About the Editors

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About the Editors

William Funk is a professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School,

where he teaches administrative law, environmental law, and constitutional

law. A graduate of Harvard College, 1967, and Columbia Law School, 1973,

Professor Funk clerked for Judge James Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the Second Circuit. Thereafter, he was an attorney-adviser in the Office

of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, a principal staff member

of the Legislation Subcommittee of the Permanent Select Committee on In-

telligence of the U.S. House of Representatives, and an Assistant General

Counsel in the U.S. Department of Energy.

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

Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and edited the section’s

newsletter for a number of years. He has also served as chair of the Admin-

istrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He is

currently the editor of the Administrative Law Abstracts for the Social Sci-

ence Research Network.

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

published by West Group, now in its third edition, and is also co-author of a

popular student aid, Administrative Law: Examples and Explanations, in its

second edition. He has also published numerous articles on administrative

law and is a frequent speaker on administrative law topics.

Jeffrey S. Lubbers has been teaching administrative law and related

courses as a Fellow in Law and Government at American University’s Wash-

ington College of Law since 1996. He has also taught at the Georgetown

University Law Center, the University of Miami School of Law, and Wash-

ington and Lee University School of Law. 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 the Washington College of Law, he served in various

positions with the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS),

the U.S. government’s advisory agency on procedural improvements in fed-

eral programs, prior to the agency’s shutdown by the 104th Congress in

1995. From 1982 to 1995, he was ACUS’s research director, a position in the

Senior Executive Service. In that position, he developed ideas for new stud-

ies, hired outside consultants (mostly law professors) to conduct the studies,

reviewed reports, supervised staff attorneys, and assisted ACUS committees