Robert Stumberg
Director and Professor of Law, stumberg@law.georgetown.edu
BA, with honors, Macalester College; JD, Georgetown University; LLM Georgetown University.

Robert Stumberg is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he is also the director of the Harrison Institute for Public Law.  His past positions include policy director at the Center for Policy Alternatives and legislative counsel for Montgomery County, MD.   He has 30 years of experience in legislation, economic development, community lending and housing policy.  Most recently, he has studied the impact of trade agreements on state and local government, including energy, water services, prescription drugs, foreign investor rights and agricultural subsidies.  His publications include:  GATS & Electricity (2005); Trade Policy & Prescription Drugs (2005); Federalism & Political Accountability Under Global Trade Rules, Publius – The Journal of Federalism (2001 with Matthew Porterfield); Preemption & Human Rights, Law & Policy in International Business (2000); and Sovereignty by Subtraction:  The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Cornell Journal of International Law (1998).

Matthew Porterfield
Senior Fellow (trade & climate) and Adjunct Professor, porterfm@law.georgetown.edu
BA, University of Vermont; JD, Magna Cum Laude, Vermont Law School; LLM, Georgetown University

Matthew Porterfield is a senior fellow and adjunct professor of law at the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center, where he leads projects on agriculture, investment and constitutional law.  Before coming to Georgetown, he practiced environmental law in Washington, DC.  His publications include:  An International Common Law of Investor Rights?, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (2006); International Expropriation Rules and Federalism, Stanford Journal of Environmental Law (January 2004); Who Preempted the Massachusetts Burma Law?, Publius – The Journal of Federalism (2002 with Robert Stumberg); and State & Local Foreign Policy Initiatives & Free Speech:  The First Amendment as an Instrument of Federalism, Stanford Journal of International Law (1999).

Sara Pollock Hoverter
Staff Attorney (health & climate) and Adjunct Professor, smp32@law.georgetown.edu
BA, Yale University; JD, Cum Laude, Georgetown University; LLM, Advocacy, Georgetown University.

Sara P. Hoverter is a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center.   Her area of concentration is health policy, including climate change and public health, Medicaid, state and federal health reform, and the use of community health workers to reach vulnerable populations.  Her past positions have included law clerk at the National Partnership for Women and Families, research assistant for the Center for Law and the Public’s Health, and program associate at the DC Appleseed Center.

Sandy Han
Fellow (health & climate), shh27@law.georgetown.edu
BA, University of Virginia; JD, University of Richmond; LLM with honors in Global Health Law, Georgetown University.

Sandy H. Han is currently a Fellow at the Harrison Institute for Public Law working on health law and policy.  She focuses on legal issues in federal health reform such discrimination, and food and nutrition policies in urban areas.  She was also a 2008-2009 Fellow in the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, which is dedicated to advancing women’s rights.  Before returning to school for her master’s degree in law, Sandy worked in the health care regulation and compliance field at the Washington Hospital Center and Strategic Management Systems, a private consulting company.  Sandy was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 2000 and the District of Columbia Bar in 2008. 

Jessica Grannis
Fellow (climate), jcg68@law.georgetown.edu
BA, University of Chicago; JD, Cum Laude, University of California Hastings.

Jessica Grannis is currently a Fellow at the Harrison Institute for Public Law working in the Policy Clinic under the Climate Team, which is looking at strategies to help state and local governments adapt to climate change impacts. Prior to coming to the Harrison Institute, she was staff counsel for two California state agencies, the State Coastal Conservancy and the Ocean Protection Council. Prior to her work in state government, she worked as an associate for a civil litigation firm focusing on real property disputes. Jessica was admitted to the California State Bar in 2005 and anticipates being admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 2009.

Jason Newman
Adjunct Professor, newman@law.georgetown.edu
BA, Boston University; JD Georgetown University

Jason I. Newman founded the Harrison Institute, and after he retired, continues to serve as adjunct professor. Creating one of the first law school community clinics, Professor Newman has more than 36 years of experience in community revitalization and citizen education. Before coming to Georgetown in 1971, he served as Counsel to the D.C. City Council and the Montgomery County Council, as well as Special Counsel in the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also was a member of the congressionally appointed commission that established Home Rule for the District of Columbia in 1973.  He is also the founder of an international citizen education project, Street Law Inc.  Started at Georgetown University Law Center, Street Law is now the leader in law-related education worldwide. The program integrates communities, courts, high schools, and prisons to educate citizens on the law and their rights. The program currently operates in 47 states and many other countries.  Since retiring from Georgetown, Professor Newman has served as Executive Director of the Cayman Brac University Medical School.

Jacqueline Scott
Adjunct Professor, jbs@law.georgetown.edu
BA, Georgetown University; JD, Georgetown University; ML, Georgetown University

Jacqueline R. Scott is a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center, where she leads the Institute’s health policy team. For the past two years, she also served as a co-director for the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach, a partnership between the Harrison Institute and the University of Southern Mississippi. Before serving as co-director, Ms. Scott was a senior staff member of the Center. Ms. Scott concentrates her work in the policy and legislative areas of public health law, biosecurity, children and family law, race and gender equity. Her work on biosecurity focuses on the needs of vulnerable populations and communities. Before coming to Georgetown, Ms. Scott served as a policy advisor in the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s offices in the state of Maryland, where she advised on issues ranging from community-based public health policy to juvenile justice, and children, youth, and family-related matters. Ms. Scott has served as a consultant, lecturer, and trainer for numerous academic, state, local, private and nonprofit organizations.

William Waren
Adjunct Professor, wtw2@law.georgetown.edu
BA and MA, public administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; JD, Duke University; LLM, Georgetown University.

Bill Waren is policy director of the Forum on Democracy and Trade and adjunct professor at the Harrison Institute of Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a consultant to the Andean Parliament and the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA). Before joining the Forum, Bill was a Harrison Institute fellow. Previously, Bill served as a Senior Fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures where he contributed to NCSL’s policy research and lobbying on issues of civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional federalism, economic regulation, and international trade. Bill also worked in the Durham, North Carolina City Attorney’s Office, on the staff of the Illinois General Assembly, as a lobbyist for a public university system, and as a VISTA volunteer sponsored by the South Central Iowa Federation of Labor. His publications include: Trade Agreement Trade Offs, State Legislatures (July/August 2004); NAFTA and State Sovereignty: a Pandora’s Box of Property Rights, Spectrum: the Journal of State Government (March 2002); and Balancing Act: Free Trade and Federalism, State Legislatures (May 1996) (reprinted in Karl G. Trautman ed., The New Populist Reader (Praeger 1997)

Travis Seegmiller
Adjunct Professor, Tseegmiller@pattonboggs.com
BA, Cum Laude, Yale University; JD, Cum Laude, Georgetown University

Travis Seegmiller is an associate at Patton, Boggs and an Adjunct Professor at the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University Law Center.   While a student at Georgetown Law Center, Mr. Seegmiller was a student in the Harrison Institute’s policy clinic, served as executive editor of The Tax Lawyer, and led the Georgetown Republican Law Students’ Association.  His practice at Patton Boggs includes international clients in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize, and Venezuela.  Mr. Seegmiller’s latest Latin American policy work involves advising Andean legislators and regional parliamentary bodies with regard to recent developments toward the formation of the South American Union.  Before law school, he was a strategy consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Financial Institutions Group and before that, a leading Boston-based private investment firm, the international tax practice of a global law firm, and the NAFTA practice group at a Mexican law firm.

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