July 2, 2025
10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Georgetown University Capitol Campus
Opening Remarks + Litigating in the Trump Era: Protecting and Preserving the Rule of Law 10 - 11 a.m.
Supreme Court Term in Review +
Closing Remarks
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
125 E St NW, 9th Floor (McCourt School of Public Policy)
General Reception 12:15 p.m.
500 1st Street NW, 9th Floor
Interim Dean of Georgetown Law and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University; David Belding Professor of Law and Professor of Economics (by courtesy)
Joshua C. Teitelbaum is the David Belding Professor of Law and a Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at Georgetown University. His research interests lie primarily in decision theory and related fields in microeconomics and their intersections with law and regulation. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among other journals. He is co-editor of the Research Handbook in Behavioral Law and Economics, an Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, and a Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Economic Research. He previously served as the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs for the Law Center and as an Associate Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.
Before coming to Georgetown in 2009, Professor Teitelbaum clerked for Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, practiced corporate and securities law at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy, Georgetown University School of Law; Co-Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute
Co-Founder, The Lincoln Project; Board President, Society for the Rule of Law
George Conway is a lawyer and former Partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. In 2010, he argued and won the Morrison v. National Australia Bank before the Supreme Court. Conway co-founded The Lincoln Project, a pro-democracy organization dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy, specifically against Donald Trump. Conway is also the Board President of the Society for the Rule of Law and hosts the podcast “George Conway Explains it All”.
Mr. Conway is a graduate of Harvard College, where in 1984 he received an A.B. magna cum laude in biochemical sciences. He received his J.D. in 1987 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1987 and 1988, he served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
President, Pregnancy Justice
Lourdes A. Rivera (she/her/ella) joined Pregnancy Justice as its first president in 2023, bringing more than 30 years of experience as a respected leader in reproductive rights and justice, health law and policy, and philanthropy. She recently served as a senior vice president of U.S. Programs at the Center for Reproductive Rights, overseeing comprehensive litigation, policy advocacy, and partnership strategies. Lourdes is a cofounder of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice and the Groundswell Fund, a board member of the National Health Law Program, and board president of the Brush Foundation. She also received an American Bar Association presidential appointment to the ABA’s Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Yale University. An enthusiastic salsa dancer since childhood, Lourdes can lead and follow with grace.
Skye L. Perryman is President and CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonpartisan, national legal organization that promotes democracy and progress through litigation, regulatory engagement, policy education, and research. Perryman took the helm at Democracy Forward a few months after January 6, 2021, in the midst of rising extremism in communities and courts across the country. She has built a visionary team of legal, policy, and communications experts to confront anti-democratic extremism head-on while also using the law to advance progress and a bold vision for the future. A highly regarded litigator and strategist, Perryman previously served as General Counsel of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and served in litigation roles at WilmerHale and Covington & Burling. In the wake of the 2016 election, she left her corporate litigation practice to be a founding litigator at Democracy Forward where she developed high profile cases successfully challenging the Trump Administration’s anti-democratic activities.
In 2024, Perryman was named one of the Most Influential People Shaping Policy by Washingtonian magazine. Perryman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy magna cum laude from Baylor University and a Juris Doctor with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center. Skye serves on the boards of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, the Interfaith Alliance, the Baylor Line Foundation, and the Texas Observer.
Director, Center for Health Policy and the Law, O’Neill Institute
Andrew Twinamatsiko is a director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at the O’Neill Institute. He provides technical assistance for policymakers and public education on health policy legal issues — primarily focusing on access to healthcare coverage, affordability, transparency, and equity.
Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Twinamatsiko worked as a senior staff attorney at the Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. In that role, he provided legal technical assistance to public health professionals, governmental agencies, and advocates throughout the U.S. in developing policies to eliminate tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. Working in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Program, Twinamatsiko led a team of attorneys and policy analysts to craft tobacco endgame policies aimed at ending the tobacco epidemic in California.
Twinamatsiko has also served as an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline, where he mainly taught public health law and state and local government law. His scholarly interests are centered around the intersection of anti-Black racism and health policy.
Twinamatsiko received his J.D. from the University of South Dakota and his LL.B. from Uganda Christian University.
Regina Mahone is a writer and journalist covering reproductive justice issues. Her mission as an editor is to develop and amplify underrepresented voices in online and print media. Regina currently serves as a senior editor at The Nation magazine, where she founded Repro Nation, a free, monthly newsletter providing the latest news and analysis on the global struggle for reproductive freedom. In June 2023, she co-edited with her Nation colleague Emily Douglas a special double issue on reproductive rights and justice, titled Body Politics. She and We Testify Founder and Executive Director Renee Bracey Sherman are co-authors of the book Liberating Abortion from Amistad/HarperCollins, out on October 1, 2024, and co-hosts of the podcast The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion from The Meteor.
Previously, Regina served as vice president, editorial content, at Courier Newsroom, a national news organization dedicated to helping people better understand what’s happening in our local and national governments, and as vice president and managing editor at Rewire News Group, a nonprofit media organization devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. Prior to that, Regina was a staff writer at Philanthropy News Digest, a publication of the Foundation Center, where she covered the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. And before that, she was a freelance writer and editor in Southern California.
Regina earned her BA from The College of New Jersey, where she studied English, creative writing, and gender studies. She was a participant at the ASNE Emerging Leaders Institute at the 2017 NABJ Annual Convention; has presented at the ACES conference, Netroots Nation, and WAM!NYC; and has provided webinars and mentorship for emerging writers. She has also moderated a panel with SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective and Black Lives Matter.
Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy, Georgetown University School of Law; Co-Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
Goodwin was previously a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She was the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, as well as an elected fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). She is also an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies.
She is credited with helping to establish and shape the health law field. She directed the first ABA accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics. Her health law scholarship is hailed as “exceptional” in the New England Journal of Medicine. She ranks among the most cited professors in the field. Trained in sociology and anthropology, Goodwin has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, focusing on human trafficking (marriage, sex, organs, and other biologics). Her books include Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (2020); Biotechnology, Bioethics, and The Law (2015); Baby Markets: Money and the Politics of Creating Families (2010); and Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2006).
Goodwin serves on the executive committee and national board of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research and appointed an observer by the United States National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (for the revision of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act). She chaired several sections of the Association of American Law Schools, served as a trustee of the United States Law and Society Association, and was the first woman to be elected Secretary General of the International Academy of Law & Mental Health.
Goodwin has won national awards for excellence in scholarship, outstanding teaching, and committed community service. Gov. Paul Patton of Kentucky commissioned her a Colonel, the state’s highest title of honor for her outstanding contributions to K-12 education. In 2020 Orange Coast Magazine named her one of 35 Kickass Women. In 2019, she received the Be The Change Award. In 2018, she was bestowed the Sandra Day O’Connor Legacy Award by the Women’s Journey Foundation. That same year, she was named Teacher of the Year by the Thurgood Marshall Bar Association and received a commendation from the United States House of Representatives for Outstanding Teaching.
Her constitutional law scholarship appears in or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. This dossier addresses legal questions related to freedom of speech; religious exercise; equal protection; due process; race and sex discrimination; reproductive rights; slavery; and LGBTQ equality. Her scholarship has been referenced by national media, legislators, and civil society organizations.
Previously, Goodwin was the Everett Fraser Professor at the University of Minnesota, with appointments in the Law School, Medical School, and School of Public Health. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and University of Virginia law schools. Prior to teaching law, she was a Gilder-Lehrman PostDoctoral Fellow at Yale University.
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.
Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 20042008, and from 1983-2004 was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, including as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. From 1980-1983, he was an assistant professor at DePaul College of Law.
He is the author of nineteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent major books are Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021).
He also is the author of more than 200 law review articles. He is a contributing writer for the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times, and writes regular columns for the Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal, and frequent op-eds in newspapers across the country. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court.
In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. In 2022, he was the President of the Association of American Law Schools. He received his B.S. at Northwestern University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School.
14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy Founding Director and Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights, Howard University School of Law
Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at the Howard University School of Law. From 2013-2022, she served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice and equality. She recently served as a Ford Foundation Fellow and as the Klinsky Visiting Professor for Leadership & Progress at Harvard Law School, and as a fellow at the Museum of Modern Art. Ifill is currently the Vernon Jordan Distinguished Professor in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, where she founded the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy.
Ifill’s tenure at the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was widely praised for elevating the profile, voice and influence of the organization, and for expanding and deepening its work across multiple areas of civil rights law. Ifill’s voice and analysis played a prominent role in shaping our national conversation about race and civil rights during a tumultuous period of racial reckoning in our country. Her strategic vision and counsel remain highly sought-after by leaders in government, business, law, grassroots organizations, and academia.
Ifill began her legal career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel, where she litigated voting rights cases in the south. In 1993 Ifill left LDF to join the faculty at University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore where she taught for twenty years before rejoining LDF in 2013 as its President & Director-Counsel.
Ifill is a scholar whose work has appeared in leading law journals, periodicals, and the nation’s leading newspapers. Her book ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN: CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY, was highly acclaimed, and is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. She is currently completing a new book about race and the current crisis in American democracy entitled, “Is This America?” which will be published by Penguin Press.
Ifill is a graduate of Vassar College and earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is the recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and many of the most prestigious medals in the legal profession including, the Radcliffe Medal, the Brandeis Medal, the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association, and The Gold Medal from the New York State Bar Association. Ifill was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, and was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2021.
Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times. He covers history and politics. In addition, he co-hosts the Unclear and Present Danger podcast on the political and military thrillers of the 1990s.
Before the Times, Jamelle was chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. He began his career at The American Prospect magazine and also spent time as a writer for The Daily Beast. Jamelle has also contributed essays to volumes such as “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” and “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.” In 2021, he received the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism and in 2024 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Science.
Jamelle attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 2009 with degrees in political and social thought, and government.
Jamelle is also a photographer, documenting his surroundings using digital and analog tools. To see his photos, visit his blog or follow him on Instagram. He’s also on Tiktok.
Former Legal Editor, Buzzfeed, Publisher; Editor Law Dork
Chris Geidner is an award-winning journalist who covers the Supreme Court, law and politics at Law Dork. His more than two decades in journalism includes widely recognized coverage of the courts, LGBTQ issues, the criminal legal system, and other complex legal and political questions. He previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News and has written for The New York Times, MSNBC, Bolts, Grid, The Appeal, Metro Weekly and elsewhere.
Geidner has been recognized with national awards, including a GLAAD Media Award and being named NLGJA’s Journalist of the Year and several other NLGJA awards over the years.
Opinion Columnist, The Guardian US
Moira Donegan is a Columnist for The Guardian US and writer in residence for the Clayman Institute at Stanford University, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the intersection of gender, politics, and the law, have appeared in places such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Bookforum. Donegan has been an editor at the New Republic and n+1, and currently she writes a column on gender in America for The Guardian. Her first book, Gone Too Far: MeToo, Backlash, and the Future of Feminist Politics, is forthcoming from Scribner.
Senior Writer, Slate Magazine
Mark Joseph Stern is a senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate Magazine. Based in Washington, D.C., he has covered the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts, and state and local courts since 2013.
A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Mark holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in History and Art History from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Maryland Bar. His areas of expertise include LGBTQ+ equality, reproductive rights, criminal justice, and Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Mark is the author of American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has co-authored several law review articles about free speech, gay rights, and transgender equality.
He and his husband welcomed a son in 2023 and are the proud caretakers of one rescue dog and three adopted birds.
We would like to thank our co-host, the O’Neill Institute, and our sponsors—the American Constitution Society, the Brennan Center for Justice, Ms. Magazine, Ms. Studios, and the Feminist Majority Foundation—for making this program possible.
