Benjamin Heineman Senior Distinguished Practitioner Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Mr. Heineman is a distinguished senior fellow of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School and senior fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (1967 - graduate degree/political science), and holds a law degree from Yale Law School (1971), where he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.  After graduation, he clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Heineman practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.  He was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation.  In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs.

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Swethaa Ballakrishnen Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Swethaa Ballakrishnen was an Inlaks Scholar to the Harvard LL.M class’08 and a ’04 graduate of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (where she won the Amancharla Krishna Murti Memorial Gold Medal for the best student of her graduating batch). In 2008, she joined PLP and EALS as a Joint Research Fellow with a South Asia specific research agenda.

Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Ballakrishnen was an international finance lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., an intern at the Supreme Court of India with Justice A. Pasayat and spent a year teaching international finance and legal methods at two national law schools in Hyderabad and Bhopal, India.

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Michele D. Beardslee Research Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession Climenko Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Michele Beardslee received her JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2002.  After graduating from law school, she clerked for Chief Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts and then worked for one year as a Special Master on a patent law case.  Prior to law school, Ms. Beardslee was a Senior Marketing Manager at Levi Strauss & Company (1995-1998) and an Account Executive at Leo Burnett Advertising Company (1991-1995). 

After serving for several years as the Associate Research Director of the Program, Ms. Beardslee recently accepted a Climenko teaching fellowship at Harvard Law School, where she is a Lecturer on Law.  She will remain with the Program as a Research Fellow in order to continue her research on the intersection of public relations and high stakes litigation.

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Young-Kyu Kim Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Young-Kyu Kim received his PhD from the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business in 2008. During his doctoral work, Young-Kyu examined the issue of social status and organizational identity in various empirical settings, such as the venture capital industry and legal/financial advisory services in the mergers and acquisitions markets. His current research involves the application of his theoretical work to the law firm context. During his fellowship, he will work on the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, investigate the role of social networks in lawyers’ career mobility, and explore the issue of social status in the legal service industry.

Prior to his doctoral study, Young-Kyu studied information system management at Carnegie Mellon University and worked for the Korea Information Society Development Institute, where he actively participated in various legislative reform projects in the telecommunication and postal sectors in Korea. His recent publication, Why Pseudonyms? Deception as Identity Preservation among Jazz Record Companies, 1920 – 1929 (with Professor Damon J. Phillips at the University of Chicago) is forthcoming in Organization Science           

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Gabriele Plickert Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Gabriele Plickert is a Research Fellow with the Program and a Research Social Scientist at the American Bar Foundation (ABF). She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Gabriele’s current scholarship focuses on the career trajectories of legal professionals. Her academic training and research on life course trajectories include micro- (i.e., work-life balance, mental and physical health) and macro- (i.e., political economy, organizations) level changes.

During her residence as a Research Fellow, Gabriele is serving as principal investigator (with David Wilkins) on the HLS Career Study which surveys the professional lives of members of selected classes between 1960 and 2000. The study examines legal careers at various life stages, and investigates how personal and professional patterns vary for women and men. At the ABF, Gabriele is a co-principal investigator (with John Hagan and Patricia Parker) on a comparative study of early post-law school careers in U.S. and German cities. This comparative research seeks to mark out a parallel international track of joint study that will expand our understanding of lawyer’s lives in an era of globalized social and economic relations.

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Galit A. Sarfaty Research Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Galit A. Sarfaty is a Research Fellow at the Center.  She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College.  She is completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and plans to defend this fall.  Ms. Sarfaty expands the focus of the Center’s work by bringing an international and human rights dimension to its research agenda.  Her scholarship offers an anthropological perspective to the study of international law and institutions.  It uses ethnographic methods to understand the internal dynamics of organizations, the role of lawyers within them, and the diffusion of human rights norms.  Her writing is informed by her work experience in a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

During her tenure as a Research Fellow, Ms. Sarfaty will be writing up her dissertation research on human rights and the organizational culture of the World Bank, based on fieldwork conducted at the institution over a four year period.  She is also beginning a new project that empirically studies the incorporation of human rights norms into business decision-making.  These research projects fit within the Program’s goals of examining the global transformation of the legal profession and the ethical problems confronting it.

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C. Scott Hemphill was a graduate Research Fellow with the Program on the Legal profession from 2004-06.  He now is an Associate Professor at Columbia Law School, where his teaching and research interests include antitrust and the regulation of industry, intellectual property, the economic structure of legal practice, and statutory interpretation.