Speaker Biographies
Louis M. Bograd is a senior litigation counsel at the Center for Constitutional Litigation P.C. (CCL). Before joining CCL, he served as the legal director of the Alliance for Justice and as a senior staff attorney in the National Legal Department of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Bograd has also worked as an associate at the law firm of Arnold & Porter. He is the principal author of the amicus brief submitted on behalf of the American Association for Justice in the Stoneridge case.
Jonathan W. Cuneo is the founding member of Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca LLP. He has represented plaintiffs in both state and federal courts in complex antitrust, civil and human rights, consumer protection, corporate governance, and securities class actions. Mr. Cuneo has represented clients in public policy matters before Congress, the executive branch, and independent federal agencies. Prior to founding Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, he served in the Office of General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and as counsel to the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Cuneo’s firm authored AARP’s amicus brief filed in the Stoneridge case.
Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. He manages the Institute’s research in products liability, medical malpractice, class actions, civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank was a litigator from 1995 to 2005. He has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online, and has appeared on NPR, the BBC, C-SPAN, and the Fox News Channel. Mr. Frank clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a regular contributor to the liability reform blogs PointOfLaw.com and Overlawyered.
Robert R. Gasaway is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where his principal practice areas include constitutional law and administrative law and appellate advocacy. His recent publications include “The Problem of Tort Reform: Federalism and the Regulation of Lawyers,” in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (2002); “The Problem Of Federal Preemption: Reformulating The Black Letter Rules,” in the Pepperdine Law Review (Fall 2005); and a chapter in Federal Preemption: States’ Powers, National Interests (AEI Press, 2007). Mr. Gasaway is a recognized expert on legal reform and constitutional law issues and a frequent contributor to legal conferences. He filed an amicus brief in Stoneridge v. Scientific Atlanta on behalf of the Washington Legal Foundation.
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.
Harvey Pitt is the chief executive officer of Kalorama Partners LLC, a global consulting firm. Appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, Mr. Pitt was the twenty-sixth chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving until 2003. He had previously served in a variety of roles at the SEC, including general counsel and chief counsel of the SEC’s Division of Market Regulation. Prior to joining the SEC, he was a senior corporate partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and the first president of the SEC Historical Society. He is currently teaching a corporate governance seminar at the Yale Law School, and previously taught as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Mr. Pitt was a member of the bipartisan group of former chairmen, commissioners, SEC officials, and prominent law and finance professors to file an amici brief in Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta.
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