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Alexander
E.
Dreier
Partner, Washington, D.C.
Alex Dreier's practice is focused on advising clients with respect to federal regulatory issues, especially those related to academic research, student privacy, civil rights, and student affairs. Most of his clients are educational or research institutions and the associations that represent them. He also has advised colleges and universities on tenure rights, terrorism-related regulation post-9/11, institutional governance, the Solomon Amendment and a wide variety of other matters of concern to education institutions. He has represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts in litigation concerning civil rights and affirmative action, human subjects research, privacy, school funding, employment discrimination and special education. He assists universities in responding to investigations by federal agencies that oversee sponsored research.
Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Alex was assistant to the provost and adjunct professor of law at a large public research university.
Alex is a frequent speaker on legal developments of interest to education clients, including at meetings of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and the American Health Lawyers' Association. He has published numerous articles, in such periodicals as the Journal of College and University Law, the Bureau of National Affairs' Medical Research Law and Policy Report, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Trusteeship and West's Education Law Reporter.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Represented several universities in separate U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigations of complaints concerning race-conscious student financial aid and other programs.
Represented a public university in litigation arising from alleged violation of subjects' informed consent and other rights in academic research.
Advised a leading university in investigation by the Office for Human Research Protections.
Submitted briefs on behalf of 55 higher education associations in the University of Michigan admissions cases.
Represented private university before the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzaga University v. John Doe, which established that students may not invoke the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to sue a university.
Hogan & Hartson Publications
05.20.2009
"NIH Issues Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Conflicts of Interest in Research." Federal Research Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
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