Heidi Li Feldman

Heidi Li Feldman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, with a courtesy appointment in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University. She has written major articles on tort law and on legal ethics. Her scholarly expertise includes the U.S. civil justice system more generally.

Dr. Feldman seeks to bring her knowledge of U.S. law, politics and history to a broad public and to bring a grassroots perspective to the legal academy. Dr. Feldman regularly speaks to U.S. and foreign press on topics ranging from U.S. gun regulation efforts to the illegality of family separation as practiced by the Trump administration to the legal issues arising from business and university efforts to escape liability arising from the covid-19 pandemic. She has been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and CBS News; extensive interviews with her have aired on NPR and on CBC (Canadian) radio and television. Dr. Feldman is also active on Twitter.

Dr. Feldman earned both her J.D. and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. She joined the Georgetown University Law Center faculty in 1998.

Sub-specialties:

Legal: tort law, U.S. civil justice system, gun litigation and legislation, role of the state attorneys general, legal ethics.

Politics: current U.S. politics, the interrelationship between state and municipal level political activity and national politics, U.S. political and legal history, political philosophy, governmental and legal ethics. Particular familiarity with the history and use of the 25^th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Democratic Party presidential primary and presidential nomination system.