Anna C. Conley
Anna C. Conley was born in Healdsburg, California in 1976. Anna was admitted to practice in the State of Montana in 2005. She is admitted to practice in the State of Montana District Courts, the Montana Supreme Court as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Practice Areas
Commercial and General Civil Litigation, Land Use and Planning, Estate Planning and International Law.
Memberships and Activities
Anna is an active member of the Montana and Washington bars, and an inactive member of the California bar. She is also a member of the American Society of International Law. She practiced law in San Francisco and Seattle prior to joining Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Montana Law School teaching international and comparative law. Anna teaches comparative law at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute ("MOLLI") at the University of Montana. In addition, in the summer of 2011, Anna was the Supervising Attorney for Seattle University Law School's Indian Wills Project for the Blackfeet Tribe.
Education
Doctor of Civil Laws (DCL) McGill University Faculty of Law 2011; Masters of Law (LLM) McGill University Faculty of Law 2007; Juris Doctor (J.D.) The George Washington University Law School 2003; Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) Tulane University 1999.
Publications
The Montana Supreme Court’s Continued, Not-so-subtle Assault on Arbitration, 35-FEB Mont. Law. 6 (Feb. 2010). This article received the Haswell Award from the State Bar of Montana for the most outstanding Montana Lawyer article of the year.
Email Service on Foreign Defendants: Time for an International Approach?, 38 Georgetown J. Int’l L. 775 (2007) (with David Stewart)
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Judicial Assistance, 2007 World Arb. & Mediation Rev. 609 (2007) A New World of Discovery: The Ramifications of Two Recent Federal Courts’ Decisions Granting Judicial Assistance to Arbitral Tribunals Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1782, 17 Am. Rev. Int’l. Arb. 45 (2006). Cited by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in support of its holding at 617 F.Supp.2d 481, 487 (2008).
Contributor to 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Digest of U. S. Practice in International Law, U.S. State Department, published by Oxford Press
War – What is it Good For? The Scope of the Executive’s Power Pursuant to the Authorization of Use of Military Force, DeNovo – Official Publication of the Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, August 2006, Vol. 20, Issue 4
The Executive Branch’s Power to Designate and Detain U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants: An Analysis of Padilla v Rumsfeld and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, The California International Practitioner, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004
The Montana Supreme Court’s Continued, Not-so-subtle Assault on Arbitration, 35-FEB Mont. Law. 6 (Feb. 2010). This article received the Haswell Award from the State Bar of Montana for the most outstanding Montana Lawyer article of the year.
Email Service on Foreign Defendants: Time for an International Approach?, 38 Georgetown J. Int’l L. 775 (2007) (with David Stewart)
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Judicial Assistance, 2007 World Arb. & Mediation Rev. 609 (2007) A New World of Discovery: The Ramifications of Two Recent Federal Courts’ Decisions Granting Judicial Assistance to Arbitral Tribunals Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1782, 17 Am. Rev. Int’l. Arb. 45 (2006). Cited by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in support of its holding at 617 F.Supp.2d 481, 487 (2008).
Contributor to 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Digest of U. S. Practice in International Law, U.S. State Department, published by Oxford Press
War – What is it Good For? The Scope of the Executive’s Power Pursuant to the Authorization of Use of Military Force, DeNovo – Official Publication of the Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, August 2006, Vol. 20, Issue 4
The Executive Branch’s Power to Designate and Detain U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants: An Analysis of Padilla v Rumsfeld and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, The California International Practitioner, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004