Mark B. Feldman, Adjunct Professor Georgetown Law; Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser, Department of State (1974-1981). Mark B. Feldman has had a long career in private practice and teaches foreign relations law at Georgetown Law. As Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser at the State Department, he played a significant role in drafting important statutes and agreements, including the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Iran Claims Agreement, and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property. He also negotiated U.S. maritime boundaries and issued the first State Department suggestion of immunity for the official acts of foreign officials. Mr. Feldman was deeply involved in the foreign payments crisis resulting from SEC investigations in the 1970s and knew Stan Sporkin well in those challenging days. In private practice, Mr. Feldman established the treaty exception to the federal act of state doctrine in the Kalamazoo Spice cases, advised Disney on arbitration procedures for its Park near Paris, and argued for the United States in the Gulf of Maine case at the ICJ. His work, publications and Congressional testimony are described at www.markfeldmaninternationallaw.com Eugene Goldman, Senior Counsel, McDermott, Will & Emery; SEC Senior Counsel, Division of Enforcement 1977 – 1983; first law clerk to Judge Sporkin. Eugene represents domestic and international clients in FCPA, financial fraud, false disclosure and other securities enforcement proceedings. See US v. DeGennaro, 419 F. 3d 134 (2d Cir. 2007). He is a senior member of MWE’s White-Collar and Securities Defense Practice Group, having spent 25 years as a partner.
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Mark B. Feldman, Adjunct Professor Georgetown Law; Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser, Department of State (1974-1981).
Mark B. Feldman has had a long career in private practice and teaches foreign relations law at Georgetown Law. As Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser at the State Department, he played a significant role in drafting important statutes and agreements, including the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Iran Claims Agreement, and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property. He also negotiated U.S. maritime boundaries and issued the first State Department suggestion of immunity for the official acts of foreign officials. Mr. Feldman was deeply involved in the foreign payments crisis resulting from SEC investigations in the 1970s and knew Stan Sporkin well in those challenging days.
In private practice, Mr. Feldman established the treaty exception to the federal act of state doctrine in the Kalamazoo Spice cases, advised Disney on arbitration procedures for its Park near Paris, and argued for the United States in the Gulf of Maine case at the ICJ. His work, publications and Congressional testimony are described at www.markfeldmaninternationallaw.com
Eugene Goldman, Senior Counsel, McDermott, Will & Emery; SEC Senior Counsel, Division of Enforcement 1977 – 1983; first law clerk to Judge Sporkin.
Eugene represents domestic and international clients in FCPA, financial fraud, false disclosure and other securities enforcement proceedings. See US v. DeGennaro, 419 F. 3d 134 (2d Cir. 2007). He is a senior member of MWE’s White-Collar and Securities Defense Practice Group, having spent 25 years as a partner.
Eugene served as senior counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, and worked on prosecutions in a variety of areas, including the foreign payments case against Textron. Upon Eugene’s departure from the SEC, Commissioner John Evans wrote: “I want to commend you formally for the superb work you have accomplished here. The cases you have participated in are known nationally and internationally. I realize you have not served at the Commission to receive such notoriety. Rather, you desire the more worthy goal of assisting in the prevention of fraud . . . in our securities markets.”
Eugene has testified before the Senate Banking Securities Subcommittee on securities law issues. Years after working for Stanley Sporkin at the SEC, Eugene was privileged to serve as his first law clerk in 1986.
James W. Zirkle, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown and American University; Associate General Counsel CIA 1985-2009.
From 1983 to 1985 was special assistant to the Central Intelligence Agency’s General Counsel Stanley Sporkin. From 1985 until his retirement in 2009 was an Associate General Counsel. Over his CIA career he worked primarily in the areas of space systems, counterintelligence and security. Among his assignments were senior counsel at the National Reconnaissance Office and senior counsel to the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center and Office of Security. His last assignment was as the CIA’s Officer- in-Residence at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Since 1988 he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the American University’s Washington College of Law. He teaches in the area of intelligence and national security law.
Before joining the CIA he was an associate dean of the Yale Law School from 1977 to 1983. He has also been a member of the law faculties at the University of Mississippi and the College of William & Mary, where he was executive director of the Bill of Rights Institute.
Prior to law school he served on active duty from 1964 to 1969 as a line officer in the Navy. B.S. Cason-Newman College J.D. University of Tennessee LL.M. Yale Law School
Theodore B. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; United States Solicitor General 2001-04, Ass’t A.G. Office Legal Counsel 1981-84.
Theodore B. Olson is a Partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, DC office and a founder of the firm’s Crisis Management, Sports Law, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. He served as Solicitor General of the United States from 2001-2004 and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel for the US Department of Justice from 1981-1984. He has made sixty-five Supreme Court arguments, including; the 2000 presidential election (Bush v Gore); campaign finance (McConnell v FCC and Citizens United); same-sex marriage (Hollingsworth v Perry) and the legality of a presidential rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). He is a two-time recipient of the Department of Justice’s Edmund J. Randolph Award, and has received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and American Bar Association Medal. Mr. Olson knew and worked with Judge Sporkin while the Judge was General Counsel of the CIA and Mr. Olson was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, and appeared before Judge Sporkin during his tenure on the District Court, and was and remained social friends with Judge Sporkin from 1981 for decades.
