Two more Law Center faculty members have joined the Obama administration, and earlier this week, President Obama announced the nomination of law professor
Chai Feldblum to serve as commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Feldblum, who has been a Law Center professor since 1991, is awaiting Senate confirmation for the EEOC post.
Meanwhile, professors
David Koplow and
Howard Shelanski already are serving in their positions. Koplow serves as special counsel for arms control to the general counsel of the Department of Defense, and Shelanski became deputy director for antitrust of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics this past spring.
“Georgetown Law has a long history of public service,” said Law Center Dean
Alexander Aleinikoff. “We are delighted that professors Feldblum, Koplow and Shelanski have been invited to serve our nation in these important roles.”
Feldblum founded and directed the Georgetown Law Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, a program designed to train law students to become legislative lawyers. She also co-directed Workplace Flexibility 2010, a campaign to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility. She has been a strong advocate and scholar in the areas of disability rights; health and welfare rights; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights; and workplace issues.
Koplow, who came to Georgetown in 1981, has written and taught courses in the areas of international law, national security, arms control, nonproliferation, terrorism, treaty negotiation and implementation and political asylum. He also has directed the Center for Applied Legal Studies, a Georgetown Law clinical program that represents refugees seeking political asylum in the United States to avoid persecution in their home countries.
He served as attorney adviser and as special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1978 to 1981 and as deputy general counsel for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1997 to 1999.
Shelanski, who just joined the Law Center as full-time faculty this fall, came to the Law Center after working more than 12 years at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Shelanski has served twice before in government. In 1999-2000, he was named chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission, and he served as a senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 1999.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration appointed several other Georgetown law professors – including
Lisa Heinzerling, associate administrator for the Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation at the Environmental Protection Agency;
Neal Katyal, principal deputy solicitor general;
Martin Lederman, deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel; Rosa Brooks, senior adviser to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy at the Department of Defense;
David Vladeck, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission.
These appointments followed the December nomination of Georgetown Law Professor
Daniel Tarullo to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Tarullo was sworn in on Jan. 28.
For a list of more Law Center faculty and alumni appointed to the Obama administration, visit the Law Center
Web site.
