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We are excited to invite you to join Pepperdine’s 13th annual Wm. Matthew Byrne Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute, a program dedicated to the promotion of justice and the federal judiciary through the training of law clerks. Federal judges from across the country gather at Pepperdine and generously give of their

time to train law clerks on how to be professional, effective, and successful. The wisdom the judges and professors share during the program is invaluable. We are excited to continue working with the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). The ABI and FJC will sponsor bankruptcy and career clerks to attend. We invite federal term clerks who will be beginning a federal clerkship at the appellate, district, or magistrate court level to enroll. Through the kindness of former law clerks and other friends of Judge Byrne, and also through Pepperdine University, we have travel scholarships available for a limited number of new clerks who would like to attend. We deeply appreciate the continued support of judges, professors, clerks, and students who have helped to make this conference a success for over a decade. We look forward to meeting you.

Naomi Harlin GoodnoAssociate Professor of LawDirector, Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute

J udicial FacultyArthur L. AlarcónUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Judge Alarcón was appointed United States circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on November 2, 1979, and entered duty on November 20, 1979. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1949, an LLB degree in 1951, and a honorary doctor of laws

degree in 2007 from Southwestern University School of Law. Prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, Judge Alarcón served as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, from 1952 to 1961. He served within the administration California governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown as a legal advisor and clemency and extradition secretary from 1961 to 1962, and as executive assistant to the governor from 1962 to 1964. He also served as chair of the California Parole Board’s Adult Authority in 1964, as judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1964 to 1978, and as associate justice of the California Court of Appeal from 1978 to 1979. Judge Alarcón has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Law School, Loyola Law School, and Southwestern University School of Law.

The Honorable Carol Bagley AmonChief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Since April 5, 2011, Judge Amon has served as chief judge of the Eastern District and serves on the Judicial Conference of the United States. Judge Amon was a member of the Judicial Committee on Codes of Conduct from 1993 to 2001 and chair from 1998 to 2001. She also served as an advisor to the American Bar Association Joint Commission to Evaluate the

Model Code of Judicial Conduct. She is a graduate of William and Mary and the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to her appointment to the district court in 1990, Judge Amon served as a U.S. magistrate, and assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Honorable Bobby R. BaldockUnited States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Baldock to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in 1985. Previously, Judge Baldock served on the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. During his judicial tenure, Judge Baldock has served the federal courts in numerous administrative

capacities. Most recently, he concluded a three-year term as chair of the Committee on Financial Disclosure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Judge Baldock graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute in 1956 and from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1960. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Baldock practiced law for over two decades with Sanders, Bruin & Baldock in Roswell, New Mexico. Judge Baldock is married and has two grown sons.

The Honorable Duane BentonUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Duane Benton became a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2004. Judge Benton served on the Missouri Supreme Court from 1991 until 2004 (including as chief justice from 1997 to 1999). Previously, he practiced law from 1983 to 1988, and served as Missouri’s director of revenue

from 1989 to 1991. He is a 1972 graduate of Northwestern University and a 1975 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. From 1975 to 1979 Judge Benton served with the U.S. Navy as a judge advocate. While in the navy, he earned a master’s degree in business administration and accountancy from Memphis State University, becoming a CPA in Missouri in 1983. Judge Benton earned an LLM from the University of Virginia in 1995. Judge Benton also served as an adjunct professor at Westminster College, the University of Missouri–Columbia School of Law, and Vanderbilt University School of Law.

The Honorable Karon Owen BowdreUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Judge Bowdre received her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Samford University and her law degree, cum laude, from Cumberland School of Law. Judge Bowdre served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Foy Guin, district judge for the Northern District of Alabama. She taught at Cumberland School of Law from 1990 until she took

office in November 2001. Judge Bowdre was director of the legal research and writing program at the school and taught courses in insurance law, torts, professional responsibility, and appellate advocacy. Prior to joining the law faculty, Judge Bowdre practiced law with the Birmingham law firm of Rives & Peterson, handling numerous trial and appellate matters in state and federal court.

The Honorable Charles R. Breyer United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Judge Breyer received his AB in 1963 from Harvard College and his JD in 1966 from UC Berkeley School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Breyer clerked for Oliver J. Carter, chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He then served as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco

until 1973, when he was appointed assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution force. He entered private practice in 1974, specializing in the defense of white-collar criminal cases. Judge Breyer is also an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in 1997 by President Clinton. Judge Breyer has served on the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and is currently the long-range planning coordinator for the federal judiciary.

The Honorable Jacqueline Scott CorleyUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California

Jacqueline Scott Corley has served as a magistrate judge in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, since May 2011. Just prior to her appointment, she was a partner at Kerr & Wagstaffe, LLP in San Francisco, a 12-lawyer litigation firm where she practiced civil litigation in the trial and appellate courts with an emphasis on federal

practice. From 1998 through 2009 Judge Corley served as career law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Breyer in the Northern District of California. Judge Corley received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, and her JD from Harvard Law School magna cum laude, where she was selected as an editor and articles chair of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Keeton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She subsequently practiced complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense at Goodwin, Procter LLP in Boston, and then moved to San Francisco and worked as a litigation associate.

The Honorable Jeremy D. FogelUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California

Judge Fogel received his BA from Stanford University and his JD, cum laude, from Harvard University. Judge Fogel was in private practice in San Jose from 1974 to 1978, and was founder and directing attorney, Mental Health Advocacy Project, Santa Clara County Bar Association Law Foundation from 1978 to 1981. In 1981 he was appointed to

Santa Clara County Municipal Court and appointed to Santa Clara Superior Court in 1986. He is a frequent lecturer on ethics, discipline, and professional conduct for both bench and bar and a lecturer at Stanford University Law School. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in 1998. Since October of 2011 he has been selected to serve as director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.

The Honorable Kent A. JordanUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Kent A. Jordan was appointed in 2006 to serve as a United States circuit judge for the Third Circuit. Prior to that appointment, Judge Jordan was a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. He received a BA in economics in 1981 from Brigham Young University and a JD in 1984 from Georgetown University,

where he was articles editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. From 1984 to 1985, he was a law clerk for the Honorable James L. Latchum, a judge on the district court where Judge Jordan later served. He is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware and, from 1991 to 1992, was chief of the civil division in that office. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Jordan served as an officer and as a member of the boards of directors of privately held businesses and was a partner in a Wilmington, Delaware law firm, with a practice focused on intellectual property, corporate, and commercial litigation. He is an adjunct professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, and is a member of the American Law Institute.

The Honorable Mary M. SchroederUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Judge Schroeder has served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1979 and was chief judge from December 2000 through November 2007. She previously served on the Arizona Court of Appeals and practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago Law School. After graduation she was

a trial lawyer in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Judge Schroeder has also taught at Arizona State University Law School and been an adjunct lecturer at Duke University Law School. She has published articles and lectures in various law reviews and is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. She is a recipient of the Arizona State Bar Association’s James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award, the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award, and the Joan Dempsey Klein NAWJ Honoree of the Year Award. In 2006 Swarthmore College awarded her an honorary doctor of laws degree. She has her chambers in Phoenix. She and her husband, Professor Milton Schroeder, have two daughters and two grandchildren.

The Honorable Kim M. WardlawUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Judge Wardlaw graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA in 1976, and from UCLA Law School in 1979, where she served as an articles editor of the UCLA Law Review, externed for the late Honorable Joseph T. Sneed III of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, was awarded Order of the Coif and named the Outstanding

Graduate of her class. She clerked for U.S. district court judge William P. Gray, and joined the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where she practiced complex civil litigation for 16 years. Confirmed as a district court judge for the Central District of California in 1976, Judge Wardlaw joined the Ninth Circuit in 1998. She currently serves on the court’s Executive Committee, the circuit’s Federal Public Defender’s Committee and the ABA Commission on Hispanic Rights and Responsibilities.

Bankruptcy FacultyThe Honorable Margaret A. MahoneyU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Judge Mahoney was appointed U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of Alabama in 1993. She served as chief judge from 1996 to 2003. Before serving in the state of Alabama, she was a bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas and also in the District of Minnesota. Prior to taking the bench,

Judge Mahoney was a partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges. She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a former editor-in-chief of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal and a member of the board of governors of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Judge Mahoney received her BA from the College of St. Catherine, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and her JD with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School.

The Honorable Steven W. RhodesU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Judge Rhodes recently completed a term as chief judge. From 1997 to 2004 he also served on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) of the Sixth Circuit, the last three years as chief judge. Judge Rhodes was appointed to a new four-year term on the BAP beginning January 1, 2008. He has served as an adjunct professor at the

University of Michigan Law School teaching bankruptcy law, and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. A past member of the American Bankruptcy Institute board of directors, he also served as ABI’s vice president-research grants. Judge Rhodes received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School

H onored GuestThe Honorable Barry RussellU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California

Judge Russell serves as Chief Judge Emeritus on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California in Los Angeles. Appointed in 1974, he served as chief judge from January 2003 to December 2006. He also served on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and became its chief judge from September 1999 to

December 2001. Judge Russell has been a member of the faculty of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., since 1977, and frequently lectures to bankruptcy judges throughout the United States. He received the American Bar Association’s Franklin N. Flaschner Judicial Award as the outstanding judge in the United States in a trial court of special jurisdiction in 1987, and he received the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Outstanding Jurist Award in 2004. He has been the author of West’s Bankruptcy Evidence Manual since August 1987. A member of the American Bankruptcy Institute board of directors, he received both his bachelor of science and JD from UCLA.

For more information visit: law.pepperdine.edu

For the Bankruptcy Breakout Session visit: www.abiworld.org

Academic ExchangeErwin ChemerinskyDean and Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, School of Law

Dean Chemerinsky is the founding dean of the School of Law, University of California, Irvine. From 2004 to 2008 he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law. Before that, he was on the USC faculty for over 20 years. Dean Chemerinsky

regularly lectures to judges in programs for the Federal Judicial Center, the National Judicial College, and the American Bar Association. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School. He is the author of seven books and over 200 law review articles. He regularly argues appellate cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Robert F. Cochran, Jr.Founder and Director, The Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics and Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Pepperdine University, School of Law

Robert F. Cochran, Jr., founded the Judicial Clerkship Institute and directed it from 2000 to 2003. Professor Cochran’s books include: Louis D. Brandies’s MIT Lectures on Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2012);

Lawyers, Clients, and Moral Responsibility (West, 2nd ed. 2009; 1st ed. 1994) (with Thomas L. Shaffer); and Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale University Press, 2001) (with Michael McConnell and Angela Carmella). Professor Cochran is the editor of the SSRN Law and Religion eJournal. He founded and currently directs Pepperdine’s Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics. Recent trips have taken him to Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, South Korea, and Thailand, lecturing on justice, religion, and law.

Michael GerhardtSamuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the UNC Center on Law and Government, UNC-Chapel Hill

Michael Gerhardt is Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the UNC Center on Law and Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a nationally recognized expert

on constitutional conf licts and has participated in the confirmation proceedings for five of the nine justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court, including most recently as special counsel to chair Patrick Leahy and the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. During President Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, he testified as the only joint witness before the House of Representatives and served as CNN’s full-time impeachment expert. He has published dozens of law review articles and five books, including leading treatises on both the impeachment and appointments processes and “The Power of Precedent” (published by Oxford University Press). His forthcoming book, “The Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold Constitutional Legacy,” will be published next year by Oxford University Press. Professor Gerhardt received a BA with honors from Yale University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD with honors from the University of Chicago.

Joel K. GoldsteinVincent C. Immel Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law

Joel K. Goldstein, the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, has written extensively on the American vice presidency, constitutional law, the Supreme Court, admiralty law, the presidency, and presidential succession and inability. His books include The Modern American Vice

Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution (Princeton University Press, 1982), Constitutional Law (5th ed.) (LexisNexis, 2008) (with the late Norman Redlich and John Attanasio), and Understanding Constitutional Law (4th ed.)(LexisNexis, 2012) (with John Attanasio. He is writing a new book on the vice presidency and is frequently interviewed on the subject. Professor Goldstein received a doctorate in political science at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He was law clerk for Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., of the United States District Court in Massachusetts.

Douglas W. KmiecCaruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Pepperdine University

Ambassador (ret.) Douglas W. Kmiec is Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Pepperdine University. In addition to being an author and syndicated columnist, he has been privileged to serve Democratic and Republican

presidents alike. Upon nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, he was U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Malta, where he completed the construction of a $125.5 million embassy compound and upgraded the security and economic ties between the Mediterranean and the U.S. In the face of violence in the Libyan uprisings, the ambassador successfully organized a rescue of the staff of U.S. embassy in Tripoli and hundreds of other foreign nationals from Libya with a catamaran. Ambassador Kmiec had previously served as head of the Office of Legal Counsel (U.S. assistant attorney general) for presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. A Fulbright Scholar (Asia), White House Fellow, and honorary degree recipient, the Ambassador is a graduate of Northwestern and USC. He taught at Notre Dame for near 20 years and was Dean of The Catholic University of America.

keynote Speaker

Akhil Reed AmarSterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School. He received his B.A, summa cum laude, in 1980 from Yale College, and his JD in 1984 from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of The Yale

Law Journal. After clerking for Judge Stephen Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, Professor Amar joined the Yale faculty in 1985. Along with dean Paul Brest and Professors Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, and Reva Siegel, professor Amar is the coeditor of a leading constitutional law casebook, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking. He is also the author of several books, including The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles (Yale Univ. Press, 1997), The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (Yale Univ. Press, 1998), America’s Constitution: A Biography (Random House, 2005), and most recently, America’s Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By (Basic Books, 2012).

Location and ActivitiesThe Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute will be held at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. The weather in March is typically sunny and pleasant, in the mid-70s during the day and the 50s at night. The campus is approximately 45 minutes up the coast from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The program will begin on Thursday, March 14, at 8 a.m. On Friday, the program will run from approximately 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dress for the program is business casual.

Tuition and Room-and-BoardThe tuition for the program is $95. MCLE credit is available, including one hour of ethics and one hour of professional responsibility credit. We will provide breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday at no additional cost. We have arranged housing for a limited number of clerks at the Sheraton Delfina, Santa Monica, 20 minutes from the campus. The hotel is within walking distance of the beach, the Santa Monica Pier, and the Third Street Promenade, with its outdoor cafes, unique shops, and street entertainers. A shuttle will operate between the Sheraton Delfina and institute events. We will pair you with a roommate, unless you identify a roommate on your registration form. Total cost per person for a shared room for three nights (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) is $275. Very limited public transportation is available in Los Angeles, thus students who want to be independent during their stay should rent a car. Shuttle service (SuperShuttle, 800.258.3826 or Prime Time Shuttle, 800.733.8267) between LAX and the hotel costs approximately $45 each way.

If you have questions concerning registration, travel, or housing, contact:Margaret Barfield at 310.506.4653, or margaret.barfield@pepperdine.edu

I am honored to have this opportunity to serve as dean at Pepperdine, the host of the prestigious Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship Institute. Judge Byrne was a personal friend of mine and a highly respected colleague in the federal judiciary. He was a model of judicial excellence, integrity, and public service. As the work of the judiciary continues to become ever more complex and demanding, the training of lawyers to serve as efficient and effective law clerks to federal judges is critical. The goal of this institute is to equip law clerks to make significant and valuable contributions to the judges for whom they work and the judiciary as a whole. I am especially pleased that we are partnering with the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Federal Judicial Center in this endeavor. The Federal Judicial Center is known throughout the nation as an outstanding provider of judicial and judicial staff education. I look forward to welcoming this year’s participants to what promises to be an excellent conference. — Deanell Reece Tacha

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RegistrationAny law student or law graduate who has been selected for or has entered a clerkship with a federal magistrate, district, or appellate court judge is eligible to attend. Bankruptcy law clerks are eligible to attend an additional program track designed by the American Bankruptcy Institute. Career clerks are eligible to attend through a program sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center. Unfortunately, because of space limitations we cannot accept all applicants, so apply early. The deadline for application and fees is February 8, 2013. Because we respect the desire that some judges may have to personally supervise all of the training of their clerks, all clerks must receive the permission of their judges before participating in the program. The registration form has a place for clerks to indicate that they have received such permission. For updated information and pictures of previous programs, visit our website at law.pepperdine.edu.

FundingFunding for the Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute currently comes from registration fees and the Pepperdine University School of Law general expense budget.

New Clerks: Limited travel scholarships are available through the generosity of Judge Byrne’s friends and former law clerks. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship to help with travel expenses, please complete the form available at law.pepperdine.edu/jci and submit it with your registration.

Bankruptcy Judicial Clerks: The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) will support the attendance of a limited number of bankruptcy clerks. Contact Sam Gerdano at ABI by calling 703.739.0800 or e-mailing sgerdano@abiworld.org.

Career Law Clerks: The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) will support the attendance of a limited number of career law clerks. Contact Brenda Baldwin-White, senior judicial education attorney at FJC by calling 202.502.4112 or e-mailing bbaldwin-white@fjc.gov.

Register online at law.pepperdine.edu/jci or return the registration form to:Margaret E. Barfield, ManagerWm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., Judicial Clerkship InstitutePepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, CA 90263Fax: 310.506.4266 • Phone: 310.506.4653 • margaret.barfield@pepperdine.edu