June 29, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Viet D. Dinh is professor of law and codirector of Asian law and policy studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. He specializes in constitutional law, corporations law, and the law and economics of development. Mr. Dinh served as U.S. assistant attorney general for legal policy from 2001 to 2003. He played a key role in developing the USA Patriot Act and in revising the attorney general's guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations. He was a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Richard W. Garnett is an associate professor at Notre Dame Law School where he teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, the First Amendment, and the death penalty. He works regularly with litigators and legislators and has recently authored amicus curiae briefs in Sabri v. U.S., Locke v. Davey, and Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. He was a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals chief judge Richard S. Arnold and to U.S. Supreme Court justice William H. Rehnquist.

Michael S. Greve (moderator) is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI where he directs the Federalism Project and the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), 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.

Edward W. Warren is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he specializes in appellate and environmental litigation. He has extensive litigation experience under federal health, safety, and environmental statutes and has participated in oral arguments in more than forty significant cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals, state supreme courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Warren was a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals judge Luther M. Swygert and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, and George Mason University.

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