The Hoover Institution has established a new two-week visiting program, the Campbell Visiting Fellows. The goal of the program is to bring a set of researchers as visitors who are all focused on research in one general topic area to be present at Hoover during a single two week period, exchanging ideas, interacting with each other, working collaboratively if they wish, and also interacting with other scholars in their field at Hoover at Stanford more broadly.
January 2023 | Class on Law
Convened by Jack Goldsmith, Senior Fellow
Aditya Bamzai
Aditya Bamzai is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He teaches administrative law, advanced administrative law, civil procedure, computer crime, and conflicts of law, and he has written about these and related subjects. Before entering the academy, Bamzai was an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice and an appellate attorney both in private practice and for the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. He has argued cases relating to the separation of powers and national security before the US Supreme Court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, the DC Circuit, and other federal courts of appeals. Earlier in his career, he was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court and to Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale University and of the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the editor in chief of the law review.
Katherine Mims Crocker
Katherine Mims Crocker joined the faculty of William & Mary Law School in 2019. Her scholarship concentrates on federal courts, civil rights litigation, and structural constitutional law. She has published work in the Duke Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among other journals. Professor Crocker was previously an Olin-Smith Fellow and postdoctoral associate at Duke Law School. She also practiced at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where she focused on appellate litigation. She clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an articles development editor on the Virginia Law Review, and she earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
Sherif Girgis
Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. His work at the intersection of philosophy and law—including criminal law, constitutional liberties, and jurisprudence—has appeared in academic and popular venues including the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Law, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is coauthor of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, cited in a dissent in United States v. Windsor, and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, released by Oxford University Press.
A former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito Jr. of the US Supreme Court and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, and associate in appellate litigation at Jones Day in Washington, DC, Girgis earned his JD at Yale Law School, a master’s degree (BPhil) in philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Princeton, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. He is now completing his PhD in philosophy at Princeton University.
Jennifer L. Mascott
Jennifer Mascott is an assistant professor of law and co–executive director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University. Professor Mascott writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, the separation of powers, and federal courts. Her scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court and published in the Stanford Law Review, among other publications. Professor Mascott previously served as associate deputy attorney general in the US Justice Department and as deputy assistant attorney general within the department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Currently she serves as a vice chair of the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section’s Committee on Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers, and she was recently reappointed to serve as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. She is a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and clerked for Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his first year of service on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Professor Mascott graduated summa cum laude from the George Washington University Law School, where she earned the highest cumulative graduating grade point average on record at the law school. Prior to attending law school, she held several positions in the US Senate and US House of Representatives, including as press secretary to former members of Congress Eric Cantor and Anne Northup.
Tyler S. Moore
Tyler Moore is an assistant professor at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law, jurisprudence, and agricultural law. His research focuses on theories of legal interpretation, the creation of the federal judiciary, and the Anti-Federalists. Before joining the academy, Moore practiced as a litigation associate at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP and clerked for the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the US District Court for the District of Nebraska. He earned his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his PhD from the University of Notre Dame.
