October 30, 2008 | 1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
AAAS Auditorium
Entrance at 12th and H St., NW
Washington, DC
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Judge John M. Facciola is a United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District ofColumbia. Prior to his appointment in 1997, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Appellate and Civil Sections, and then as Chief, Special Proceedings, for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District ofColumbia. He was responsible for civil and criminal litigation with particular responsibility for habeas corpus, pro se prisoner and mental health issues. From 1973-1982, Judge Facciola worked for the private firm Wilkinson, Cragun and Barker, with a focus on Native American land claims and water rights litigation. He also practiced law as an Assistant District Attorney in New York County, with a responsibility for organized crime and narcotic cases. From 1982-2006, he served as an Adjunct Professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, teaching a course in Trial Advocacy and Practice. He wrote the foreword to the book, Foundations of Digital Evidence (2008). He received his A.B. in history honors cum laude at the College of the Holy Cross, and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a member of the Board of Editors for the Georgetown Law Journal. He is currently a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Master of the William B. Bryant Inn of Court, and the CircuitDirector of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. He has served as the President of the William B. Bryant Inn of Court, the Indigent Civil LitigationFund, and the John Carroll Society. Additionally, he has served as the Editor in Chief of the Federal Courts LawReview, the electronic law journal of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association.
Dr. Stephen J. Morse is Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Law School & School of Medicine. He is an expert in criminal and mental health law, whose work emphasizes individual responsibility and the relation of the behavioral and neurosciences to responsibility and social control. Professor Morse is currently Legal Coordinator of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project and he co-directs the Project’s Research Network on Criminal Responsibility and Prediction. He is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology; a past president of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (the American Psychology-Law Society), a recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology’s Distinguished Contribution Award, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and Law (1988-1996); a founding director of the Neuroethics Society, and a trustee of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. (1995-present). Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 1988, Morse was the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California. Dr. Morse is currently working on a book, Desert and Disease: Responsibility and Social Control. He received his A.B. from Tufts University (1966), and both a J.D. (1970) and a Ph.D. (1973) in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University.
Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein is a U. S. District Judge for the Western District of Washington and was appointed Director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., by the Board of the Center, chaired by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. She was chief judge of the Western District of Washington from 1987-1994. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and attended Harvard Law School. Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she served as a King County Superior Court judge. Before that she practiced law with a private firm in Boston, Massachusetts, and with the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division of the State of Washington’s Attorney General’s office. Judge Rothstein taught trial practice at the University of Washington Law School. She is currently on the Board of the Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University Law School and on the Board of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association. She also serves as member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Science, Technology and Law. She is a Commissioner on the American Judicature Society’s Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy as well as a member of the Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy Justice Education Advisory Committee. She has also served on the Board ofEINSHAC, an educational affiliate of the Human Genome Project dedicated to instructing judges on scientific issues connected with the role of genetics in litigation. She is a member of the National Historical Publications and Record Commission; the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Judicial Advisory Board; the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ District 4); the Rule of Law Initiative (ABA); and the Advisory Committee for Georgetown University Law Center "Our Courts" project.
Jody R. Westby is CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC. Ms. Westby provides consulting and legal services to public and private sector clients around the world in the areas of privacy, security, cybercrime, e-discovery, and outsourcing risk management. She also serves as Adjunct Distinguished Fellow for Carnegie Mellon CyLab. Prior to forming Global Cyber Risk, Ms. Westby served as senior managing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers, specializing in outsourcing and cyber security/privacy issues. Before that, she was president of The Work-IT Group; launched In-Q-Tel, an IT venture capital/solutions company for the CIA; served as director of domestic policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and was senior fellow and director of IT studies for the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Ms. Westby is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado and serves as chair of the American Bar Association’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee. She is a member of the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint committee with AAAS. She is also a member of the United Nation’s High Level Experts Group on Cyber Security. Ms. Westby is co-author and editor of four books on privacy, security, cybercrime, and enterprise security programs. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, University of Tulsa; J.D., magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center; Order of the Coif.
Major Catherine M. With is the Legal Counsel at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). Major With has written and presented on health law topics related to biomedical ethics, patient safety, genetics and the law, biospecimens, scientific evidence, and complementary and alternative medicine. Previously, she has served as Acting General Counsel and the Deputy General Counsel at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, and the Senior Litigation Attorney of the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency, specializing in medical malpractice defense litigation. Prior to arriving at AFIP in 2006, Major With received a L.L.M., With Highest Honors in Health Care Law from The George Washington University Law School. She received a L.L.M. in Military Law from The Judge Advocate General's School, Army, a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University, an M.A. in History/Political Science and a B.A., summa cum laude, in History/Political Science and Religious Studies from the College of Saint Rose. Major With has been honored with the Order of Military Medical Merit. Among her many assignments in the military are Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Special Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Southern Command, Republic of Panama.
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