Speaker biographies

Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Legal Center, managing the Institute’s research on liability reform proposals, tort law, class actions and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included Vioxx and automobile product liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Maureen Mahoney is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins, and she leads the firm’s appellate and constitutional practice. She previously served as a U.S. deputy solicitor general. Ms. Mahoney has argued eighteen cases in the Supreme Court, including four this last Term. She won the landmark affirmative action case on behalf of the University of Michigan Law School and represented Arthur Andersen in the firm’s successful challenge to its criminal conviction. Ms. Mahoney served as a law clerk to then–associate justice William H. Rehnquist and Seventh Circuit Judge Robert Sprecher.

Andrew Pincus, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Mayer Brown, specializes in briefing and arguing cases in the Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts, as well as developing legal arguments in trial courts. Mr. Pincus has argued sixteen cases before the Supreme Court, including Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independen Ink, Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Company v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., and has filed briefs in more than one hundred other cases in the Court. He also serves as codirector of Yale Law School’s Supreme Court advocacy clinic and seminar. In 2006, he was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America. Before joining Mayer Brown, Mr. Pincus was general counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he formulated and implemented policy on intellectual property, electronic authentication, privacy, domain name management, taxation of electronic commerce, telecommunications matters, export controls, international trade, and consumer protection.

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at AEI, where he codirects the Institute’s program on financial market deregulation. He previously practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and New York. From June 1981 to January 1985, Mr. Wallison was general counsel of the United States Treasury Department, where he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulation in the financial services industry. He also served as general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee and participated in the Treasury Department’s efforts to deal with the debt held by less-developed countries. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Wallison served first as special assistant to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and, subsequently, counsel to Mr. Rockefeller when he was vice president of the United States.

View Event Details