B.A., Antioch College; M.A., Brandeis; M.A., Boston College; J.D., Harvard. Following graduation from Harvard Law School, Mr. Stern clerked for Judge Robert S. Vance on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and later joined the Department of Justice where he served for many years as Appellate Litigation Counsel of the Department’s Civil Division. Professor Stern has appeared in all of the federal courts of appeals, arguing over two hundred cases, and has worked closely with the Solicitor General’s office in many seminal cases, including cases defining the scope of federal and state powers. He has defended several statutes against federalism-based challenges, including the Affordable Care Act, provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, and the Brady Handgun Control Act. He has also litigated the constitutionality of state statutes that regulate in areas of concern to the national government, including Arizona statutes purporting to regulate undocumented immigrants, the Massachusetts Burma Act and the California Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act. Mr. Stern’s other areas of particular expertise include issues regarding the separation of powers and administrative law.