Academic

People in DC

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

In connection with my attendance at the Georgetown Law Symposium, I have done some touring of the city with my 12-year-old son, and we have met some very interesting people.

• At the symposium, we encountered lots of bloggers, including Larry Ribstein, Bill Henderson, and Dave Lat.
• We had two dinners with Mike O'Neill, and we were able to do a bit of reminiscing about Wisconsin and BYU.
• When Conrad and I were sitting in the reception area of Senator Hatch's office, waiting for our tour of the Capital, Boone Pickens showed up. We had a brief conversation about corporate law, and he was still animated about Unocal. As we parted, he asked Conrad where he planned to go to college. Of course, Conrad told him "BYU," to which Boone responded: "If you you decide not to go to BYU, you should go to Oklahoma State!"
• Dave Moore, one of the new additions to the BYU law faculty, gave us a tour of the Supreme Court, which included a wonderful conversation with Justice Alito.
• Pope Benedict. We didn't meet him, but as we walked over an overpass near Georgetown Law Center, his police escort passed beneath us, and we caught a close-up of the Popemobile ... the first time I had seen it live since my days as a Mormon missionary in Vienna, when I attended a speech by Pope John Paul II.

Despite all of this, I suspect that Conrad's favorite memory from the trip will be Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum. If you have never done this with a 12-year-old, find one and go!

Full post as published by Conglomerate on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).