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Alan Morrison

Alan Morrison

Professor of public interest and public service law, George Washington University

Professor of public interest and public service law, George Washington University Alan B. Morrison is the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service at GW Law. He is responsible for creating pro bono opportunities for students, bringing a wide range of public interest programs to the law school, encouraging students to seek positions in the non-profit and government sectors, and assisting students find ways to fund their legal education to make it possible for them to pursue careers outside of traditional law firms. For most of his career, Dean Morrison worked for the Public Citizen Litigation Group, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader in 1972 and directed for over 25 years. His work involved law reform litigation in various areas including: open government, opening up the legal profession, suing agencies that fail to comply with the law, enforcing principles of separation of powers, protecting the rights of consumers, and protecting unrepresented class members in class action settlements. He has argued 20 cases in the Supreme Court, including victories in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar (holding lawyers subject to the antitrust laws for using minimum fee schedules); Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (making commercial speech subject to the First Amendment); and INS v. Chadha (striking down over 200 federal laws containing the legislative veto as a violation of separation of powers). He currently teaches civil procedure and constitutional law, and previously taught at Harvard, NYU, Stanford, Hawaii, and American University law schools. He is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and was its president in 1999–2000. Among other positions, he served as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar, a member and then senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Committee on Science, Technology & Law of the National Academy of Science. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, served as a commissioned officer in the US Navy, and was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York.

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Allan Steigleman

Allan Steigleman

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Florida

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Florida Dr. Allan Steigleman spent more than 25 years in the U.S. Navy as an ophthalmologist, where he developed a keen interest in a variety of eye-related topics. Since joining the University of Florida, he has expanded his academic pursuits in ophthalmic conditions. His areas of interest include LASIK eye surgery, ocular trauma, refractive surgery, cataract surgery and more.

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Adefolatomiwa Toye

Adefolatomiwa Toye

PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool

PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool Adefola Toye is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a master's in Environmental Design at the University of Lagos. Adefola is a recipient of the 2020 A3-ARCHNET Prize for Writing on African Architectures and a 2021 Student Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Her PhD research in collaboration with The National Archives, London, focuses on the tropical modernist architecture of Nigeria’s first universities and its role in the development and identity of independent Nigeria.

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