Peter L. Strauss is Betts Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses in Administrative Law, Legal Methods, and Legislation. He joined the faculty in 1971. After graduating Harvard College (1961) and Yale Law School (1964), he had spent two years clerking for federal judges in Washington, D.C., two years lecturing on criminal law in the national university of Ethiopia, and three years as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, briefing and arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court. During 1975-77, Professor Strauss was on leave from Columbia as the first General Counsel of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His published works include Administrative Justice in the United States (1989 and 2002); Gellhorn's & Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments (most recently, 2003, with Rakoff and Farina), Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes (2005), and numerous law review articles, generally focusing on issues of rulemaking, separation of powers, and statutory interpretation. In 1987 the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association presented to Professor Strauss its third annual award for distinguished scholarship in administrative law. In 1992-93, he served as Chair of the Section. He has twice been Vice Dean at Columbia. Professor Strauss has visited at Harvard and NYU, and lectured widely on American administrative law abroad, including programs in Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, Turkey and Venezuela. He is editor of the Social Science Research Network's Administrative Law Abstracts, and a member of the board of the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.