Speaker biographies

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover constitutional law, federalism, and business regulation. 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 also serves on the board of directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His publications include numerous law review articles and books, including The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (AEI Press, 1996) and Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (AEI Press, 1999). Mr. Greve is the coeditor, with Fred L. Smith, of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992) and, with Richard A. Epstein, of Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (AEI Press, 2004) and Federal Preemption: States’ Powers, National Interests (AEI Press, 2007).

Ashley Parrish is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C., and a member of the firm’s Appellate Litigation Practice, where he focuses his practice on appellate and administrative law; the preparation of high-risk cases for eventual appeal; and strategic, complex litigation. Before joining Kirkland & Ellis, Mr. Parrish served as a law clerk to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emilio M. Garza. Mr. Parrish is often involved in high-stakes class-action litigation and regularly advises clients in federal administrative law and practice. He coauthored a chapter in Federal Preemption: States’ Powers, National Interests (Richard A. Epstein and Michael S. Greve, eds., AEI Press, 2007).

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 seventeen cases before the Supreme Court, including Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Company v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., has filed briefs in more than one hundred other cases in the Court, and he is scheduled to argue two additional cases later this year. He also serves as codirector of Yale Law School’s Supreme Court advocacy clinic and seminar. 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.

Catherine Sharkey is a professor at New York University School of Law. She teaches and writes scholarly articles in the areas of torts, products liability, punitive damages, and class actions. Her articles on preemption have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and a federal district court in Louisiana. Ms. Sharkey has published articles in leading law reviews, including New York University Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. She is a senior editor of the Journal of Tort Law and an adjunct senior fellow at the Institute for Civil Justice at RAND Corporation. Ms. Sharkey served as law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and to Supreme Court justice David H. Souter.

Mark T. Stancil is an appellate litigator and partner-elect at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner, & Sauber LLP. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to white-collar criminal appellate matters and providing legal analysis in criminal trials and investigations. His civil practice focuses on bankruptcy, intellectual property, employment discrimination, Section 1983 litigation and qualified immunity, SEC disclosure issues, the Alien Tort Statute, and complex breach-of-contract cases. He has presented oral argument twice before the Supreme Court and a number of times in other state and federal appellate courts. He has served as a law clerk to Supreme Court chief justice William H. Rehnquist and to the Honorable David M. Ebel on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mark has taught a seminar in constitutional theory as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and he currently serves as a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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