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Michael Greenberger, JDMichael Greenberger is the founder and director of CHHS and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Professor Greenberger designed and teaches two courses focused on counterterrorism and emergency response: “Homeland Security and The Law of Counterterrorism” and “Law and Policy of Emergency Public Health Response Seminar/Course,” bringing students and faculty from the various university professional schools together to study effective governmental policies pertaining to catastrophic public health emergencies. Professor Greenberger also teaches Constitutional Law and a seminar on Futures, Options, and Derivatives.
Professor Greenberger currently serves as the Chair of the Maryland Governor’s Emergency Management Advisory Council (GEMAC). He was recently appointed by President of the American Bar Association to the Advisory Committee of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security.
In 1999, Professor Greenberger began service as Counselor to the United States Attorney General, and then became the Justice Department’s Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General. In the latter capacity, Professor Greenberger assisted the United States Attorney General and Associate Attorney General in supervising the work of the Justice Department’s Civil, Civil Rights, Environmental, Antitrust, and Tax Divisions. Also within his portfolio of responsibilities were several counterterrorism projects concerning both law enforcement and public health policy, including organizing a nationwide counterterrorism war game (“TOPOFF I”).
Prior to entering government service, Professor Greenberger was a partner for more than 20 years in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner, where he served as lead litigation counsel before courts of law nationwide, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1997, Professor Greenberger left private practice to become the director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he served under CFTC Chairperson Brooksley Born. In that capacity, he was responsible for supervising exchange traded futures and derivatives. He also served on the Steering Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and as a member of the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Hedge Fund Task Force. Professor Greenberger has frequently been asked to testify before Congressional committees on issues pertaining to dysfunctions within the United States economy caused by complex and unregulated financial derivatives, and he served as a Technical Advisor to the United Nations Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System in 2008-2009. He has also recently appeared both in the media and at academic gatherings to discuss financial regulation, including appearances on CNN, ABC’s “World News Tonight,” the CBS Evening News, the NBC Evening News, CNBC, MSNBC, The Jim Lehrer News Hour, NPR's “Fresh Air,” PBS’s “Frontline,” BBC Radio, CBS’s “60 Minutes,” and C-SPAN. Professor Greenberger’s recent testimony and related media can be found at www.michaelgreenberger.com.
Professor Greenberger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. He is a Life Member of the American Law Institute and he has served on the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar and as a board member of three nonprofit public interest organizations. Professor Greenberger has also served on the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures and as a mediator for the United States Courts for the District of Columbia.
