Naomi Mezey - Georgetown Law



Naomi Jewel Mezey

600 New Jersey Ave. N.W. 3821 Cathedral Ave. N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20001 Washington, D.C. 20016

(202) 662-9854 (202) 536-4132

mezeyn@law.georgetown.edu

Employment

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. October 1997-present

Professor of Law. Teaching fields include Civil Procedure, Legislation, Nationalism & Cultural Identity, Legal Process, Jurisprudence and Law & Culture.

The Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, San Francisco, CA 1995-1997

Law Clerk. United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA Summer 1994

Summer Associate. Assisted with discovery in Title VI litigation. Prepared legal memoranda in a case challenging the use of police dogs and other civil rights cases.

Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, CA Summer 1994

Summer Associate. Drafted motions and jury instructions. Prepared memoranda on counterfeiting, forfeiture, and other criminal issues.

American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York Summer 1993

Summer Law Clerk. Reproductive Rights Project. Produced legal memoranda and drafted affidavits for challenges to restrictive state abortion regulations.

Senator Alan Cranston, Washington, D.C. 1988-1990

Legislative Aide for Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. Wrote floor statements, testimony, briefing memos. Monitored the Senate floor and advised the Senator on pending votes. Made co-sponsorship recommendations. Met with constituents and lobbyists. Drafted position statements on host of issues, including off-shore drilling, forest management, national parks, wildlife protection, organic labeling.

New York Times, Madrid Bureau, Spain 1987-1988

News Aide. Conducted research and interviews. Translated articles from the Spanish press.

Admitted to Practice

California

District of Columbia

Education & Academic Honors

Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA J.D. 1995

Graduated with Distinction

Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review

Recipient of Public Interest Tuition Fellowship

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN M.A. 1992

Awarded Masters Degree in American Studies with Distinction

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT B.A. 1987

Graduated with High Honors from the College of Letters

Juan Roura-Parella Book Prize (awarded for academic achievement)

Phi Beta Kappa

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Madrid, Spain 1987-1988

Awarded for research and work on a fictional play set against the Spanish Civil War

Publications

Legal Radicals in Madonna=s Closet: The Influence of Identity Politics, Popular Culture, and a New Generation on Critical Legal Studies, 46 Stan. L. Rev. 1835 (1994)

Dismantling the Wall: Bisexuality and the Possibilities of Sexual Identity Classification Based on Acts, 10 Berkeley Women=s L.J. 98 (1995)

The Distribution of Wealth, Sovereignty, and Culture Through Indian Gaming, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 711 (1996)

Excerpted or reprinted in:

When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy L Brooks ed. 1999)

Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Future of the Indigenous Nations (Robert Odawi Porter ed. 2004)

Out of the Ordinary: Law, Power, Culture and the Commonplace, 26 Law & Soc. Inquiry 145 (2001)

Law as Culture, 13 Yale J. of Law & Human. 35 (2001)

Excerpted or reprinted in:

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (Austin Sarat & Jonathan Simon eds. 2003)

Race, Gender, and Sports (Michael J. Cozzillio & Robert L. Hayman, Jr. eds. 2004)

Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination, 97 Northwestern U. L. Rev. 1701 (2003)

Selected for the 2002 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum

Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture (with Mark C. Niles), 28 Colum. J.L. & Arts 91 (2005)

Reprinted in Entertainment, Publishing, and the Arts 2006-2007 (West 2006)

Latinos and the U.S. Census, in Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society (Grolier Press 2006)

Law’s Visual Afterlife (forthcoming in Law & Film: Essays on the State of the Field)

The Paradox of Cultural Property (forthcoming in Columbia L. Rev. 2007)

Law Making: Statutory and Regulatory Interpretation (casebook in progress)

Professional Affiliations

Co-Founder, Columbia, Georgetown, UCLA & USC Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop. The Workshop is a juried paper competition for original work by untenured faculty or advanced graduate students working in law and humanities.

Treasurer, Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities 2004-2007

Chair, Law & Anthropology Section, AALS 2007

Advisory Board, International Journal of Law in Context

Selected Papers & Conference Participation

Panel Chair & Commentator, Rethinking What Law Has to Say to Literature and What Literature Has to Say to Law, Working Group on Law, Culture and the Humanities (Washington D.C., March 1998)

Invited Roundtable Participant, Legal Studies as Cultural Studies, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (Aspen, CO, June 1998)

Paper presentation, Imagining the Nation: Racial Identity and the U.S. Census, Working Group on Law, Culture and the Humanities (Washington, D.C., March 2000)

Invited paper presentation, What We Talk About When We Talk About Culture, Cultural Studies and the Law Symposium (New Haven, CT, April 2000)

Paper Presentation, What We Talk About When We Talk About Culture, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (Miami Beach, FL, May 2000)

Invited paper presentation, The Census as National Imagination: The Chinese Category in Historical Perspective, Levy Institute Conference on Multiraciality: How Will the New Census Data Be Used? (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, September 2000)

Paper presentation, The Politics of Enumeration, Retribution and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Austin, TX, March 2001)

Invited paper presentation, The Politics of Enumeration, Retribution and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination, University of Minnesota Law School Faculty Workshop (October 2001)

Invited paper presentation, Erasure and Recognition: The Census, Race and the National Imagination, 2002 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (New Haven, CT, June 2002)

Paper presentation, A Fervent and a Frightened Prayer: The Relationship Between Law and Justice in American Popular Culture, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (New York, NY, March 2003)

Invited paper presentation, Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture, University of Virginia Law School Faculty Workshop (Nov. 1, 2004)

Panel Commentator, Citizens and Subjects, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Austin, TX, March 2005)

Panel Commentator, Dilemmas of Performing Legal Subjectivity, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Austin, TX, March 2005)

Panel Commentator, Genocide and Law, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Austin, TX, March 2005)

Paper presentation, Cultural property/Cultural Fusion, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Syracuse, NY, March 2006)

Roundtable participant, Mercy on Trial, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (Syracuse, NY, March 2006)

Invited Panelist, The Ethical Underpinnings and Racial Politics of Immigration Reform, University of Virginia Conference on Public Service & the Law (Feb. 17, 2007)

Invited paper presentation, The Paradox of Cultural Property, University of Colorado Faculty Workshop (March 16, 2007)

Invited paper presentation, The Paradox of Cultural Property, University of Southern California Law, History & Culture Workshop (March 19, 2007)

Community Service

ABA Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History Project (2005-present)

Guardian Ad Litem for four children in the custody of Washington D.C.’s Children and Family Services Agency (April 2003-Nov. 2006)

Board of Directors, Midpeninsula Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (1994-1995)

Founder & Chair, Stanford Law School’s First Annual Public Interest Auction (1993)

Volunteer, Barbara Boxer for U.S. Senate (1992)

Volunteer, Project Northstar, providing tutoring to homeless children in Washington D.C. (1988-1990)

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