Muneer Ahmad received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1993 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1996. He also was a law clerk for a federal district judge in Vermont. Prior to joining WCL, he was a Skadden Fellow and a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. In addition, he worked with the South Asian Network, a non-profit social service agency. His work in Los Angeles focused on immigrants' rights, and in particular, the rights of immigrant garment workers as well as the impact of welfare reform on immigrant communities. His areas of teaching include the Criminal Justice Clinic.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Padideh Ala'i earned her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She has practiced trade, banking, and corporate law in private firms in Washington, D.C. She teaches and writes on international business transactions, international trade, the World Trade Organization, and the United States' participation and role in the multilateral trading system.
Business & Financial Regulation
Jonathan B. Baker earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He was director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and he served as senior economist to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He teaches and writes in antitrust, regulatory law and policy, and law and economics. He also teaches communications law.
Business & Financial Regulation
Regulatory Law & Policy
Susan D. Carle received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. She clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, was an appellate lawyer in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked in a Washington law firm. She teaches employment law and legal ethics, and she has written in the ethics field. In 2000 she won an award in the American Association of Law Schools Competition for Scholarly Papers by Young Faculty.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Regulatory Law & Policy
Angela J. Davis received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Howard University. She clerked for a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals. She served as executive director of the National Rainbow Coalition and as staff attorney, deputy director, and director of the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia. She teaches criminal procedure, criminal law, and race, crime and politics, and she has written on race and law enforcement.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Robert Dinerstein received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Cornell University. He was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. His areas of specialization include clinical legal education, lawyering skills, and mental disability law. He has been a member of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation. He has written widely on clinical education and the rights of people with disabilities.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Walter A. Effross, director of the law school's Program on Counseling Electronic Commerce Entrepreneurs, received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Princeton University. After clerking for the Supreme Court of New Jersey, he practiced commercial law. His areas of specialization include the law of electronic commerce, bankruptcy law, corporate law, and the Uniform Commercial Code. He has written widely about the use of technology in business contexts and in his other fields. A number of his articles are available at www.effross.com.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Christine Haight Farley teaches trademark law, international and comparative trademark law, intellectual property law, and law and the visual arts. She earned her J.D. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School and an LL.M. at Columbia Law School. She practiced in New York before coming to the law school, where she writes on intellectual property law.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Lewis A. Grossman earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his M. Phil. and B.A. from Yale University. He clerked for the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit before practicing with a Washington firm. He teaches and writes in the fields of food and drug law, civil procedure, and U.S. legal history.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Peter A. Jaszi teaches copyright law, international and comparative copyright law, and contracts. He received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Harvard University. He has done extensive scholarly writing in the copyright field. He is the director of the newly-created Intellectual Property Law Clinic at the law school.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Candace Kovacic-Fleischer teaches sex-based discrimination, contracts, and remedies. She earned her J.D. degree from Northeastern University Law School and her B.A. from Wellesley College. She clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for U.S. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and she practiced with a Washington, D.C. law firm. She has written numerous articles on gender discrimination issues as well as articles and books on remedies.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Jeffrey S. Lubbers is a faculty fellow in Law and Government. He teaches courses in administrative law, federal legal institutions, and alternative dispute resolution. He has an A.B. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. From 1982-1995 he was research director of the Administrative Conference of the United States. In addition to writing articles on administrative law, Professor Lubbers authored the third edition of the Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking (ABA, 1998). He also coauthored the Administrative Procedure Sourcebook (ABA, 2000), and he has edited the annual volume, Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (ABA), since 1998. For his work in administrative law, Professor Lubbers received the "Mary C. Lawton Award for Outstanding Government Service" from the American Bar Association and the "Walter Gellhorn Award" from the Federal Bar Association.
Administrative Law & Practice
James P. May earned his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Carleton College. He served as an attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and he worked on the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. He teaches antitrust, contracts, and legal history, and he writes in the fields of antitrust history and theory.
Business & Financial Regulation
Mark C. Niles is a former member of the civil appellate staff of the U.S. Department of Justice. He served as a law clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit after graduating from Stanford University Law School. He teaches administrative law, government liability, and civil procedure, and he writes in the constitutional and administrative fields.
Administrative Law & Practice
Andrew D. Pike received his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.A. from Swarthmore College. He served as an attorney and associate tax legislative counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury after clerking on the U.S. Tax Court. He has been a consultant to the Internal Revenue Service and to other countries. He teaches and writes in the fields of tax policy, federal personal income tax, and federal corporate income tax.
Business & Financial Regulation
Corrine Parver, Executive Director of the law school's Health Law Project, LLM Program on Law and Government, and Practitioner in Residence, received her J.D. degree from American University Washington College of Law and her B.PT. from McGill University. After practicing physical therapy for fifteen years and completing her legal education, she specialized in health care law as a law firm associate and partner, and a health care trade association president and CEO. Her areas of specialization include: fraud and abuse prevention and compliance; general health law and policy; privacy; and medical liability. She has written and spoken widely about these issues both across the country and internationally.
Health Law Project
Andrew F. Popper teaches administrative law and torts. A graduate of DePaul University Law School with an LL.M. from George Washington University, he serves as an adviser to the Administrative Law Review. He has testified frequently before Congress and has written extensively on tort reform and on antitrust issues.
Administrative Law & Practice
Jamin B. Raskin is a professor of law and co-director of the Program on Law and Government. In 2000, he was named American University's Scholar-Teacher of the Year. Author of We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About Students, (CQ Press, 2000), he founded the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program of the Program on Law and Government, which sends upper-level law students to teach the "We the Students" constitutional literacy course in public high schools in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. Professor Raskin's writing and teaching concentrate on constitutional law, the First Amendment, and the law of the political process. A former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and General Counsel of the National Rainbow Coalition, he currently chairs the Maryland State Higher Education Labor Relations Board. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Herman Schwartz received his J.D. and B.A. degrees from Harvard University. He writes and teaches on constitutional law, with an emphasis on individual rights. He has written books on the U.S. Supreme Court and the constitutional courts of post-communist Europe, as well as numerous articles and reviews in his areas of interest.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Ann Shalleck received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. She is the director of the Women and the Law Program at the law school. Her areas of specialization include clinical legal education, family law, and child welfare. She was a member of the D.C. Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts. Her writing has focused on clinical education, trial advocacy, child custody and neglect, and feminist theory.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Mary A. Siegel teaches and writes on securities regulation, business associations, advanced securities law, and advanced corporate law. She has done extensive work on corporate law reform. She received her J.D. degree from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Vassar College. Prior to teaching, she was a lawyer in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Business & Financial Regulation
Michael Tigar specializes in litigation, federal courts, criminal law, public international law, and comparative law. He received his J.D. and B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Tigar is one of the nation's leading trial lawyers. His writing includes books on federal appeals, the art of persuasion, and examining witnesses, as well as numerous reports, chapters, and articles on related subjects.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Anthony E. Varona Professor Varona received his J.D. and A.B. degrees from Boston College and he earned his LL.M. degree from Georgetown University. He teaches Contracts, Administrative Law, Media Law, and Introduction to Public Law, and serves as the faculty director of the S.J.D. Program. Before joining the WCL faculty, he was an associate professor of law at Pace Law School in New York. Before that, he served as general counsel and legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay civil rights organization. He built HRC's legal department, directed its legislative, regulatory, and appellate amicus work, launched national law fellow and pro bono attorney programs, and served as counsel to HRC's board of directors and the organization's corporate, educational, and media initiatives.
Robert G. Vaughn received his J.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He teaches public information law, public employment law, torts, and civil procedure. He has written books and articles on government information policies and public employment law.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Perry E. Wallace Jr. teaches and writes in the areas of business associations, environmental law, environmental issues in business transactions, and law and accounting. After earning his B.Engr. from Vanderbilt and his J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School, he served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.
Regulatory Law & Policy
Stephen J. Wermiel, an associate professor of law, served as associate director of the Program on Law and Government from 1999 to 2001. Prior to teaching, he was the Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Before coming to WCL, he taught at Georgia State University Law School in Atlanta and William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Va. He teaches media law, seminars on the U.S. Supreme Court, and constitutional law. He also counsels LL.M. students on courses of study and is co-director of the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program of the Program on Law and Government. He is at work on a biography of the late Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., for which he had Justice Brennan's full cooperation. He earned his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and his B.A. from Tufts University.
Civil & Constitutional Rights
Regulatory Law & Policy