Welcome to New and Visiting Faculty
I am pleased to welcome the following individuals who joined us this fall.
Full-Time Faculty:
Laura A. Dickinson joins our distinguished international and comparative law faculty as the Oswald Symister Colcough Research Professor of Law. Before coming to GW, Professor Dickinson was the Foundation Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on human rights, national security, foreign affairs privatization, and qualitative empirical approaches to international law. Professor Dickinson has held teaching posts at the University of Connecticut School of Law in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. She served as a senior policy adviser to Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, and is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun and Stephen G. Breyer, and to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Dickinson has served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and co-organizer of a Collaborative Research Network on Empirical Approaches to International Human Rights Law, convened under the auspices of the Law & Society Association. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School. Her book, Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in an Era of Foreign Affairs Privatization, was recently published by Yale University Press. This year Professor Dickinson will be teaching National Security Law and a Government Contracts Seminar on Public Values and Foreign Affairs Outsourcing.
Visiting Faculty:
H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui joins us as a visiting associate professor of law. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and an LL.M. from the University of Oslo. He is an associate professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School, in Portland, Oregon, where he has taught for the last five years. Before joining Lewis & Clark, he served as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law. Professor Gómez-Arostegui has served as a law clerk for Judge Edward Rafeedie of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for Judge John C. Porfilio of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He subsequently practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City, CA, and Hogan & Hartson LLP in Denver, CO. As part of his practice, he litigated matters relating to toxic torts, copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and publicity rights. Professor Gómez-Arostegui’s research interests lie primarily in the history of intellectual property and in the remedies awarded in intellectual property cases. Professor Gómez-Arostegui will be teaching Torts and Trademark Law and Unfair Competition at the Law School.
Visiting Associate Professors of Clinical Law and Friedman Fellows:
Nancy J. Craig is teaching this year in the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic. While a J.D. degree student at GW Law, Professor Craig participated in the Domestic Violence and International Human Rights Law Clinics and was a member of the George Washington Law Review. She graduated in 2006 with Highest Honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif. She received the Richard C. Lewis Memorial Award for extraordinary dedication to GW’s Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics. Following graduation, Professor Craig clerked in the civil division at D.C. Superior Court for the Honorable Brook Hedge. She went on to practice employment law and international law at Crowell & Moring, LLP. During her tenure there, she also provided extensive pro bono assistance on asylum matters and served as a member of the diversity committee. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and George Washington University Law School.
Wyatt A. Feeler is teaching in the Federal, Criminal, and Appellate Clinic. Previously, he was a Soros Justice Fellow at the Capital Punishment Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. In that role, he represented clients on appeal from death sentences in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, and worked on a successful amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Holland v. Florida. Professor Feeler also developed training materials on death penalty voir dire for use by capital defense lawyers in five states. Prior to his time at the ACLU, Professor Feeler clerked for Judge Ellen Burns of the Federal District of Connecticut. During law school, Professor Feeler represented clients as a student attorney in Georgetown’s Criminal Justice Clinic. He also worked at the Georgia Capital Defender, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition. He is a graduate of Truman State University and Georgetown University Law Center.
Caroline Rogus is teaching in the Family Justice Litigation Clinic. Previously, she litigated complex commercial matters, as well as domestic violence and family law cases, while an associate at the law firm WilmerHale. More recently, she served as a domestic violence attorney and a guardian ad litem with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project. She has also worked on policy issues affecting women and their families with the National Women’s Law Center in DC, and the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia. Professor Rogus clerked for the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick of the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Carol A. Dalton of the District of Columbia’s Superior Court. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Anne Smetak is teaching in the Neighborhood Law and Policy Clinic, where she supervises students on civil cases related to housing, benefits, and reentry issues. Previously, Professor Smetak worked extensively in the area of affordable housing preservation. She most recently directed the Affordable Housing initiative at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. In that position she engaged in litigation and policy advocacy at the local and federal level to preserve and expand affordable housing in the District of Columbia. She was the 2010 recipient of the Housing Justice Network Award, which recognizes new talent in the field of affordable housing. Professor Smetak is a graduate of Kenyon College and George Washington University Law School.
I hope you will all join me in welcoming these newest members of our faculty to GW Law.
