Seth P Waxman

1978, District of Columbia

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics, Harvard University, 2001. Honorary Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, awarded 2001. Solicitor General of the United States, 1997-2001. Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, 1997. Deputy Solicitor General, 1996-1997. Associate Deputy Attorney General, 1994-1996. Former Partner, 1984-1994 and Former Associate, 1978-1984, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin. Principal, Council for Excellence in Government. Member: National Foundation for Jewish Culture; Bruce J. Ennis Foundation; Committee to Visit Harvard College; Jewish Publication Society National Council. Master, Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. Phi Beta Kappa. Rockefeller Fellow. Recipient: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, University of Virginia, 2002; Rex Lee Advocacy Award, Brigham Young University, 2002; Edmund J. Randolph Award, United States Department of Justice, 2001; Pursuit of Justice Award, International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, 2001; American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award, 1988; Anti-Defamation League Benjamin J. Cardozo Certificate of Merit, 1987. Law Clerk to Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1977-1978. Editor, 1975-1976, and Managing Editor, 1976-1977, Yale Law Journal. Author: "The Combatant-Detention Trilogy Through the Lenses of History" in Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution (Hoover Institution 2005); "Limits on Patentability in Life Sciences: Claims Covering Expressed Sequence Tags" (with William F. Lee, Henry N. Wixon, and Richard W. O'Neill) (Sedona 2005); "Free Expression in Wartime: Some Reflections on the American Experience," published by Tsinghua University (in Mandarin) (2004); "Justice Byron R. White, Memorial Observance," 52 Catholic U. L. Rev. 973 (2003); "What Kind of Immunity? Federal Officers, State Criminal Law, and the Supremacy Clause," 112 Yale L.J. (May 2003); "Federalism, Law Enforcement, and the Supremacy Clause: The Strange Case of Ruby Ridge," 50 U. Kan. L. Rev. 141 (2002); "Rebuilding Bridges: The Bar, the Bench, and the Academy," 150 Penn. L. Rev. 1905 (2002); "Does the Solicitor General Matter?" 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1115 (2001); "Defending Congress," 79 N.C. L. Rev. 1073 (2001); "In the Shadow of Daniel Webster: Arguing Appeals in the Twenty-First Century," The Federal Lawyer, Vol. 47, No. 10 (2000); "Twins at Birth: Civil Rights and the Role of the Solicitor General," 75 Ind. L.J. 1297 (2000); "The Physics of Persuasion: Arguing the New Deal," 88 Geo. L.J. 2399 (2000); "'Presenting the Case of the United States As It Should Be': The Solicitor General in Historical Context," J.S. Ct. Hist., Vol. II, at 3 (1998); "Balancing the See-Saw: The Religion Clauses in the Clinton Era," 99 The Jewish Lawyer, Vol. II, No. 2 (1996); "Enforcing a Congressional Mandate," 85 Yale L.J. 721 (1976). Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association; American College of Trial Lawyers; American Academy of Appellate Attorneys; American Law Institute; American Bar Foundation. Trustee: Supreme Court Historical Society; Supreme Court Institute; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; National Legal Center for the Public Interest.