Should International Law be Part of Our Law?”
May 9, 2005: Speaker at The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 5th Annual
Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue, London, United Kingdom, “Antitrust Modernization: Who
Needs It? Who Wants It?”
May 9, 2005: Panelist at The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 5th Annual
Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Dialogue, London, United Kingdom, “Panel 4: Economics in Court.”
March 18, 2005: Speaker at the Federal Court/Law Council Joint Seminar on Competition Law,
Sydney, Australia, “Judicial Method and Technique in United States and European Civil AntiTrust Litigation.”
March 7–9, 2005: Participant in the Seminario sobre Competencia Económica, Dirigido a Jueces
y Magistrados, Comision Federal de Competencia México, Mexico City, Mexico, providing
training for Mexican judges on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission.
February 10–11, 2005: Speaker at the Justice-to-Justice Dialogue, “The Role of the Judiciary in a
Global Economy: A Comparative Perspective,” presented by the American Bar Association’s
Asia Law Initiative and the United States Agency for International Development, Manila,
Philippines, “Supporting Economic Growth Through Judicial Reform: The U.S. Perspective,”
and “Judicial Decision-Making in the Global Economy: The U.S. Perspective.”
December 3, 2004: Featured speaker at the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, on
behalf of the United States Department of State, Stockholm, Sweden, “Private Enforcement of
Competition Law: Lessons to be learned by Europe from USA’s Antitrust System.”
November 30–December 2, 2004: Participant in the 6th All-Russian Congress of Judges,
sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development, Moscow, Russia.
November 15, 2004: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, Houston, Texas,
“Reflections on the Judicial Oath.”
October 18, 2004: Speaker at the James Madison Lecture, New York University School of Law,
New York, New York, “Our Eighteenth Century Constitution in the 21st Century World,”
“International Law: What is it, and Where does it Belong?,” and “Reflections on Appellate
Judging.”
October 12, 2004: Panelist at the Seventy-Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges, Nashville, Tennessee, “Circuit Splits – The Great Divide?”
October 9, 2004: Speaker at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Induction for Class III
(Social Sciences), Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Law in a Global Community.”
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October 2, 2004: Speaker at the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law’s Antitrust
Masters course, Atlanta, Georgia, “Effective Appellate (And Other) Advocacy.”
September 16, 2004: Panelist at The Federalist Society’s Corporations, Securities & Antitrust
Practice Group panel discussion, Washington, DC, “The Modernization of Antitrust.”
September 13, 2004: Panelist at the Protecting Consumer Interest in Class Actions workshop,
sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission and the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics,
Washington, DC, “Panel 2: Tools for Ensuring that Settlements are ‘Fair, Reasonable, and
Adequate.”
September 2–4, 2004: Speaker at the Judicial Training Program, Fair Trading Commission of
Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, presenting speeches entitled, “Dominant Firms and Mergers,”
“Dominant Firms: Exclusionary Practices,” “Dominant Firms: Abusive Practices Related to
Price,” “Dominant Firms: Definition, Test for Dominance,” “Vertical Agreements; Tyings and
Refusals to Deal,” “Vertical Agreements: Distribution Restrictions,” “Other Agreements
Between Competitors,” “Cartels and Bid-rigging,” and “The Judge’s Role in Competition
Cases.”
July 8, 2004: Speaker at King’s College London, University of London Centre of European Law,
London, United Kingdom, “Antitrust in the United States Supreme Court: A Review of the
2003–2004 Term.”
May 23, 2004: Commencement speaker at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent
College of Law’s graduation ceremony, Chicago, Illinois, “The Value of Law.”
April 27, 2004: Speaker at the Katz Lecture, presented by The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Ilinois, “To Administer Justice Without Respect to Persons.”
April 1, 2004: Presenter at the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law Chair’s
Showcase Program entitled, “Cutting-Edge Issues in International Antitrust Litigation:
Jurisdiction, Remedies and the Limits of U.S. Antitrust Law,” Washington, DC, “The Incredible
Shrinking Per Se Rule: Is An End In Sight?”
December 9, 2003: Featured panelist at the City Bar’s 2003 Milton Handler Annual Antitrust
Review, presented by the Committee on Antitrust & Trade Regulation of The Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, held in New York, New York, “The U.S. Antitrust Laws in a
Global Context.”
November 14, 2003: Speaker at the Program on International Law for Federal Judges at the
Institute of Judicial Administration, New York University School of Law, co-sponsored by the
Federal Judicial Center & Institute for International Law and Justice, New York, New York,
“Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law.”
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November 7, 2003: Panelist at a conference presented by the Trade Law Centre for Southern
Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, regarding the international enforcement of the U.S. antitrust
laws.
October 31, 2003: Participant in a roundtable discussion about international law in United States
courts at the American Society of International Law’s Judicial Outreach Program, Washington,
DC.
October 17, 2003: Speaker at the Cordell Hull Institute’s Trade Policy Roundtable event entitled,
“Investment and Competition Rules after Cancún,” Washington, DC, regarding why the WTO
should not adopt a competition code.
October 1, 2003: Panelist at the Fifth Annual Antitrust Conference entitled, “Antitrust and Trade
Issues: Increasing Exposure To Multiple Jurisdictions,” presented by Steptoe & Johnson LLP
and Analysis Group, Inc., Washington, DC, “Procedural Issues: Procedural Fairness,
Convergence, and Confidentiality, International Competition Enforcement: Cross Border
Mergers and Acquisitions.”
August 20, 2003: Speaker at the American Constitution Society, Chicago Chapter, Chicago,
Illinois, “Reflections on the Rule of Law in Times of Stress.”
June 19, 2003: Speaker at the International Bar Association’s conference entitled, “Plotting
Litigation Strategy in the Global Context,” Chicago, Illinois, “Transnational Litigation in 2003:
Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?”
June 12, 2003: Speaker delivering observations and closing remarks at the European Policy
Centre’s Competition and Intellectual Property: Transatlantic Perspectives symposium, Brussels,
Belgium.
May 12, 2003: Speaker at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute, Chicago,
Illinois, “The Structure of Sovereignty.”
May 5, 2003: Moderator at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and
Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “International Discovery.”
May 2, 2003: Speaker at the National Legal Symposium sponsored by the Patient Advocate
Foundation/Loyola University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois.
April 22, 2003: Speaker at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research’s
conference entitled, “The New Antitrust Paradox – Policy Proliferation in the Global Economy,”
Washington, DC, “Cooperation and Convergence in International Antitrust: Why the Light Is
Still Yellow.”
November 18, 2002: Featured speaker at the John E. Sullivan Lecture, Capital University Law
School, Columbus, Ohio, “The Brave New World of Arbitration.”
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November 1, 2002: Speaker at the Fordham Corporate Law Institute’s Twenty-Ninth Annual
Conference on International Antitrust Law & Policy, New York, New York, “The Courts and
Private Antitrust Actions.”
October 24–25, 2002: Speaker at the American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law’s
Antitrust Masters Course, Sea Island, Georgia, “The Tough Issues in Agreements Between
Competitors,” “Effective Appellate (and other) Advocacy,” and “Joint Ventures.”
September 20, 2002: Speaker at the Global Antitrust Law and Policy conference presented by the
University of Minnesota Law School, honoring Dean E. Thomas Sullivan, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, “Soft Harmonization Among Competition Laws: Track Records and Prospects.”
September 14, 2002: Speaker at the Second Annual National Symposium on Class Actions,
presented by the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Ontario, “Judge’s
Perspective.”
August 3, 2002: Keynote speaker at the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand,
Wellington, New Zealand: “What’s in a Phrase? How Competing Standards for Merger Review
Make a Difference.”
July 25–27, 2002: Speaker at the Ninth Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Court of Study for
Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ Bars entitled, “Current Developments in Employment Law,” Santa
Fe, New Mexico, regarding topics such as recent developments for Title VII, Americans with
Disabilities Act, and other employment law matters.
July 8, 2002: Speaker at the Institute of Judicial Administration New York University School of
Law, Appellate Judges Seminar, New York, New York, “Theories of Judicial Decision-Making.”
June 28–29, 2002: Speaker and facilitator at the Workshop on Judicial Enforcement of
Competition Law, organized by the United States Agency for International Development, the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Competition Tribunal of
South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, “Recent developments in competition law: Recent
deveopments in the United States,” “Judicial review of competitoin cases: The U.S. experience,”
“The accommodation of multiple criteria in competition cases: Multiple criteria in the
competition analytical framework; multiple criteria in the application of regulatory and public
policy in specific sectors,” and “Standards of proof – restrictive agreements.”
March 14–15, 2002: Speaker at La Cour de Cassation, Judging Under Common Law Seminar,
Paris, France, “Les Tiers Intervenants.”
March 13, 2002: Speaker at the French Judges’ School (École Nationale de la Magistrature),
Bordeaux, France, presenting a lecture regarding the United States legal system.
March 12, 2002: Speaker at the Ministry of Justice, Paris, France, “Judging in the United States:
The Experience of a U.S. Federal Judge.”
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January 17, 2002: Speaker at the Guidelines for Merger Remedies: Prospects and Principles
conference, organized by Ecole de Mines de Paris and University of California at Berkeley
School of Law, Paris, France, “A Comparison of Merger Review and Remedy Procedures in the
United States and the European Union.”
November 8, 2001: Panel moderator at The Sedona Conference Antitrust Law & Litigation 2001,
Sedona, Arizona, “Exclusive Dealing as Monopolization and Restraint of Trade: Microsoft, Toys
R Us, & More.”
November 8, 2001: Panelist at The Sedona Conference Antitrust Law & Litigation 2001, Sedona,
Arizona, “Merger Enforcement in the US and EU: Lessons Learned from the General Electric
and Honeywell Merger Investigations.”
October 23, 2001: Speaker at the Class Action Conference, presented by the Advisory
Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, held at The University of Chicago Law
School, Chicago, Illinois, “Control of Conflicting or Overlapping Class Actions: Mechanisms
Other Than Preclusion.”
October 16, 2001: Panelist at “The Advanced Forum on Antitrust Litigation: What You Need to
Know to Win Your Case in Today’s Changing Landscape,” presented by the American
Conference Institute, Washington, DC, “A View from the Bench.”
August 7, 2001: Participant in the American Bar Association’s 2001 Annual Meeting, mock oral
argument entitled, “The Case the Supreme Court Did Not Hear: Antitrust Law v. Intellectual
Property,” Chicago, Illinois.
August 4, 2001: Panelist at The Death Penalty Moratorium: Cause and Effect program presented
by the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association at its 2001 Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois, “Perspective of a Federal Judge.”
June 1, 2001: Commentator at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum designed to encourage the
work of young scholars by providing experience in the pursuit of scholarship and the nature of
scholarly exchange, Stanford, California, “Session 5: Antitrust.”
May 5, 2001: Commencement speaker at the Indiana University School of Law graduation
ceremony, Bloomington, Indiana.
May 5, 2001: Panelist at The Lawyer’s Workshop, presented by the Illinois State Bar
Association’s Standing Committee on Minority and Women Participation, Chicago, Illinois,
“Workshop Two: Appellate Practice – Federal & State,” speaking on the topic of brief writing.
April 12, 2001: Speaker at the Georgia Law Review Spring Banquet at The University of
Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, “Words, Words, Words.”
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April 9, 2001: Speaker at the 1st Annual Midwest Antitrust Colloquium, presented by Loyola
University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Cooperation and the (a) Global Competition
Forum.”
April 7, 2001: Moderator at the American Society of International Law’s 95th Annual Meeting
entitled, “The Visible College of International Law,” Washington, DC, “Academic Publishers
and International Law.”
March 15–16, 2001: Speaker at the Supreme Judicial Qualifying Collegium Russian-American
Workshop on Judicial Selection, Ethics and Discipline and Carrying out Inspections on
Complaints about Judicial Actions, sponsored by the United States Agency for International
Development, Moscow, Russia, “How the U.S. Courts Address Claims of Judicial Misconduct,”
and “Selection of Judges in the United States.”
December 8–10, 2000: Speaker at the Competition Policy in a Globalised Economy conference
at The Ditchley Foundation, Ditchley Park, England, regarding international applications of
antitrust law.
December 6, 2000: Panelist at the Colloquium on Competition Law, Chambre de Commerce et
d’industre de Paris, Roundtable No. 1: Market Definition and Agreements, Paris, France, “The
Many Faces of Market Analysis.”
October 17, 2000: Moderator at the Workshop for Judges of the Seventh Circuit, presented by
The Federal Judicial Center, Madison, Wisconsin, “Prisoner cases, § 1983, Habeas Issues –
Panel Discussion.”
September 29, 2000: Panelist at the Fulcrum Information Services’ Antitrust 2001 conference,
Washington, DC, “Antitrust Outside of the U.S.: It Is Now Almost Everywhere.”
August 21, 2000: Speaker at the World Trade Forum 2000: The Role of the Judge, Bern,
Switzerland, “A U.S. Perspective on Ducks.”
July 28, 2000: Panelist at the Seventh Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Court of Study for Plaintiffs’
and Defendants’ Bars entitled, “Current Developments in Employment Law,” Santa Fe, New
Mexico, “Judicial Views on the Litigation of Employment Cases.”
July 12, 2000: Speaker/instructor at the New York University School of Law Institute of Judicial
Administration’s 2000 Appellate Judges Seminar – New Appellate Judges Series, New York,
New York, “Statutory Interpretation.”
June 26, 2000: Panelist at the ANZSIL/ASIL 2000 Conference: International Legal Challenges
for the 21st Century, Sydney, Australia, “Panel 2: Formulating and Enforcing Competition Law
in a Global Economy,” with remarks entitled, “International Anti-Trust Enforcement: The
Virtues of Cooperation.”
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June 2, 2000: Speaker at the EU Competition Workshop 2000: The Modernization of EC
Antitrust Policy, Florence, Italy, “Courts and Judges: Techniques of Judicial Federalism.”
April 6, 2000: Panel chair at the American Society of International Law’s 94th Annual Meeting
entitled, “International Law in Ferment: A New Vision for Theory and Practice,” Washington,
DC, “The History of International Law: Universality and Particularity.”
March 14, 2000: Speaker at the Center for International and Comparative Law, University of
Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, “International Competition Law: Is Europe the
Model for the World?”
February 18, 2000: Speaker at the Cutting Edge Antitrust seminar entitled, “Issues and
Enforcement Policies and Their Underlying Economic Theories,” presented by Law Seminars
International, New York, New York, “International Competition Policy – Convergence/
Cooperation?”
January 26, 2000: Panelist at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Bench & Bar Conference, presented
by the Appellate Practice Section, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Clash of the Titans: Watch Seasoned
Supreme Court Advocates Argue Before a Panel of Judges from the Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals. Learn How They Prepare for Battle, and See How Judges React.”
November 19, 1999: Panelist at Law Seminars International, Cutting Edge Antitrust: Issues and
Enforcement Policies and Their Underlying Economic Theories, San Francisco, California,
“Advanced Trial Techniques in the Modern Age.”
November 11, 1999: Commentator at Mass Torts: A Symposium, sponsored by the David Berger
Program on Complex Litigation and The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, in
conjunction with The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
“Commentary on ‘The Futures Problem’ by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.”
October 2, 1999: Speaker at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Trade Practices Act: A
Celebration and Stocktake, The University of Melbourne Business School and Law School,
Melbourne, Australia, “The Evolution of Antitrust Law in the United States of America.”
September 20, 1999: Speaker at the Blankenbaker Lecture on Professional Responsibility,
University of Montana School of Law, Missoula, Montana, “The Measure of a Lawyer’s Ethical
I.Q.”
August 10, 1999: Speaker at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, Section of
Litigation, Atlanta, Georgia, “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace After Faragher and Ellerth:
Arguing About What Was and Was Not Decided.”
June 18, 1999: Speaker at the Illinois Human Rights Commission’s presentation to
Administrative Law Judges, Chicago, Illinois, regarding the changing formulation of the prima
facie case in Title VII cases.
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May 29, 1999: Commencement speaker at the Northern Illinois University College of Law,
DeKalb, Illinois, “Law: Who Needs It? Who Makes It? What’s It For?”
April 16, 1999: Speaker at the Federal Judicial Center, Federal Appellate Jurisdiction: Its
Elements and Its Evolving Content, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, “Domestic and
International Arbitration.”
March 27, 1999: Panelist at the American Society of International Law’s 93rd Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, “Panel: Comparative Antitrust.”
March 19, 1999: Speaker at Competing Competition Laws: Do We Need a Global Standard?
conference, organized by New England School of Law Center for International Law and Policy,
Boston, Massachusetts, “Is Cooperation Possible?”
March 4, 1999: Panelist at The 1999 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy,
presented by The Conference Board, New York, New York, “A Baxter Retrospective: What is
the Baxter antitrust legacy and how much of it will endure?”
February 20, 1999: Keynote speaker at the Third Annual Women’s Law Symposium, Myra
Bradwell Lecture, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, “Women Lawyers:
Men in Skirts?”
February 11, 1999: Speaker at the Distinguished Jurist Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania
Institute of Law and Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “The Mystery of Doomed
Employment Litigation.”
January 26, 1999: Speaker at the Chicago Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Committee
Seminar: Hot Issues as the Year 2000 Approaches, Chicago, Illinois, The Prima Facie Case
Formulation: How It Is Changing, and How It Affects You.”
November 4, 1998: Panelist in the Roundtable Hearings Program presented by the International
Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney
General For Antitrust, Washington, DC, “Session Two: Panel in International Antitrust
Cooperation: Bilateral and Plurilateral Efforts (Part I).”
October 23, 1998: Moderator at the Fordham Corporate Law Institute’s Annual Conference:
International Antitrust Law & Policy, Fordham University School of Law, New York, New
York, “Antitrust and the Courts – Roundtable.”
October 17, 1998: Speaker at the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly presentation of The
Jurisprudence of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, University of California, Hastings College of Law,
San Francisco, California, “Justice Harry A. Blackmun and the Responsibility of Judging.”
October 12–14, 1998: Commenter at the China Conference: The Chinese Judicial System,
presented by The University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, regarding my visit to
China in 1997 and my exposure to Chinese appellate judges.
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September 23, 1998: Speaker at the ALI-ABA Video Law Review presentation of Workplace
Harassment Litigation: Update on Supreme Court Decisions – Current Harassment Litigation
Issues from Plaintiff, Defendant, and Judicial Perspectives, Washington, DC.
July 7, 1998: Speaker at the Visit of Representatives of the Law Schools Participating in the
Dean Acheson Legal Stage Programme, “Dean Acheson Delegation,” Luxembourg, “The Role
of Courts in the Development of the Law.”
June 27, 1998: Speaker at the New York University School of Law Engelberg Center on
Innovation Law and Policy conference entitled, “Intellectual Products: Novel Claims to
Protection and Their Boundaries,” Florence, Italy, “Intellectual Property in the Courts: The Role
of the Judge.”
June 15–16, 1998: Presenter at the New York University School of Law Institute of Judicial
Administration’s Appellate Judges Seminar – Advanced Appellate Judges Series, New York,
New York, “Federalism in the Federal Courts,” and “Law and Economics: Applications for the
Appellate Judge.”
April 16, 1998: Panelist at Yale Law School’s judicial panel on “Gender and the Bench,” New
Haven, Connecticut.
February 27, 1998: Panelist at the Fordham School of Law Center on European Union Law and
International Antitrust’s presentation of The European Union and the United States:
Constitutional Systems in Evolution conference, New York, New York, “Federalism: Essential
Concepts in Evolution.”
February 12, 1998: Speaker at Marquette University Law School, addressing first-year law
students, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Traps and Springs for the Hapless Lawyer: Waiver in
Contemporary Litigation.”
February 12, 1998: Speaker at the E. Harold Hallows Lecture, Marquette University Law School,
“Federalism in the Federal Courts.”
September 12, 1997: Speaker at The World Trade Forum entitled, “Trade Liberalization and
Property Ownership: State-Trading in the 21st Century,” Bern, Switzerland, “State Trading in the
United States.”
June 11–21, 1997: Distinguished lecturer, New York University School of Law program
(sponsored by the Ford Foundation); lectures to Chinese judges in Shanghai and Wuhan, and at
Peking University, Beijing, on the subject of appellate courts and appellate review.
May 24, 1997: Commencement speaker at the Loyola University School of Law graduation
ceremony, Chicago, Illinois, “Law: Who Needs It? Who Makes It? What’s It For?”
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April 24, 1997: Keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual Spring Meeting of the American Bar
Association’s Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law entitled, “The
Tangled Web: The Evolving Relationship Between Regulation and Antitrust in the Transition to
Competitive Provisioning of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Services,”
Washington, DC, “Riding on the Deregulation Bandwagon.”
April 11, 1997: Panelist at the 91st Annual Meeting of The American Society of International
Law entitled, “Implementation, Compliance and Effectiveness,” Washington, DC, “Regulatory
Cooperation for Effectiveness and Compliance: Strategies for Joint Action Among Securities,
Banking, and Antitrust Regulators.”
March 13, 1997: Speaker at the Fourteenth Competition Policy Conference: “The Devil in the
Detail,” presented by The EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium,
Brussels, Belgium, “‘Federal’ Competition Law Enforcement: Boon or Bane?”
March 6, 1997: Panelist at The Conference Board’s 1997 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues
in Today’s Economy, New York, New York, “Economics as Junk Science: Using Daubert to
Challenge Expert Testimony in Antitrust Trials.”
February 11, 1997: Presenter of the Irving L. Goldberg Lecture at Southern Methodist University
Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas, “Generalist Judges in a Specialized World.”
November 22, 1996: Speaker at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s presentation of
The Hon. Hubert L. Will Conference: Antitrust Law for the New Millennium, Chicago, Illinois,
“U.S. Antitrust Laws and the Global Market: National and Extraterritorial Enforcement.”
November 19, 1996: Speaker at A Tour Guide for the Occasional Appellate Lawyer: Part II,
presented by The Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois, “Stating the Legal Issues.”
October 24, 1996: Speaker at the Seminar on Judicial Enforcement of Competition Law
presented by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France, “The
Role of Economics in Competition Cases.”
September 21, 1996: Panelist at the Illinois Association Defense Trial Counsel’s Fall
Conference, Galena, Illinois, “A Discussion of Ethics and Professional Responsibility.”
July 11, 1996: Speaker at the Centre for Applied Studies in International Economics
Brainstorming Conference entitled, “Anti-Dumping and Competition Policy: Complementary or
Supplementary,” Geneva, Switzerland, “How to Make Anti-Dumping Laws More ‘CompetitionFriendly’.”
June 19, 1996: Speaker at the Academics and Negotiators Evening Seminars held at the Graduate
Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, “International Standards for Competition
Law: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Yet Come.”
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May 21, 1996: Speaker at Current Developments in Federal Civil Procedure seminar, presented
by Chicago Bar Association Committee on Federal Civil Procedure, Chicago, Illinois, “Trial
Procedure from the Appellate Perspective: The Case of Jurisdiction.”
May 19, 1996: Speaker at The University of Texas School of Law Sunflower Ceremony, Austin,
Texas, “Law: Who Needs It? Who Makes It? What’s It For?”
May 13, 1996: Panelist at The Second Annual Health Care Antitrust Forum, Chicago, Illinois,
“Panel Discussion: Joint Ventures – Panacea or Pandora’s Present?”
May 10, 1996: Speaker at the ILEX Delegation and Briefing Trip to Brussels and Luxembourg,
“New Directions in Antitrust Law Convergence: Comparative Analysis of Competition Laws of
the European Communities, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and
Canada, presented by the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice,
Luxembourg, “Court of the First Instance.”
April 22, 1996: Speaker at the 1996 Kormendy Lecture presented by the Ohio Northern
University Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ada, Ohio, “Regulation in the Single Global
Market: From Anarchy to World Federalism.”
April 19, 1996: Panelist at the “Workshop on Implementation of Antitrust Rules in a ‘Federal’
Context,” held at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, “Panel 2: The Role of
Judges.”
March 30, 1996: Speaker at the National Law Review Conference at Northwestern University
School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “Come in, Rangoon… .”
March 7, 1996: Speaker at The 1996 Antitrust Conference: Antitrust Issues in Today’s Economy,
presented by The Conference Board, New York, New York, “Bridging Cultural Differences.”
March 5, 1996: Speaker at Inside Insights – The Illinois Legal System: Is Justice Served?,
presented by The Community House and Lord, Bissell & Brook, Hinsdale, Illinois.
October 6, 1995: Speaker at the Public Policy & Global Technological Integration symposium
presented by The Library of International Relations at Illinois Institute of Technology ChicagoKent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, “A Cooperative Framework for National Regulators.”
September 19, 1995: Speaker at the International Bar Association, Section of Business Law’s
12th Biennial Conference, Paris, France, regarding antitrust and trade law across frontiers.
September 9, 1995: Speaker at The Campaign for Harvard Law School Victory Celebration,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Regulating the Transnational Economy: Competition, Cooperation,
and Litigation.”
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August 10, 1995: Panelist at the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law PostAnnual Meeting, Hot Springs, Virginia, “General Session: A Roundtable discussion on Antitrust
Law and Competition Policy in America including its connection with International Trade
Policy.”
May 6, 1995: Speaker at the International Economic Law Conference, Washington, DC, “The
Trade Effects of Domestic Antitrust Enforcement.”
PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Law reform efforts, particularly in the fields of federal courts and procedure and antitrust law,
through the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development, and other institutions.
Member, Senior Advisory Group, Civil Justice Project, the Brookings Institution (1989–90),
which conducted a detailed study of the problems of cost and delay in the federal civil justice
system, and recommended legislation that led to the enactment of the Civil Justice Reform Act of
1990.
Member, Advisory Board, DePaul University College of Law’s International Human Rights Law
Institute (2000–2007).
Member, Board of Trustees, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin (2000–2006).
Faculty advisor, The University of Chicago, provided guidance to student working group for a
new sexual harassment policy for the university, which led to the enactment by the full faculty of
the first comprehensive policy on this topic, (1989–1991); advisor to other student groups,
including the Law Women’s Caucus and the Progressive Law Students’ Association,
(1986–1993).
Board member, Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Health Center, a small community-based
health care organization, (1983–1985).
Lecturer for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, Pretoria, South
Africa, (June 2002); Lecturer for the U.S. government before the Ministry of Justice, the Cour de
Cassation and the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, France, (March 2002); frequent participant
in the International Visitor Program.
Pro bono legal work for the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights while in private practice,
(1977–1980).
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AWARDS
June 29, 2015: Recipient of the Decalogue Society Award presented by the Decalogue Society of
Lawyers at the 81st Anniversary Dinner & Installation, Chicago, Illinois.
December 2, 2014: Recipient of the Unity Award from The Diversity Scholarship Foundation, in
recognition of significant contributions to the legal community and the community at large,
including embracing diversity and the ideals diversity represents, Chicago, Illinois.
October 25, 2014: Recipient of an Honored Alumna award, 2nd Annual Distinguished Alumni
Gala, Spring Branch Education Foundation, Westchester High School, for significant efforts to
support education, Houston, Texas.
March 28, 2014: Recipient of the Texas Law Review Association’s Leon Green Award for
outstanding contributions to the legal profession, Austin, Texas.
February 25, 2014: Dedicatee of the New York University Annual Survey of American Law
School, Volume 71, featuring tributes and scholarship of the dedicatee’s achievements and
contributions to American Law, New York University School of Law, New York, New York.
September 26, 2013: Recipient of the United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Award given by the Chicago Bar Foundation and the Chicago Bar Association in recognition of
attorneys who best exemplify Justice Stevens’ commitment to public service and integrity while
practicing law, Chicago, Illinois.
September 24, 2013: Recipient of the Judge Joel Flaum Award, presented by the Chicago Inn of
Court and awarded annually to a member of the Chicago legal community who embodies the
principles of the American Inns of Court, Chicago, Illinois.
April 19, 2012: Awarded the Honorary Fellows Award from the Fellows Officers and the Board
of Directors of the Illinois Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, presented to persons of distinction
among lawyers whose professional and public careers set an example to which others aspire.
October 22, 2010: Recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award from The Texas Exes, The
University of Texas at Austin, granted annually to alumni who have distinguished themselves
professionally and through service to The University of Texas.
August 4, 2010: Recipient of the Barbara Jordan Outstanding Public Service Award conferred by
the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International, in recognition for lifetime commitment and
contributions to the “rule of law” and the judicial system.
April 23, 2010: Recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award from The University of Texas
School of Law Alumni Association, presented to honor a graduate who has made outstanding
contributions no only to the legal profession, but to society as a whole.
2006, “The Leading Judges in America—The Lawdragon 500,” Lawdragon, Vol. 1, Issue 2.
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April 2004: Named by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of Chicago’s 100 most powerful women.
October 2002: Named by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine to its 20th Anniversary Hall of
Fame (honoring top 100 women leaders in Chicago).
April 22, 1999: Recipient of the Mary Heftel Hooton Award, given by Women’s Bar Association
of Illinois, bestowed to a lawyer or judge who has advanced the cause of women.
February 1998: Named as one of year’s 25 most influential working mothers, by Working
Mother Magazine.
March 7, 1996: American Society of International Law; honored as a Prominent Woman in
International Law.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Admitted to the Bars of Texas, (1975, resigned 1996 after becoming federal judge); the District
of Columbia, (1978, resigned 2007); and Illinois, (1993–present).
Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Member, American Law Institute, (1990–present); elected to Council, (May 2003).
Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, (2004–present); appointed to Midwest Council,
(2007); Council Member, (2010–2017); Trust Member, (2010–2017); and Board Member,
(2013–2017).
Honorary Member, Phi Alpha Delta International.
Member, The Chicago Network, (1996–2009, 2013–present); a social, nonpartisan association of
professional women in Chicago.
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on International Judicial Relations,
(2004–October 2007).
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Rules of Practice and
Procedure, (October 2007–2013).
Member, American Society of International Law, (1978–2010); Executive Council Member,
(1997–2004); Vice-President, (1998–2000); member of steering group on international law in the
federal courts.
Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law, (2003–2010).
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Former member, American Bar Association, and former member of the ABA Section of
Antitrust Law and the ABA Section of International Law and Practice.
Leadership positions in the ABA Section of Antitrust Law included the following:
Member, ABA Commission on Ethics 20-20, (2009–2010); Judicial Liasion to the Section
Council, (2003–2006); Vice-chair of the Subcommittee on International Unfair Competition of
the International Antitrust Committee, (1989–1991); Vice-chair of the International Antitrust
Committee, (1989–1991); and participant on numerous Section Task Forces and Working
Groups, including the Task Force on Ancillary Business Practices of Lawyers, the Task Force on
Competition Law of Bulgaria, the Task Force on Antitrust and the Global Economy, and the
Working Group on the Japan Fair Trade Commission’s Antimonopoly Law Guidelines,
(1991–1995).
Leadership positions in the ABA Section of International Law and Practice included the
following: First holder of Section Officer position of International Legal Scholar, (1991–1993);
Section Council Member, (1989–1991); Co-chair of the International Antitrust Committee,
(1987–1990); and Chair of the Committee on Bilateral Investment Treaties.
Participation in the ABA Public Education Division included the following: Contributing
editor, Preview of the United States Supreme Court Cases, authoring numerous brief articles
summarizing important cases to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, in areas including
antitrust, civil procedure, and land use controls, (1984–1988).
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND TRAVEL
French (very good); Russian and German (fair competence); have also studied Latin. Have
traveled, taught, and lectured extensively across six continents, visiting such places as the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, China, India, South Korea, the
Philippines, Madagascar, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Guatemala, Chile, and
Argentina.
PERSONAL DATA
Born July 4, 1950, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA.
Married to Dr. Robert L. Sufit; three children, three step-children, and two grandchildren.
Hobbies: Music (oboe, English horn, and piano; member of the Chicago Bar Association
Symphony Orchestra and of the West Suburban Concert Band; former member of the North
Shore Chamber Orchestra; occasional work with other area orchestras); reading; handcrafts.
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