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Panelists’ Biographies 63PANELISTS’ BIOGRAPHIESIlya SominIlya Somin is a Professor at George Mason University School of Law. His research focuses onconstitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications forconstitutional democracy. Somin currently serves as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review,one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals. His work has appeared in numerousscholarly journals and popular press outlets, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review,Northwestern University Law Review, Los Angeles Times, National Law Journal, and Reason. Hisamicus brief on behalf of urban planning scholar Jane Jacobs was cited by the Supreme Court in itsmajority opinion in Kelo v. City of New London. In July 2009, he testified on property rights issues at theUnited States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice SoniaSotomayor. Somin writes regularly for the popular Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog.During the Fall 2008 semester, he served as visiting professor of law at the University of PennsylvaniaLaw School. Somin has previously been a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany,and the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before joining the faculty atGeorge Mason, he was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in2002–2003. In 2001–2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A., Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. inPolitical Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.J. Peter ByrneJ. Peter Byrne is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches Property, LandUse, Historic Preservation, and Constitutional Law. Professor Byrne holds degrees from NorthwesternUniversity and from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was a law clerk to Chief Judge FrankCoffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. ofthe U.S. Supreme Court; he practiced law with the DC firm of Covington and Burling. Professor Byrnehas taught at Georgetown since 1985 and served as Associate Dean from 1997 until 2000. He currentlyis Faculty Director of the Georgetown Climate Center and of the Georgetown Environmental Law andPolicy Program. Professor Byrne has published numerous law journal articles on Land Use and Propertytopics and is currently writing a book on Historic Preservation Law.Hilary O. SheltonHilary O. Shelton presently serves as the Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy/Director to theNAACP’s Washington Bureau. The Washington Bureau is the Federal legislative and national publicpolicy division of the over 500,000-member, 2,200-membership unit, national civil rights organization.In this capacity, Mr. Shelton is responsible for advocating the federal public policy issue agenda of the
64 The Civil Rights Implications of <strong>Eminent</strong> <strong>Domain</strong> Abuseoldest, largest, and most widely-recognized civil rights organization in the United States to the U.S.Government. His government affairs portfolio includes crucial issues such as affirmative action, equalemployment protection, access to quality education, stopping gun violence, ending racial profiling,abolition of the death penalty, access to comprehensive healthcare, voting rights protection, federalsentencing reform, and a host of civil rights enforcement, expansion, and protection issues.Prior to serving as director to the NAACP Washington Bureau, Mr. Shelton served in the position ofFederal Liaison/Assistant Director to the Government Affairs Department of The College Fund/UNCF,also known as The United Negro College Fund in Washington, DC. In this capacity, Mr. Shelton workedwith Senate and House Members of the U.S. Congress, Federal Agencies and Departments, college anduniversity presidents and faculty members, as well as the White House and various government agenciesto secure the survival, growth and educational programming excellence of the 40 private historicallyblack colleges and universities throughout the United States.Mr. Shelton serves on a number of national boards of directors, including The Leadership Conference onCivil Rights, The Center for Democratic Renewal, and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute amongmany others. He has received a number of awards and recognitions for his unwavering dedication to themission and goals of the NAACP. Among these, Mr. Shelton is the proud recipient of the NationalNAACP Medgar W. Evers Award for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed upon a nationalprofessional staff member of the NAACP, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus’ Chairman’sAward. He holds degrees in political science, communications, and legal studies from HowardUniversity in Washington, DC, the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and Northeastern University inBoston, Massachusetts, respectively.David BeitoDavid T. Beito is a professor at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Taxpayers in Revolt: TaxResistance during the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989), FromMutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967 (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2000); and Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rightsand Economic Power (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009). The last book focuses on Dr. T.R.M.Howard who was not only one of the wealthiest blacks in Mississippi but was also the main early civilrights mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer.Professor Beito edited The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2002). He has a book under contract with the University of Illinois Pressentitled “The Richer Gift of Individualism:” The Political Writings of Zora Neale Hurston.Professor Beito has published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Policy History,Journal of Southern History, and Journal of Urban History among other scholarly journals. He hasreceived fellowships from the Earhart Foundation, the Olin Foundation, and the Institute for HumaneStudies. He has also published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Reason, andAmerican Enterprise. His most recent articles (both in The Wall Street Journal in 2011) focused on the
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