The 2005 Citation Award Dinner is Sold Out.
The Boalt Hall Alumni Association has the great pleasure of honoring two exceptional members of our Boalt community at the law school's annual Citation Award Dinner. David Andrews will be recognized with our prestigious Citation Award and Jesse Choper will be honored with the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award.
Please mark your calendar—the gala event will be held Friday, May 6, at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, with cocktails at 6:30 pm followed by dinner at 7:30 pm.
If you have any questions please contact the Alumni Center at 510-642-2591.
In 1975, he was the regional counsel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco. He served in the Carter administration as legal counsel and special assistant for policy for the EPA from 1977 to 1980 and was the deputy general counsel and acting general counsel to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services until 1981. Returning to McCutchen, he founded the firm’s environmental, natural resources and land-use practice and served as the firm’s chairman from 1991 to 1995. From 1997 to 2000, he was the legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, where his assignments included negotiating the agreement to bring to trial the Libyan suspects in the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland as well as serving as the chief U.S. negotiator with China concerning compensation for the Chinese embassy bombing in Belgrade in 1999. Returning to McCutchen in 2000, Andrews was appointed to serve on the corporate boards of PG&E, Kaiser Permanente, Union Bank of California and NetCel 360 Holdings Limited. At the request of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, he assumed the position in spring 2000 of special negotiator and ambassador for the Iran/U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Andrews was the first African American to serve as the top legal adviser to the State Department and to be the chairman of a major American law firm. In 1974, he was a visiting fellow and professor of law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. |
From 1979 to 1998, Choper was one of the three major lecturers at U.S. Law Week's Annual Constitutional Law Conference in Washington, D.C. He has delivered 20 titled lectures at major universities throughout the country, including the Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan Law School, the Stevens Lecture at Cornell Law School, the Baum Lecture at the University of Illinois College of Law, and the Lockhart Lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School. He has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a vice president on the executive council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a national president of the Order of the Coif and is a member of the American Law Institute. In 1998, he received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Choper's major publications include the books, Judicial Review and the National Political Process: A Functional Reconsideration of the Role of the Supreme Court, which received the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award in 1982, and Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses. His recent publications include the ninth edition of his Constitutional Law casebooks; the sixth edition of his Corporations casebook; the second edition of The Supreme Court and Its Justices; “The Endorsement Test: Its Status and Desirability” in the Virginia Journal of Law and Politics (2002); and “Taming Congress's Power Under the Commerce Clause: What Does the Near Future Portend?” in the Arkansas Law Review (2002). |
List of past Award Recipients |
David Andrews ’71 has served as legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State, as general counsel to PepsiCo and is regarded as one the nation's top environmental lawyers. In February 2005, he will retire as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at PepsiCo in Purchase, New York. Prior to accepting this position in 2002, he was a partner with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco, where he started his legal career in 1971 after graduating from Boalt Hall.
Jesse Choper served as law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren '14 of the U.S. Supreme Court following graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1960. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1960, and at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1961 to 1965. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1965. An expert in constitutional law and corporation law, Choper has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Fordham Law School, and served as Boalt Hall's dean from 1982 to 1992.