Attorney and political scientist Michael M. Uhlmann is Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Professor of Government in the Washington, D.C. program of Claremont McKenna College. Prior to joining the Center, he was a partner in the Washington office of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, where he specialized in antitrust, insurance, and environmental law for many years. He remains with the firm as Counsel.
In addition to private law practice, Mr. Uhlmann has taught at the college, law school and graduate school level, most recently as an adjunct professor of law at the George Mason University Law School. He has had a long and distinguished career in government, including service on the staff of the United States Senate, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the White House. He was appointed by President Gerald Ford to be an Assistant Attorney General in 1975. And upon Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, he was named Special Assistant to the President, serving until the end of President Reagan's first term.
He has lectured widely before legal, academic, and lay audiences and is a frequent radio commentator. His television appearances include interviews on CSPAN, Fox Morning News, and numerous PBS network shows.
Articles and reviews in the Los Angeles Times, National Review, The American Spectator, the Washington Times, First Things, Crisis, Human Life Review, and various American Enterprise International publications.
