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Alumnus Profile: Michael Fadus

Michael Fadus ’88 discovered his interest in international studies early. He graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in German and went on to pursue a master’s degree in German from the University of Texas. After graduation, he worked as a secretary for a small economic and political research company in Austin whose president was a lawyer. It was the first time he had met a lawyer who did something other than work in a law firm. He admired the successful, fast-moving business and was fascinated by the way the president employed legal discipline to craft key parts of his work product. When Michael decided to pursue a law degree at UT, the president of the company supported his decision. He gave him a Black’s Law Dictionary, which he has kept ever since.
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Member Spotlight: 2009-10 Rapoport Center Human Rights Scholars

Maka Hutson received her B.A. in Linguistics from Moscow State Linguistic University in Moscow, Russia. She continued her education at the University of Texas at Austin and received a Master's degree in Linguistics with a concentration in Sociolinguistics. While in graduate school, she researched the issue of linguistic rights as human rights and conducted a study of the treatment of the Russian-speaking population in the post-Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. She later worked for seven years at the International Office at UT Austin as a program coordinator assisting international students and faculty with their immigration and tax matters. This past summer, Maka was also awarded the George M. Fleming Public Interest Summer Fellowship. She worked at Texas Appleseed helping conduct a study of the immigration court system's treatment of detainees with mental illness and access to mental health services for immigrant detainees in Texas.

Matthew Dunlap received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond in 2003. He served in the Peace Corps as a Youth Development volunteer in Morocco, where he taught English courses and encouraged youth to become community stakeholders. This past summer he worked on civil and criminal legal issues while clerking with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland.

¹ Washington and Lee University Law Library, Law Journals: Submissions and Rankings (Jan. 30, 2010), http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx (reflects ranking among English-language, specialized, student-edited, print journals).