Summer 2003

Accomplishments & Accolades

This year was a busy one for HAN members. We congratulate the following HAN members who have graduated from law school or moved on in their careers to defend liberty in a new venue. Keep up the great work!

• Leslie Gardner graduated from UCLA School of Law this spring and will work in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division after taking the bar.
• Christie Raniszewski is now Public Affairs Coordinator at The James Madison Institute in Florida: http://jamesmadison.org/.
• Jacki Pick graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in May.
• Adam Mossoff accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University - DCL College of Law.
• Ilya Shapiro graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, and will be clerking this fall with Judge E. Grady Jolly of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Jackson, MS.
• Laurie Barber obtained her JD from Yale Law School this spring.
• Rich Bitter recently published "To Secure Equal Rights To All Citizens," 2 App. J. of L. 1 (2003) (regarding the jurisdiction of Native American Courts) and "Abused Children, Schools, and the Affirmative Duty To Protect: How the DeShaney Decision Cast Children Into a Constitutional Void," 13 Geo. Mason U. C.R.L.J. 243 (2003).
• Orin Kerr is taking a leave of absence from George Washington University Law School to clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court for the October Term 2003. His articles were recently published (or are forthcoming) in Michigan Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal and the Northwestern University Law Review.
• J. Raza Lawrence graduated in June from Harvard Law School, and has accepted a clerkship with Judge Morris Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri.
• Lindsay Androski is pursuing an MBA in addition to her JD at the University of Chicago.
• Tom Regnier graduated this spring summa cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, and will be clerking for Judge Melvia Green in the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Florida. He will also serve as a part-time lecturer at the University of Miami School of Law.
• Yonaton Aronoff graduated in May from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
• Neomi Rao is currently working in London at Clifford Chance and practicing in international law and arbitration.
• Jeff Hanson graduated this spring from Cornell Law School.
• Paul St. Lawrence graduated in May magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He plans to join Dewey Ballantine LLP’s Washington, D.C., office to work in their energy group.
• Jennifer Marie Rhodes graduated this spring from the University of Chicago Law School, and is clerking for Chief Judge Edmondson on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
• Tracie Sharp is president of State Policy Network (SPN), the professional service organization for America’s state-based, free-market think tanks. SPN will host its 11th Annual Meeting in Seattle September 11-13. Panel topics include school choice and tort reform, among other front line policy issues. For more information, go to www.spn.org/events.
• Erin Adrian graduated this spring from Stanford Law School.
• Tim Sandefur now serves as lead attorney on the Pacific Legal Foundation’s economic liberties project and has articles forthcoming in Southwestern University Law Review, Chapman Law Review and the next issue of Law & Inequality.
• Anthony Zaller graduated with a JD/MBA degree in December from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He now works at Carlton, DiSante and Freudenberger LLP, an employment defense firm in L.A.
• Cara Putman is an associate with Bennett, Boehning & Clary in Indiana.