Born:
Boston, Massachusetts, December 29, 1943
Married: Joan D. Makechnie,
1965
Sons: Bradford and Edward
EDUCATION
Harvard University, LL.B. magna cum laude, 1968
Harvard Law Review: associate editor, 1966-67
Supreme Court Note and Developments editor, 1967- 68
Amherst College, B.A. summa cum laude, 1965
CAREER
2002 President of Reed College
1999-2002 Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Professor of Law and Economics,
University of Pennsylvania
Law School
1989-99 Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Bernard
G. Segal Professor of Law
1989-94 Professor of public policy, Wharton School (secondary appointment)
1981-89 Professor of law, Boston University
1988-89 Dean of the Boston University School of Law
1985- 88 Associate dean of the Boston University School of Law
1981- 89 Professor of public management, Boston University School
of Management
(secondary appointment)
1983 Visiting professor of law, University of Pennsylvania
1975-81 Associate professor of law, Boston University
1979-81 Visiting associate professor of public management, John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1975- 81 Associate professor of public management, Boston University
School of Management
(secondary appointment)
1972-74 Undersecretary, Executive Office for Administration and
Finance, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
1971- 72 Assistant secretary, Executive Office of Consumer Affairs,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1968-71 Special counsel to the mayor, City of Boston, Massachusetts
PUBLICATIONS
(recent selected)
Administrative Law: Cases and Materials and Teacher’s
Manual
4th ed. Aspen Pub., Inc. (with R. Cass & J. Beermann) (2002)
“Genophobia: What Is Wrong with Genetic Discrimination?”
Univ. of Penn. Law Rev. 149:1441 (2001)
“Seeking Higher Ground,” Media Studies J. 12:120
(1998) (with Joan M. Diver)
“Israeli Administrative Law from an American Perspective,
“ Law and Government in Israel, 4:1 (1997)
“Regulatory Precision, “ in Making Regulatory Policy
(K. Hawkins & J. Thomas eds. 1989)
“Presidential Powers, “ American Univ. Law Rev.,
36:519 (1987)
“No Compromises, “ J. of Policy Analysis & Mgt.,
5:645 (1986)
COURSES TAUGHT
Administrative law
Biotechnology and the law; torts
Broadcast regulation
Economic regulation
Procedural due process
Public management I and II |