Admitted
1989, California; 1991, District of Columbia; 1993, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits
Law School
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1989
Law School Graduation Year
1989
College
Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1983; Harvard University, M.P.P., 1986
Memberships
Bar Association of San Francisco; Federal and American Bar Associations; American Inns of Court; American Society of International Law; Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights; Legal Aid Society.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, 1987-1989 and Editor-in-Chief, 1988-1989, California Law Review. Recipient: First Amendment Attorney of the Year, Society of Professional Journalists (1998); ACLU Pro Bono Civil Rights Advocates Award (1999); Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Sproul Award (2001). Author: J. Bleich & E. Wolff, Executive Privilege and Immunity: The Questionable Role of the Independent Counsel and the Courts , — St. John's J. Legal Comment. (1999); A New Direction for the Permanent Court of Arbitration, 5 Leiden J. Int.L. (1993); Mikva & Bleich, When Congress Overrules the Court, 79 Calif. L. Rev. 729 (1991); Comment, The Politics of Prison Crowding, 77 Calif. L. Rev. 1125 (1989); Comment, Chrome on the Range: Off-Road Vehicles on Public Lands, 15 Ecol. L.Q. 159 (1988); M. Moore & J. Bleich, 1 From Children to Citizens, Springer-Verlag: New York (1987). Law Clerk to: Hon. Abner J. Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1989-1990; Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court, 1990-1991; Hon. Howard M. Holtzmann, U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal, The Hague, 1991-1992. President, Bar Association of San Francisco (2003); Chair, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (1999-2000); President-Elect, Bar Association of San Francisco; President, Barristers Club of San Francisco (1995); National Council, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. American Bar Association, Litigation Section Liaison, Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law and State Constitutional Law Committee. Board Member, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco.