JONATHAN R. SIEGEL

George Washington University Law School Telephone: 202-***-****

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Washington, DC 20052 E-mail: abo8f5@r.postjobfree.com

Website: www.jsiegel.net

EXPERIENCE

George Washington University Law School, Kahan Research Professor (2008-present);

Professor of Law (2001-present); Associate Professor of Law (1995-2001)

! Classes: Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Intellectual

Property, Lawsuits Against Governments.

! Research areas: Administrative law, federal courts, lawsuits against governments, statutory

interpretation.

Administrative Conference of the U.S., Director of Research and Policy (2010-2011)

! Directed the research and policy development program of a federal government agency.

! Developed recommendations to improve federal administrative law and procedure.

! Managed staff and consultants.

! Advised the Chairman on all matters pertaining to agency business.

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senior Legislative Fellow (Fall, 2007)

! Advised the Senator on legal and policy issues in legislation, nominations, and oversight.

! Prepared the Senator for hearings, press conferences, and other appearances.

Cornell Law School, Visiting Professor of Law (Fall, 2006)

Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney (1990-1995)

! Briefed and argued cases in the United States Courts of Appeals.

! Negotiated settlements of appellate cases.

! Advised the Solicitor General as to whether to take appeals.

! Assisted the Solicitor General in litigating cases in the Supreme Court.

The Honorable Patricia M. Wald, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of

Columbia Circuit, Law Clerk (1989-1990)

Decision Resources, Inc., Author and Product Manager, CHART-MASTER (1981-1986)

! Wrote CHART-MASTER, which became the IBM PC s number one graphics program.

! Helped found Decision Resources, Inc. to market CHART-MASTER.

! Managed product design, development, and marketing as sales grew to over $5 million.

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PUBLICATIONS

! The Institutional Case for Judicial Review, 97 Iowa L. Rev. 1147-1199 (2012).

! Naive Textualism in Patent Law, 76 Brook. L. Rev. 1019-1032 (2011) (symposium).

! Finding SIGTARP in the Separation of Powers Labyrinth, 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 447-

456 (2011) (symposium).

! The Inexorable Radicalization of Textualism, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 117-178 (2009).

! Law and Longitude, 84 Tul. L. Rev. 1-66 (2009).

! Guardians of the Background Principles, 2009 Mich. State L. Rev. 123-141 (symposium).

! The Rehnquist Court (Book Review), 122 Pol. Sci. Q. 688-689 (2008).

! Judicial Interpretation in the Cost-Benefit Crucible, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 387-433 (2007).

! A Theory of Justiciability, 86 Tex. L. Rev. 73-139 (2007).

! Bobblehead Justice, 10 Green Bag 2d 405-410 (2007).

! Political Questions and Political Remedies, in THE POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE AND

THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 243-268 (Cain & Sabbah, eds.) (2007).

! A Short Note on the Placement of Adverbs, 56 J. Leg. Educ. 61-69 (2006).

! The Polymorphic Principle and the Judicial Role in Statutory Interpretation, 84 Tex. L.

Rev. 339-394 (2005).

! Zone of Interests, 92 Geo. L.J. 317-368 (2004).

! Waivers of State Sovereign Immunity and the Ideology of the Eleventh Amendment, 52

Duke L.J. 1167-1243 (2003).

! The D.C. Circuit and the Struggle for Control of Presidential Information, 90 Geo. L.J.

737-778 (2002) (co-written with Hon. Patricia M. Wald).

! What Statutory Drafting Errors Teach Us About Statutory Interpretation, 69 Geo. Wash.

L. Rev. 309-366 (2001).

! The Use of Legislative History in a System of Separated Powers, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1457-

1527 (2000), reprinted in 1 NORMAN J. SINGER, STATUTES AND STATUTORY

CONSTRUCTION 5A:5 (6th ed. 2002).

! Timing and Delegation: A Reply, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1543-1548 (2000).

! Congress s Power to Authorize Suits Against States, 68 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 44-115

(1999).

! Textualism and Contextualism in Administrative Law, 78 B.U. L. Rev. 1023-1112 (1998).

! Suing the President: Nonstatutory Review Revisited, 97 Colum. L. Rev. 1612-1709

(1997).

! The Hidden Source of Congress s Power to Abrogate State Sovereign Immunity, 73 Tex.

L. Rev. 539-570 (1995).

! Note, Chilling Injuries as a Basis for Standing, 98 Yale L.J. 905-924 (1989).

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

! Participated in a panel discussion on state and federal power over immigration presented by

the American Constitution Society (Feb. 2012)

! Commented on papers at the Columbia Law School Legislation and Statutory Interpretation

Roundtable (Apr. 2011).

! Presented Naive Textualism in Patent Law at a Brooklyn Law School symposium on

statutory interpretation (Nov. 2010).

! Served on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Civil Procedure (2009-2012).

! Testified before the D.C. Council s Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination

regarding the constitutionality of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act (June 2009).

! Presented Guardians of the Background Principles at a symposium on administrative

statutory interpretation at Michigan State University College of Law (Nov. 2008).

! Presented The Interpretation Wars at University of Richmond Law School (Sept. 2008).

! Addressed the 2007 Summit of the Appellate Judges Educational Institute (Sept. 2007).

! Presented A Theory of Article III at Cornell Law School (Nov. 2006).

! Participated in a panel discussion at the University of Maryland of Becoming Justice

Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse (Dec. 2005).

! Served as Content Consultant to the Capital Children s Museum with regard to a planned

exhibit concerning the federal government (2003-2004).

! Served as Legal Adviser to the Special Master, Alaska v. United States, No. 128, Orig. (U.S.)

(2001-2004).

! Argued Montgomery v. State of Maryland, No. 00-2099 (4th Cir.), a case concerning waivers

of state sovereign immunity (May 2001).

! Addressed the Bicentennial Conference of the D.C. Circuit on the topic, The D.C. Circuit

and the Struggle for Control of Presidential Information (Mar. 2001).

! Addressed the Office of the General Counsel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the

topic, Legislative and Interpretative Rules (Feb. 2000).

! Moderated a panel discussion presented by the D.C. Bar concerning the Supreme Court s

First National Bank decision and its effect on standing doctrine (Sept. 1998).

! Testified before the Council of the District of Columbia concerning the advisability of

reuniting the District with the state of Maryland (Jan. 1998).

! Served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Administrative Law and Agency

Practice Section of the D.C. Bar (1996-1998).

! Moderated a panel discussion concerning the Line Item Veto Act at the D.C. Bar Winter

Convention (Feb. 1997).

! Testified before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, Employment & Housing of the

House Committee on Veterans Affairs concerning the effect of the Supreme Court s Seminole

Tribe decision on veterans reemployment rights (May 1996).

EDUCATION

Yale Law School

! J.D., 1989. Received Honors in all graded classes.

! Yale Law Journal, Book Review and Comment Editor (1988 - 1989).

Harvard College

! A.B. magna cum laude in mathematics, 1984.

! Phi Beta Kappa, 1984.

Updated: 6-1-2012

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