Admitted: 1991, Maryland; 1993, District of Columbia, U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 1998, California; 2001, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School: Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1991
College: University of Rochester, B.A., History/Russian, cum laude, with High Distinction in History, 1976; University of Chicago (M.A., History, 1980; Ph.D., History, 1987)
Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association; State Bar of California; District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association; American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Biography: Author: "Federal 'Export Trading Company' Program Removes Many Anti-Trust Hurdles for American Exporters," Bulletin of the Eastern Baltimore Area Chamber of Commerce, October 1992; "The Absence of a Common Descent Myth for Russia," Russian History, 1988; "The Cult of Boris and Gleb," Russian Review, 1978. Attorney/Consultant, HIAS/Council Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000. Assistant District Counsel, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles, California, 1996-1999. Attorney, Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Attorney, 1992-1996 and Attorney-Advisor, Honors Program, 1991-1993, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington D.C. Attorney-Advisor, Office of the United States Trade Representative, 1992. Attorney-Advisor and Law Clerk, 1990 and 1991-1992, Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce.
Languages: Russian (spoken), German (spoken), Polish (read), French (read), Latin (read), Greek (read), Hebrew (read)
Agencies: U.S. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Department of State; U.S. Department of Labor; U.S. Department of Justice/Executive Office for Immigration Review (including Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals).
Cases: In re J-P, Board of Immigration Appeals Interim Decision No.3348; In the Matter of: Live Swine from Canada, NAFTA Secretariat No. USA-94-1904-01 (May 30, 1995), Department aff'd on remand (September 27, 1995); In the Matter of: Color Picture Tubes from Canada, NAFTA Secretariat No. USA-95-1904-03 (May 6, 1996); Saarstahl AG v. United States, 78 F.3d 1539 (Fed. Cir. 1996); Mitsubishi Electronic Industries (Canada) v. Brown, Secretary of Commerce, 917 F.Supp. 836 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1996); UCF America Inc. v. United States, 919 F.Supp. 435 (Ct. Int-l Trade 1996); National Steel Corporation et al. v. United States, 870 F.Supp. 1130 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1994), remanded, 913 F.Supp. 593 (1996), Department aff'd on reremand, 929 F.Supp. 1577 (1996); Manifattura Emmepi v. United States, 17 CIT 1033 (Ct. Int'l Trade 1993).