DICKINSON LAW PROFESSORS EXAMINE ISSUES SURROUNDING CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIVE POWER
October 2023 — In the recently published Congressional Investigations and Oversight: Case Studies and Analysis (2d edition 2023) Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Lance Cole and Distinguished Fellow Stanley Brand examine legal and policy issues surrounding congressional investigative power, the caselaw which has developed through history from Watergate to Iran-contra to Whitewater as well as significant rulings from the Trump era, the Trump impeachments and the January 6 committee investigation of the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Professor Lance Cole is an expert on business law, corporate securities law, white collar crime, and the law of congressional investigations and oversight. His research and scholarship focus primarily on the conduct and defense of governmental investigations. He is the co-author of a law school textbook, Congressional Investigations and Oversight: Case Studies and Analysis, and has published numerous law review articles on government law and policy topics. Professor Cole has extensive law practice and public service experience, including service as a legal adviser to the 9/11 Commission and as a special counsel to the United States Senate Special Committee on Whitewater.
Professor Stanley Brand is the On-site Director of Dickinson Law’s Semester-in-Washington D.C. Program. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C. He is the former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives and chief legal officer responsible for representing the House, its members, officers, and employees in connection with legal procedures and challenges to the conduct of their official activities; former Senior Counsel in Akin Gump’s litigation practice in Washington, D.C.; and Vice President, National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the governing body of minor league baseball). He is a co-author, with Professor Lance Cole, of a casebook on Congressional Investigations. With over thirty years of experience, Professor Brand offers students a particularly sharp insight into federal regulatory and legislative practice in Washington, D.C.