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Vol. 35, Number 8—August 2003 Fellows Selected for 2003-2004 Four Supreme Court Fellows have been selected for the 2003-2004 program. Linda Bishai, Scott Carlson, and Matthew Duchesne, and Steven Gensler, begin one-year appointments in September within the judicial branch, where they will have the opportunity to study firsthand both the administrative machinery of the federal judiciary and the dynamics of interbranch relations. The Supreme Court Fellows Program was founded by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1973 and is patterned after the White House and Congressional Fellowships. The Supreme Court Fellows Commission, a panel appointed by the Chief Justice, selects the Fellows. Linda Bishai will be the Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center. An Assistant Professor of International Relations at Towson University, Bishai has been a guest lecturer in the Southeast Europe Youth Leadership Institute at Stockholm University, and a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, among other academic appointments. She also is a practicing attorney. Bishai was a Hansard Scholars Programme intern in the British House of Commons, and has served a Presidential Internship at The American University in Cairo. Bishai holds a Ph.D in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an LLM from the University of Stockholm , a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and an undergraduate degree in history and literature from Harvard University. Bishai is a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Studies Association, and the Academic Council on the UN System. Scott Carlson will be the Supreme Court Fellow at the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Carlson was Director for the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, Central and Eastern Europe and Judicial Reform. From 1999 to 2000, he was deputy legal advisor for human rights, Independent International Commission on Kosovo, and a fellow of the Global Law and Policy Initiative of Chicago-Kent College of Law. In his international work, he has helped design and manage a program to assist the Government of Albania with a participatory constitution drafting process; provided legal counsel to the European Union, World Bank, and the German Company for Technical Assistance; and served as a resident tax advisor for the Treasury Tax Advisory Program in Tirana, Albania. Carlson received a Master of Laws in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University, a JD from the University of Georgia, and an undergraduate degree in english from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For 1997-1998, Carlson received the Fulbright Award in Albania. Matthew Duchesne will be the Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court. An associate in a major Washington, D.C. law firm, Duchesne clerked for Judge Richard L. Nygaard (3rd Cir.) after earning a JD degree in 1999 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He received a Master of Public Administration at Chapel Hill and earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. As an associate in his law firm, Duchesne prepares appellate briefs for cases under review in the Supreme Court, and both state and federal appellate courts. He works extensively on issues involving international and comparative law, particularly as they relate to investor-state arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Prior to law school, Duchesne was a research analyst with the North Carolina Office of Waste Reduction. He also has worked as a project assistant for The Corporate Response Group (1994 to 1995), as a policy analyst for the American Petroleum Institute (1993 to 1994), and as a management analyst for the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (1991 to 1993.) Steven Gensler, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, will be the Supreme Court Fellow at the Administrative Office. He teaches courses on civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, the federal courts, and conflicts of law. Gensler served on the local rules project for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in 2000, where he drafted a report on and proposed revisions to amendments to the Federal Rules of Procedure. He was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law from 1998 to 2000. Gensler received an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, where he was editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. From 1992 to 1993, he clerked for Chief Judge Deanell Reece Tacha (10th Cir.) and from 1993 to 1994, for Judge Kathryn H. Vratil (D. Kan.). He practiced law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1994 until 1998.

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