News Release: Faculty Experts, Finance and Economics, International, People, Politics
Jan. 22, 2009
First 100 Days: Experts Address Issues Facing New Obama Administration
Emory experts are available to comment on the multiple issues facing the nation as President Barack Obama and his administration enact his ambitious domestic agenda, push for passage of his economic stimulus package and work on a host of foreign policy challenges.
Issues include:
Congress
Economic Stimulus Plan
Environment
Federal Tax Policy
Global Economic Crisis
Housing Crisis
International Relations, Europe, Arab Region
Israel/Middle East
Modern civil rights movement, images of blacks in the media
Race and Politics, Michelle Obama, Political Participation
Stock Market
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Appointments; Courts and Congress
Terrorism/Guantanamo Detainees
Congress
Congressional expert Randall Strahan, professor of political science, is working on a book about partisanship in Congress. He is the author of "Leading Representatives: The Agency of Leaders in the Politics of the U.S. House," published in 2007 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Randall Strahan, 404.727.7913
Economic Stimulus Plan
Emory economists are available to discuss the new administration's economic agenda, including the role of government.
Financial and economic news and experts
Environment
William Buzbee, director of Emory's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, has worked on Supreme Court environmental cases, testified before the U.S. Senate about environmental law and the Supreme Court, and written extensively on the environmental and regulatory issues.
William Buzbee, 404.727.6507
Federal Tax Policy
Dorothy Brown, professor of law, specializes in federal tax law and critical race theory and is known for her work examining the racial implications of federal tax policy. She has been an adviser to J. Stephen Swift of the U.S. Tax Court, an associate with Haynes & Miller in Washington, D.C., and an investment banker at New York's Drexel, Burnham & Lambert. She also was a special assistant to the Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dorothy Brown, 404.712.8218
Additional information: Obama's Tax Plan Tackles 'Warren Buffet Problem'
Global Economic Crisis
Jeff Rosensweig, associate professor of international business and finance at Goizueta Business School, specializes in global strategy, global economics and international finance. He has served as a senior international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and was a student of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke at MIT.
Jeff Rosensweig, 404.727.6360
Additional information: Election Finale Good for Global Economy
Housing Crisis
Frank Alexander, professor of law, has served as a consultant to state and local governments across the country on affordable housing and community redevelopment. The Brookings Institution released a paper by Alexander calling for the federal government to advance policies that support regional and local land banking as a solution to the glut of vacant and abandoned properties. He also was called on by Congress to comment on housing issues as part of the recent government bailout bill.
Frank Alexander, 404.727.6982
Additional information: Land Banking Key Solution
International Relations, Europe, Arab Region
Sam Cherribi was a member of Parliament (MP) in The Netherlands from 1994-2002, representing his hometown of Amsterdam. As a Dutch MP he served as a member of the Council of Europe (an assembly focused primarily on human rights), the West European Union (focused on defense and security) and twice served as a member of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations
Sam Cherribi, 404.727.7909
Additional information: European, Arabic Media United in Intense Interest in U.S. Election
Israel/Middle East
Ken Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies, says that President-elect Barack Obama will have to define how Israel continues to be part of the United States' national interest. He points out that the presidential campaign shed very little light on what the new president's plans with regard to the region might be.
Ken Stein, 404.727.2798
Modern civil rights movement, images of blacks in the media
Rudolph Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies, is available to discuss the modern civil rights movement, images of blacks in the media, politics and intergenerational dialogues, as well as race, gender, sexuality and politics. He will be attending the inauguration. An engaged scholar committed to service at the local and national levels, Byrd is the founder and director of Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute, which fosters new scholarship, teaching and public dialogue on the origins, evolution and legacy of the modern civil rights movement.
Rudolph Byrd: 404.727.2515 office
Race and politics, Michelle Obama, political participation
Political scientist Andra Gillespie can discuss the substantive implications of Obama's presidency on race relations, new black political leadership, the unique challenges Michelle Obama faces as First Lady, and political participation. She will be attending the inauguration. Gillespie researches political mobilization and race, as well as competition between minority groups. She is the editor of the forthcoming "Whose Black Politics? Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership."
Andra Gilllespie: 404.727.9748 office
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Stock Market
Hashem Dezhbakhsh (pronounced DEZ-bosh), chair of Emory's Department of Economics, says that any new government stimulus package should be aimed at government investment spending in the nation's infrastructure. Dezhbakhsh's specialties include financial markets and stock market volatility, the oil market and general macroeconomic trends and changes.
Hashem Dezhbakhsh, 404.727.4679
Additional information: Get Used to Roller Coaster Stock Market, Second Economic Stimulus Package
Supreme Court
Robert Schapiro, professor of law and former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, points out that while the U.S. Supreme Court hears 80 to 100 cases a year, tens of thousands of other cases are heard by the lower federal courts, "so the power to control those courts also is a very important result of this election." ,
Robert Schapiro, 404.727.1103
Supreme Court Appointments; Courts and Congress
Tom Clark is an assistant professor of political science whose main areas of expertise are in judicial politics, and the interaction of courts and elected branches of government.
Tom Clark: 404.727.6615
Terrorism/Guantanamo Detainees
Charles Shanor, professor of law and specialist in military law, can discuss the legal and practical issues surrounding the future of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shanor, who teaches a seminar on law and terrorism, is the author of "National Security and Military Law."
Charles Shanor, 404.727.1198
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