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Vanessa Countryman, ’05, now secretary of the US Securities Exchange Commission, began her career in private practice, as many new attorneys do. However, from the very beginning she was drawn to the federal government, driven by her passion for administrative law and the example of her parents, both of whom had distinguished careers as federal employees.
Katherine Adams, ’90, Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Global Security, joined the Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab for a lunch conversation on October 23 as part of the clinic’s ongoing speaker series.
Ariel Scotese, the associate director of user services at the D’Angelo Law Library, was a few years into her career as a practicing attorney when she began rethinking her future aspirations. She had a love for the law, but was not finding joy in its practice. When Scotese started volunteering at the local public library, she had an epiphany. What about law library science?
Clinical Professor Emily Underwood, ’13, was recently appointed to a four-year term on the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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In early 1990, The Asia Foundation was contacted by the Government of Mongolia, the landlocked country between Russia and China, which had been closely aligned with the Soviet Union for 70 years. With the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, young reformers in the country demanded political change, and the country’s ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party agreed to reform. Shel Severinghaus and I, who were running the Northeast Asia desk in San Francisco, welcomed the prominent lawyer B. Chimid on a study tour of California and Washington.
Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence.
Dr. Jaime Edwards is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches political philosophy.
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After the 2020 US election, it took days for major news networks to project the winner of the presidential race, and many more weeks for Americans – and the world – to know if there would be a peaceful and orderly transition of power. There wasn’t. The incumbent, Donald Trump, conspired to overturn the results, and then encouraged a mob of his followers to storm the US Capitol.
