STAN BRAND WEIGHS IN ON CLAUDINE GAY’S PREPARATION FOR CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
December 2023 — Penn State Dickinson Law Distinguished Fellow Stanley Brand was recently interviewed for the Harvard Crimson article, “Corporation Head William Lee ’72 Helped Prepare Gay Ahead of Testimony, Highlighting Complex Dual Roles.” When asked to discuss President Claudine Gay’s preparation for answers at a congressional hearing on Harvard’s response to the October 7 Hamas attack, Brand stated, “This is a made for television event where they want to pin the witness against the wall. As a president of a university that has a code of conduct and a disciplinary system where she may wind up being a decision maker, I don’t know how she could answer any other way.”
Professor Stan 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.