Alexander Giles Navigates the Depths of Maritime Law in Baltimore and Beyond

By Adam Stone

When the Key Bridge came down, Alexander Giles, J.D. ’97, got busy. He’s leveraging a broad range of legal skills to help multiple clients navigate their respective parts of that Mar. 26, 2024, disaster.  

It’s perhaps not surprising that Giles should find himself in this position. Maritime law seems to have been his destiny. 

“My dad was in the Coast Guard for 24 years. He served in Vietnam and retired in 1991, which was right before I went to law school,” he says. In his second year at UBalt Law, Giles took a maritime law class and knew he’d found his fit. “It was serendipity.” 

His instructor introduced him to a maritime lawyer at Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, and he’s never looked back. Now at Tydings & Rosenberg, he’s one of the premier maritime attorneys in the nation. 

Giles says he represents “the 800-pound gorillas in the Port of Baltimore, the most obvious one being Ports America Chesapeake.” The other emerging heavyweight is Tradepoint Atlantic. 

Among these big players, maritime legal issues can run the gamut. “Think about all the laws that affect people on land. You have all of that in maritime law, you’re just dealing with ocean commerce. You’re dealing with incidents that happen on the water,” he says. 

In practical terms, “it’s anything from corporate-type issues to personal injury to cargo damage,” he says. “You can have employment law issues, workers’ comp issues, wrongful death issues, personal injury issues, contract issues, theft of cargo, and criminal actions as well.” 

With the collapse of the Key Bridge, Giles has had to bring all those skills to the table. 

“I’ve got several clients that are involved. Ports America, for example, is where the ship that struck the bridge left from, and that’s where the ship had been docked. They don’t have any suspected liability, but with the NTSB and U.S. Coast Guard and FBI investigations, there were a lot of touchpoints in terms of what they knew, and what they didn’t know,” he says. 

Tradepoint Atlantic stepped in when the bridge went down, paving lots to use as laydown space for all the steel that needed to be moved from the channel. They also agreed to take and unload numerous ships destined for other terminals located inside the Key Bridge. Another client, McAllister Towing, had two tugs guiding the M/V Dali, the massive container ship that struck the bridge, during the early morning hours in question. 

“The tugs were released by the pilot about 20 minutes before the ship hit the bridge, so they should not have any liability or exposure,” he says. But with repairs estimated at $1.9 billion, “there’s a big delta there between what sort of money may be available from litigation, as opposed to what money is needed to rebuild the bridge.” 

That means he has a lot of work to do to demonstrate that his client is not, and should not be, on the hook for any of that funding. 

In an incident as big as this one, Giles says, “It could be its own bar exam in terms of all the legal issues that are involved,” he says. To succeed as a lawyer in this environment, “You have to have a broad knowledge of all the laws that could be implicated. You need to know all the issues, because the issues all impact each other.” 

Water and Wind

The Key Bridge incident is only one of the things keeping Giles busy these days. He’s also deeply involved in the legal work needed to bring to life offshore wind farms off the Maryland coast. Here, too, complexity is a dominant theme. 

“There are a lot of pieces that go into making offshore wind successful,” he says. “My involvement has been on the maritime side: In terms of assessing navigability, pathways for commercial vessels, and how the lease space affects or doesn’t affect those pathways.” 

The U.S. Coast Guard is involved, and the Jones Act also comes into play. That’s a federal law requiring goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on ships that are built, owned and operated by Americans. The law will impact what vessels may be used for the anticipated construction and installation of offshore wind turbines. 

Offshore wind power “is going to happen in Maryland, just like it will in all the other states up and down the East Coast. It’s just going to take a little time,” he says. 

Giles says his University of Baltimore experience prepared him well for the demands of a career in maritime law. 

“One of the reasons I chose University of Baltimore was because it had a reputation of looking at things from a practical standpoint: Here’s how you practice law, but here’s what really happens,” he says. 

“In my three years of law school I learned what happens in court, what happens when you work up a case, how to achieve the best result for your client — both from a legal perspective and also a business perspective,” he says. That kind of education “really helped me understand how to be effective for my clients.” 

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.
Photo by Larry Canner.

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Nienke Grossman Reelected to New Term on Inter-American Juridical Committee

Nienke GrossmanProf. Nienke Grossman, co-director of the University of Baltimore’s Center for International and Comparative Law, was reelected to a second term on the Inter-American Juridical Committee (IAJC) at the 54th OAS General Assembly in Asuncion, Paraguay, on June 28, 2024. Grossman is the first woman and the first Latina nominated by the United States and elected to serve on the committee, and one of only eight women to serve on the committee since 1942.  

The committee serves the Organization of American States in an advisory capacity and promotes the progressive development and codification of international law. Its members are distinguished international law experts from across the Inter-American region. Grossman was elected to the panel in January 2024 and sought reelection to a full four-year term. 

OAS leadership cited Grossman for her knowledge and experience as an international law scholar and advisor on a wide range of international law topics, including her expertise in issues involving women and international law. “I am honored to have been nominated by the United States, and elected by OAS member states, to serve on the IAJC,” says Grossman. “I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the committee to provide effective and useful advice on juridical matters to the OAS, and to working with States to advance the rule of law in the region.” 

The United States’ support for her candidacy and that of many other women elected to international bodies in the past year shows a commitment to advancing policies that promote gender equality and empower women within the OAS and beyond. These efforts to support her election also advance Sustainable Development Goal 5.5, which seeks to ensures women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

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UBalt Law Team Places First Nationally in Environmental Law Competition

The University of Baltimore School of Law’s finalist team in the Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law Environmental Law and Policy Hack Competition finished first in the nation for its brief and presentation, “Achieving a Circular Economy for Textile Waste in Baltimore City: Improving a Significant Public-Private Partnership Through Targeted Legal Reform.” The virtual competition took place on April 19, 2024. 

This national competition challenges law students across the nation to propose innovative legal solutions to environmental and social issues facing our country. This year, the competition prompted students to address the issue of household waste at the regional, subnational or national scale. The UBalt Law team focused on the increasing concerns surrounding household textiles (clothing, durable fabric goods, etc.) and the waste and environmental justice concerns associated with them in Baltimore City and Maryland more broadly, says 3L and team leader James Duffy. 

The Pace Competition allows finalist teams to present their proposals to a panel of expert judges and rewards the first-place team with a $2,000 grant to implement proposed solutions. 

The Baltimore Law team consisted of students pictured: front row, from left, JamesDuffy and Jessica Kweon; middle row, from left: Adam Fetian, Hannah Krehely and Cameron Luzarraga; back row, from left: Abby Badro, Carmen Perry, Paige Lauenstein and Spencer Baldacci.

The team was coached by UBalt Law Prof. Sonya Ziaja; Lisa Scianella, chief of staff from Helpsy, for contributing a wealth of knowledge and feedback on proposed solutions; and law alumni Lisa Blitstein, J.D. ’22, and Grant Foehrkolb, J.D. ’14.

Photo by Juan Pablo Soto Médico.

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Alumnus and Benefactor Peter Angelos, Leader in Legal Community, Passes Away

Peter Angelos, LL.B. ’61, the longtime owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a leader of the legal community and a major financial supporter of his alma mater, passed away on March 23, 2024, following a long illness. He was 94.

Mr. Angelos was a true friend of the University, giving more than $18 million during his lifetime, including a total gift of $15 million for the University’s law center building named in honor of his parents. Standing tall over the intersection of Charles Street and Mt. Royal Avenue, the John and Frances Angelos Law Center is an iconic structure for both the University and central Baltimore.

The Angelos name also is prominent in the law school’s academic programming, with the Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence serving as a nationally acclaimed model to encourage diversity in the development of lawyers and the practice of law. Fannie Angelos, L.L.B. ’51, Peter’s sister and a practitioner in his family’s law firm, was a champion of such efforts. She graduated from UBalt Law in 1951, one of three women in her class. She died in 2015.

In the 1990s, Mr. Angelos and his law firm organized multiple class-action lawsuits against asbestos manufacturers, winning more than $1 billion in damages for pipefitters, steelworkers and their families. Commissions from this work allowed him to purchase the baseball team in 1993.

Photo credit: (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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CICL Marks Three Decades of Scholarship, Teaching and Global Policy Reform

By Adam Stone 

When George Weber, J.D. ’13, was attending UBalt Law, the Arab Spring was in full swing. “I was taking classes in foreign relations law and international criminal law, so I was very interested in it,” he says. 

Weber took his interest beyond the classroom, becoming a fellow with the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL). There he helped organize symposia and dove deep into the complexities of the international legal landscape. “It was central to my UBalt experience,” says Weber, who is now an attorney-adviser at the Federal Communications Commission. 

This year marks the 30th anniversary of CICL, a prestigious, nationally recognized center for international and comparative law scholarship. Founded in 1994 as the first research center in the law school, and one of the first research centers in the University of Baltimore, CICL leaders call this milestone a moment for celebration.  

A global perspective

Prof. Mortimer “Tim” Sellers

As it works to promote the study and practice of international law, CICL works directly with governments, non-governmental organizations and reform movements — “anyone who might have an interest in trying to advance international law,” says Prof. Mortimer “Tim” Sellers, director of the center. 

Arguably, that could include almost everyone. As a legal system, “international law regulates the entire world,” Sellers says. It governs “how states interact with each other, with international institutions and even how states relate to their own citizens.” 

That encompasses human rights, the conduct of war, trade and commerce. “All that has become more important as the world has gotten more integrated, as more and more things happen that cross international boundaries,” he says. Climate change is an obvious example: It’s a global phenomenon that demands a multi-national response. 

In elevating the study of international law, CICL has helped other nations to thrive. The center’s direct work with the government of Brazil since the 1990s has strengthened democracy there, while in-person and institutional involvement in Ukraine — including participation at a major conference celebrating Lviv University’s special role in international law, and in reviving and working with the National University of Kiv Mohyla Academy — is assisting in its efforts to win global support amid the Russian invasion.  

Closer to home, the center’s work has enriched the work of both faculty and students at UBalt Law. 

Hand-on learning and engagement 

As co-director of the Center, Prof. Nienke Grossman says CICL aims to creates opportunities for engagement with international law issues “both in theory and in practice.”

Prof. Nienke Grossman

As a leading scholar working at the intersection of international law and women’s rights, she has involved students in hands-on projects. Last year, she and her students worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and she and a student traveled to the United Nations to support the Rapporteur’s work. 

Her students also have engaged with the Free Yazidi Foundation, a non-governmental organization working on issues involving Yazidi women, who are part of an often-persecuted religious minority in the Middle East. “We had two students who interviewed members of the Yazidi community on the issue of forced child marriage in their communities, in both Iraq and Nebraska,” she says. 

Grossman’s own credentials in international law run deep. For example, she was recently nominated by the United States and elected by member states of the Organization of American States to the Inter-American Juridical Committee, a body of 11 experts on public and private international law in the region. She is the first woman and Latina to serve on the Committee from the United States. Her scholarship on women and international law, feminist approaches, and international courts and tribunals is found in top international law journals and publications, and she is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Women in International Law 

Sellers likewise is a highly lauded scholar in the field. He’s served as editor of a book series from the American Society of Comparative Law, and of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. 

Through the scholarly work of its leaders, CICL has impacted the efforts of UBalt Law faculty across a wide range of disciplines over the past 30 years, such as constitutional law, criminal law, and commercial transactions. 

Janet Lord
Executive Director Janet Lord

“Family law very often has an international or transnational component. There are a great number of people who have transnational marriages, or at least have a foot in one country or another besides the United States,” Sellers says. “It’s hard to imagine any aspect of law that doesn’t have an international component,” he says.

CICL’s executive director, Janet Lord, agrees. “Lawyers today ignore international law at their peril. Representation of a client in a family law matter may very well intersect with foreign and international law, due to property or custody elements.” And as Sellers emphasizes, trade obviously crosses national lines, as do criminal activities and the protection of the environment.

A new generation 

Looking ahead, a rising generation of faculty are helping to ensure that CICL remains preeminent in the field.

“We recently hired Prof. Ioanna Tourkochoriti, a highly respected comparative law scholar and an expert on freedom of speech,” says Sellers. “Prof. Anne-Marie Carstens has joined our law faculty and is doing good work on cultural property. And Prof. Sonya Ziaja is an international environmental law scholar. Our future lies in these newer voices.”

Executive director Lord, who joined the Center in 2023, brings both a deep record of international legal practice and a track record of scholarly publications and recognition as a leading expert on international disability rights law.

Ioanna Tourkochoriti
Prof. Ioanna Tourkochoriti

“My focus at this juncture in my career is to help build the competence and confidence of our students in international law. Our proximity to the UN in New York, and to multiple institutions in Washington, D.C., helps make that possible,” she says. Lord looks forward to the coming academic year, when CICL fellows will produce legal analysis for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, support international criminal law advocacy at the UN, and work on collaborative research with our partner, the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.

Center leadership is proud of its accomplished past and ambitious future. “CICL has made substantial contributions to the law school, and it continues to do so, bringing renowned scholars and practitioners to campus and giving the community an opportunity to think beyond Baltimore, beyond Maryland, and even beyond the United States,” Grossman says.

Sellers describes the anniversary as a chance to reflect not just on the achievements of the center, but upon the vital role of international law as a discipline.

“In the absence of law, you have lives that are nasty, brutish, and short,” he says. International law, in particular, “gives us a way of coordinating our activities so that our lives are not a fountain of violence and corruption. It’s the line between barbarism and civilization.”

“What we’re doing at CICL is promoting civilization. If you want to have a peaceful and just world, the only way you can achieve it is through law.” 

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.

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Distinguished Alumni Award Winners Feted at May 25 Dinner

The 2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented at a sold-out dinner on May 25, 2023. The winners were chosen by the UBalt Law Alumni Association based on nominations submitted by alumni and the public. Congratulations to the honorees!

The winners were:

Byron L. Warnken Memorial Alumni Award: Taren Butcher, J.D. ’07

Dean’s Award: Samuel G. Rose, LL.B. ’62

Distinguished Judicial Award: Hon. Barbara Waxman, J.D. ’80

Judge Robert Bell Award: Adam Shareef, J.D. ’17

Rising Star Award: Annice Brown, J.D. ’16.

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Law Review Antitrust Symposium Celebrates Career of Prof. Robert H. Lande

Prof. Lande with the speakers at the antitrust symposium.

On March 10, 2023, the University of Baltimore Law Review hosted “The Quest for Progressive Antitrust,” a special symposium celebrating the career of Venable Professor Robert H. Lande, who retired earlier this year.

Lande was co-founder of the American Antitrust Institute, past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Antitrust Section, an award-winning scholar, and a leading intellectual force behind the 21st century’s reinvigorated antitrust movement.

Distinguished antitrust scholars, practitioners, policymakers and reform advocates participated in panel discussions addressing competition policy, antitrust law, and Lande’s vital role in shaping the national debate about the need to protect consumers from cartels and monopoly power. Lande also delivered a keynote address.

Welcome remarks were delivered by Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Panelists included Randy M. Stutz, of the Federal Trade Commission; Albert Foer, founder and past president of the American Antitrust Institute; and Katherine Van Dyck, of the American Economic Liberties Project.

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New Hatcher Book Exposes How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children

Prof. Daniel Hatcher is an uncomfortable celebrity, but the publication of his new book in March 2023 made him a creature of the airwaves for weeks.

The maddening pace of his promotional tour, which also took Hatcher to Harvard University for a book talk, was testament to the amount of national interest in this timely but little understood topic. Earlier this month, an excerpt of Hatcher’s book, Injustice, Inc.,  was published in The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to “exposing the harms of a criminal legal system entrenched in centuries of systemic racism.” He has also been interviewed on numerous justice-themed podcasts and television programs like “Pittsburgh Now.”

Hatcher teaches in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic at UBalt Law. Like his 2016 book, The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens, his new book exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America’s history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. Using detailed legal analysis, Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations.

Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and “treatment” centers, and more. Injustice, Inc. underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.

In a blog post he wrote for his publisher, University of California Press, available on its website, Hatcher explains his motivation to pull back the curtain and expose the heartless exploitation committed by institutions that were created to protect the most vulnerable.

“Inspired by the perseverance and determination of my clients,” the former Legal Aid lawyer wrote, “my own research strives to uncover structural failings within our justice systems that undermine equal and impartial justice. And what I found over and over again was how the systems commodify vulnerable populations to prioritize revenue and profit over justice.

“My research revealed a barrage of revenue schemes that were often buried within contract and budget documents. Our foundational courts, prosecutors, probation departments, police and sheriff’s offices, and detention and treatment facilities are all contractually collaborating with each other and with public welfare agencies—using vulnerable populations to generate revenue rather than ensuring their justice and welfare,” Hatcher continued.

“The moneyed operations are varied in structure but similar in unethical and unconstitutional mechanics, churning in symbiotic relationships: ‘In a vicious, racialized, industrialized, and monetized cycle, harm fuels and feeds from harm.’”

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Dean’s Letter

As you’ve probably heard by now, this will be my last year as dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law. This issue of Baltimore Law vividly illustrates why I am so proud of this wonderful school and why it will be hard for me to say goodbye. 

When I came to Baltimore in 2012, the legal job market was over-saturated. Applications to law schools across the country were in a free-fall as many questioned the value of a law degree. Enrollment declines challenged the financial well-being of tuition-driven schools like ours. Some schools closed, but we made the tough choices needed to weather the storm.   

Now, 11 years later, we enjoy stable enrollment, a healthy budget and impressive employment outcomes for our graduates. We emerged from the global pandemic stronger than ever, integrating cutting-edge technology into our classrooms and curriculum.   

Through it all, our graduates have continued to use their law degrees to make a positive difference in Baltimore and beyond. In this magazine you will read about alumni doing just that. Whether it’s by logging hundreds of pro bono hours, like Michelle McGeogh, J.D. ’07, or hosting expungement clinics to help people move on from past mistakes, these alumni are passionate about using their law degrees to help others. 

University of Baltimore students learn to deliver justice, and to take action when it is being denied, from our outstanding faculty.  From foundational first-year classes to our nationally ranked clinical law program, our students acquire the skills and values they need to undertake impactful work in our community. 

For example, our cover story focuses on four University of Baltimore-trained lawyers committed to righting the scales of justice by exposing police and correctional misconduct. They not only seek damages for their clients, they also advocate for statutory reforms that will eliminate obstacles to justice for others like them. 

The stories in this magazine make me confident I will hand my successor the reins to a highly successful law school. After 11 years as dean (more than twice the national average!), I knew this was the right moment for me to pursue new challenges and allow the school to benefit from fresh leadership. Learn more about my decision, and the national search for my successor. (link to news story)  

It will not be easy for me to leave my role in a community that has embraced me so warmly, and of which I am so fond. But I’m sure you will welcome your new dean next summer and help her or him continue the long tradition of excellence that makes this law school so special. 


 

 

Ronald Weich
Dean

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UBalt Law Welcomes Five New Faculty

Anne-Marie Carstens

Anne-Marie Carstens joined the School of Law as associate professor. She teaches Property, Introduction to Lawyering Skills, Civil Procedure, and international and cultural heritage law courses. She previously taught Property, Civil Procedure, Copyright, Lawyering, and other IP and cultural heritage courses at Georgetown Law and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, as well as in London-based international law programs for Georgetown Law-University College London and for the University of Tulsa Law School. 

Her research and scholarship focus primarily on legal issues at the intersections of cultural heritage, international law, and property law. After law school, Carstens clerked for The Hon. Diana Gribbon Motz, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and practiced litigation in Washington and in London at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.  

She received her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown Law, where she served as executive articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. While completing her DPhil in Law (research doctorate in Public International Law), she was competitively selected by the Oxford Law Faculty for a research residency at Yale Law School and awarded a grant for summer study at the Hague Academy of International Law. 

Patrick Grubel

Patrick Grubel is a clinical teaching fellow in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, in which student-attorneys represent low-income individuals and community groups in a broad range of civil litigation and law reform projects. 

Before joining the faculty, Grubel had a varied career litigating federal constitutional and civil rights cases. He was a staff attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Legal Defense Fund; an associate at an education law firm in Texas; and a litigation fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He also clerked for The Hon. Debra H. Lehrmann, of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Jennifer Mitchell

Jennifer Mitchell is a visiting associate professor and interim director of the Introduction to Advocacy Program, where she teaches Torts, Introduction to Legal Skills, and Introduction to Advocacy. Mitchell previously taught in the Fundamentals of Lawyering Program at The George Washington University Law School. 

Mitchell is a former active-duty Air Force Assistant Staff Judge Advocate (JAG), where she prosecuted military members for misconduct, counseled hundreds of legal assistance clients, and deployed to Afghanistan as a NATO Rule of Law Field Support Officer. She is currently a member of the District of Columbia Air National Guard. 

After leaving active duty, Mitchell worked on Capitol Hill as a military legislative assistant and counsel for a United States senator, and handled the senator’s defense and veterans’ affairs portfolios. In this position she prepared legislative and regulatory language for inclusion in annual defense appropriations and authorization bills, and she was responsible for developing and executing strategies to advance legislative and policy objectives. 

Ioanna Tourkochoriti

Ioanna Tourkochoriti teaches comparative law and human rights law. Prior to joining the UBalt Law faculty, she was Lecturer above the Bar at the University of Galway School of Law. For eight years, she held research and faculty appointments at Harvard University. She was a Wertheim Fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and a lecturer on law and social studies at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University.  

She is a leading scholar on comparative law, jurisprudence and human rights and has published numerous articles on comparative constitutional law, freedom of expression and anti-discrimination law with leading journals all around the world. Her book, Freedom of Speech: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She is co-organizer of the International Research Collaborative on “Religion and Women’s Rights: Global Perspectives” and international research networks on hate speech and anti-discrimination law. 

Andrew Ziaja

Andrew Ziaja joined the faculty after a career in civil litigation as a labor lawyer and public servant. He teaches Employment Law, Labor Law, Contracts and Administrative Law. While serving with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., he led efforts by the agency in relation to litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, which included engagement with the Office of the Solicitor General to prepare the government’s position for briefing and oral argument. He has also served as lead counsel in trial and appellate litigation on behalf of government and private litigants.

His legal scholarship centers on administrative law and governance, including as they influence labor and employment policy. He earned a law degree from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, where he was managing editor of the University of California Law Constitutional Quarterly. He also holds an MPA, magna cum laude, from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, and a B.A. with honors in history and class distinction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He additionally attended the University of California, Berkeley on a graduate fellowship in history.

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