Issue: Summer 2024
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Class Note Summer 2024
Stuart Streichler authored Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (University of Michigan Press, 2023). He has taught constitutional law and human rights at the University of Washington and as a Fulbright scholar at Tohoku University in Japan. He also is the author of Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism (University of Virginia Press, 2005).
Class Note Summer 2024
W. Gregory Voss, associate professor at Toulouse Business School, was cited in two foreign courts recently. His co-authored work The Right to Be Forgotten in the European Union: Enforcement in the Court of Justice and Amendment to the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation (Aspen Publishers Inc., 2015) was discussed in the High Court of the Indian State of Kerala judgment in K.G. Vysakh vs. Union of India and connected cases. His co-authored work on EU general data protection regulation sanctions was cited in a Court of Justice of the European Union opinion in a case related to the Lithuanian National Public Health Center.
Class Note Summer 2024
Kurtis T. Wilder was honored during a special session of the Michigan Supreme Court in November 2023. The special session, which was hosted by the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society and featured his portrait dedication, recognized Wilder for his service as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and for the 25 years he served as a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Washtenaw County Trial Court. He is an attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit and currently is serving a one-year term as chair of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
Class Note Summer 2024
Andreas Fabritius, LLM, joined ADS-TEC Energy’s board of directors. For more than 30 years, he has served as a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he specializes in public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law. His clients include German and international companies, banks, financial investors, and government agencies. He also serves as British honorary consul in Frankfurt.
Class Note Summer 2024
Reed Rubinstein has been appointed senior vice president of America First Legal. He joined the organization in 2021 as senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations after spending more than 30 years in private practice representing manufacturing and retail corporations, financial institutions, and trade associations. He also has served as deputy associate attorney general at the US Department of Education and senior adviser to the US secretary of the treasury.
Class Note Summer 2024
John B. Thomas, a co-founder of the Houston-based boutique law firm Hicks Thomas LLP, was named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for 2024. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation related to oil and gas, securities, environmental matters, banking, transportation, intellectual property, and health care.
Class Note Summer 2024
Suzanne Hard was named the associate dean of professional development and career strategies at the George Washington University Law School. Previously, she was the director of the Center for Career Development at the University of Connecticut School of Law, director of education and section programming with the Connecticut Bar Association, and an associate professor of legal studies at Post University.
Class Note Summer 2024
Janet Welch, founder and owner of Impetus Law Consulting, was appointed to the Michigan Appellate Defender Commission by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Previously, she was the general counsel for the Michigan Supreme Court and served as the executive director of the State Bar of Michigan for 15 years. She currently serves as a co-chair on the Regulatory and Practice Reform Committee for the Michigan Justice for All Commission, as a delegate of the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and as a board member for the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society.
Class Note Summer 2024
Lisa Batey retired in 2022 after a career working on immigration issues for the federal government. Following her retirement, she ran for and won the mayoral race in Milwaukie, Oregon, a Portland suburb. She previously served the Milwaukie community as a planning commissioner and city councilor for nearly 18 years.
Class Note Summer 2024
Steven J. Cernak will become chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section in August. He has been an intermittent lecturer at Michigan Law since 2009 and has taught a number of classes on antitrust and in-house practice. He is a partner in the Detroit office of Bona Law PC.