EDUCATION

• George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs
  Jointly Appointed in Law and Women's Studies
  Assistant Director, Administration of Justice Program (1999-present).
  
• Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  Visiting Scholar (1996-1999).
  • Honorary research appointment. Conducted projects on racial/sexual harassment, the First Amendment, and campaign reform. Continued international consulting work.
    
• International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago
  Fellow (1991-1996); Acting Assistant Director (1994-95).
  • Developed and directed training programs for emerging democracies on constitutional, policy and political development.
  • Managed outreach to foundations, corporate sponsors and media.
  • Supervised budget review and grant-writing.
  • Taught constitutional law, human rights and torts.
    
• Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin
  College Counsel and Special Assistant to the President (1992-94).
  • Served as Chief of Staff to College President.
  • Led two-year strategic planning process.
  • Conducted administrative policy review.
  • Advised College on legal matters.
  • Taught in political science department.
    
• University of Chicago Law School
  Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law (1991-92).
  • One-year teaching and research fellowship. Taught first-year law students legal advocacy; conducted research on corporate political speech.
    
• Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington D.C.
  Attorney (1989-1991).
  • Represented a variety of corporations, associations and individuals before judicial, administrative and legislative fora.

• Junior Faculty Research Award
• Finalist, University Teaching Award
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Mortar board
• James B. Angell Scholar
• University of Chicago Fellowship

Book:

Constructing Rights Without Courts: The Rise and Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation. Manuscript under review.

Articles:

Chapters and Entries:

• Book review of Ira Strauber's Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civil Education. To appear in the American Political Science Review (2003).
  
• "Shaming." In Herbert Kritzer, ed., Legal Systems of the World (2002).
  
• "The Judicial Process of Bosnia-Herzegovina." In Herbert Kritzer, ed., Legal Systems of the World (2002).
  
• "The Law of Gay Rights." In David Schultz, ed., Encyclopedia of American Law (2001).
  
• "'Never Again,' Again and Again." In Smail Ceckic, ed., The Aggression On Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1991-1995. Published in 2002, translated into Bosnian.
  
• "You Can't Teach a Dead Dog New Tricks: The Problem of Campaign Finance and Why Reform Hasn't Worked." In Bruce Newman, ed., The Handbook of Political Marketing (1999). Advisory editor for the book.

Current Projects:

• "Suspect Searches: Assessing Police Behavior Under the Constitution." (First author). Evaluation of police conformity with the Fourth Amendment using observation data from 1070 hours of "ride-alongs." Article being revised and resubmitted.
  
• "The First Amendment Living Large: Newspaper Issue Advocacy and the Drawing of Lines." Experimental field research in progress.
  
• "Charitable Sharing: A Tort Reform Proposal." (With Stefan Toepler). Article under consideration.

Reports:

• Improving Prosecutions with Technology: An Analysis of Criminal Prosecutions in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Report presented to the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2002.
  
• Florida Moves North: Election Reform in Virginia Post 2000. Report prepared for The Century Foundation, New York City, 2002.
  
• Collecting and Using Racial & Ethnic Data in the Courts: A Blueprint for the New Mexico Judiciary. Report prepared for the New Mexico Supreme Court and the New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, 2001.
  
• Putting Democracy Into Practice: Toward Electoral Reform in Nepal. (Co-author.) Published by the International Human Rights Law Group, Washington, D.C., 1990.

"Dead On: Clinical Education for Undergraduates on Capital Punishment." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. May and August 2002.

• "Assessing Police Behavior Under the Constitution." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. July 2001.
  
• "Suspect Searches: The Fourth Amendment in Practice." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on the Scientific Study of the Judiciary and the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. October and November 2000.
  
• "'Never Again,' Again and Again." Paper presented at conference on Bosnian War Crimes. Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. September 2000.
  
• "Women Prisoners and the Need for New Research." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. May 2000.
  
• "Marketing an Imperfect Campaign: Righting the Gore Campaign While There is Still Time." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Association of Public Opinion Research. November 1999.
  
• "Voices from Inside: The Lives of Women's Prisons." (Co-Author). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 1999.
  
• "The Precedent That Wasn't: The Persistence of Collegiate Hate Speech Codes and the Control of Constitutional Meaning." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1999.
  
• "The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation: Why Gender Wins But Race Doesn't in America." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1997.
  
• "Who's Moving Whom? Social Movement Theory and the Founding of NARAL." (Co-author). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1995.
  
• "In Defense of the 'New Corruption:' Setting a New Standard for Corporate Political Speech." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1993.
  
• "Holding Back the Flood: Changing Standards for Corporate Political Speech." Presentation given at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 1992.

• National Institute of Justice/SPAWAR. Contract to evaluate and recommend new technologies in criminal prosecutions (2001).
  
• United States Department of State (United States Information Service). Sub-contract for the training of Romanian judges and prosecutors (2001).
  
• International Judicial Academy. Contract for the training of Egyptian judges (2001).
  
• New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts. Consultant for the Supreme Court's Project on Racial and Ethnic Treatment in the New Mexico Courts (2000-01).
  
• George Mason University, College of Arts and Sciences. Awarded competitive research leave (2002).
  
• George Mason University, Provost's Office. Summer Research Grant (2000).
  
• George Mason University, College of Arts and Sciences. Release for Grant Preparation (1999).
  
• Mellon Foundation. Dissertation Fellowship (1998).

• Assistant Director, Administration of Justice Program: Responsibilities for program development, including outreach to justice professionals, recruitment of students, faculty, and advisory committee members, creation and expansion of course offerings, and counseling of students. (1999-present)
  
• Director, The Accuracy Project at George Mason University. Developed clinical program in which multi-disciplinary teams of students and faculty provide investigative assistance at the trial stage of death penalty cases. Responsibilities include case selection, supervision of student and faculty work, evaluation, and outreach to donors and the media. (2001-present)

• Consultant to the International Judicial Academy. Instructor for "rule of law" seminars presented to judges, prosecutors, and magistrates from Central and Eastern Europe and Africa. (1999-present)
  
• Board of Directors, OAR/Fairfax County. Board Member for affiliate of national organization that provides training and counseling for non-violent inmates and their families. (2000-2002)
  
• Advisory Group, Women of Silicon Valley Research Project: National adviser to public-private initiative investigating entrepreneurship and quality of life issues. (2001)
  
• Clinton/Gore '96, Advisor to the Campaign Manager. Provided analysis of polling data, targeting and oversight of over $35 million in media buys. Served as liaison between campaign manager, pollster, media team and White House. (1996)
  
• Academic Specialist to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Selected and sponsored by USIA to assist the Institute of Ethnic Studies in studying FYROM's emerging legislation. (1996)
  
• Delegate from the National Democratic Institute to Mali. Invited by the Mali government to assist in reviewing and reforming its constitution and electoral laws. (1996)
  
• Technical Advisor for FYROM's Multi-Party Legislation. At request of the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, evaluated FYROM's new campaign and election laws. (1996)
  
• Bi-weekly commentator for National Public Radio in Chicago. (1994-1995)
  
• Co-organizer of conference on Genocide in Bosnia. Sponsored by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Bonn, Germany. (1995)
  
• Program Director for El Salvador Public Policy Training Program. Under USAID funding, created 6-week training program in public policy development for 21 El Salvadoran government officials. Program conducted in Chicago, in Spanish. (1995)
  
• Consultant to the South African Independent Electoral Commission. Selected and sponsored by the United States Information Agency to help to develop a training program for domestic and foreign election observers in rural South Africa. (1994)
  
• International Fellow with the Community Law Centre, Durban, South Africa. Worked in KwaZulu/Natal assisting with human rights reform and legal development. Analyzed and commented on draft electoral laws. (1993)
  
• Chair, Election Law Committee, American Bar Association. (1991-92)
  
• Legal Staff, Dukakis/Bentsen '88. Under direction of Campaign Counsel, provided legal advice on field, fundraising, advertising and employment issues. Served as outside counsel for wrap-up of campaign activities. (1987-89)

• “Campaign Finance -- It’s Everyone’s Problem.” San Francisco Chronicle. March 6, 1997.
  
• "Entertaining the Disengaged: American Television News Coverage and the Decline of Information." Macedonian Media Bulletin. (Spring-Summer, 1996).
  
• "What is the Afterlife of Affirmative Action?" 22 Human Rights 4 (Fall, 1995).
  
• "Our National Psyche: The Unseen Victim of Domestic Terrorism." 22 Human Rights 3 (Summer, 1995).
  
• "Still Waiting for Democracy in South Africa." Chicago Tribune. May 8, 1995.
  
• "It's Time to Reinvent Law Firms for the 90s." National Law Journal. January 17, 1994.
  
• "Why This Fear of Political Television Adverts?" South African Mail & Guardian. Sept. 1993.
  
• "Let All of South Africa's Voices Be Heard." The Natal Mercury. August, 1993.