Dr. Douglas S. Reed is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University. He teaches both American politics and Constitutional Law and his research interests broadly focus on courts and social movements with an emphasis on the political and constitutional meanings of equality. His recent work has centered on educational equality and legal institutions, with a focus on state supreme court interventions in public school finance.

A former Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, Dr. Reed earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1995. His dissertation, titled, Democracy v. Equality: Political and Legal Struggles over School Finance Equalization, examined the impact of state supreme court decisions on school finance in Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Texas. His most recent article, "The People v. The Court: School Finance Reform and the New Jersey Supreme Court," appeared in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.

During the 1996-97 school year, Dr. Reed received a Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education and is writing a book on courts and educational reform.

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