U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement
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Solicitor General Paul Clement will teach at Georgetown University Law Center
May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, who recently announced his resignation, will join Georgetown University Law Center in June as a visiting professor and senior fellow at the law school's Supreme Court Institute.
Clement is no stranger to the school and its faculy; from 1998 to 2004, he taught a seminar on the separation of powers as an adjunct professor.
"Paul Clement is a supremely talented advocate and one of the nation's brightest legal minds," said Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff. "We look forward to welcoming him back to the Law Center."
Clement became the 43rd Solicitor General of the United States in 2005. A native of Cedarburg, Wis., he received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review.
After law school, Clement clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then went on to serve as an associate in the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis; as chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights, and as a partner in the Washington office of King & Spalding, where he headed the firm's appellate practice.
Clement joined the Department of Justice in 2001. Prior to his confirmation as solicitor general, he served as acting solicitor general for nearly a year and as principal deputy solicitor general. He has argued 49 cases before the Supreme Court.
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