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After all, how many law professorscould author articles such as“Environmental Insurance: Does itDefy the Rules” and “PlanktonDynamics in the Southern KattegatPycnocline”?A Harvard Law School graduatecum laude in 2000, where she wasmanaging editor of the EnvironmentalLaw Review, Leiter was most recentlya visiting associate professor of lawat Georgetown Law Center.She clerked for the Hon. NancyGertner of the Federal District Courtfor the District of Massachusetts, theHon. David Tatel of the D.C. CircuitCourt of Appeals, and Justice JohnPaul Stevens of the United StatesSupreme Court. After clerking, shespent two years as a clean air litigatorat the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil before beginning her appointmentat Georgetown. Her researchinterests include administrative lawand process and environmental lawand policy.Visiting Faculty andScholars-in ResidenceDonna Coleman GreggIt could be that lawstudents pay just abit more attentionwhen they discoverthat their instructor isalso a very recentpractitioner. DonnaColeman Gregg’s practice was withinthe White House Office of Scienceand Technology Policy, where sheserved as senior policy adviser toRichard M. Russell, the U.S.Ambassador to the 2007 World RadioCommunication Conference. Gregg’srole was to advise and informAmbassador Russell about necessarytechnological updates within the regulatoryframework for managinginternational use of radio frequencyspectrum for systems and servicessuch as future generation wirelessbroadband, satellite communications,military radars, and cell phones.Gregg is a former chief of themedia bureau at the FCC(2005–2007) and a former vice presidentof legal and regulatory affairsand general counsel at theCorporation for Public Broadcasting.Her private practice experienceincludes more than ten years as apartner at Wiley Rein & Fielding,where she provided regulatory andbusiness advice to large national andinternational media and telecommcorporations. In 2006, Gregg was recognizedwith the Touchstones ofLeadership Award for Public Service,awarded by Women in CableCommunications.Gregg brings her wide-rangingexpertise to the Columbus School ofLaw to serve as communicationsscholar-in-residence in the fall of 2008and as a visiting associate professorin the spring of 2009. She will teachcourses in the communications lawstudies program and assist ProfessorDavid Irwin, director of the Institutefor Communications Law Studies, inexpanding curricular and programmaticofferings in the communicationslaw certificate program. Greggwill also serve as an adviser toCommLaw Conspectus: Journal ofCommunications Law and Policy.Her work has been published inlegal and telecommunications journalsand publications throughout hercareer. She plans to pursue her scholarlyresearch agenda in the areas ofinternational telecommunications andmedia regulation and policy duringthe academic year.Marc O. DeGirolamiLaw students appearto like MarcDeGirolami’s teachingstyle. His evaluationsfrom students havebeen consistentlyhigh at Columbia LawSchool, where he has taught first-yearlegal research and writing asan associate-in-law since 2007.DeGirolami is currently a J.S.D. candidateat Columbia Law School himself,having already earned an LL.M. fromthat school, as well as his J.D. fromBoston University School of Law.Previous employment includestime as assistant district attorney withthe Appeals Bureau of MiddlesexDistrict Attorney's Office, Cambridge,Mass.; as law clerk for the Hon. JeromeFarris, U.S. Court of Appeals for theNinth Circuit; a second clerkship withthe Hon. William E. Smith, U.S. DistrictJudge, U.S. District Court for theDistrict of Rhode Island; and a period asan associate with Sullivan & WorcesterLLP, Boston.DeGirolami’s authorship includes“Recoiling from Religion,” 43 SanDiego L. Rev. 619 (2006); “The NewReligious Prisons and Their RetributivistCommitments,” 59 Arkansas L. Rev. 1(2006); and “Congressional Threats ofRemoval Against Federal Judges,” 10Texas J. on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights111 (2005).DeGirolami joins the ColumbusSchool of Law as a visiting assistantprofessor and scholar-in-residence.Megan La BelleMegan La Belle isnot new to CUA lawstudents. As a lecturerin intellectualproperty law, shehas taught AdvancedTopics in Patent LawSpring–Summer 2008 / C UALAWYER 31