Chai R. Feldblum
Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., Director of Georgetown’s Federal Legislation Clinic, and Co-Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010.
Professor Feldblum graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. While serving as a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, Feldblum was one of the lead lawyers crafting and negotiating the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Professor Feldblum is a nationally known scholar and advocate on disability rights, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and social welfare policy. She is also a leading speaker on legislative and regulatory structures. As Director of the Federal Legislation Clinic, Professor Feldblum has represented (among other groups) Catholic Charities USA, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Health Privacy Project, the Family Violence Prevention Center, and the Epilepsy Foundation of America.
In 2003, Professor Feldblum launched and now co-directs Workplace Flexibility 2010. This initiative, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is engaged in a multi-year effort of research, outreach and consensus-building designed to advance a national policy on workplace flexibility for the United States. The structure of Workplace Flexibility 2010 is based on Professor Feldblum’s theory of advocacy, set forth in The Art of Legislative Lawyering and the Six Circles Theory of Advocacy, 34 McGeorge Law Review 785 (2003).
