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Jan 3 2020
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7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-B

22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference

Washington, DC
Speakers:
Juscelino F. Colares • Julie Hill • Michael E. Lewyn • Adam Mossoff • Seth C. Oranburg • Stefan J. Padfield • Kenneth M. Rosen • Aaron D. Simowitz
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Nov 9 2017
Thursday 12:00 p.m. EDT    

Police Body Camera Legislation

Duquesne Student Chapter

Pittsburgh, PA
Speakers:
Tim Lynch • John Rago
Topics:
Criminal Law & Procedure
Sponsors:
Duquesne Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Sep 26 2017
Tuesday 12:00 p.m.    

Trinity Lutheran

Speakers:
Richard F. Duncan • Bruce Ledewitz
Topics:
Religious Liberties • Free Speech & Election Law
Sponsors:
Pittsburgh Student Chapter
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Jul 20 2017
Thursday 12:00 p.m.    

The Future of the Administrative State: A Look at the Shaping of Administrative Authority, Deference, and Related Presidential Powers

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speakers:
William P. Marshall • Joseph Mistick • Adam White
Topics:
Administrative Law & Regulation
Sponsors:
Pittsburgh Lawyer Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Apr 12 2017
Wednesday 12:00 p.m. EDT    

A Primer on Cyber Security and the Law

Pittsburgh, PA
Speakers:
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz • Seth C. Oranburg
Topics:
Telecommunications & Electronic Media
Sponsors:
Duquesne Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Jan 5 2017
Thursday 10:30 a.m. PDT    

7 Minute Presentations of Works in Progress Panel 1-B

19th Annual Faculty Conference

San Francisco, CA
Speakers:
Dmitry Karshtedt • Jeremy Kidd • Jake Linford • George A. Mocsary • Nadia E. Nedzel • Seth C. Oranburg
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Nov 3 2016
Thursday 12:00 p.m.    

Making Green: Finance, Prohibition, and Ethics in the Marijuana Industry

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Wesley Oliver • Seth C. Oranburg • Mark Yochum
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Criminal Law & Procedure
Sponsors:
Duquesne Student Chapter
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Mar 17 2016
Thursday 12:00 a.m.    

The Evolution of the Exclusionary Rule

Speakers:
Michael R. Dimino • Wesley Oliver
Topics:
Criminal Law & Procedure
Sponsors:
Duquesne Student Chapter
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Mar 17 2015
Tuesday 12:00 a.m.    

The Role of the Police: Preventing & Remedying Police Misconduct

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Speakers:
Alicia Hilton • John Rago
Topics:
Criminal Law & Procedure
Sponsors:
Duquesne Student Chapter
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Nov 20 2014
Thursday 12:00 p.m.    

Should the Death Penalty Be Executed?

Speakers:
Bruce Ledewitz • William G. Otis
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Religious Liberties
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Duquesne Student Chapter
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Juscelino F. Colares

Juscelino F. Colares

Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and Professor of Political Science; Associate Dean for Global Legal Studies, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Biography

Juscelino F. Colares is Associate Dean for Global Legal Studies and Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law. He is also Co-director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and Professor of Political Science, with a secondary appointment in Case Western Reserve University's College of Arts and Sciences. Colares teaches civil procedure, conflict of laws and variety of courses and seminars on international business law and regulatory law. His scholarship focuses on interjurisdictional conflicts between national regulatory law and local, supranational or international norms in areas ranging from commercial law to corruption and from trade to environmental law. Colares's research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of World Trade, Jurimetrics, Revista dos Tribunais (Brazil), Columbia Journal of European Law, Cornell International Law Journal and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.

A former clerk for the Hon. Jean-Louis Debré, former Chief Justice of the Conseil constitutionnel (the French Constitutional Court) (2008-09 term) and visiting professor at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, Colares, was born in Brazil and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Colares practiced law at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in Washington, D.C., where he litigated trade cases before federal agencies, federal courts and NAFTA panels.

The 2018 recipient of the School of Law's Distinguished Law Faculty Research Award, Colares was awarded an endowed chair in 2015. Colares served as Vice-Chair, Chair and Past-Chair of the CWRU Faculty Senate (2016-19) and was recently reappointed by the Office of the United Trade Representative to serve on the United States Roster of NAFTA Chapter 19 (Trade) Panelists (serving since 2013).

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Julie Hill

Julie Hill

Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law

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Julie Andersen Hill is the Alton C. and Cecile Cunningham Craig Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law where she teaches banking and commercial law. Her scholarly work focuses on the unwritten rules of banking regulation. She often examines how regulators respond to financial innovation. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Hill practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. As part of the litigation group, she represented large financial institutions in government investigations. She also clerked for Judge Wade Brorby on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Professor Hill earned her undergraduate degree in economics summa cum laude from Southern Utah University and her J.D. summa cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

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Michael E. Lewyn

Michael E. Lewyn

Director of the Institute on Land Use and Sustainable Development and Associate Professor of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

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Michael Lewyn teaches property, land use and environmental law. Originally from Atlanta, he graduated from Wesleyan University and received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After clerking for two federal judges and practicing law for several years, he began his teaching career. Most of Professor Lewyn's scholarship focuses on urban and suburban development, and in particular the question of "sprawl": why some cities are walkable and full of vitality, while others have been overshadowed by suburbs where car ownership is a necessity.

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Adam Mossoff

Adam Mossoff

Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

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Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He has published extensively on why patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights have been—and should be—legally secured to innovators and creators as property rights. His scholarship has been relied on by the United States Supreme Court, by lower federal courts, and by U.S. federal agencies. He has been invited to testify numerous times before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives on intellectual property legislation. His writings on intellectual property policy have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, and in other media outlets. His journal articles can be downloaded here.

Professor Mossoff is a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Federalist Society, on which he served as Chairperson from 2016-2018, and he is Chair of the Intellectual Property Working Group of the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society.  He is a Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute, a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of ANSI and he has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA, on which he remains a member in good standing.

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Seth C. Oranburg

Seth C. Oranburg

Assistant Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law

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Professor Seth C. Oranburg studies the effect of law on innovation and the economy. His research includes Internet shareholder activism, crowdfunding, venture capital and angel investing, smart contracts, network effects, information brokerage, and other commercial activities that relate to securities regulation, corporate finance, business associations, contracts, and related legal issues. He publishes his research in esteemed journals such as the Rutgers University Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Fordham Journal of Corporate Law, and he has been interviewed by popular publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, AboveTheLaw.com, and CommPro.biz. 

Oranburg teaches Contracts and Corporations at Duquesne Law. Before joining the Duquesne faculty in 2016, he taught legal writing courses at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and taught Corporations, Closely Held Business Organizations, and Electronic Discovery of Digital Evidence at the Florida State University College of Law. Oranburg’s practice experience includes providing corporate counsel and managing venture capital transactions in Silicon Valley, Calif., and litigating antitrust matters in Washington, D.C. 

Oranburg graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida with a double major in political science and English. Oranburg is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the District of Columbia.

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Stefan J. Padfield

Professor of Law, The University of Akron School of Law

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Stefan J. Padfield writes in the field of corporate and securities law, publishing in law reviews as well as posting regularly on blogs and Twitter. His most recent published works have focused primarily on corporate theory. His areas of expertise cover a wide variety of business law topics. He is currently teaching Basic Business Associations, Corporations, Securities Regulation, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Professor Padfield received his B.A. from Brown University, and J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law. While in law school, he was a member of both the moot court team and symposium editor for the Kansas Law Review. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty, Professor Padfield clerked for The Hon. John R. Gibson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and The Hon. William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I. Professor Padfield also worked as a corporate attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, in New York City. His scholarship includes the articles "Is Puffery Material to Investors? Maybe We Should Ask Them," 10 U. Pa. J. Bus. & Emp. L. 339 (2008) (selected by the Akron Law Alumni Association for the Thomas G. Byers Memorial Award for Outstanding Faculty Publication), and "Who Should Do the Math? Materiality Issues in Disclosures That Require Investors to Calculate the Bottom Line," 34 Pepp. L. Rev. 927 (2007) (selected for inclusion in the Securities Law Review 2008). Professor Padfield is also a regular contributor to the Business Law Prof Blog.

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Kenneth M. Rosen

Kenneth M. Rosen

Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law

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Professor Rosen received his LLM with honors from the University of London, London School of Economics, in 1997, his JD from Yale Law School in 1994, and his BS from Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, in 1991 as a Merill Presidential Scholar. He served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Upon graduation from Yale, he clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama. From 1995 to 1996, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. From 1998 to 2002, he worked in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation, where he achieved the rank of Special Counsel. During his time at the Commission, he provided counsel on matters before the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, aided the restoration of financial markets following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, assisted with legislative drafting, and worked on matters including foreign market access, financial derivatives, market structure, and the regulation of exchanges and over-the-counter markets. While at the SEC, Professor Rosen received the Commission's Law and Policy Award and the Manuel F. Cohen Award from the Securities Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association. Before arriving at the University of Alabama, he served as the first Fellow for the Fordham University School of Law's Center for Corporate, Securities and Financial Law in New York City. He has spoken both in the United States and abroad at events sponsored by such organizations as the Association of American Law Schools, the American Society of International Law, the Law and Society Association, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Futures Industry Association, the Small Business Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Business Law, the Washington Campus, National Regulatory Services, and the United Kingdom's City and Financial Conferences.

Professor Rosen has taught multiple courses at the law school including business organizations, securities regulation, international business transactions, economy in crisis (public policy-making role-playing simulation course), integrated financial regulation (banking, commodities, securities, and insurance law), and conflict of laws. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration and has been appointed to The University of Alabama Graduate School faculty in connection with his work on PhD dissertation committees. His focus on inter-disciplinary matters also has led to his membership in organizations such as the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, and American Law and Economics Association.  He has advised The Journal of the Legal Profession and was awarded the Edward M. Friend Jr. Award in the year he coached the law school's team to its first appearance in the national final rounds as a super-regional champion in the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition.  He has served as Director of the law school's successful judicial clerkship program, and the law school's students selected him for the 2007-2008 Outstanding Faculty Member Award.

Since joining the legal academy, Professor Rosen continues his public policy work and has advised federal and state government officials.  His expertise is sought in various contexts. For example, he has testified before the Committee on Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives. Professor Rosen also currently serves as a Uniform Law Commissioner.  He was appointed to represent Alabama on the Uniform Law Commission by the Governor for a term of service that runs to April 4, 2023.

Professor Rosen also continues to be involved in legal matters around the globe.  He has advised on business law curricula in Ethiopia and has been selected to teach courses at Australia National University in Canberra, Pusan National University in Korea, and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.  He has served as Director of the law school's exchange program with the University of Fribourg. In addition, he has served as a Corresponding Editor for the American Society of International Law's International Legal Materials and as Co-Chair of ASIL’s Teaching International Law Interest Group. His work for the American Bar Association has included service to the Section of International Law and Practice.  His interest in development issues also has led to his participation in the World Bank's Law, Justice, and Development Week program and the International Finance Corporation's Doing Business Project.  Moreover, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Comparative Law and has been selected to be the United States Reporter on Company Law and the Law of Succession for the Congress of the Academy of International Comparative Law in Vienna, Austria.

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Aaron D. Simowitz

Aaron D. Simowitz

Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law

Biography

Professor Simowitz teaches international business transactions, debtor and creditor law, negotiation, and a seminar on resolving business disputes. His research focuses on cross-border business transactions, litigation, and arbitration. 

Before joining Willamette University College of Law, Simowitz was a research fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law and a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU. He taught International Litigation & Arbitration with Professor Linda Silberman and before that was an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program at NYU. He also taught International Business Transactions at Columbia Law School.

Simowitz received the 2014 Young Scholar’s Award from the American Society of International Law’s Private International Law Interest Group for his work on judgment and award enforcement against intangible assets. He practiced at the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and clerked for Judge D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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Tim Lynch

Tim Lynch

Adjunct Scholar and Former Director, Project On Criminal Justice, Cato Institute

Biography

Tim Lynch is an attorney specializing in criminal law, constitutional law, and civil liberties. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and the former director of Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice. His research interests include all aspects of constitutional criminal procedure, overcriminalization, the drug war, and police and prosecutorial misconduct. In 2000, he served on the National Committee to Prevent Wrongful Executions. Lynch also prepares amicus briefs before appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving constitutional rights. He is the editor of In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article “The Aims of the Criminal Law” and After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century.

Lynch has published a variety of articles in both the law journals and in opinion pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers. He has appeared on The PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Lynch is a member of the Virginia, District of Columbia, and Supreme Court bars. He earned both a BS and a JD from Marquette University.

Mr. Lynch can be reached via his personal website.

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John Rago

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Richard F. Duncan

Richard F. Duncan

Welpton & Wise Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law

Biography

Professor Rick Duncan is the Welpton & Wise Professor of Law at the University Of Nebraska College Of Law.  He is a graduate of the Cornell Law School and served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.  He teaches Constitutional Law with a special emphasis on the law of religious freedom, free speech, and federalism. Duncan has written numerous books, articles, and commentaries on a wide variety of legal topics. His recent publications include an article on Justice Scalia’s legacy, another on Kermit Gosnell and Roe v. Wade, a piece on the Electoral College and Federalism, a 2019 piece on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the First Amendment, and three recent articles on the “no compelled speech” doctrine as a First Amendment defense against authoritarianism and tyranny. His most recent article, on School Choice and the First Amendment, will be published in 2023 in Case Western Law Review. He is also the co-author of a book on Secured Transactions under Article 9 of the UCC. He served as Chairman of the Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during the Reagan Administration. He also loves to speak at Federalist Society meetings around the country on life, liberty, and the pursuit of federalism.

Duncan has five children, five grandchildren, and a wonderful wife who help him pursue happiness. He loves lifting weights (particularly going heavy on the incline bench press), attending Broadway musicals and plays, including Hamilton: An American Musical which he has seen 12 times (possibly a Nebraska record). He regularly reads both the Bible and the New York Times because it is important to keep up with what both sides have to say. He loves following major league baseball, especially the San Diego Padres. And his favorite legal aphorism is “first come rights then comes government to secure those rights.”

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Bruce Ledewitz

Professor, Duquesne University School of Law

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William P. Marshall

William P. Marshall

William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law

Biography

William (Bill) Marshall joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2001 and serves as the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law. His teaching and research interests include the first amendment, presidential power, election law, federal jurisdiction, federal judicial selection, civil procedure, and media law. Marshall is the author of numerous book chapters, articles, and essays on free speech, separation of powers, the Establishment Clause, and the Free Exercise Clause. His work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Supreme Court Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review, among others. 

Marshall received his law degree from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Marshall was Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration and also served as the Solicitor General for the State of Ohio. He has taught at the Northwestern, Boston University, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, DePaul, Case Western Reserve, William and Mary, and the University Connecticut law schools. Prior to beginning his teaching career, Marshall was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota.

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Joseph Mistick

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Adam White

Adam White

Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Co-Director, Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State

Biography

Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.

Mr. White practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energy and financial markets. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Mr. White has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Affairs, Commentary, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment blog, and for many years, he was one of the Weekly Standard’s lead writers on constitutional law and the Supreme Court.

Mr. White has testified often before Congress, including before the Senate’s Committees on the Judiciary; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and before the House’s Judiciary and Financial Services Committees. In 2018, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary called him to testify in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to advise senators on Kavanaugh’s approach to administrative law.

In 2021, he served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, where he criticized “Court packing” and other efforts to restructure the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was appointed to serve on the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves on the leadership council for the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, which he will chair in 2023–24. Before joining AEI, he was a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Mr. White has a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of business administration from the College of Business at the University of Iowa.

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Justin (Gus) Hurwitz

Justin (Gus) Hurwitz

Senior Fellow and Academic Director, Penn Carey Law School

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Gus Hurwitz is a Senior Fellow and the Academic Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where he is working to develop academic and scholarly programs at the intersecution of law, technology, and policy.

He is also Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), a think tank based in Portland, Oregon, where he directs its law and economics-focused research program and helps to translate academic research into applied policy issues.

Hurwitz's research focuses on the regulation of technology, including administrative and regulatory law, antitrust law, torts and products liability, and media law - alongside cognate fields. Inrecent years he has worked on an AI standardization initiative with Seoul National University, a UNICEF-organized study of broadband deployment to public schools in Rwanda, and a book on conglomerate and ecosystems theories of antitrust.

He has published over 30 articles and book chapters, two books (one on cybersecurity law & policy, one on media regulation in the digital era) and have two more in process, over 100 shorter writings (op-eds, shorter analyses, blog posts, &c), hosted over 100 podcast episodes, and regularly appear or am quoted in popular media (including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Associated Press). His work has been cited by legislators, federal courts of appeals, and federal regulatory agencies.

He was previously a full professor and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska, prior to which he was the inaugural research fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC). From 2007 to 2010, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section.

He also is, or has been, affiliated with the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law, the National Security Institute at George Mason University, and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Before attending law school, Hurwitz worked at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab. During this time his work was recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium, Los Alamos National Lab, IEEE & ACM, Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, R&D Magazine, and even the Guinness Book of World Records.

A current list of Hurwitz’s publications is available on his website: GusHurwitz.net.

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Seth C. Oranburg

Seth C. Oranburg

Assistant Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law

Biography

Professor Seth C. Oranburg studies the effect of law on innovation and the economy. His research includes Internet shareholder activism, crowdfunding, venture capital and angel investing, smart contracts, network effects, information brokerage, and other commercial activities that relate to securities regulation, corporate finance, business associations, contracts, and related legal issues. He publishes his research in esteemed journals such as the Rutgers University Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Fordham Journal of Corporate Law, and he has been interviewed by popular publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, AboveTheLaw.com, and CommPro.biz. 

Oranburg teaches Contracts and Corporations at Duquesne Law. Before joining the Duquesne faculty in 2016, he taught legal writing courses at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and taught Corporations, Closely Held Business Organizations, and Electronic Discovery of Digital Evidence at the Florida State University College of Law. Oranburg’s practice experience includes providing corporate counsel and managing venture capital transactions in Silicon Valley, Calif., and litigating antitrust matters in Washington, D.C. 

Oranburg graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida with a double major in political science and English. Oranburg is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the District of Columbia.

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Dmitry Karshtedt

Dmitry Karshtedt

Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

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Dmitry Karshtedt's primary research interest is in patent law. His legal scholarship has been published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Iowa Law Review, among other outlets, and cited in three of the leading patent law casebooks, a casebook on intellectual property, and three treatises. Professor Karshtedt's academic work has won several awards, including the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize and the scholarship grant for judicial clerks sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law.

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Jeremy Kidd

Jeremy Kidd

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Jeremy Kidd graduated in 2007 with honors from George Mason University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor for the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. He holds a BA in economics and political science and a Ph.D. in economics from Utah State University.

After law school, he practiced as a real estate associate with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Washington, D.C. and later as a litigation associate with Strong & Hanni in Salt Lake City, Utah. He clerked for the Honorable Ted Stewart on the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah and the Honorable Alice Batchelder, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Kidd's primary teaching interests are in the areas of business associations, torts, contracts, and law and economics. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at George Mason University School of Law and has taught courses in business law and economics at Utah State University and Weber State University.



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Jake Linford

Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law

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George A. Mocsary

George A. Mocsary

Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law

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George Mocsary is an expert in corporate and small-business law, and the law of firearms.

Currently, he is Professor of Law, Founder & Director of Firearms Research Center, and Director of the Business Planning Practicum and at the University of Wyoming College of Law.

Professor Mocsary teaches and writes about Agency & Partnership, Contracts, Corporations, Securities Regulation, the Second Amendment, and Firearms Law, including the intersection of Firearms Law and private law. He is a co-author of Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy (3rd ed. 2021), the first casebook on this topic.

Prior to his appointment at Wyoming, he served as an Associate Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York, and clerked for the Honorable Harris L. Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Professor Mocsary holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business. At Fordham, he graduated first in his class, and served as Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He has published in the George Washington Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Duke Law Journal Online, and other journals. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, several U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and other courts.

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Nadia E. Nedzel

Nadia E. Nedzel

Associate Professor of Law, Southern University Law Center

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Professor Nedzel's interests include international and comparative commercial law, policy, and jurisprudence; specifically the interrelationship among market economy, technology, the rule of law, and personal autonomy. She has been a Visiting Research Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University, a Fulbright Senior Specialist teaching Comparative Contract Law and Legal Drafting in Santiago, Chile (April, 2007), and she taught legal drafting in Istanbul, Turkey along with other legal writing experts. Most recently, she taught law school faculty in Santiago, Chile how to incorporate case method into their teaching. She is a member of the Louisiana Advisory to the United States Civil Rights Commission.

An active scholar, her textbook, Legal Research and Writing for International Graduate Students (2nd ed. Aspen 2008) has been translated into Chinese, and she'll begin working on a third edition in the summer of 2011. She is finishing a new casebook on Louisiana Sales and Lease, and continues to work on her Rule of Law project. Her most recent law review article is: "The Rule of Law: Its History and Meaning in Common Law, Civil Law, and Latin American Judicial Systems, 10 Richmond J. Global L. & Bus. 57 (2010).

Professor Nedzel came to SULC from Tulane University School of Law, where she was the director of Graduate Legal Studies and Exchange Programs. She also practiced admiralty and international trade, served as a staff attorney for the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a former judicial clerk for Judge Carl E. Stewart of that court. Professor Nedzel earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Loyola University School of Law and an LL.M. with honors from Northwestern University. She speaks French, Spanish, and some Russian.



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Seth C. Oranburg

Seth C. Oranburg

Assistant Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law

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Professor Seth C. Oranburg studies the effect of law on innovation and the economy. His research includes Internet shareholder activism, crowdfunding, venture capital and angel investing, smart contracts, network effects, information brokerage, and other commercial activities that relate to securities regulation, corporate finance, business associations, contracts, and related legal issues. He publishes his research in esteemed journals such as the Rutgers University Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Fordham Journal of Corporate Law, and he has been interviewed by popular publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, AboveTheLaw.com, and CommPro.biz. 

Oranburg teaches Contracts and Corporations at Duquesne Law. Before joining the Duquesne faculty in 2016, he taught legal writing courses at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and taught Corporations, Closely Held Business Organizations, and Electronic Discovery of Digital Evidence at the Florida State University College of Law. Oranburg’s practice experience includes providing corporate counsel and managing venture capital transactions in Silicon Valley, Calif., and litigating antitrust matters in Washington, D.C. 

Oranburg graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida with a double major in political science and English. Oranburg is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the District of Columbia.

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Wesley Oliver

Widener-PA Law

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Seth C. Oranburg

Seth C. Oranburg

Assistant Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law

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Professor Seth C. Oranburg studies the effect of law on innovation and the economy. His research includes Internet shareholder activism, crowdfunding, venture capital and angel investing, smart contracts, network effects, information brokerage, and other commercial activities that relate to securities regulation, corporate finance, business associations, contracts, and related legal issues. He publishes his research in esteemed journals such as the Rutgers University Law Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Fordham Journal of Corporate Law, and he has been interviewed by popular publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, AboveTheLaw.com, and CommPro.biz. 

Oranburg teaches Contracts and Corporations at Duquesne Law. Before joining the Duquesne faculty in 2016, he taught legal writing courses at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and taught Corporations, Closely Held Business Organizations, and Electronic Discovery of Digital Evidence at the Florida State University College of Law. Oranburg’s practice experience includes providing corporate counsel and managing venture capital transactions in Silicon Valley, Calif., and litigating antitrust matters in Washington, D.C. 

Oranburg graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida with a double major in political science and English. Oranburg is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the District of Columbia.

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Mark Yochum

Duquesne University School of Law

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Michael R. Dimino

Michael R. Dimino

Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School

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Michael R. Dimino is a Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, where he teaches and writes in a wide variety of subjects, including constitutional law and election law. Professor Dimino graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo and Harvard Law School, and served as Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Professor Dimino served as Chief Clerk to Associate Judge Albert Rosenblatt of the New York State Court of Appeals, and then clerked for Senior Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Paul Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Professor Dimino is a two-time recipient of Widener’s Faculty Scholarship Award, a three-time recipient of Widener’s Outstanding Professor Award, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fulbright scholar. He has authored or co-authored several articles and six books, including Voting Rights and Election Law (4th ed. forthcoming); Understanding Election Law and Voting Rights (2d ed. 2026); and Congressional Investigations and Oversight (2d ed. 2023). In his spare time, Professor Dimino referees hockey.
 
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Wesley Oliver

Widener-PA Law

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Alicia Hilton

Former FBI Special Agent

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John Rago

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Bruce Ledewitz

Professor, Duquesne University School of Law

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William G. Otis

William G. Otis

Former Adjunct Professor of Law; former Special Counsel to the President; former federal prosecutor, Georgetown Law (ret.)

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Bill Otis is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, a one-time federal prosecutor, and a former Special White House Counsel for President George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he started his career in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, then became chief of appeals for the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. In the 1980's he served on the Department's "Train the Trainer" team, which taught US Attorneys Offices across the county how to implement the then-new Sentencing Reform Act. He has held several posts in the federal government, including Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy and Counselor to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, in addition to the White House post. He has testified before Congress on issues in criminal procedure, illegal drugs, the US Sentencing Commission, and the death penalty, and has given numerous media interviews on those and other subjects. He currently teaches a seminar at Georgetown Law titled "Conservatism in Law in America" with his wife, Federalist Society co-founder Lee Liberman Otis.

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