Reining in the Administrative State

Silicon Valley Lawyers Chapter

Speakers:

• Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

• Joanne Medero, Managing Director at BlackRock 

Speakers:

• Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

• Joanne Medero, Managing Director at BlackRock 

Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, focuses his scholarship on constitutional law and its history. In his new book, Professor Hamburger asks, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, and he answers this question in the affirmative, arguing that administrative law has returned American government and society to precisely the sort of consolidated or absolute power that the US Constitution--and constitutions in general--were designed to prevent.  

 

Professor Hamburger's previous publications include Separation of Church and State (Harvard 2002); "Religious Liberty in Philadelphia," Emory Law Journal (2005); "The New Censorship:  Institutional Review Boards," Supreme Court Review (2004); "More is Less," Virginia Law Review (2004); "Law and Judicial Duty," George Washington Law Review (2003); "Liberality," Texas Law Review(2002); "Revolution and Judicial Review:  Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood," Columbia Law Review (1994).  Before Columbia, Professor Hamburger was the John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Director of the Bigelow Program and the Legal History Program.  Earlier, he was the Oswald Symyster Colclough Research Professor at George Washington University Law School and a Professor at the University of Connecticut Law School.  He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and at Northwestern Law School, where he was the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law.  Earlier, he was an Associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis in Philadelphia.

Joanne Medero is Managing Director at BlackRock with responsibilities for government relations and public policy and extensive experience dealing with the regulatory state.  Ms. Medero's service with BlackRock dates back to 1996, including her years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Ms. Medero joined BGI as its Global General Counsel and after more than ten years in that role, became the global head of Government Relations and Public Policy for Barclays' investment banking and investment  management businesses. Prior to joining BGI, Ms. Medero was a partner with Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, in their New York office, specializing in derivatives and market regulation issues. Ms. Medero also served as general counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as an associate director for legal and financial affairs at the Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House, from 1986 to 1989.  Ms. Medero earned a BA degree, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa, from St. Lawrence University in 1975 and a JD degree, with honors, from the National Law Center of George Washington University in 1978.

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