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James Flug



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Professor Flug was previously:

At Harvard: Founding Director, HLS Washington Semester Program, teaching “Government Lawyering, Policy & Practice;” Covington & Burling Distinguished Visitor & Lecturer on Law; Senior Fellow, Public Service Careers, Office of Public Interest Advising; Fellow, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government.

At Georgetown Law: Acting Director, Federal Legislation & Administrative Clinic; Visiting Associate Professor of Law.

In Government: twice Chief Counsel to Sen. Edward Kennedy; Confidential Assistant to U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach; Legal Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. D.O.J.; Law Clerk to Chief Judge David Bazelon, DC Circuit.

Also: Partner in Lobel, Novins, Lamont & Flug, a DC Private Public Interest law firm; Executive Director of the Energy Action Committee; Director & Counsel of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association; Member, Administrative Conference of the United States; Chair, Harvard Law School Association Public Interest Committee.





Degrees & Universities

  • LL.B., Harvard Law School 1963 (Magna Cum Laude; Harvard Law Review)
  • A.B., Harvard College 1960 (Magna Cum Laude (Economics); Phi Beta Kappa)