Distinguished Speaker Series: 2001-2002

Thomas B. (Tim) Leary
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
 
Commissioner Leary was sworn in on November 17, 1999, and his term on the five member Commission expires in 2005.
Prior to his service on the FTC, Commissioner Leary was a partner at Hogan & Hartson, in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on antitrust and trade regulation. Leary also held the position of Assistant General Counsel of General Moters, with overall responsibility for antitrust, consumer protection and commercial law matters. Prior to his work at General Moters he was a partner at White & Case in New York and served as an Air Intelligence Officer on active duty in the United States Navy from 1952-1955. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University. While earning his law degree from Harvard he was an editor and an officer of the Harvard Law Review. 

John T. (Jack) Boese
Partner, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson

Boese is nationally recognized expert in the Civil False Claims Act and qui tam actions. His book, Civil False Claims and Qui Tam Actions, is the leading treatise on the subject. 
Currently Boese is co-chair of the litigation department in Fried Frank’s Washington, D.C. office. He concentrates his practice on civil, criminal, debarment and exclusion cases arising from federal fraud investigations and the development of corporate compliance programs. He is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Circuits; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to joining Fried Frank in 1977, Boese was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1972. 

Arti K. Rai
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Rai specializes in health care regulation and law and biotechnology. She also teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, biotechnology and the law, and health care regulation. Prior to obtaining her position at the University of Pennsylvania, she practiced in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner and Block and was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice focusing on health law. She was also the MacLean Fellow at the University of Chicago Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Professor Rai currently serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Law and Medicine and was a consultant on Quill v. Vacco, the U.S. Supreme Court physician-assisted suicide case. Prior to attending law school at Harvard, she attended Harvard Medical School in the public health program. 

Susan M. Wolf
Faegre & Benson Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

Professor Wolf is an expert in the area of bioethics. She has authored and edited numerous publications relating to bioethics and life-sustaining treatments and currently teaches in the area of health law and bioethics. Professor Wolf is director of the university's Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences, the chair of the university’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and a faculty member in the university’s Center for Bioethics. She previously held positions as a Fellow at Harvard University in the Program in Ethics and the Professions and was a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the Hastings Center in New York. She is a graduate of Yale Law School. 

Michael Jacobs
Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law

Professor Jacobs is an internationally recognized expert in competition law, having published widely in the area and having consulted with the antitrust authorities of Australia and Italy. He continues to consult with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on various matters pertaining to health care and competition law. Professor Jacobs also teaches Antitrust, Contracts and courses in the Health Law Curriculum and is a co-author of a health law textbook, The Law and American Health Care and numerous other publications in the field. During the 1999-2000 academic year he held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Antitrust Law at Naples University. Jacobs earned his law degree from Yale Law School and a master’s of public health from John Hopkins.

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