Professor Edelman Appointed Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy
Georgetown University Law Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Peter Edelman as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy. Edelman will be formally installed at a ceremony during the 2015 spring semester.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Georgetown University Law Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Peter Edelman as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy. Edelman will be formally installed at a ceremony during the 2015 spring semester.
“A longstanding and invaluable member of our community, Peter Edelman is a top-notch teacher, an outstanding scholar and one of the nation’s most highly-regarded anti-poverty advocates,” said Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor. “His remarkable achievements both in and out of the classroom make this professorship a well-deserved honor.”
Edelman, who is currently faculty director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy, is an expert in constitutional law, legislation and social welfare. He has served as director of the New York State Division for Youth and vice president of the University of Massachusetts. He was a legislative assistant to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and was issues director for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980. He was also a law clerk to Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. In addition, he worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as special assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas.
Edelman is the author of So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America ( 2012 ) and Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope ( 2001 ). He co-authored Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men ( 2006 ), and has authored numerous articles on poverty, constitutional law and issues about children and youth. His article in the Atlantic Monthly, “The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done,” received a Harry Chapin Media Award.
Edelman has chaired and been a board member of many organizations and foundations. He is currently chair of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission and board chair of the National Center for Youth Law. He is president emeritus of the New Israel Fund and a board member of the American Constitution Society, the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Center for American Progress Action Fund and several other nonprofit organizations.
The Carmack Waterhouse Professorships at Georgetown Law, which include professorships in law, medicine, ethics and public policy and state and local government, were established by the late Carmack Waterhouse, Georgetown Law class of 1935, and his wife, Mary, with a gift from their estate. Waterhouse was a patent attorney with the Atomic Energy Commission until his retirement in 1967. He died in 1995.
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