Featuring:
- John Yoo, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Shay Dvoretzky, Jones Day
- Beth S. Brinkmann, Covington & Burling LLP
- Thomas C. Goldstein, Goldstein & Russell, P.C. (moderator)
John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. He is director of the Korea Law Center, the California Constitution Center, and the Law School’s Program in Public Law and Policy. Professor Yoo has clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Yoo is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
More about speakerShay Dvoretzky is a Partner with Jones Day in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He has briefed and argued dozens of appeals nationwide. He has argued seven cases in the Supreme Court, with two more arguments scheduled for Fall 2018 in Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v Devries and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht. Mr. Dvoretzky is a member of the Chamber of Commerce's Administrative Law & Regulatory Litigation Advisory Committee and of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. He has clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig.
More about speakerThomas C. Goldstein is a Partner with Goldstein & Russell, P.C. in Washington, DC. He is a member of Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Policy Advisory Board. He has served as counsel to one of the parties in roughly 10% of all of the Court’s merits cases for the past 15 years (more than 100 in total), personally arguing 41. Mr. Goldstein has taught Supreme Court Litigation at Harvard Law School since 2004, and previously taught the same subject at Stanford Law School for nearly a decade. He is also the co-founder and publisher of SCOTUSblog.
More about speakerBeth S. Brinkmann is a Partner with Covington & Burling LLP in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Ms. Brinkmann is an experienced appellate and Supreme Court litigator who has served in high-level positions in the Department of Justice, most recently as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division. She has argued 24 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1993 to 2001, Ms. Brinkmann was an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and prior to that she clerked for Justice Harry S. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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