Georgetown’s Gornstein to return to the Office of the Solicitor General
on Jul 8, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Irv Gornstein, the executive director of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute, will join the Office of the Solicitor General, where he will serve as Counselor to the Solicitor General. Acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn announced the news in a press release yesterday.
The move represents a return to the Solicitor General’s office for Gornstein, who served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General from 1994 until 2007. He then spent three years in the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers before going to Georgetown – where, among other things, he directs the institute’s moot court program, which provides advocates planning to argue at the Supreme Court with an opportunity to rehearse their arguments before a panel of lawyers and law professors familiar with the Court.
“Irv brings a wealth of experience, a deep knowledge of the Court and a well-deserved reputation for superb judgment,” Gershengorn said in a statement. “And, as a generation of oral advocates have learned, he is unparalleled as a moot court judge and is extraordinarily generous with his time and advice for advocates appearing before the Court.”
Gornstein will begin work at the Office of the Solicitor General on Monday, July 11. He plans to return to Georgetown in January 2017, when the next administration takes office. Dori Bernstein, the institute’s director, will assume Gornstein’s responsibilities until his return.
