Paul Clement to be Honored with Street Law's 2009 Chesterfield Smith Award
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On April 22, 2009, Street Law will present its Chesterfield Smith Award to the Honorable Paul D. Clement.
October 16, 2008
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Washington, DC
Street Law is proud to announce the recipient of its 2009 Chesterfield Smith Award: The Honorable Paul D. Clement. Mr. Clement was Solicitor General of the United States (2005–08) and is currently a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and senior fellow at their Supreme Court Institute.
As solicitor general, and now as Georgetown faculty, Mr. Clement and his staff regularly serve as resource people at Street Law’s Supreme Court Institutes and Seminars.
Mr. Clement received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was the Supreme Court editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Following graduation, Mr. Clement clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, he worked as an associate in the DC office of Kirkland & Ellis. Mr. Clement went on to serve as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights. Afterwards, he was a partner in the DC office of King & Spalding, where he headed the firm’s appellate practice. Mr. Clement also served from 1998 to 2004 as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught a seminar on the separation of powers.
Mr. Clement joined the Department of Justice in February of 2001. Before 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 United States Supreme Court, including McConnell v. FEC, Tennessee v. Lane, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, United States v. Booker and Gonzales v. Raich. (excerpted from www.usdoj.gov)
The Fifth Annual Awards Dinner will take place on April 22, 2009, at the Fairmont Washington, D.C.
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