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Law
Ghada Qaisi Audi (2003-04)
Ghada teaches courses on U.S. law at the Universität
Köln for undergraduates and students in the L.L.M. program
in commercial law and participates in U.S. Embassy-sponsored programs
on topics including Islam in America and Arab-Americans. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Ghada spent a year at the Universität Köln,
Institut für Internationales und Ausländisches Privatrecht.
Her project focused on German domestic relations law and cases before
the courts concerning Islamic family law. Prior to heading to Germany,
Ghada practiced immigration law in Washington, DC. In 2002 she received
her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she
served as Associate Editor of the Richmond Law Review. She obtained
a Master's degree in Middle Eastern and North African Studies at
the University of Michigan in 1997 and graduated summa cum laude
from the University of Kentucky in 1994. She is the author of "Religious
Marriage Contracts: Judicial Enforcement of Mahr Agreements in American
Courts," published in the Journal of Law and Religion (Volume XV, 2000-2001). ggqaisi@yahoo.com (5/14/06)
Betsy Baker (Roeben) (1991-92)
Betsy is an Assistant Visiting Professor at Vermont Law School, having moved in 2007 from Harvard Law School, where she was the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization and assistant dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies. Betsy returned to the U.S. in 2003 after more than a decade in Germany, where she was a legal historian at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She writes about international environmental law, the history of international law and, more recently, law of the sea. Her first scholarly love is legal biography, as reflected in her book Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Francis Lieber und das moderne Völkerrecht 1861-1881 / Betsy Röben, Nomos Verlag, 2003, which deals with the trans-Atlantic exchange between international lawyers in the mid-19th century and its influence on early humanitarian law. She is working on a biography of Elisabeth Mann Borgese, oceans activist, daughter of Katia and Thomas Mann, and influential participant in the negotiation of the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention. Betsy earned her B.A. from Northwestern, her J.D. from Michigan, and both the LL.M. and Dr. iur. degrees from Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany. (4/24/07)
Charles Berger (1998-99)
Chuck is Legal Advisor for the Australian Conservation
Foundation (ACF), Australia's leading national not-for-profit environment
organization. In addition to advising ACF on legal matters, Chuck
also heads up ACF's corporate environmental responsibility program.
Previously, Chuck was an associate with the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb,
Steen & Hamilton in both their New York and Brussels offices.
Prior to that he spent one and one-half years clerking at the Federal Court
of Australia. c.berger@acfonline.org.au
(4/24/07)
Monica Bhattacharyya (1993-94)
Since she spent her year in Germany at Universität Frankfurt am Main, Monica has received her J.D. from Yale Law School and is Special Counsel in the Intellectual Property field, with a focus on patent litigation, at the New York office of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. She has litigated patent disputes concerning a wide variety of technologies in the chemical, biochemical, and pharmaceutical areas. She has substantial experience in trade secret litigation and design patent litigation as well. Monica also does pro bono work with the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is active in groups promoting women in intellectual property. mbhattacharyya@kasowitz.com (6/8/07)
David Boles (2002-03)
David is an associate at Latham & Watkins based in London, England. As a German Chancellor Fellow, David spent the year in Berlin and Cologne researching the development of German immigration law and policy in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and tracking parallel reforms on the EU level. He has a J.D. from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and a B.A. from Rice University. dc_boles@yahoo.de (7/3/07)
Todd Daubert (1994-95)
Todd received his J.D. from Duke University in 1993 and spent his year in Germany at Universität Konstanz. He is a partner at Kelley Drye and Warren in Washington, DC, specializing in representing companies in regulatory, appellate, litigation and transactional matters involving a broad range of technology and communications law issues. tdaubert@kelleydrye.com (6/8/07)
Joshua Feinstein (1992-93)
Joshua is an attorney specializing in corporate litigation with
Hodgson Russ. His book, which he researched during his year as a
German Chancellor Fellow, appeared with the University of North
Carolina Press: The Triumph of the Ordinary: Everyday Life and
the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 (2002). He lives in Buffalo
with his wife, Patricia Mazón (German Chancellor Fellow
1995-96). jfeinstein@verizon.net
(5/17/05)
Jonathan Fine (1999-00)
Jonathan is a Washington-based attorney with Baach Robinson & Lewis, specializing in the areas of civil and commercial litigation. Prior to that, he was with the New York law firm Clearly, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Jonathan has also been a law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Jonathan analyzed the development of federal jurisdiction in German in the 19th century. jonathan.fine@gmx.net (6/8/07)
Jill Gaulding (1996-97)
Jill is an attorney, writer, and educator living in Minnesota. Prior to her three-year stay in Germany, she earned degrees in cognitive science from MIT, taught science through Teach for America, and graduated from Cornell Law School. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she analyzed legal and cultural aspects of the work-family conflict. Her two daughters, both born in Germany and nicknamed “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit B,” contributed immeasurably to the project. After returning from Germany, Jill clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, practiced employment discrimination law in Boston, and taught law at Cornell University, Northeastern University, and the University of Iowa. While at Iowa, Jill had multiple chances to consider the real-world implications of discrimination law theory. In 2005, she publicly objected to the University’s decision to build an all-pink visitor’s locker room in its new football stadium. In 2006, she chose—in light of the University’s response to the resulting controversy—to resign her faculty position and turn her attention to writing a book about gender roles and gender hierarchy, as seen through the lens of the Pink Locker Room. jill.gaulding@comcast.net (6/5/07)
Thomas Grant (1999-00)
Tom is a senior research fellow in international law at Wolfson
College, Cambridge University, and an associate of the Lauterpacht
Research Centre for International Law. He teaches and does research
in public international law. As a German Chancellor Fellow, he
was a visiting fellow of the Max Planck Institut für auslaendisches
oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht in Heidelberg, where he worked
on problems of statehood and international law. tdg20@cam.ac.uk
(4/24/07)
Richard Heinemann (1992-93)
Richard is a partner in the law firm of Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing his practice in the areas of energy and telecommunications/cable law, environmental law, general and commercial litigation, and municipal law and finance. He also practices in the state of Illinois and is the author of articles on land management, environmental and municipal matters. Richard holds a Ph.D. in Social Thought and Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago and spent his year in Germany at Freie Universität Berlin. rheinemann@boardmanlawfirm.com (6/8/07)
Eric Koenig (1990-91)
Eric Koenig is a lawyer in Washington, DC. Mr. Koenig joined Microsoft in 1991 and served as a senior attorney in the company's European office in Paris, France. His responsibilities included intellectual property, antitrust,
litigation, trade, and management of legal and corporate affairs
in Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, including Germany, the
company's largest European market. In 1998 Eric transferred to Washington,
DC, where he served as the head of the federal policy team. In 2001
he retired from Microsoft. Eric graduated magna cum laude from Princeton
University and was a Root-Tilden Scholar at New York University
School of Law. He is President of the Board of Directors of the
Juvenile Law Center and a member of the boards of several other
non-profit organizations, including Global Rights, Appleseed, and
the Advisory Committee of the Asia Society's Washington Center.
He also has served on the Dean's Strategic Council at the New York
University Law School and is a member of the Law School's Steering
Committee for its current capital campaign. (4/10/08)
Kimberly Kiefer Peretti (1996-97)
Kimberly is an attorney in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC, where she investigates and assists in prosecuting crimes involving computer networks, including hack attacks and other types of computer intrusion. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996, graduating magna cum laude, and her LL.M. from the Universität München in 1997. k.kiefer2@verizon.net (6/8/07)
Phoebe Kornfeld (1991-92)
Phoebe is General Counsel for Intercell AG, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. She was previously Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc. Her year in Germany was spent at Freie Universität Berlin. phoebekornfeld@hotmail.com (8/1/07)
Peggy Kuo (1993-94)
Peggy is Chief Hearing Officer for the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, she was counsel with the law firm of WilmerHale in New York City. From 1998 until 2002, she was a trial attorney with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she prosecuted war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. She has also been a trial attorney and Acting Deputy Chief with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Criminal Section and an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, DC. She graduated from Harvard Law School and Yale College. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Peggy studied the German criminal law system in Berlin and Freiburg.
(6/24/08)
Rebecca Lubens (2003-04)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Rebecca studied the development
of land use and building law in Berlin over the past decade. She
has a particular interest in historic preservation law and in models
for public participation in the urban planning political process.
Rebecca was based at the Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik,
where she prepared several case studies examining the interplay
of law, politics and historical consciousness in the public controversy
surrounding the preservation (or demolition) of "problematic"
architecture, such as the Palast der Republik. rebecca_lubens@yahoo.com
Kristi (Stahnke) McGregor (1999-00)
Kristi practices law with the law firm of Milberg Weiss & Bershad LLP in New York. She telecommutes from her home in Gainesville, Florida, where her husband is completing his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology. Her practice focuses mainly on representing investors in class action securities fraud litigation against publicly traded corporations. Kristi's education in European Civil Law has been useful in litigation against major European corporations accused of defrauding investors. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Kristi obtained a Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree in German Civil Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. kmcgregor@milbergweiss.com (4/24/07)
Sean Kendall Murphy (1991-92)
Sean is a Senior Manager in the Merger & Acquisition Services
group at Deloitte. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Sean studied
the economic transformation of eastern Germany immediately following
reunification. He spent time at the World Economics Institute in
Kiel and worked in the Gera and Berlin offices of the Treuhandanstalt.
After the fellowship, Sean attended Duke University School of Law
and practiced tax law in New York City at White & Case LLP,
Mayer Brown & Platt and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
seankmurphy@yahoo.com
(5/18/05)
Alison Pennington (2005-06)
Alison directs a nonprofit legal services organization that offers
legal counseling and representation to immigrants detained by the
Department of Homeland Security who are facing deportation from
the United States. As a German Chancellor Fellow, she is analyzing
the implementation and impact of Germany's new immigration law that
took effect on January 1, 2005. She is conducting her research at
the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International
Law in Heidelberg. apenning@alumni.law.upenn.edu
(4/21/06)
Loren Ponds (2007-08)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Loren is focusing on emerging issues in international taxation, including the impact of globalization on the creation of taxation policy in the United States and Germany. Her particular areas of interest include the effect of the migration of intangibles on transfer pricing policies and the settlement of cross-border tax disputes. Based at the University of Hamburg's International Tax Institute, Loren also participates in "Globalization of Economic Relationships and Tax Law," an ongoing project sponsored by the Institute's director, Professor Doctor Gerrit Frotscher. Finally, as part of her research term, Loren is offering a series of ad hoc lectures to students matriculating in the University of Hamburg's taxation LL.M. program. Loren received her J.D. degree from American University - Washington College of Law, and an LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. loren.ponds@gmail.com (5/1/07)
Ravi Purushotma (2008-09)
Ravi Purushotma is a prototype designer in the M.I.T. Education Arcade lab. Recently he worked on Labyrinth, a video game designed to teach middle school students how to see the word in the ways that a mathematician sees the world. Currently he is helping the lab initiate their new foreign language learning efforts with the Hewlett foundation, designing games to teach English to Mandarin and Spanish speakers. During the fellowship, he plans to demonstrate how educators can take advantage of freely available web technologies (Google Maps, Flickr, etc.) in order to create video games for teaching introductory German language and culture. 4ravip@gmail.com (4/17/08)
Lana Marie (Wright) Spangenberg (2004-05)
Lana Marie resides in Hamburg where she recently completed
a semester as a Guest Professor teaching American Contract and Commercial
Law at Bucerius Law School. Lana Marie spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow at the Evanglisches Institut für Kirchenrecht
an der Universität Potsdam as well as at the Verband Diakonischer
Dienstgeber in Berlin. She spent her last month as a German Chancellor Fellow at the Kirchenamt in Hanover at the central organization
of the Protestant/Lutheran Church in Germany. Her project focused
on church-state relations and religious liberty. Lana Marie met
with members of the German Parliament, representatives from the
Foreign Office, and leading German Constitutional law scholars.
Lana Marie received her Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University
School of Law, where she served as President of the Federalist Society
and externed at the Bush White House Office of Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives as well as the Lexington Legal Aid Office. She received
her Bachelor of Science in Political Science at Texas A&M University.
Lana Marie and her husband are expecting their first child in June. lanaspangenberg@gmx.de (5/17/06)
Andrew Tauber (1991-92)
Andrew Tauber practices law as an associate in the Supreme Court
and Appellate Practice Group of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP.
Based in Mayer Brown’s Washington office, Tauber represents
clients at the trial and appellate levels in a broad range of matters
both civil and criminal. Tauber has handled cases involving, among
other topics, employment, intellectual property, products liability,
securities, immigration, and capital murder. Tauber, who has a B.A.
from Wesleyan University, received his Ph.D. in Political Science
from M.I.T. and his J.D. from Yale. As a German Chancellor Fellow
he was based in Frankfurt. His dissertation, “Tyranny on Trial:
The Politics of Natural Law and Legal Positivism in the Federal
Republic of Germany,” is a critical analysis of how the (West)
German criminal justice system dealt with Nazi perpetrators after
WW II and how, in light of that experience, it dealt with Communist
perpetrators after reunification. atauber@mayerbrown.com
(5/17/06)
Sophia van Wingerden (1995-96)
Ingrid Wuerth (1997-98)
Ingrid is a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of
Law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on foreign relations, and
international law in the domestic courts. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Ingrid's project involved issues of church and state under
the German and U.S. Constitutions. She was based at the Humboldt
University in Berlin. Prior to the fellowship, Ingrid practiced
law with Dechert, Price and Rhodes, clerked for a federal judge
on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and graduated
from the University of Chicago Law School. wuerthib@ucmail.uc.edu
(5/17/06)
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