Dear Law Review Alumni,
It is with great pleasure that I write you with the Volume 83 George Washington Law Review Newsletter. Though this newsletter has been on a brief hiatus, we have brought it back in conjunction with the first issue of Volume 83. The goals of the annual newsletter are to help build the sense of community among the Law Review alumni and to inform the alumni network of the accomplishments of our members, as well as the successes of our journal as a whole, over the past year.
Before announcing these accomplishments, however, the Law Review cordially invites you to join us for our annual alumni reception on April 9, 2015. The event will take place from 6-9 PM at Front Page DC, located at 1333 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. The event will include free drinks and appetizers for all alumni. We sincerely hope you will be able to come join the current members of the Law Review for a night of celebration. If you are able to join us, please RSVP by clicking here.
With the publication of Volume 83 of The George Washington Law Review, we have a lot of things to reflect on and to be proud of this year:
• The Supreme Court recently cited the Law Review in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass’n, 575 U.S. _____ (2015). Additionally, the Law Review was cited by amici curiae in four cases from the Court’s October 2014 Term.
• With former FTC Chairman and GW Law Professor William Kovacic as its faculty sponsor, the Law Review hosted its annual symposium on the 100th anniversary of the FTC. The conference featured a lively conversation with Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, a keynote by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, and presentations from prominent scholars and practitioners in the fields of antitrust, consumer protection, and administrative law.
• The Law Review has partnered with the Administrative Conference of the United States to celebrate that agency’s 50th anniversary. As part of this project, Volume 83, Issues 4/5 will be published as a special commemorative double-issue featuring contributions not only from over a dozen prominent scholars in the field of administrative law, but also from Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Breyer.
• Law Review scholarship has attracted coverage from prominent media outlets and publications. For example, Integrating the Internet, an article set to appear in Volume 83, Issue 2, was highlighted in the February 2015 edition of the ABA Journal. A Volume 82:1 article by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the use of drone strikes, along with a response piece by American’s Stephen I. Vladeck, were covered by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Volume 83 features an exciting lineup of articles covering a diverse set of topics. We are confident each of the issues will help spark and contribute to a robust academic dialogue. Here are a few highlights from Volume 83’s inaugural issue:
• In Party Subordinance in Federal Litigation, Scott Dodson challenges the justifications for today’s era of customized litigation. Setting forth and defending a theory of party subordinance, Dodson upends the traditional notions of party preference within the federal litigation system and notes implications for the doctrines including personal jurisdiction, venue, and choice of law.
• In The Self-Regulation of Investment Bankers, Andrew Tuch undertakes an empirical study of disciplinary actions taken by FINRA against investment bankers. Professor Tuch’s thought provoking research helps expose the failures of FINRA to self-police and promotes methods to improve the body’s effectiveness against investment banker misconduct. In Arguendo, the Law Review’s online companion publication, Professors Wilmarth and Morrison pen an insightful response to Tuch’s work, arguing that his analysis would benefit from a more clear exposition of the purpose of current investment banking regulation.
• In Severability, Remedies, and Constitutional Adjudication, renowned Virginia Law Professor John Harrison critiques the Supreme Court’s current understanding of the issue of severability. Improper treatment of severability as a remedy, he argues, has led the Court to depart from ordinary principles of standing and avoidance.
The editors, associates, and members of the Law Review have also achieved many impressive professional accomplishments. These include:
• Incoming Editor-in-Chief Dane Shikman and associate Kyle Singhal won the National Moot Court Competition, hosted by the New York City Bar Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers in February 2015. GW Law was the only team to go undefeated in all ten rounds in a field of 189 participating teams.
• Senior Notes Editor Sarah Smith and Senior Managing Editor Nathan Green won the Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. Nathan was also awarded Best Oral Advocate and Second Best Overall Competitor.
• Executive Editor David Seidel won GW’s Upper Level Mock Trial Competition, and was awarded Best Advocate.
• Senior Production Editor Geoffrey Wright and Executive Editor Paul Kanellopoulos were semi-finalists in Van Vleck, and Geoffrey also won Best Overall Competitor and Best Brief.
• Associate Nathan Jepson was a semi-finalist and was awarded Best Oral Advocate at the Inaugural Global Antitrust Institute Invitation Moot Court Competition in Washington, DC.
• Editors Alex Moyer and Elyse Schoenfeld were quarterfinalists in the Charleston National Moot Court Competition and won Best Respondent Brief.
• Executive Editor Christopher Citro and member Ryan Hutzler won GW’s Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition.
• Associate Nathaniel Castellano received a research grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government to publish a proposal for improving performance analysis of the U.S. defense acquisition system.
• Online Articles Editor Gwendelynn Bills contributed to important research with Professor Sean Murphy that led to a “Crimes Against Humanity” initiative with the U.N. International Law Commission.
• Incoming Senior Articles Editor Michael Jones and Member Laura Ferguson won the Judge Grenadier International Law Moot Court Competition.
Many of our members have obtained prestigious Federal Clerkships:
• Senior Articles Editor Peter Komorowski will be clerking for The Hon. Roger W. Titus on the U.S. District Court of Maryland in 2016.
• Notes Editor Sanessa Griffiths will be clerking for The Hon. Susan Bolton on the U.S. District Court of Arizona in 2016.
• Senior Projects Editor Kolya Glick will be clerking for The Hon. Liam O’Grady on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2016.
• Articles Editor Paul Weeks will be clerking for The Hon. Anthony Trenga on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2016.
• Associate Emily Pereira will be clerking for Roger W. Titus on the U.S. District Court of Maryland in 2015.
• Managing Editor Mia Donnelly will be clerking for the Hon. Royce C. Lambert on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
• Notes Editor Sylvia Tsakos will be clerking for The Hon. Kathleen Cardone on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in 2015 and The Hon. Barbara Keenan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2016.
• Managing Editor April Pullium will be clerking for The Hon. Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 2016.
• Associate Nathanial Castellano will be clerking for The Hon. Jimmie V. Reyna of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2016.
• Editor-in-Chief Whitney Hermandorfer will be clerking The Hon. Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2016 and The Hon. Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2017.
• Senior Executive Editor Brentley Smith will be joining the Staff Attorney’s Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the fall of 2015.
Keeping with tradition, many of our members will have their notes published in Volume 83 of the Law Review. These individuals are:
• Gwendelynn Bills, LAWS unto Themselves: Controlling the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
• Brandon Boxbaum, Public Muscle and Private Profit: A Flawed Scheme for Stemming Foreclosures Through the Power of Eminent Domain.
• Mia Donnelly, Fighting Feres with a VA Benefits Program for Victims of Parental Exposure.
• Andrew Fischer, A Comprehensive Approach to Stateless Income.
• Kolya Glick, (A)rising Above the Well-Pleaded Complaint: A Proposal to Reconsider the Jurisdictional Analysis of the Federal Circuit After the America Invents Act.
• Ana Gonzalez, “Yes We Scan”: Using SEC Disclosures to Compel and Standardize Tech Companies’ Reports on Government Requests for User Data.
• Lisa Mays, The Consequences of Search Bias: How Application of the Essential Facilities Doctrine Remedies Google’s Unrestricted Monopoly on Search in the United States and Europe.
• Alexander Moyer, Throwing Out the Playbook: Replacing the NCAA’s Anticompetitive Amateurism Regime with the Olympic Model.
• Catherine Schroeder, Owning a Piece of the Cloud: Intellectual Property and Consumer Protection.
• Brentley Smith, Section 1983 and Horizontal Inequities: Addressing the Disparate Application of the Supreme Court’s § 1983 Preclusion Jurisprudence to Similarly Situated Litigants.
• Paul Weeks, Enhancing Responsiveness and Alleviating Gridlock: Pragmatic Steps to Balance Campaign Finance Law in Light of the Supreme Court’s Jurisprudence.
Additionally, many of our members have been published in journals around the country, including:
• Nathaniel Castellano has co-authored various articles with Professor Steven Schooner this year. These articles will be published, or have already been published in the Public Contract Law Journal, Federal Circuit Bar Journal, Public Manager, and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
• Elizabeth French will be publishing her note in the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation.
• Whitney Hermandorfer will be publishing her note in the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal.
Finally, we would like to recognize some of the personal milestones reached in the lives of our members:
• Two Law Review editors, Elyse Schoenfeld and Alexander Moyer, announced their engagement in December 2014.
• Senior Articles Editor Peter Komorowski announced his engagement in December 2014, and will be married in November 2015.
• Jordy Thomas Pau was born to Notes Editor Ryan Pau and his wife Jackie Pau on January 14, 2015.
• Zachary Sangwoo Kim was born to Articles Editor Phil Kim and his wife Diana Kim on December 24, 2014.
These personal and professional achievements are not an exhaustive list of the accomplishments of the Law Review’s members; however, they illustrate the tradition of excellence that The George Washington Law Review continues to embody, and will continue to promote in the years to come.
You will find the Volume 83 Masthead here. For more information about the current activities of the Law Review, please follow us on Twitter @GWLawReview, on our Facebook page, and on our website. We also welcome you to join the Law Review’s alumni group on LinkedIn.
We look forward to seeing you at the alumni reception.
Sincerely,
Whitney Hermandorfer
Editor-in-Chief, Volume 83
The George Washington Law Review
