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Douglas H. Ginsburg

Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

Biography

Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1986. After receiving his B.S. from Cornell University in 1970, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973, he clerked on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court. Thereafter, Judge Ginsburg was a professor at the Harvard Law School, the Deputy Assistant and then Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as well as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Concurrent with his service as a federal judge, Judge Ginsburg has taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the New York University School of Law. Judge Ginsburg is currently a Professor of Law at the George Mason University and a visiting professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws.

Judge Ginsburg is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Global Antitrust Institute at the Law and Economics Center of the George Mason University School of Law. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of: Competition Policy International; the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; the Journal of Competition Law and Economics; the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy; the Supreme Court Economic Review; the University of Chicago Law Review; the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty; and, at University College London, both the Centre for Law, Economics and Society and the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics.

In 2020, Judge Ginsburg was the 11th recipient of the John Sherman Award, presented by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in recognition of the awardee’s Lifetime Contributions to Antitrust Law and Policy.

In 2014, Judge Ginsburg received the Lifetime Achievement Award given annually by the Global Competition Review.

He is the author or co-author of several books and more than 100 articles on competition and regulation, including, most recently, Growing Convergence: The Limited Role of Antitrust in Standard Essential Patent Disputes, in CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Summer 2021, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Robert L. Freedman

Partner., Dechert LLP

Biography

Robert L. Freedman is a senior partner in the private client group. For more than 35 years, he has advised individuals regarding financial, tax, and family matters, including estate, financial, and retirement planning; wills, trusts, and private foundations; family-owned businesses, pre-nuptial agreements, and other family matters; and will contests and other fiduciary litigation.

For more than 10 years, Mr. Freedman has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 1999, he received the Distinguished Estate Planner Award from the 1,000-member Philadelphia Estate Planning Council. In 2004, he was voted one of the 100 Best Lawyers in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania. He has been the principal drafter of legislation modernizing Pennsylvania's probate and trust law statutes in his role as a member of the Advisory Committee on Decedents' Estates of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He is a member of The American Law Institute and of its members consultative group on the Restatement of Trusts. He is a former chair of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

As an adjunct professor, Mr. Freedman taught wills and trusts and related courses at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple Law School for eight years. He is the co-author of "Can Fiduciaries Get the Best Price in Sophisticated Business Transactions," 17 ACTEC Notes 251 (1992).

Mr. Freedman is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Mr. Freedman is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B., 1962), Columbia University (M.A., economics, 1963), and Columbia Law School (LL.B., 1966). He clerked for two years on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Anne D. Neal

President, American Council of Trustees and Alumni

Biography

Ms. Neal co-founded the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and has been president since 2003.

For over 15 years, Ms. Neal has been a prominent national player in higher education reform, publishing widely and appearing frequently on radio and television, including the PBS NewsHour, Fox Business News, CNN, Fox News, WGN, and National Public Radio. She has authored or co-authored numerous ACTA studies on historical illiteracy, federal accreditation, governance, intellectual pluralism, and cost, and contributed chapters to Reforming the Politically Correct University (AEI Press, 2009), Accountability in American Higher Education(Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), and Intellectual Property Rights and Capital Formation in the Next Decade (University Press, 1988). She has also convened higher education conferences under the auspices of the Philanthropy Roundtable. In 2007, and again in 2010, Ms. Neal was appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity which advises the U.S. Secretary of Education on federal accreditation.

Ms. Neal has provided expert testimony before the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Commission, the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and in many state capitals, and presented at conferences sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the University of Notre Dame, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Montana State University, the American Association of University Professors, and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

Prior to joining ACTA, Ms. Neal served as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison for the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also worked as a First Amendment and communications lawyer for Rogers & Wells and Wiley, Rein & Fielding.

Ms. Neal graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in American history and literature. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was president of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. She also holds an honorary doctorate from Colorado Christian University. She has served on the boards of many cultural and civic organizations, and currently is a director of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Alexander Hamilton Institute.

Geoffrey P. Miller

Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law; Director, Center for Financial Institutions; and Co-Director, Center for Civil Justice, New York University School of Law

Biography

Geoffrey Miller is an author or editor of a dozen books and more than 200 articles in the fields of financial institutions, contract law, corporate and securities law, constitutional law, civil procedure, legal history, jurisprudence, and ancient law. He has taught a wide range of subjects including law and economics, corporations, compliance and risk management, property, regulation of financial institutions, land development, securities law, the legal profession, and legal theory. Miller received his BA magna cum laude from Princeton in 1973 and his JD from Columbia in 1978, where he was a Stone Scholar and editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Byron White of the US Supreme Court. After two years as an attorney adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice and one year with a Washington, DC, law firm, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1983 and NYU School of Law in 1995.

Miller has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of Basel (Switzerland), University of Genoa (Italy), Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy), Study Center Gerzensee (Switzerland), Vanderbilt University, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), University of Frankfurt (Germany), University of Sydney (Australia), University of Auckland (New Zealand), and the Bank of Japan. Miller is a founder of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies, a scholarly organization devoted to promoting statistical and other empirical techniques in the study of legal institutions. He is founder and director of NYU School of Law’s Center for Financial Institutions, co-director of the Center for Civil Justice, co-founder of and Senior Academic Fellow at NYU's Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement, co-convener of the Global Economic Policy Forum, a member of the board of directors of State Farm Bank, and a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Harvey L. Pitt

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Kalorama Partners LLC and Kalorama Legal Services PLLC

Biography

Harvey L. Pitt is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of the global business consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC, and its law firm affiliate, Kalorama Legal Services, PLLC. Prior to founding the Kalorama firms in 2003, Mr. Pitt served as the twenty-sixth Chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In that role, from 2001 until 2003, Mr. Pitt was responsible, among other things, for overseeing the SEC’s response to the market disruptions resulting from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for creating the SEC’s “real time enforcement” program, and for leading the Commission’s unanimous adoption of dozens of rules in response to the corporate and accounting crises generated by the excesses of the 1990s.

For nearly a quarter of a century before becoming SEC Chairman, Mr. Pitt was a senior corporate partner of Fried, Frank LLP, an international law firm, and served as Co-Chair of the firm (1998-2001). He was a founding Trustee and first President of the SEC Historical Society. Former Chairman Pitt appears regularly as a commenter on major televised news programs, and is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of issues, including economics, regulation of capital and financial markets, corporate governance, business ethics, accounting, and legislative matters. Mr. Pitt has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the George Washington University Law School (Market Regulation, 1974-82), Georgetown University Law Center (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, 1975-84), the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Fraud and Fiduciary Duties, and Takeover Law, 1983-84) and The Yale Law School (Corporate Governance, 2007).

Former Chairman Pitt served previously on the Staff of the SEC (1968-78), including three years as Commission General Counsel (1975-78). Former Chairman Pitt received a J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1968), and his B.A. degree from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) (1965). He was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by St. John’s University (2002), and received the Brooklyn College President’s Medal of Distinction (2003). He co-authored a three volume comprehensive treatise on financial services regulation, entitled The Law of Financial Services (Aspen Law & Publishing, 1988), and has published numerous scholarly articles and monographs on a wide variety of economic, regulatory and legal subjects.

Mr. Pitt is currently a Director and Audit Committee member of Premier Alliance Group, Inc., a public professional services company focused on business, energy and technology advisory and consulting services. He is also a Director as well as the Chairman of the Audit and Compensation Committees of GWU Medical Faculty Associates, Inc., an IRC §501(c)(3) notfor-profit corporation that provides comprehensive medical care to residents of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of the offshore funds of Paulson & Co., and its affiliates. In addition to his fiduciary board positions, Mr. Pitt is a member of the Global Advisory Forum of CQS, a global multi strategy asset management firm, and a member of the Regulatory and Compliance Advisory Council of Millennium Management LLC. Mr. Pitt is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a not-for-profit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to oversee and regulate the audits of public companies and securities industry brokers and dealers. Mr. Pitt also serves as a Senior Advisor to Teneo Holdings LLC, a global consulting firm that offers a wide variety of strategic planning services to public and private companies, as well as local governments. Former Chairman Pitt previously served as a member of the National Cathedral School Board of Trustees (2006-09), where he was, variously, Board Vice-Chair, Co-Chair of the Board’s Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit and Compensation Committees.r. Pitt also previously served as a Director of Approva Corporation (2004-07), a closelyheld company that provided compliance software for major public companies, and was a member of Approva’s Audit and Strategic Planning Committees. In 2011, Mr. Pitt was inducted into the National Association of Corporate Directors-Directorship 100 Hall of Fame, which acknowledges corporate governance professionals for their lifetime accomplishments and their positive influence on corporate governance. In 2011, Mr. Pitt received the William O. Douglas Award, conferred annually by the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc. on an SEC alumnus who has contributed to the development of the federal securities laws or served the financial and SEC community with distinction.

A. Raymond Randolph

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

Biography

Judge Randolph was confirmed by the Senate and appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President George H. W. Bush in July 1990.

Judge Randolph received his B.S. degree in 1966 from Drexel University, majoring in economics and basic engineering. At Drexel, he was president of the debate society, vice president of the Student Senate, and a member of the varsity wrestling squad. In 1969, he received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude. Judge Randolph ranked first in his law school class all three years and was managing editor of the Law Review.

After graduation, Judge Randolph served as a law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.

Admitted to the California Bar in 1970 (and to the District of Columbia bar in 1973), Judge Randolph worked as Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., 1970-1973.

After two years in private practice, Judge Randolph was named Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, a position he held from 1975-1977.

In 1979, Judge Randolph was appointed Special Counsel to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (the Ethics Committee) of the United States House of Representatives, remaining in this position until 1980.

In the 1980s, Judge Randolph held a number of positions while in private practice, including Special Assistant Attorney General for the states of New Mexico (1985 90), Utah (1986-1990) and Montana (1983-1990). He also served as a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Courts Study Committee.

From 1971-1990, Judge Randolph argued 23 times in the United States Supreme Court, winning 20 of his cases.

As an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1974-1978 he taught courses in civil procedure and injunctions. In 1992 he taught a course in constitutional law. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason School of Law and for the past ten years has been teaching First Amendment law. He also serves on the Judicial Advisory Board of the George Mason University Law and Economics Center.

From 1993 through 1995 Judge Randolph was a member of the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and from 1995 to 1998 served as the Committee's chairman. He also served as the judicial liaison to the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Section.

Judge Randolph is a member of the Board of Visitors at Drexel University Law School and was named to the “Drexel One Hundred” as a leading alumnus. In 2002 he was presented the James Wilson Award by the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In November 2005 he delivered the Fifth Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture at the Annual Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society. He has published numerous articles, the most recent of which is in the June 2006 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Judge Randolph is married to the Honorable Eileen J. O’Connor, formerly Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice. His son John Trevor Randolph is an investment banker in New York. His daughter Cynthia Lee Randolph is an artist living in San Francisco.