Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law. Carroll was also honored with the Benjamin Aaron Award for the best piece of legal scholarship in a UCLA Law journal by a graduating student. She received the Lawrence E. Irell Prize for the highest academic standing in 2007 and 2008, and the Judge Barry Russell Award for Outstanding Achievement in a federal courts and practice course. Also during law school, Carroll served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Margaret M. Morrow of the United States District Court for Maureen Carroll the Central District of California. Following law school she clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked as a staff attorney in impact litigation for Public Counsel in Los Angeles. Carroll’s research focuses on civil procedure and education law, including access to the education system, access to the judicial system and the relationship between the two systems. LoweLL miLken insTiTUTe For BUsiness LAw And PoLiCy FeLLows George Georgiev received a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he served as a member of the Yale Journal of International Law and the Yale Journal on Regulation. He concurrently was a teaching fellow in the Yale University Department of History. Prior to law school, Georgiev received a B.A. degree in Economics and International Relations, summa cum laude, from Colgate University. He also holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Munich. Georgiev recently worked as a senior associate for Clifford Chance George Georgiev LLP in London, where he provided U.S. securities law advice in connection with international securities offerings by corporations and governments across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He also advised clients on the Eurozone crisis with regard to the establishment of the debt issuance program of the European Financial Stability Facility (the first EU bailout fund) and its use for the bailout of Ireland. Georgiev additionally has financial experience stemming from time as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and he interned for the European Court of Justice. Alexander Wu received a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he served as the executive editor for the Yale Journal on Regulation. Prior to law school, Wu received M. Phil. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University and his A.B. from Harvard College. Recently, Wu was an associate for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he researched and provided advice on tax aspects of various business and financial transactions (domestic and international). Wu’s scholarly interests focus on business taxation, and Alexander Wu especially the relationship of tax law provisions with other provisions in tax or business law. His publications include “U.S. International Taxation in Comparison with Other U.S. International Regulatory Regimes” (accepted for publication in Tax Notes International); “Using a Partnership Merger to Avoid a Technical Termination,” in Tax Management Real Estate Journal (2012); and “Motivating Disclosure by a Debtor in Bankruptcy: The Bankruptcy Code, Intellectual Property, and Fiduciary Duties,” 26 Yale Journal on Regulation 481 (2009).
resniCk ProgrAm For Food LAw And PoLiCy TeAChing FeLLow Margot Pollans received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2010. During law school, she served as an articles editor on the New York University Law Review and was a Furman Scholar and a Milbank/Lederman Law and Economics Scholar. Pollans received an LL.M. degree in Advocacy, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013 and a B.A. degree in History, Environmental Science and Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2004. Following Margot Pollans law school, Pollans clerked for the Honorable David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Recently, she worked as a staff attorney and teaching fellow for the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University, where she assisted on a range of public interest environmental law cases. She was the lead attorney on litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Pollans also worked on a range of administrative projects, including drafting comments on the Clean Air Act and Food Safety Modernization Act rulemakings. Her publications include: “A Blunt Withdrawal? Bars on Citizen Suits for Toxic Site Cleanup,” Harvard Environmental Law Review (forthcoming, 2013); and “Bundling Public and Private Goods: The Market for Sustainable Organics,” 85 New York University Law Review 621 (2010). wiLLiAms insTiTUTe seArs LAw TeAChing FeLLow Jordan Blair Woods ’09 is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. His dissertation provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of sexual orientation and gender identity issues in the field of criminology. Woods received an M.Phil. degree in Criminological Research from Cambridge, where he undertook a qualitative ethnographic study of a hate crime police unit. Woods was a Dean’s Merit Scholar at UCLA School of Law, where he graduated Order of Jordan Blair Woods the Coif, served as a senior editor of the UCLA Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Honors Program. His law review comment was a nominee for the National Scribes Award for best published comment. Woods clerked for the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and also served as a clerk for the Organized Crime Division of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University in Social Studies, with a specialization in social and political theory. His criminology scholarship is forthcoming in the Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice; The International Handbook on Hate Crime; the Journal of Homosexuality; and Critical Criminology.
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