Traditions Lunch 2022

Sponsored by Brent Vannoy ’88, Partner, Hughes Watters Askanase

Featured Speaker: Robert B. Ahdieh – Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair, Texas A&M University School of Law

Date: Monday, May 9th

Time: 11:30 Networking, Lunch from Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Grotto, 4715 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77027

Cost: $25 covers both lunch and dessert

Parking: Valet or complimentary self-parking available

Grotto is following all health and safety guidelines set by the state and the health department to ensure your safety.

We ask that our guests:

• Take your temperature and if 99.5 degrees and above, please stay home
• If you or any member of your household shows signs of illness of any kind, please choose to stay home
• To meet restaurant capacity requirements, online RESERVATIONS are recommended by Friday, May 6th at noon.

This is an in-person activity. Every attendee must evaluate their unique circumstances and make an informed decision before attending in-person activities. The Houston A&M Club recommends that no one in the higher-risk category take part in-person. Anyone who feels sick must Stay Home. If you become sick or develop symptoms, isolate yourself then go home and seek care. The Houston A&M Club cannot make any guarantees of safety and you are attending at your own risk.

Robert B. Ahdieh – Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair, Texas A&M University School of Law

A graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School, Robert B. Ahdieh served as law clerk to Judge James R. Browning of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before his selection for the Honor’s Program in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice.

While still in law school, Ahdieh published what remains one of the seminal treatments of the constitutional transformation of post-Soviet Russia: “Russia’s Constitutional Revolution—Legal
Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy.” Ahdieh’s work has also appeared in the Boston
University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, NYU Law Review, and
Southern California Law Review, among other journals.
Ahdieh’s scholarly interests revolve around questions of regulatory and institutional design,
especially in the financial arena. His particular focus has been on various non-traditional
regulatory structures and modes of regulation, including those grounded in dynamics of
coordination. Though relatively less studied in the legal literature, the framework of coordination
holds significant promise both in helping us theorize existing regulatory patterns and in defining
new regulatory constructs for the future.
Ahdieh has served as a visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown law schools, as well as at
Princeton University. He has also visited at the Institute for Advanced Study, at the University of
British Columbia, the University of Warsaw, and Singapore Management University, among
other overseas institutions.