A directory of my HuffingtonPost blogs
is here. I also blog regularly on executive power issues here. I
twitter @petermshane.
A link appears below to my May 13, 2009 written testimony to the Administrative
Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, concerning the OLC Torture opinions.
My September 16, 2008, written testimony to the Constitution Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, on "Restoring
the Rule of Law" is here.
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Peter M. Shane is the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University’s Moritz
College of Law, where he also directs the Project on Law and Democratic Development. During 2008, he is serving as Executive
Director to the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, organized and staffed by the Aspen
Institute in Washington, D.C., with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Peter is also Distinguished Service
Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and
Management, where he was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS).
An internationally recognized authority on constitutional and administrative law, Peter has
been dubbed by one blogger as "a major figure in the e-democracy movement" because of his work on the use of new information
technologies to expand opportunities for the general public to participate meaningfully in the formulation of public policy.
With Professor Stephen Coleman of the University of Leeds, he co-chairs the NSF-supported International Working Group on Online
Consultation and Public Policy Making (IWG). The IWG has launched the "(R)E-connecting Democracy" Project, analyzing the policy
and other social impacts of online citizen consultation initiatives aimed at influencing actual government decision making
(www.reconnectingdemocracy.org).
Peter is a familiar public commentator on constitutional and legal affairs. He has been interviewed
on both The Jim Lehrer News Hour and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and his op-eds have appeared in the New
York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and other major newspapers.
A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Professor Shane clerked for the Hon. Alvin B. Rubin of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He served as an attorney- adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of
Legal Counsel and as an assistant general counsel in the Office of Management and Budget, before entering full-time teaching
in 1981 at the University of Iowa. He has visited at Duke, Boston College, and Villanova Law Schools, and was the inaugural
"Visiting Foreign Chair" for the University of Ghent Program in Foreign and Comparative Law in Ghent, Belgium, in 2001. Peter
was dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1994 to 1998, when, following a national survey, he was cited
by Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, published by the American Association for Higher Education, as one of
40 "Young Leaders of the Academy" – the only law dean on the list. From 2003-2007, he directed the Center for Interdisciplinary
Law and Policy Studies at Ohio State University.
Recent books include Peter M. Shane, ed.,
Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal through the Internet (Routledge, 2004), and Peter M. Shane, John Podesta
and Richard C. Leone, eds., A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security and Public Information After September 11 (Century Foundation
Press, 2004). His critique of the modern theory and practice of "presidentialism" in American government is being published
by the University of Chicago Press in February, 2009. Peter chairs the Board of Editors of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy
for the Information Society, and is a board member of both the Journal of Information Technology and Politics
and the Journal of Public Deliberation.
Contact:
peter "at" petermshane "dot" com
