About the Editors

• Author: William Funk - Jeffrey S. Lubbers
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About the Editors

William Funk is the Lewis & Clark Distinguished Professor of Law at

Lewis & Clark Law School, where he teaches Administrative Law and Con-

stitutional Law. A graduate of Harvard College, 1967, and Columbia Law

School, 1973, Professor Funk clerked for Judge James Oakes of the United

States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Thereafter, he was an attor-

ney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Jus-

tice, a principal staff member of the Legislation Subcommittee of the

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Represen-

tatives, and an Assistant General Counsel in the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Funk has served as chair of both the American Bar Association’s

Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and the Administra-

tive Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He is cur-

rently the editor of Administrative Law Abstracts for the Social Science

Research Network.

Professor Funk is a co-author of Administrative Procedure and Practice,

published by West Group, now in its fifth edition, and of Administrative

Law: Examples and Explanations, also in its fifth edition. In addition, he has

published numerous articles on administrative law and is a frequent speaker

on administrative law topics.

Jeffrey S. Lubbers has been Professor of Practice in Administrative

Law at American University’s Washington College of Law since 2009, after

being a Fellow in Law and Government since 1996. He has also taught at the

University of Miami School of Law, Washington and Lee University School

of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, Melbourne University,

Ritsumeikan University Law School in Japan (six summers), the University

of Ottawa, and Australian National University. He has degrees from Cornell

University and the University of Chicago Law School and is a member of the

bars of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Prior to joining American University, he served in various positions with

the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), the U.S.

Government’s “permanent” advisory on procedural improvements in federal

programs, until its closure by the 104th agency Congress in 1995. From

1982 to 1995 he was ACUS’s Research Director—a position in the Senior

Executive Service. (ACUS reopened in 2010 and he was appointed a Special

Counsel.) He also served as team leader for Vice President Gore’s National

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