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GW Law Welcomes New Faculty Members
New Faculty
 Arturo Carrillo
Associate Professor of Clinical Law
BA, Princeton University
JD, George Washington University
LLM, Columbia University
Carrillo teaches GW Law’s International
Human Rights Clinic and the human rights advocacy
seminar. Previously, he was an adjunct clinical
professor at Columbia University and served as
the director of Columbia’s Human Rights
Clinic. He joined Columbia’s Human Rights
Institute in 1999 as the Henkin Senior Fellow,
co-teaching the Human Rights Clinic and later
serving as lecturer in law and associate director
of the Transitional Justice Program for the Human
Rights Institute. He served as a legal adviser
and human rights monitor in the Human Rights
Division of the United Nations Observer Mission
to El Salvador from 1991 to 1994. He also worked
as the attorney for United Nations affairs of
the Colombian Commission of Jurists in Bogotá from
1994 to 1998, and was professor of international
human rights and humanitarian law at the Escuela
Superior de Administración Pública.
Carrillo is senior adviser on human rights policy
to the U.S. Agency on International Development
in Colombia.
 Roger A. Fairfax Jr.
Associate Professor of Law
BA, JD, Harvard University
MA, University of London
A former federal prosecutor, Fairfax worked
for the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where
he represented the United States in a broad range
of public corruption and other investigations
and prosecutions. During his time in the Department
of Justice Honors Program, he also served details
as special assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern
District of Virginia and as special assistant
to the assistant attorney general for the criminal
division. He later joined the Washington office
of O’Melveny & Myers where his practice
included white collar criminal and regulatory
defense, internal investigations, complex civil
litigation, and strategic counseling, as well
as pro bono affirmative civil rights litigation,
indigent criminal defense, and appellate litigation.
Fairfax was commentaries chair of Harvard
Law Review. He clerked for Judge Patti Saris of the
U.S. District Court for
the District of Massachusetts and for Judge Judith
W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit. Fairfax taught
courses on the grand jury and criminal procedure
as a visiting assistant professor at William & Mary
School of Law and for several years as an adjunct
professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
His research interests include criminal procedure,
white collar crime, the grand jury, and federal
criminal jurisdiction.
 Jamie Grodsky
Associate Professor of Law
BA, JD, Stanford University
MA, University of California, Berkeley
Before joining the Law School faculty, Grodsky
was an associate professor of law at the University
of Minnesota. She teaches and writes in the
areas of environmental, natural resources,
and science and technology law. Her scholarly
interests include emerging questions of constitutional
and administrative law posed by new technologies
and the relative capacity of the branches of
government to accommodate technological change.
Grodsky formerly served as a counsel to the
Committee on Natural Resources of the U.S.
House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995;
counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of
the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 1997; and was
senior adviser to the general counsel of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1999
to 2001. She clerked for Chief Judge Proctor
R. Hug on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
9th Circuit. Prior to attending law school,
Grodsky worked as an analyst at the U.S. Office
of Technology Assessment, where she wrote on
information technology and economic competitiveness.
Previously, she was the educational director
at the Oceanic Society in San Francisco and
a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She is currently
a co-investigator on a multi-university NIH
grant dealing with the impact of new biological
technologies on environmental law, regulation,
and the assessment of environmental risks.
 Kristen E. Murray
Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing;
Associate Director of the Legal Research and
Writing Program
BA, American University
JD, Georgetown University
Murray began her career as a litigation associate
with Latham & Watkins in the firm’s
New York and Washington offices. While in private
practice, she primarily litigated on behalf of
corporate clients in state and federal court
at both the trial and appellate levels and dedicated
a significant amount of time to pro bono work
through various organizations, including the
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. She
joined the adjunct faculty of the Law School’s
legal research and writing program in 2003. Prior
to that, she taught U.S. Legal Discourse as an
adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University
Law Center.
Visiting Faculty
 Carter G. Bishop
Visiting Professor of Law
BS, Ball State University
MBA, JD, Drake University
LLM, New York University
Since 1995, Bishop has been a professor of
law at Suffolk University Law School. Previously,
he was a professor of law and the founding
director of the graduate tax program at William
Mitchell College of Law. He has also taught
at the law schools of American University,
Northeastern University, the University of
San Diego, and Washington and Lee University.
Before beginning his teaching career, he clerked
for the Hon. Darrell D. Wiles of the U.S. Tax
Court in Washington and practiced law in Minneapolis.
His teaching and scholarship interests are
in the areas of contracts; income, partnership,
and corporate taxation; corporations; business
associations; and international business transactions.
He has been a law reporter for several uniform
law projects sponsored by the National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws including
the Uniform (and Revised) Limited Liability
Company Acts and the Limited Liability Partnership
Amendments to the Revised Uniform Partnership
Act. He has co-authored a casebook on contracts;
a law school treatise on federal partnership
taxation; and a two-volume law treatise on
limited liability companies, which is updated
semi-annually. He has also written numerous
articles and lectured extensively on tax and
business law matters and is a member of the
American Law Institute.
 Laura Bradford
Frank H. Marks Visiting Associate Professor
of Law and Administrative Fellow
BA, Yale University
JD, Stanford University
Bradford’s primary teaching interests are
in the areas of copyright, trademark, and cyberspace
law. She clerked for Hon. James L. Oakes on the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Before
coming to GW Law, she was an acting assistant
professor in the Lawyering Program at New York
University School of Law. She previously worked
as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in
New York practicing intellectual property and
Internet law, and as a reporter at TIME magazine
writing in the areas of business and technology.
 Neil Hamilton
Visiting Professor of Law
BA, Colorado College
MA, University of Michigan
JD, University of Minnesota
Hamilton joined the University of St. Thomas
law faculty in 2001 as professor of law and founding
director of the mentor program. He has taught
administrative law for 25 years, and both the
required course in professional responsibility
and an ethics seminar for 18 years. He practiced
with the firms of Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty and
Bennett in Minneapolis and Krieg, DeVault, Alexander
and Capehart in Indianapolis before entering
academia. He has taught at the Army Finance School
in Indianapolis, the law faculty of Airlangga
University in Indonesia, Case Western University
Law School, and William Mitchell College of Law,
and was a Fulbright scholar at the University
of Singapore. The focus of his research over
the past 10 years has been the ethics of both
the academic and legal professions. He is the
author of three books and more than 40 scholarly
articles or book chapters, and is a monthly columnist
for Minnesota Lawyer. In 2002, Minnesota
Lawyer selected Hamilton as one of the recipients of
its Lawyer of the Year award. In 2003, he received
both the University of St. Thomas School of Law
Excellence in Professional Preparation Award
and the Hennepin County Professionalism Award,
becoming the first law professor to receive either
award. In 2004 and 2005, he was selected by Minnesota
Law and Politics as a “Minnesota SuperLawyer,” one
of two law professors in the state to be so honored.
Hamilton served as co-chair of the Hennepin County
Professionalism Committee from 2001 to 2003,
chair of the MSBA Professionalism Committee from
2003 to 2005, and is a founding director of Res
Ipsa Loquitur.
 Laird Kirkpatrick
Visiting Professor of Law
BA, Harvard University
JD, University of Oregon
At the University of Oregon Law School, Kirkpatrick
is the Hollis Professor of Legal Procedure;
he most recently served as the Philip H. Knight
Dean. He is the co-author of Federal Evidence
(2d ed. West), Evidence Under the Rules (5th
ed. Aspen), Evidence (3d ed. Aspen), Evidence:
Practice Under the Rules (2d ed. Aspen), and
is the author of Oregon Evidence (4th ed. LexisNexis).
He is the former chair of the evidence section
of the Association of American Law Schools.
He previously served as counsel to the head
of the criminal division of the U.S. Department
of Justice and as a commissioner ex officio
on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Kirkpatrick
will visit the Law School in the spring.
 Michael Lewyn
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
BA, Wesleyan University
JD, University of Pennsylvania
Lewyn has served on the faculty of Southern
Illinois University School of Law, Rutgers
Law School, John Marshall Law School, and the
University of Miami School of Law. Before teaching,
he clerked for Judge Morris Arnold and Judge
Theodore McMillian, both on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, and was an
associate in private practice. Lewyn has published
articles in the Boston
University Law Review, Hastings Law Journal,
Utah Law Review, Columbia Journal of Environmental
Law, and numerous
other journals. His most recent scholarship
has focused on legal and policy issues relating
to suburban sprawl.
 Michael J. Matheson
Visiting Research Professor of Law
BA, LLB, Stanford University
A member of the U.N. International Law Commission,
Matheson has argued many cases before international
tribunals, including the International Court
of Justice. He served for more than 28 years
at the U.S. Department of State, including as
acting legal adviser or principal deputy legal
adviser from 1990 to 2000. While at the State
Department he led efforts to create the International
Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda
and the U.N. Compensation Commission for Gulf
War claims. Matheson headed the U.S. delegation,
with the rank of ambassador, to the U.N. negotiations
on conventional weapons. After leaving the State
Department, he directed the international law
program at the School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins University from 2000
to 2001, and was a senior fellow at the U.S.
Institute of Peace from 2001 to 2002. Matheson
has been a visitor at the Law School since 2002.
He has taught courses on public international
law, international criminal law, international
institutions, and international law and conflict
resolution, and has published numerous articles
and other pieces. He is a member of the board
of editors of the American Journal of International
Law, the executive council of the American Society
of International Law, and the Council on Foreign
Relations.
 Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Visiting Research Professor of Law
BA, St. Joseph’s College
JD, University of Michigan
DESS, University of Louvain
PhD, University of Cambridge
Schoenbaum is visiting GW Law from the International
Christian University in Japan, where he serves
as a professor of international studies. He has
taught at the law schools of the University of
North Carolina, Tulane University, and the University
of Georgia. At Tulane he served as associate
dean and at Georgia he was executive director
of the Dean Rusk Center of International and
Comparative Law. He has practiced law extensively
as special counsel for several law firms and
has litigated corporate, environmental, and admiralty
cases in the federal courts. Schoenbaum has received
six Fulbright awards and has held teaching posts
in many countries, including Germany, Belgium,
the United Kingdom, South Africa, Austria, Russia,
and Japan. He has served as a visiting fellow
at St. John’s College, Oxford, and as principal
fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre of
International Law at Cambridge. Professor Schoenbaum
specializes in international commercial and environmental
law. He is the author of many articles and books,
including The World Trade
Organization: Law, Policy and Practice (2003), Admiralty and Maritime
Law (3d ed. 2001), and Environmental
Policy Law (2002). He is currently working on new books
in the areas of international environmental law
and international business transactions.
 Joseph G. Straus
Marshall Coyne Visiting Professor of
International Law
LLB, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. jur., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Germany
Straus is a professor of law at the Universities
of Munich and Ljubljana, and managing director
of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual
Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich.
He has been associated with the Max Planck
Institute since 1977, has taught European and
German patent law at the University of Munich
since 1990, and was a visiting faculty member
at Cornell Law School between 1989 and 1998.
He is author or co-author of numerous publications
in the field of intellectual property law, especially
in the field of the protection of biological
invention. In 2000, Straus was the first non-scientist
to win the Science Award of the Foundation for
German Science.
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