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Prof. Stephen A. Saltzburg
Prof. Stephen A. Saltzburg - University of Pennsylvania, J.D.; Dickinson College, B.A. He served as Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Prof. Saltzburg holds the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Chair at the George Washington University Law School, where he has taught since 1990; in January 2004 he was named as one of six University Professors (out of more than 2,000 faculty members campus-wide). Before joining the GWU faculty, Prof. Saltzburg taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1972, where he was named the first incumbent of the Class of 1962 Endowed Chair. In 1996, he founded and began directing the master's program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at GWU. Prof. Saltzburg has served as the Reporter for and then as a Member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; as a Member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence; as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce; as an Associate Independent Counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation; as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; as the Attorney General's ex-officio representative on the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and as Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force, appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He is the co-author (with Fordham Law Profs. Michael M. Martin & Daniel J. Capra) of a leading treatise on federal evidence, the FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE MANUAL, (with Gregory P. Joseph) of the multi-volume treatise, EVIDENCE IN AMERICA, and of casebooks on CRIMINAL LAW and AMERICAN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. He also has authored or co-authored 20 other books and scores of law review articles. Prof. Saltzburg teaches Criminal Law and Procedure; Trial Advocacy; Dispute Resolution; Attorney-Client Privilege; Evidence; Sentencing; Legal Ethics; Civil Rights; and Congressional Matters.