Amanda Frost
Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 476
Phone: 202-274-4046
E-mail: afrost@wcl.american.edu
Amanda Frost joined the faculty of WCL in 2004. She specializes in the federal court system and federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, statutory interpretation, and transparency in government. Prior to coming to WCL, Professor Frost was a staff attorney for Public Citizen, where she litigated cases in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Frost clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and she has consulted for the Open Society Foundation and USAID. In 2001, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study administrative law reform in the European Union.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- The Federal Court System and Federal Jurisdiction
- Civil Procedure
- Statutory Interpretation
Degrees & Universities
- A.B., Harvard College
- J.D., Harvard Law School
Selected Publications
- Amanda Frost, (Over)Valuing Uniformity, 94 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, Certifying Questions to Congress, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2007). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1931 (2007). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, Keeping Up Appearances: A Process-Oriented Approach to Judicial Recusals, 53 Kan. L. Rev. 531 (2005). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union, 9 Eur. Pub. L. 87 (Mar. 2003).
- Amanda Frost, Judicial Review of FDA Preemption Determinations, 54 Food & Drug L.J. 367 (1999).
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Selected Presentations- Amanda Frost, Presentation, (Over)Valuing Uniformity (Harvard Law School’s faculty workshop, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 6, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, (Over)Valuing Uniformity (Boston University Law School’s Faculty Workshop, Bos., Mass., Oct. 25, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Panel Moderator, Press Briefing on the Supreme Court Case Davenport v. Washington Education Association (American Constitution Society, D.C., Jan. 4, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Testimony, Senate Hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court Nomination (Wash., D.C., Jan. 21, 2006).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Federal Advisory Commitee Act: The Public Interest Perspective, the Federal Advisory Committee Act Training (Government Services Administration, Wash., D.C., June & Aug. 2001-04).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union (“Colloque sur Gouvernance et Identités en Europe,” Sponsored by the Sorbonne, Universite Paris I., Paris, Fr., Dec. 2001).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, NGO's Role in the Implementation of Open Government Laws in the United States (Symposium on Implementation of Open Government Laws in Slovakia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovk., Oct. 2000).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The U.S. Freedom of Information Act: Lessons Learned from Thirty Years Experience With the Law, at Conference on implementation of open government laws (Yakugai Ombudsperson Medwatcher Japan, Tokoyo, Japan, November 1999).
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Selected Media Appearances
