B.A., Yale; J.D., University of Chicago. Lee Liberman Otis is the Senior Vice President and Faculty Division Director of the Federalist Society. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference (ACUS), and as the co-chair of the National Constitution Center's Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board. She previously was a special assistant and an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Department of Energy, an associate in the appellate section of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, an associate counsel to President George H.W. Bush, and a law clerk to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. She also served as an assistant professor of law at George Mason, where she taught legislation, federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, civil procedure, and appellate advocacy. Ms. Otis has been an important member of the Federalist Society team since the organization’s beginnings 25 years ago. Together with David McIntosh, she led the effort to start what became the Chicago chapter of the Society. She also helped organize the Society’s first conference at Yale, its second conference at Chicago, and its first Lawyers Division chapter in Washington DC, as well as the effort to incorporate the Society, recruit its permanent staff, and obtain its early funding. She was a Founding Director of the Federalist Society.
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Careers in Legal Academia
Georgetown Law Student Chapter
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Washington, DC 20001
Breakout Session B: Becoming an Academic
2022 National Student Symposium
University of Virginia School of Law580 Massie Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Becoming an Academic
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
University of California, Berkeley, School of LawBoalt Hall, 225 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
Supreme Court Preview: What Is in Store for October Term 2021?
Co-Sponsored by the Faculty Division and Practice Groups
The Mayflower Hotel, Grand Ballroom1127 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC 20036
Becoming an Academic
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- University of California Berkeleyhttps://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98960043629
Berkeley , CA 94720
In Memoriam Orrin Hatch
In 1976, when I was still in college and the world was young, a 43...
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The Federalist Society Lawyers Division: The First Ten Years (1986-1996) [Archive Collection]
A Retrospective
For the 1996 National Lawyers Convention, the Federalist Society released a retrospective on the first...
Supreme Court Preview: What Is in Store for October Term 2021?
Co-Sponsored by the Faculty Division and Practice Groups
On September 22, 2021, the Federalist Society's Faculty Division and Practice Groups hosted a panel at the Mayflower...
Welcome & Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment Division v. Smith Should be Overruled
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Welcome12:00 pm - 12:15pm Hon. Lee Liberman Otis, The Federalist Society Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment...
Supreme Court Preview: What Is in Store for October Term 2020?
Co-Sponsored by the Faculty Division and Practice Groups
On October 1, 2020, the Federalist Society's Faculty Division and Practice Groups hosted a virtual...