Lecturer

American Political and Legal History

Email: gv2bvirginia.edu

Teaching Experience and Appointments

Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of History, Univ. of Virginia, 2008-9 (courses include “The Age of Jefferson,” “American Law, 1760-1861,” and “American Slavery: Law and Politics, 1760-1861”).

Instructor, U. Va. senior history honors seminar on slavery law and politics, Spr. 2007.

Adjunct Lecturer on Law: Loyola U. School of Law (Chicago)(F. 1978); American U. School of Law (Washington)(S.1981); Catholic U. School of Law (Washington)(1981-1982).

Invited lectures at other law schools and major legal education programs.

Recent Publications

Review essay, The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty. By John Phillip Reid. (DeKalb, IL. Northern Illinois University Press, 2005); Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution. By Calvin H. Johnson. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005); and M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation. By Mark R. Killenbeck. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006), Journal of the Early Republic 28 (Spring, 2008): 143-153.

Book review, Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism. By Stuart Streichler. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005), Law and History Review 25 (Spring, 2008): 211-213.

Book review, The Idea of a Free Press: The Enlightenment and its Unruly Legacy. By David A. Copeland (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2006); Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty. By Jerry W. Knudson (Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2006). Published on H-Law, August 14, 2007.

“Somerset’s Case and Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective,” Law and History Review 24 (Fall, 2006): 601-645.

Book review, “The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1789-1800. Vol. 7, Cases: 1796-1797,” Am. J. Leg. Hist. XLVII (July, 2005): 342-44.

“The Constitutional Convention,” in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman (Thomson Gale, 2005), 1: 309-313.

“The Articles of Confederation,” in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, ed. Paul Finkelman (Thomson Gale, 2005), 1: 175-178.

Work in Progress

A Slaveholders’ Union: The Law and Politics of American Slavery, 1770-1821 (Ph.D. dissertation; under revision for publication).

“English Common Law and Slavery,” in Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford, forthcoming).

“Founding A Slaveholders’ Union, 1770-1793” (chapter in John C. Hammond & Matthew Mason, eds., Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Slavery in the New American Nation [under contract to University of Virginia Press, expected publication December, 2009]).

“John Marshall and Slavery: Sacred Rights, Seduction, and Duty” (2008 SHEAR conference paper).

Select Additional Publications in Legal History and Public Law

“Congressional Power to Confer Broad Citizen Standing in Environmental Cases,” Envtl. L. Rep. 29 (1999): 10028-10042.

“Congressional Investigations of the Presidency: Fin d’Siecle Problems and Prospects,” EXTENSIONS (Carl Albert Congressional Rsch. and Studies Center) (Fall, 1998): 6-10.

Coauthor (with Charles Tiefer), “Navigating the Shoals of ‘Use’ Immunity and Secret International Enterprises in Major Congressional Investigations: Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair,” Mo. L. Rev. 55 (1990): 43-92.

“The Constitutionality of the Solicitation or Control of Third-Country Funds for Foreign Policy Purposes by United States Officials without Congressional Approval,” Hstn. J. Intl. L. 11 (1988): 69-82.

Other Professional Experience

Twenty-five years of United States government and private law practice experience, including: 1995-2003: Owner, Van Cleve & Associates/Partner, Van Cleve & Eder, Washington, D.C. 1992-1995: Of Counsel, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (Washington, D.C.). 1989-1991: Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (Environment & Natural Resources Division). 1989: Special Counsel to the Secretary of Defense. 1983-1989: Legislative Counsel, Committee/Select Committee Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives. 1989-2004: Invited lectures to law schools or law classes at Cardozo University (NY); Georgetown University (D.C.); St. John’s University (New York); University of Baltimore; and Washington University (St. Louis). Legal education presentations at nationwide training programs in Madison, Wis., Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, La.