Orientation Faculty and Staff

Program Director

Professor Charles F. Abernathy

For the past ten years, the Orientation has been directed by Professor Charles F. Abernathy of the Georgetown University Law Center. A graduate of Harvard College and of Harvard Law School, Professor Abernathy was a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. He has written casebooks on civil rights and constitutional litigation and on the law of equal employment opportunity. His latest work is Law in the United States: Cases and Materials, the only survey of US law written in a casebook format, which also serves as the basic text for the Orientation. In addition to directing the Orientation, Professor Abernathy has been the director of Georgetown's program in Florence, Italy. In 1983 he was a Fulbright professor in Egypt, and has served as a consultant to the Department of State and the Senate Judiciary Committee. He teaches Civil Rights, Civil Procedure, and Constitutional Law.

Faculty

The Orientation draws upon prominent practitioners and faculty from several U.S. law schools. Faculty who have taught in recent years include:

Charles F. Abernathy
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; J.D., LL.M., Harvard University

Donald Burris, Esq.
Burris & Hairrell, LLP, Los Angeles, California; J.D., Georgetown University

Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Professor, Duke University School of Law; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

James V. Feinerman
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Ph.D., Yale University; J.D., Harvard University

A. E. Dick Howard
White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia; LL.B., University of Virginia; M.A., Oxford

Richard H. Levenson
Professor, New York University School of Law; J.D., LL.M., New York University

Katie Harrington-McBride
Professor, George Washington University Law School; J.D., George Washington University Law School

David N. Smith
Vice Dean & Lecturer, Harvard Law School; LL.B., Harvard Law School

Jonathan Turley
Professor, George Washington University Law School; J.D., Northwestern University

William B. T. Mock, Jr.
The John Marshall Law School J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

Don Wallace, Jr.
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Chairman, International Law Institute; LL.B., Harvard University