Activities in the Legal Profession and Government
Consultant, Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000-2001.
Member, American Law Institute, 1998-Present.
Member, Allegheny County Administrative Code Drafting Committee for County Executive Candidate Dr. Cyril Wecht, 1999.
Member, Working Group on Comparative Regulation, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, 1998-.
Member, Citizens for Independent Courts, Task Force on the Legislative Role in Setting Jurisdiction, Washington, D.C., 1998-99.
Chair, Judiciary-Academy-Bar Committee on Legal Education of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Harrisburg, PA, 1997-98.
Reporter, Civil Justice Advisory Group, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1996-98.
Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1995-96.
Allegheny County Bar Association, 1995-. (Member, Planning Committee, 1997-98; Committee on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession, 1995-98.)
American Bar Association, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice:
Member of the Council, 1993-96.
- Chair, Committee on Government Organization and Separation of Powers, 1987-91 (Vice-Chair, 1983-87, 1991-93).
Coordinator, Alliance for Justice Midwest Regional Conference on "Forging a New Vision of Justice: Law in the Public Interest," 1994.
Member, Society of American Law Teachers Committee on Access to Justice in Health Care Reform, 1994.
Consultant, National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, Washington, D.C., 1992- 93.
Member, Delegation to Provide Technical Assistance to the Republic of Belarus on Judicial Restructuring and Constitutional Drafting, American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative Program on New Independent States, Minsk, Belarus, 9/92.
Consultant, Administrative Conference of the United States, Washington, D.C., 9/88 - 12/90.
Consultant, MacArthur Justice Foundation, Niles, Illinois, 1/88 - 6/88.
Consultant, American College Testing, Iowa City, Iowa, 5/88 -8/88.
Co-counsel, United States v. Eklund, 733 F.2d 1287 (8th Cir. 1984) (en banc), cert. denied, 105 S.Ct. 1864 (1985), and United States v. Martin, 733 F.2d 1309 (8th Cir. 1984) (en banc), cert. denied, 105 S.Ct. 1864 (1985) [challenging selective criminal prosecution of draft nonregistrants].
Member, National Ad Hoc Committee on ACLU War Powers Policy, May, 1984.
Member, State Board of Directors, and Legal Committee Chair, Iowa Civil Liberties Union, 3/87 - 7/89 (Member, Legal Committee, 12/82-).
Consultant, Legal Services Task Force, Secretary of Education's Transition Team, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 1/80 - 3/80.
