Another Ex-Senator Secures a Job Teaching Law School
Russ Feingold will be joining Marquette University Law School as a visiting professor following his Senate loss to a Republican opponent in November.
The former Democratic senator from Wisconsin will teach an elective course called Current Legal Issues: The U.S. Senate, according to a press release. Feingold told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s All Politics Blog that the course will include the confirmation process, war powers and procedural issues such as the filibuster and lame-duck legislation.
He also plans to begin work on a book.
The Marquette announcement is the second one by a law school that will be hiring a onetime U.S. senator. Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced that Arlen Specter would become an adjunct faculty member teaching a course on separation of powers and the confirmation process.
Marquette dean Joseph Kearney wrote at the school’s Faculty Blog that Feingold is “known for his studious approach to the complex issues before the United States Senate.”
“While I do not doubt that some of his views are controversial, or, still less, suggest that all of them are right, an institution of legal education is especially well suited to explore multiple dimensions of such issues,” Kearney wrote.
