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Posted: 16 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST I understand that dealing with the
economy is Job 1 for the O team, but they really do need to get the
subcabinet - hey, make that the Cabinet - filled before much longer. My own
little corner of this world - keeping tabs on which law professors move into
the administration - hasn't changed much since before the Inauguration. DAVID BARRON - An expert in ad law
and local government law, Barron is taking a leave from Harvard to become
Dawn Johnsen's Principal Deputy at OLC. JODY FREEMAN - Freeman, an ad
law/enviro/new governance expert at Harvard, is now a counselor for energy
and climate change in the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. LISA HEINZERLING - Co-author of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of
Everything and the Value of Nothing and an expert in
environmental law, Heinzerling is on leave from Georgetown to serve as senior
climate counsel to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. DAWN JOHNSEN - Indiana University
constitutional law scholar, reproductive rights expert and old friend, Dawn
Johnsen will be the head of the Office of Legal Counsel in DoJ. Dawn will hit
the ground running: she learned the ropes while working in OLC during the
Clinton administration, under Walter Dellinger. Her comments on the
challenges ahead are here.
See also her latest article.
ELENA KAGAN - The Harvard Law Dean
becomes Solicitor General, and immediately moves WAY up the list
of potential Supreme Court nominees. Kagan has done such a spectacular
job as the Harvard Dean that she's the closest thing to a rock star among
legal academics. The immediate joke: this appointment will be celebrated most
enthusiastically by every other law school dean in America, given the
incredible success she has had in raiding other faculties. For more on Elena,
see the Boston Globe.
NEAL KATYAL - Neal, also at
Georgetown, brilliantly litigated Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld, and landed on multiple best lawyer lists. Now he's
becoming Principal Deputy Solicitor General. See BLT MARTY LEDERMAN - Yet another
wonderful Georgetown colleague, Marty will return to OLC, where he served
during the Clinton administration, to become Dawn Johnsen's deputy.
Here's a fond bon voyage
message from his blogging buddy Jack Balkin. DAN MELTZER - Harvard loses
another one, with the announcement that Meltzer will become a Deputy White
House Counsel. PAUL STEVEN MILLER - This
University of Washington Law prof is reported
to have been tasked with insuring more representation of people with
disabilities in the administration, and is rumored to be headed to the White
House Office of Personnel. TREVOR MORRISON - Another
professor to the White House Counsel's office, as an Associate Counsel.
Morrison was at Cornell, recently joined Columbia faculty. SPENCER OVERTON (GW) will serve as
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy in
DoJ. SAMANTHA POWER - AP reports
that Power, a professor at the Kennedy School, will become senior director
for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council. Despite a not
exactly diplomatic "monster"
snafu in her background, she'll be spending a lot of time working with
Secretary of State Clinton. CASS SUNSTEIN - The longtime
Chicago, now Harvard Law Prof will run the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), obscure beyond words for most Americans, but
probably the single most powerful component of the single most powerful
agency (OMB- Office of Management and Budget) in the federal
government. OIRA is what you have to go through if you want to develop
and promulgate new regs; it holds the keys to the kingdom of actually
generating new regulatory policy. Lots of press.
Progressive ad law scholars unhappy. His
latest posting on SSRN: Is OSHA
Unconstitutional? DAN TARULLO - Dan, the first law
prof picked by POTUS for a major job, has departed Georgetown to become a
member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. For more about Dan, see Newsweek, which
calls him the "anti-Greenspan." His 14-year term began February 1. Readers - please e/mail with
more names as they become public.
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