Fall Reunion 2015
Speaker Biographies
Elizabeth Bartholet ’65,
Elizabeth Bartholet is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy
Program (CAP), which she founded in the fall of 2004. She teaches civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare,
adoption, and reproductive technology. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest
work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as Founder and Director of the Legal Action Center, a nonprofit
organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. Ms. Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe
College in 1962 and from Harvard Law School in 1965.
Christopher T. Bavitz
Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the
Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is Managing
Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and he is a Faculty
Director of the Berkman Center.
Mr. Bavitz has concentrated his law practice and clinical activities on intellectual property and media law, with an emphasis on
music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Cyberlaw Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, trademark,
online speech, and advising of mission-oriented startups and entrepreneurs about their legal, business, and strategic needs. He
also works on issues relating to the use of technology to promote access to justice.
Mr. Bavitz joined the Clinic in September 2008 as a Clinical Fellow. He was named Assistant Director of the Clinic in 2009
and was promoted to Clinical Instructor in 2010. He was appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2014.
In his nearly seven years at the Clinic, Mr. Bavitz has managed a wide range of work for a wide variety of clients. He has
worked closely with Clinic students on matters relating to public media, including collaborations with WBUR’s OpenCourt
project (which offered livestreams of court proceedings in Massachusetts) and the Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange.
He has worked with students and clients to draft amicus briefs addressing legal issues before state and federal courts, including
the interplay between defamation law and the First Amendment; the attempted use of trademark law to suppress critical
speech; the right of citizens to record police officers carrying out their duties in public; the continuing viability and scope of
the hot news misappropriation doctrine; and the propriety of a prior restraint against online publication. And, he has teamed
up with students and others to prepare public-facing resources regarding the state of the US music industry; privacy law as it
pertains to children’s data; and the legal framework that governs newsgatherers in Massachusetts.
He serves as Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab, where he works closely with HLS’s
Experts in Residence and attorneys who offer legal services to those who work at the i-Lab. He is a member of Harvard Law
School’s Public Service Venture Fund Seed Grant Selection Committee and has served as a Preliminary Judge for Harvard
University’s President’s Challenge. He sits on Harvard Law School’s IT Steering Committee.
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In addition to his classroom and clinical teaching activities at HLS, Chris served as a mentor during the first two years of the
Harvard University-wide Digital Problem Solving Initiative. The Initiative is a cross-disciplinary teaching effort piloted at the
Berkman Center, and his DPSI teams examined norms and practices at creation and innovation spaces and concerns about
accessibility on online education platforms.
Mr. Bavitz speaks and appears regularly at events and on panels, addressing topics related to intellectual property and
technology before audiences that have included college and law school students, librarians and archivists, computer
programmers and software developers, journalists and media lawyers. He served as point person on the Berkman Center’s
collaboration with Berklee College of Music on a series of “Rethink Music” events and co-hosted the 2012 Rethink Music
conference in Boston.
Prior to joining the Clinic, Mr. Bavitz served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998 –
2002, he was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP (previously, Rubin Baum Levin
Constant & Friedman), where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his BA, cum laude, from Tufts
University in 1995 and his JD from University of Michigan Law School in 1998.
Honorable Richard C. Breeden ’75
Richard C. Breeden ’75 consults with companies and government agencies on a broad range of topics such as evaluating
corporate conduct, strengthening ethics and compliance, and improving corporate governance practices. He currently serves as
Special Master for the US Department of Justice in administering the Madoff Victim Fund, which will return $4 billion in
forfeited assets to Madoff victims in 135 countries.
From 1981 to 1993, Mr. Breeden served in a series of increasingly senior government positions during the administrations of
Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and William Clinton. He served as Assistant to the President and Co-head of
domestic policy under President George H. W. Bush, where among other things he was principally responsible for developing
the highly successful national program to stabilize and restructure the $1 trillion US savings and loan industry. President Bush
subsequently appointed Mr. Breeden to serve as the 24th Chairman of the SEC, where he served with distinction from 1989 to
1993. Among other things, then-Chairman Breeden led the last comprehensive overhaul of US proxy rules, authorized the first
ETFs, and took other steps to simplify raising capital or to improve the efficacy of US capital markets.
In the early 2000s, Mr. Breeden served as Corporate Monitor of WorldCom/MCI, Inc. on behalf of the US District Court for
the Southern District of New York. Mr. Breeden was responsible to the Court for overseeing the cleanup of history’s largest
corporate fraud, including a wide-ranging overhaul of corporate governance and the largest-ever restatement of corporate
earnings. He also later served as corporate monitor of KPMG LLP, under its deferred prosecution agreement with DOJ to
implement governance reforms in the wake of criminal conduct involving tax shelters.
During his career Mr. Breeden has worked with corporate governance challenges from almost every perspective, including as a
regulator, bankruptcy trustee, major investor, corporate advisor and independent director. He has served on a total of more
than a dozen corporate boards in the US.and Europe, ranging from startups to one of the world’s largest banks. He is
currently a director of STERIS Corporation, an Ohio-based medical device manufacturing company attempting to complete a
“corporate inversion” to UK domicile. He is also a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board.
In addition to his Harvard Law education, Mr. Breeden graduated from Stanford University in 1972. He lives with his wife
Linda and two young sons in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Emily M. Broad Leib ’08
Emily Broad Leib is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, as well as Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for
Health Law and Policy Innovation. She Co-founded and directs the Center’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the first law school
clinic in the nation devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to nonprofit and government clients in order to address the
health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Broad Leib is recognized as a national leader in Food
Law and Policy. She teaches courses on the topic and focuses her scholarship and practice on finding solutions to today’s
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biggest food system issues, aiming to increase access to healthy foods, prevent diet-related disease, eliminate food waste, and
reduce barriers to market entry for small-scale and sustainable food producers. She has published scholarly articles in the
Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others.
Broad Leib is a recipient of Harvard President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund. Broad Leib’s project, “Reducing
Food Waste as a Key to Addressing Climate Change,” was one of seven chosen from around the university to confront the
challenge of climate change by leveraging the clinic’s food law and policy expertise to identify systemic solutions that can
reduce food waste, which is a major driver of climate change. Broad Leib’s groundbreaking work on food waste has been
covered in such media outlets as CNN, The Today Show, MSNBC, Time Magazine, Politico, and the Washington Post.
Before joining the Harvard faculty, Broad Leib spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law
School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow, serving as Director of the Delta Directions Consortium, a group of
university and foundation leaders who collaborate to improve public health and foster economic development in the Delta. In
that role, she worked with community members and outside partners to design and implement programmatic and policy
interventions on a range of health and economic issues in the region, with a focus on the food system. She received her BA
from Columbia University and her JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude.
Robert C. Clark ’72
Robert Clark, currently the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, was Dean and Royall Professor
of Law at Harvard Law School for 14 years, from July 1989 through June 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University
Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he has written numerous law
review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as “the paradigm for future
student texts.” Professor Clark is a trustee of TIAA and chaired the TIAA-CREF ad hoc committee on corporate governance.
In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Time Warner, Inc. and Omnicom Group, Inc. and on the editorial board of
directors of Foundation Press. He is also a trustee of Hodson Trust, which funds educational programs at four Maryland
educational institutions.
Professor Clark joined the HLS faculty in 1978, and over the years has taught thousands of students, in subjects such as
corporations, corporate finance, corporate taxation, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as seminars on laws, markets, and
religions. Previously, he had been an associate with the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, and then spent four years on the
faculty of Yale Law School, where he became a tenured professor. A graduate of Maryknoll College, Professor Clark received
his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and earned his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Tyler R. Giannini
Tyler R. Giannini is Co-director of the Human Rights Program, Co-director of its International Human Rights Clinic, and a
Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Tyler’s work focuses on Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation, business and
human rights, human rights and the environment as well as communities and human rights. He has extensive experience with
Myanmar and South Africa and a strong interest in social entrepreneurship and clinical pedagogy in the human rights context.
Prior to joining HLS, he was a founder and director of EarthRights International, an organization at the forefront of efforts to
link human rights and environmental protection. After receiving an Echoing Green fellowship to start EarthRights in 1995,
Tyler spent a decade in Thailand with the organization conducting fact-finding investigations and groundbreaking corporate
accountability litigation. He served as Co-counsel in the landmark Doe v. Unocal case, a precedent-setting corporate ATS suit
about the Yadana gas pipeline in Myanmar, which successfully settled in 2005. He has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs
to the US Supreme Court including Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Samantar v. Yousuf, and Presbyterian Church of Sudan v.
Talisman. He serves as a special advisor for the HLS Public Service Venture Fund. At the International Human Rights Clinic,
he helped incubate a new business and human rights nonprofit, the Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Integrity.
Mr. Giannini holds graduate degrees in law and foreign policy from the University of Virginia.
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Naomi Gilens ’16
Naomi Gilens is a third year law student and 2011 graduate of Princeton University. Before law school, Ms. Gilens worked as
a paralegal at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project in New York. She is published in the Journal of Law and
Technology for her work on technology companies' use of warrant canaries, for which she received a prize for Outstanding
Student Note. Ms. Gilens is an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has served as a research assistant
to Professor Jonathan Zittrain, and spent a semester as a student practitioner with the Cyberlaw Clinic. She spent her first
summer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and her second summer at the ACLU of Northern California. She will be
serving as a law clerk for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit starting in fall 2016.
Jamie S. Gorelick ’75
Jamie Gorelick is a partner at WilmerHale in Washington, where she chairs the Regulatory and Government Affairs
Department. She is on the boards of Amazon and Verisign and was previously on the boards of United Technologies,
Schlumberger and Fannie Mae. She is Chair of the Urban Institute Board and has been a member of many other nonprofit
boards including the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, and the Washington Legal Clinic
for the Homeless. She has also been a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and its Law School’s Visiting Committee.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission.
Ms. Gorelick was one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States and was General Counsel of the
Defense Department. Earlier in her career, she was Counselor to the Deputy and Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, as well
as Vice Chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Evaluation of the Audit, Inspection and Investigation
Components of the Department of Defense. She was also a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist
Threats upon the United States, the “9/11 Commission.” She is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the senior advisory
panel to the Secretary, and she served as a member of both the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Security Advisory Panel
and President Bush’s Review of Intelligence and she was Co-chair of the Advisory Committee of the Presidential Commission
on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Elizabeth Holtzman ’65
Elizabeth Holtzman served for eight years in the US House of Representatives, representing Brooklyn, NY. . She won
national acclaim for her work on the House Judiciary Committee during its impeachment proceedings against President
Richard M. Nixon, and for her questioning of President Gerald Ford about the Nixon pardon. A Co-founder of the
Congresswomen’s Caucus, Ms. Holtzman authored many laws advancing the status of women, including protecting the
privacy of rape victims, securing legal fees under Title IX and in preventing discrimination in federal public works in
employment.
Ms. Holtzman was the first member of Congress to uncover the presence of Nazi war criminals in the US, and led the effort
(including writing a new law and creating a special bureau in the Justice Department) to bring them to justice. As chair of the
Immigration Subcommittee, she also Co-authored the US Refugee Act of 1980 with Sen. Ted Kennedy and played an
important role in the resettlement of the Vietnamese boat people.
After leaving Congress, she was elected Brooklyn District Attorney (where she led the fight to end racial discrimination in jury
selection and reformed laws on sexual assault) and then Comptroller of New York City, the first woman to hold either
position. Ms. Holtzman was appointed by President Clinton to a panel that declassified 8 million pages of secret US Nazi war
crime files, and was appointed in 2013 and 2014 by the Secretary of Defense to panels dealing with sexual assault in the
military. She was also recently appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security. Ms.
Holtzman is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College. She is the author of
three books and numerous published essays and practices law in New York City.
Patrick Knoth '16
Patrick Knoth is a third year law student who graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History and Literature and a
Citation in Spanish. Before entering the Law School, he worked as an analyst at the First Manhattan Consulting Group and as
a litigation fellow at the Hearst Corporation’s Office of General Counsel in New York. In addition to his involvement with the
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Cyberlaw Clinic and the Journal of Law and Technology, Mr. Knoth is a member of the Board of Student Advisers and HLS
Lambda. He is also a finalist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. Mr. Knoth has spent his summers at the U.S. Attorney’s
Office in Cleveland, Ohio and at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He will be serving as a law clerk for a federal district
judge starting in fall 2016.
Sarah Knuckey LL.M. ’06
Sarah Knuckey is an international human rights lawyer and is the Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law at
Columbia Law School, where she directs the Human Rights Clinic and Co-directs the Human Rights Institute. She is also a
Special Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. She has carried out investigations and reported on
human rights and humanitarian law violations around the world, including in Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. Her investigations and legal and policy
work address a range of issues including unlawful killings, armed conflict and counterterrorism, sexual violence, corporate
abuses, environmental harms, and protest rights.
She has been an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and previously directed the Project on Extrajudicial Executions,
and the Initiative on Human Rights Fact Finding, at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (NYU). She has a
BA/LLB (hons.) from the University of Western Australia, and an LLM from Harvard Law School.
Alexander G. Leone ’16
Alex Leone graduated from Rutgers University in 2013 with a B.A. in Philosophy and a Spanish minor. He is currently a third
year student at Harvard Law School where he is an Articles Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal and President of the
Harvard Food Law Society. Mr. Leone has participated in the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and the Harvard
Food Law and Policy Clinic, and has interned for a federal public defender and a Massachusetts prosecutor. He spent his
summers in the chambers of a district judge in the District of New Jersey, to which he will return as a clerk in 2018, and at the
New York office of Paul, Weiss, to which he will return in 2016.
Kenneth W. Mack ’91
Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard
University. He is the Co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. During the 2015 – 16 year,
he will serve as Co-faculty leader of the Workshop on the History of Capitalism in the Americas at the Charles Warren Center
for Studies in American history. His research and teaching have focused on American legal and constitutional history with
particular emphasis on race relations, politics and economic life.
His 2012 book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (Harvard University Press), was selected as a Top 50
Non-fiction Book of the Year by the Washington Post, was a National Book Festival Selection, was awarded honorable
mention for the J. Willard Hurst Award by the Law and Society Association, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Book
Award. His is also the Co-editor of The New Black: What Has Changed – And What Has Not – With Race in America (New Press,
2013). His articles have been published in a wide variety of scholarly and general interest publications. He is currently
working on a book project that examines the social and political history of race and political economy in the United States
after 1975.
He began his professional career as an electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories before turning to law and history. Before joining
the faculty at Harvard Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, in the US District Court for the Southern
District of New York, and practiced law in the Washington, DC office of the firm Covington & Burling
Raymond E. Mabus ’75
Ray Mabus is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy, the longest to serve as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since
World War II.
Throughout his tenure, Secretary Mabus has focused on four key priorities – People, Platforms, Power and Partnerships – that
enable the Navy and Marine Corps’ unique ability to maintain the global presence that reassures our allies and deters our
adversaries.
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Responsible for an annual budget in excess of $170 billion and leadership of almost 900,000 people, Secretary Mabus has
worked to improve the quality of life of Sailors, Marines and their families; decrease the Department’s dependence on fossil
fuels; strengthen partnerships with industry and internationally; and increase the size of the Navy fleet.
During his tenure, the Navy went from building fewer than five ships per year to having more than 70 ships under contract, an
average of 14 ships per year put under contract. Most of those contracts are fixed-price, multi-year deals assuring value for
taxpayers and certainty for the Navy’s industry partners. Mabus’ shipbuilding efforts reversed the decline of the Navy’s fleet
and will increase it to more than 300 ships by the end of the decade despite fiscal constraints.
Leading the world’s only global navy, Mabus has traveled over one million miles and visited over 140 countries and territories
and forty-three states to visit with sailors and sarines deployed or stationed around the world, to maintain and develop
international relationships, and to reconnect the American public with the Navy and Marine Corps, which he calls “America’s
Away Team.” He has traveled to Afghanistan on 12 separate occasions in recognition of the sacrifice and service of sailors
and marines deployed in combat zones.
To prepare service members and their families for the high-tempo operations of today’s Navy and Marine Corps, Mabus
announced in 2012 the “21st Century Sailor and Marine” initiative, designed to build and maintain the most resilient and ready
force possible. He recently announced the tripling of paid maternity leave, from six weeks to 18 weeks.
Mabus also directed the Navy and Marine Corps to change the way they use, produce and acquire energy, setting an aggressive
goal of relying on alternative sources for at least 50% of their energy by 2020. In 2012, President Obama announced in his
State of the Union address that the Navy and Marine Corps would purchase or facilitate the production of 1GW of renewable
energy for use on Navy and Marine Corps installations by 2020. This goal will be reached four years early. The Navy also
demonstrated the Great Green Fleet in 2012, a carrier strike group in which every participating US Navy ship and type of
aircraft operated on alternative energy sources including nuclear energy and biofuels.
In June 2010, as an additional duty, President Obama appointed Mabus to prepare the long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of
Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mabus’ report was released in September 2010 and met with broad bipartisan support with most recommendations being passed into law by Congress as the Restore Act. Included in the legislation
was a fund to aid in the Gulf Coast’s recovery by distributing 80 percent of any civil penalties awarded as a result of the
damage caused by the disaster. To date, civil penalties total more than five billion dollars.
Before his appointment by President Obama, Mabus held a variety of leadership positions. From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served
as Governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mabus was Ambassador to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994–1996 and later was Chairman and CEO of a manufacturing company which he led out
of bankruptcy.
Mabus has been recognized for his leadership of the Navy and Marine Corps on multiple occasions. In 2013, he was named
one of the top 50 highest rated CEOs by Glassdoor, an online jobs and career community. Mabus was the only person in
government to receive this award.
Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a BA degree, summa cum laude, from the University of
Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law
School. After Johns Hopkins, Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.
Christopher L. Melendez '15
Christopher L. Melendez is an associate at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in their finance department. While attending
Harvard Law School, he spent three semesters with the Veterans Legal Clinic. In October, 2013, he successfully argued
Ausmer v. Shinseki at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. For his work in the clinic, he received the Outstanding
Clinical Student Award from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Before attending law school, Mr. Melendez was First
Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, where he served as a platoon commander and assistant operations officer. He holds a degree
in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Daniel Nagin
Daniel Nagin is Clinical Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education, and Faculty Director of the
WilmerHale Legal Services Center. He is also Faculty Director of the Legal Service Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic, which he
founded in 2012. His teaching and research interests focus on clinical education, social welfare law and policy, and legal
services.
The Veterans Legal Clinic has won numerous significant victories for disabled veterans, including decisions from the US Court
of Appeals for Veterans Claims protecting the VA disability appeal rights of veterans who were subject to multiple
deployments Ausmer v. Shinseki (2013) and ensuring veterans have meaningful access to pro bono counsel through law school
clinics Froio v. McDonald (2015). Nagin’s recent scholarship on veterans law includes Goals v. Deadlines: Notes on the VA Disability
Claims Backlog, 10 UMass Law Review50 (2015)(invited symposium essay) and The Credibility Trap: Notes on a VA Evidentiary
Standard, 45 Memphis Law Review. 887 (2015)(invited symposium essay).
Nagin was previously on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he founded and directed a public
benefits clinic and taught poverty law. Nagin has also taught in the clinical program at Washington University in St. Louis
School of Law, directed a social service and legal advocacy program for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, and
served as a staff attorney with Legal Services NYC in its Jamaica, Queens office.
Nagin holds a BA in History and Government, Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University, an
MA in Education from Stanford University, and a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he
received the Edwin F. Mandel Award for outstanding contributions as a clinical law student.
William K. Reilly ’65
William K. Reilly is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership. During his tenure with
TPG, he was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners (1998 – 2010) a private equity fund dedicated to investing
in companies in the water sector in developing countries. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford
University (1993 – 1994), Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (1989 – 1993), president of World
Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973 – 1989), director of the Rockefeller Task Force
on Land Use and Urban Growth (1972 – 1973), and a senior staff member of the President’s Council on Environmental
Quality (1970 – 1972). He headed the US delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, and served as one of
the seven original Trustees who managed the Presidio National Park in San Francisco.
In May 2010, he was appointed by President Obama to Co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill and Offshore Drilling and in late 2012 to the President’s Global Development Council. Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus
of the Board of World Wildlife Fund, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the
Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Co-chairman of the
Bipartisan Policy Center Energy Project, Co-chairman of the Board of the Global Water Challenge, and former
Director/member of the Packard Foundation. He recently rotated off the boards of directors of ConocoPhillips, DuPont, and
the National Geographic Society, and he currently serves on the boards of Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future
Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. In 2007, Mr. Reilly was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has served as keynote speaker for two Harvard Law School symposiums, one on the use of land in 2013 and a second on
the Clean Water Act at 40 in 2014. He served in the US Army to the rank of Captain, and holds a BA degree from Yale, a JD
from Harvard, and an MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University.
Jevhon Rivers ’17
Jevhon Rivers is a second year student at Harvard Law School. Originally from Chicago, Jevhon attended Amherst College
and received her B.A. in Greek. She taught third grade in Houston, TX for several years following graduation and spent a year
traveling through India and Southeast Asia before coming to HLS. Jevhon is interested in the legal and political issues
surrounding race and poverty and is the Managing Editor of the Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice. Jevhon spent the
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summer working at the ACLU on their Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. Following graduation, Jevhon plans to return to
Chicago and continue working to empower local communities.
Leonard Rubenstein ’75
Leonard Rubenstein is Director of the Program on Human Rights Health and Conflict, Center for Public Health and Human
Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and chairs the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. Prior to
coming to Johns Hopkins in 2009, he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and for
12 years before that, Executive Director and then President of Physicians for Human Rights. In the latter position he
conducted and oversaw human rights investigations throughout the world and wrote extensively on issues matters including
war crimes, torture, women’s rights, racial justice, medical ethics, and the right to health.
After graduation from HLS, he practiced civil rights law for five years and in 1981 became legal director and later Executive
Director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, where he litigated class actions and oversaw organizational work on
the rights of people with mental disabilities. He has received numerous awards for his work including Congressional Minority
Caucuses’ Healthcare Hero Award and the Sidel-Levy Award for Peace of the American Public Health Association.
Sara Schaumubrg ’16
Sara Schaumburg is a third year student at Harvard Law School. She received her BA in Political Science from the University
of Pennsylvania in 2007. She then worked on several political campaigns before serving as a Legislative Aide and
Communications Director for two members of Congress. At HLS, Ms. Schaumburg joined the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law
Review, for which she serves as a Student Writing Editor. In addition to her work with the Veterans Law and Disability
Benefits Clinic, she has been involved with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, providing assistance to individuals
seeking asylum in the U.S. Sara spent her summers at the Health Care Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s
Office and at WilmherHale in Boston.
Henry J. Steiner ’55
Henry Steiner taught at HLS from 1962 to 2005, when he became professor emeritus. Most of his teaching and writing
involves international issues, law and policy. In 1984, he founded the school’s Human Rights Program and served as its
director until 2005. During that period and since his retirement, he has given short courses and lectures and consulted on
human rights issues in over 35 countries. Since 2005 Steiner’s work continues to address international human rights, while
giving heightened attention to his life-long engagement with photography. A book of his photographs and commentary will
be published this year.
Ralph G. Steinhardt ’80
Since 1980, Professor Steinhardt has specialized in the litigation of international law in U.S. courts, especially the
representation of various human rights organizations, as well as individual human rights victims, before all levels of the federal
judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He co-founded the Oxford-GW Programme in International Human Rights Law,
at New College, Oxford -- now in its 21st year. He was also the Founding Chairman of the Board of the Center for Justice and
Accountability, an NGO based in San Francisco committed to the enforcement of human rights law in domestic courts. He is
the co-author of a leading human rights casebook, International Human Rights Lawyering. In addition to his law degree from
Harvard, he holds a B.A. in philosophy from Bowdoin College.
John H. Sturc ‘75
John Sturc presently serves as the Chief Counsel for the Office of the Financial Stability of the United States Department of
the Treasury where he advises the Treasury regarding the completion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, often called the
TARP program. Congress created the TARP program in 2008 and gave the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to
purchase troubled assets from financial authority that was used to stabilize hundreds of American banks, AIG, General
Motors and Chrysler during the financial crisis, and to prevent avoidable foreclosures on homes owned by hundreds of
thousands of individual families.
Mr. Sturc joined the Treasury after a twenty three year career in the Washington, DC, office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
where he specialized in the defense of securities enforcement investigations. John previously served as an associate director of
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the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission and as an Assistant United States Attorney in
Washington, DC.
He is participating in the panel in his personal capacity. Accordingly, the views he expresses are his own and do not reflect the
views of the US Department of the Treasury.
Jack F. Trope ’80
Jack F. Trope is a Senior Director in Indian Child Welfare Programs at Casey Family Programs. He works on national legal
and policy initiatives to promote compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act and improve child welfare outcomes for
children and families in state and tribal systems. Previously, Mr. Trope served as the Executive Director of the Association on
American Indian Affairs (AAIA) for more than 13 years (and as Staff Attorney earlier in his career) where he worked on a
variety of legal and policy matters, including issues related to the protection and preservation of Native American tribal
cultures.
He has also served as Director of the Albuquerque-based Western Area Office for the Save the Children Federation, was a
partner with the law firm of Sant’Angelo & Trope, an Assistant Counsel to two New Jersey governors, and clerked for a New
Jersey Supreme Court Justice. In addition to his Harvard law education, Mr. Trope holds a degree from Rutgers College in
political science.
Patricia J. Villareal ’80
Pat Villareal is an internationally recognized authority in securities litigation, corporate governance, and director and officer
fiduciary duty matters. She has three decades of experience representing public and private companies, boards of directors,
and individual directors and officers in high-stakes litigation, SEC and internal investigations, and Delaware shareholder
litigation.
She has been lead lawyer for Oncor Electric Delivery and its board on the bankruptcy of its parent, EFH; Dell and its board
on securities, derivative, and ERISA litigation and regulatory investigations; Potash Corporation on its successful defense to a
hostile BHP takeover bid; and Electronic Data Systems and its board on parallel securities, derivative, and ERISA litigation
and regulatory litigation. She has done extensive counseling on corporate governance, fiduciary duty, and D&O
indemnification and insurance matters for public companies, boards of directors, and financially challenged companies.
Ms. Villareal has been ranked by Chambers USA as a “Leader in the Field” and Band 1 in securities litigation since 2006. In
2014, Chambers ranked her as a nationally recognized practitioner in securities litigation and praised her as “an absolute go to”
securities litigator, who clients say instills “tremendous confidence when she speaks and makes recommendations. ” And in
past years, Chambers has “hailed [her] as a leading securities litigator” and noted that “ [p]eers are especially impressed with
her abilities in both the boardroom and the courtroom. ” Pat was selected as a “2015 Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in
America for her work in SEC, telecom, and energy enforcement in Dallas, Texas and as a “Litigation Star" by Benchmark
Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys in 2014 and 2015 for outstanding work in
securities litigation.
Senator Mark R. Warner ’80
The first in his family to graduate from college, Mark Warner spent 20 years as a successful technology and business leader in
Virginia before he was elected Governor of Virginia in 2001. When he left the Governor’s Office in 2006, Virginia was ranked
as the best state for business, the best managed state, and the best state in which to receive a public education.
Governor Warner was elected to the United States Senate in 2008, where he serves on the Banking, Budget, Finance and
Intelligence committees. At a time when Washington seems gridlocked by partisan politics, he has emerged as a bipartisan
leader who’s willing to cross the political aisle to bring people together and get things done. Senator Warner has worked with
Republicans and Democrats alike to cut red tape, reduce spending, and promote innovation and new jobs.
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Senator Warner has been recognized as a national leader in fighting for our military men and women and veterans, and
working to design a bipartisan, comprehensive plan to address our country’s debt and deficit. His brand of bipartisan
cooperation is what we need more of today in Washington.
Honorable William F. Weld ’70
Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld provides clients with advice and counsel related to domestic and international
government strategies and international business transactions.
Before joining Mintz Levin and ML Strategies, Mr. Weld practiced law in the New York and Washington, DC offices of a
large international law firm, where he established an extensive international consulting business in mining, energy, and
technology.
He was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990 and reelected in 1994 with 71% of the vote. During his terms, he
succeeded in reducing taxes and unemployment. His pro-business policies are widely considered to have made a positive
impact on the state.
As Governor, Mr. Weld led sixteen official trade missions to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. He also served as
national Co-chair of the Privatization Council, which pioneered public-private partnerships, particularly in the area of
infrastructure.
During his term as Governor, He deregulated the electric industry, setting a model for other US states to introduce
competition and market mechanisms. He mandated the use of natural gas as fuel for government bus fleets, and was an early
proponent of the development of hybrid electric vehicles.
Mr. Weld served as Assistant US Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department in
Washington, and as US Attorney for Massachusetts, earning national recognition for his work fighting public corruption and
white-collar crime. He also spent a dozen years practicing as a securities and antitrust litigator. Earlier, Bill served as a staff
member in both the US House of Representatives, where he participated in the Watergate impeachment inquiry, and the US
Senate.
Bill is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Washington, DC, and served by appointment
of the President on the US Holocaust Memorial Council.
Mr. Weld also serves as an associate member of the InterAction Council, a working society of former heads of state from
throughout the world, which convenes annually to consider and report on issues of global concern such as water, food, energy,
natural resources, and religious sectarianism.
David B. Wilkins ’80
Professor Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty
Director of the Center on the Legal Profession and the Center for Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry at Harvard
Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Professor Wilkins has written over 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is
the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague, Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field.
His current scholarly projects include Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (where he directs over 50 researchers
studying the impact of globalization on the market for legal services in rapidly developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin
America and Eastern Europe); After the JD (a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers’ careers); The Harvard Law
School Career Study (examining, among other things, differences in the experiences of male and female graduates and the
careers of lawyers who do not practice law); and The New Social Engineers (charting the historical development and current
experiences of black lawyers in corporate law practice).
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Professor Wilkins teaches several courses on lawyers including The Legal Profession, Legal Education for the Twenty-First
Century, and Challenges of a General Counsel. In 2007, he co-founded Harvard Law School’s Executive Education Program,
where he teaches in several courses including Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel.
Professor Wilkins has given over 40 endowed lectures at universities around the world and is a frequent speaker at
professional conferences and law firm and corporate retreats. His recent academic honors include the 2012 Honorary
Doctorate in Law from Stockholm University in Sweden, the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Mentor Award from Australia
National University, the 2012 Genest Fellowship from Osgoode Hall Law School, the 2010 American Bar Foundation Scholar
of the Year Award, the 2009 J. Clay Smith Award from Howard University School of Law, and the 2008 Order of the Coif
Distinguished Visitor Fellowship.
In 2012, Professor Wilkins was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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