Fall Reunion 2015
Speaker Biographies

Elizabeth Bartholet ’65,
Elizabeth Bartholet is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP), which she founded in the fall of 2004. She teaches civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption, and reproductive technology. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as Founder and Director of the Legal Action Center, a nonprofit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. Ms. Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962 and from Harvard Law School in 1965.

Christopher T. Bavitz
Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and he is a Faculty Director of the Berkman Center.

Mr. Bavitzhas concentrated his law practice and clinical activities on intellectual property and media law, with an emphasis on music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Cyberlaw Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, trademark, online speech, and advising of mission-oriented startups and entrepreneurs about their legal, business, and strategic needs. He also works on issues relating to the use of technology to promote access to justice.

Mr. Bavitz joined the Clinic in September 2008 as a Clinical Fellow. He was named Assistant Director of the Clinic in 2009 and was promoted to Clinical Instructor in 2010. Hewas appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2014.

In his nearly seven years at the Clinic, Mr. Bavitzhas managed a wide range of work for a wide variety of clients. He has worked closely with Clinic students on matters relating to public media, including collaborations with WBUR’s OpenCourt project (which offered livestreams of court proceedings in Massachusetts) and the Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange. Hehas worked with students and clients to draft amicus briefs addressing legal issues before state and federal courts, including the interplay between defamation law and the First Amendment; the attempted use of trademark law to suppress critical speech; the right of citizens to record police officers carrying out their duties in public; the continuing viability and scope of the hot news misappropriation doctrine; and the propriety of a prior restraint against online publication. And, he has teamed up with students and others to prepare public-facing resources regarding the state of the US music industry; privacy law as it pertains to children’s data; and the legal framework that governs newsgatherers in Massachusetts.

Heserves as Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab, where he works closely with HLS’s Experts in Residence and attorneys who offer legal services to those who work at the i-Lab. He is a member of Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund Seed Grant Selection Committee and has served as a Preliminary Judge for Harvard University’s President’s Challenge. He sits on Harvard Law School’s IT Steering Committee.

In addition to his classroom and clinical teaching activities at HLS, Chris served as a mentor during the first two years of the Harvard University-wide Digital Problem Solving Initiative. The Initiative is a cross-disciplinary teaching effort piloted at the Berkman Center, and hisDPSI teams examined norms and practices at creation and innovation spaces and concerns about accessibility on online education platforms.

Mr. Bavitzspeaks and appears regularly at events and on panels, addressing topics related to intellectual property and technology before audiences that have included college and law school students, librarians and archivists, computer programmers and software developers, journalists and media lawyers. He served as point person on the Berkman Center’s collaboration with Berklee College of Music on a series of “Rethink Music” events and co-hosted the 2012 Rethink Music conference in Boston.

Prior to joining the Clinic, Mr. Bavitzserved as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998 – 2002, hewas a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP (previously, Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman), where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his BA, cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his JD from University of Michigan Law School in 1998.

HonorableRichard C. Breeden ’75
Richard C. Breeden ’75 consults with companies and government agencies on a broad range of topics such as evaluating corporate conduct, strengthening ethics and compliance, and improving corporate governance practices. He currently serves as Special Master for the US Department of Justice in administering the Madoff Victim Fund, which will return $4 billion in forfeited assets to Madoff victims in 135 countries.

From 1981 to 1993, Mr. Breeden served in a series of increasingly senior government positions during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and William Clinton. He served as Assistant to the President and Co-head of domestic policy under President George H. W. Bush, where among other things he was principally responsible for developing the highly successful national program to stabilize and restructure the $1 trillion US savings and loan industry. President Bush subsequently appointed Mr. Breeden to serve as the 24th Chairman of the SEC, where he served with distinction from 1989 to 1993. Among other things, then-Chairman Breeden led the last comprehensive overhaul of US proxy rules, authorized the first ETFs, and took other steps to simplify raising capital or to improve the efficacy of US capital markets.

In the early 2000s, Mr. Breeden served as Corporate Monitor of WorldCom/MCI, Inc. on behalf of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Breeden was responsible to the Court for overseeing the cleanup of history’s largest corporate fraud, including a wide-ranging overhaul of corporate governance and the largest-ever restatement of corporate earnings. He also later served as corporate monitor of KPMG LLP, under its deferred prosecution agreement with DOJ to implement governance reforms in the wake of criminal conduct involving tax shelters.

During his career Mr. Breeden has worked with corporate governance challenges from almost every perspective, including as a regulator, bankruptcy trustee, major investor, corporate advisor and independent director. He has served on a total of more than a dozen corporate boards in the US.and Europe, ranging from startups to one of the world’s largest banks. He is currently a director of STERIS Corporation, an Ohio-based medical device manufacturing company attempting to complete a “corporate inversion” to UK domicile. He is also a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

In addition to his Harvard Law education, Mr. Breeden graduated from Stanford University in 1972. He lives with his wife Linda and two young sons in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Emily M. Broad Leib ’08
Emily Broad Leib is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, as well as Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. She Co-founded and directs the Center’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to nonprofit and government clients in order to address the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Broad Leib is recognized as a national leader in Food Law and Policy. She teaches courses on the topic and focuses her scholarship and practice on finding solutions to today’s biggest food system issues, aiming to increase access to healthy foods, prevent diet-related disease, eliminate food waste, and reduce barriers to market entry for small-scale and sustainable food producers. She has published scholarly articles in the Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others.

Broad Leib is a recipient of Harvard President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund. Broad Leib’s project, “Reducing Food Waste as a Key to Addressing Climate Change,” was one of seven chosen from around the university to confront the challenge of climate change by leveraging the clinic’s food law and policy expertise to identify systemic solutions that can reduce food waste, which is a major driver of climate change. Broad Leib’s groundbreaking work on food waste has been covered in such media outlets as CNN, The Today Show, MSNBC, Time Magazine, Politico, and the Washington Post.

Before joining the Harvard faculty, Broad Leib spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow, serving as Director of the Delta Directions Consortium, a group of university and foundation leaders who collaborate to improve public health and foster economic development in the Delta. In that role, she worked with community members and outside partners to design and implement programmatic and policy interventions on a range of health and economic issues in the region, with a focus on the food system. She received her BA from Columbia University and her JD from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Robert C. Clark ’72
Robert Clark, currently the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, was Dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for 14 years, from July 1989 through June 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he has written numerous law review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as “the paradigm for future student texts.” Professor Clark is a trustee of TIAA and chaired the TIAA-CREF ad hoc committee on corporate governance. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Time Warner, Inc. and Omnicom Group, Inc. and on the editorial board of directors of Foundation Press. He is also a trustee of Hodson Trust, which funds educational programs at four Maryland educational institutions.

Professor Clark joined the HLS faculty in 1978, and over the years has taught thousands of students, in subjects such as corporations, corporate finance, corporate taxation, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as seminars on laws, markets, and religions. Previously, he had been an associate with the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, and then spent four years on the faculty of Yale Law School, where he became a tenured professor. A graduate of Maryknoll College, Professor Clark received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and earned his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Tyler R. Giannini
Tyler R. Giannini is Co-director of the Human Rights Program, Co-director of its International Human Rights Clinic, and a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Tyler’s work focuses on Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation, business and human rights, human rights and the environment as well as communities and human rights. He has extensive experience with Myanmar and South Africa and a strong interest in social entrepreneurship and clinical pedagogy in the human rights context.

Prior to joining HLS, he was a founder and director of EarthRights International, an organization at the forefront of efforts to link human rights and environmental protection. After receiving an Echoing Green fellowship to start EarthRights in 1995, Tyler spent a decade in Thailand with the organization conducting fact-finding investigations and groundbreaking corporate accountability litigation. He served as Co-counsel in the landmark Doe v. Unocal case, a precedent-setting corporate ATS suit about the Yadana gas pipeline in Myanmar, which successfully settled in 2005. He has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs to the US Supreme Court includingKiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Samantar v. Yousuf, and Presbyterian Church of Sudan v. Talisman. He serves as a special advisor for the HLS Public Service Venture Fund. At the International Human Rights Clinic, he helped incubate a new business and human rights nonprofit, the Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Integrity.

Mr. Gianniniholds graduate degrees in law and foreign policy from the University of Virginia.

Jamie S. Gorelick ’75
Jamie Gorelick is a partner at WilmerHale in Washington, where she chairs the Regulatory and Government Affairs Department. She is on the boards of Amazon and Verisign and was previously on the boards of United Technologies, Schlumberger and Fannie Mae. She is Chair of the Urban Institute Board and has been a member of many other nonprofit boards including the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, and the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. She has also been a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and its Law School’s Visiting Committee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission.

Ms. Gorelick was one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States and was General Counsel of the Defense Department. Earlier in her career, she was Counselor to the Deputy and Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, as well as Vice Chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on the Evaluation of the Audit, Inspection and Investigation Components of the Department of Defense. She was also a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States, the “9/11 Commission.” She is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the senior advisory panel to the Secretary, and she served as a member of both the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Security Advisory Panel and President Bush’s Review of Intelligence and she was Co-chair of the Advisory Committee of the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Elizabeth Holtzman ’65
Elizabeth Holtzman served for eight years in the US House of Representatives, representing Brooklyn, NY. . She won national acclaim for her work on the House Judiciary Committee during its impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon, and for her questioning of President Gerald Ford about the Nixon pardon. A Co-founder of the Congresswomen’s Caucus, Ms. Holtzman authored many laws advancing the status of women, including protecting the privacy of rape victims, securing legal fees under Title IX and in preventing discrimination in federal public works in employment.

Ms. Holtzman was the first member of Congress to uncover the presence of Nazi war criminals in the US, and led the effort (including writing a new law and creating a special bureau in the Justice Department) to bring them to justice. As chair of the Immigration Subcommittee, she also Co-authored the US Refugee Act of 1980 with Sen. Ted Kennedy and played an important role in the resettlement of the Vietnamese boat people.

After leaving Congress, shewas elected Brooklyn District Attorney (where she led the fight to end racial discrimination in jury selection and reformed laws on sexual assault) and then Comptroller of New York City, the first woman to hold either position. Ms. Holtzman was appointed by President Clinton to a panel that declassified 8 million pages of secret US Nazi war crime files, and was appointed in 2013 and 2014 by the Secretary of Defense to panels dealing with sexual assault in the military. She was also recently appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Holtzman is a graduate of Harvard Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College. She is the author of three books and numerous published essays and practices law in New York City.

Sarah Knuckey LLM ’06
Sarah Knuckey is an international human rights lawyer and is the Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she directs the Human Rights Clinic and Co-directs the Human Rights Institute. She is also a Special Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. She has carried out investigations and reported on human rights and humanitarian law violations around the world, including in Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. Her investigations and legal and policy work address a range of issues including unlawful killings, armed conflict and counterterrorism, sexual violence, corporate abuses, environmental harms, and protest rights.

She has been an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and previously directed the Project on Extrajudicial Executions, and the Initiative on Human Rights Fact Finding, at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (NYU). She has a BA/LLB (hons.) from the University of Western Australia, and an LLM from Harvard Law School.

Kenneth W. Mack ’91
Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the Co-faculty leader of the Harvard Law School Program on Law and History. During the 2015 – 16 year, he will serve as Co-faculty leader of the Workshop on the History of Capitalism in the Americas at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American history. His research and teaching have focused on American legal and constitutional history with particular emphasis on race relations, politics and economic life.