Admitted
1972, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Law School
Yale University, J.D., 1970
Law School Graduation Year
1970
College
Princeton University, B.A., 1965; Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, M.A., 1
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. University Scholar. Keasbey Fellowship. Member, Board of Editors, 1967-1969 and Note and Comment Editor, 1969-1970, Yale Law Journal. Co-Recipient, Israel Peres Prize. Editor, Legal Rights of Mentally Disabled Persons, Practising Law Institute, 1979. Law Clerk to Hon. J. Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1970-1971. Author: Article, The Mentally Handicapped Citizen and Institutional Labor, 87 Harvard Law Review 513, 1974; Finding Justice in Cyberspace, The National Conference on Legal Information Issues: Selected Essays, Rothman & Company, 1996. Primary Author: The Y2K Challenge: A Report to Foundations from the Center for Y2K & Society, 1999. Co-Author: The Politics of Mental Health Advocacy in the United States, with Hon. Patricia M. Wald, 1 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 137, 1978; The New Public Interest Lawyers, 79 Yale Law Journal 1069, 1970. Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy, 1971-1972. Director, Mental Health Law Project, 1972-1981. Deputy Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1993-1996. Member: Bazelon Center, 1977-1983; Baltimore-District of Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute (Admitted for Research and Special Education), 1971-1978; American Psychoanalytic Association (Affiliate Member), 1974-1978. Coordinator, Task Panel on Legal and Ethical Issues, President's Commission on Mental Health, 1977-1978.