Renee Lettow Lerner

• Does Not Currently Practice Law

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 1997

Virginia

Virginia State Bar

Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

2017 - Current

Professor of Law

The George Washington University Law School

2014 - 2017

Associate Professor of Law

The George Washington University Law School

1997 - 2014

(on leave of absence 2003-2005)

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel

2003 - 2005

Law Clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

U.S. Supreme Court

1996 - 1997

Law Clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

1995 - 1996

Yale Law School

J.D. (1995)

Honors: Joseph Parker Prize (best paper on legal history or Roman law), 1995 Judge William E. Miller Prize (best paper on the Bill of Rights), 1994

Activities: Yale Law Journal, Articles Editor, 1994-95; Yale Journal on Regulation, Submissions Editor, 1993-94; Lead Editor, 1993

Magdalen College, Oxford University

M. Litt. (1993) | Modern History

Honors: Rhodes Scholar

Princeton University

A.B. (1990) | History

Honors: summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Class of 1883 English Prize, 1987; William Koren, Jr. Memorial Prize in History, 1989; Walter Phelps Hall Prize in European History (hon. men.), 1990

Virginia State Bar

Member

Current

D.C.-Area Legal History Roundtable

Founder and organizer

2006 - Current

District of Columbia Bar

Member

1997 - Current

Cromwell Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History

Member

2009 - 2012

Board of Trustees, The Potomac School, McLean, VA

Member

2001 - 2007

Rhodes Scholar Selection Committee of Virginia

Secretary

2002 - 2004