Part-time and Adjunct Faculty

For biographies of part-time and adjunct faculty members, click the first letter of the faculty member's last name.

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Edward Lacey: Professorial Lecturer

Erwan Lagadec: Professorial Lecturer
Erwan Lagadec teaches French civilization and European security at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Since 2006 he has been affiliated with the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he is a Foreign Policy Institute Fellow; his work at SAIS is focused on transatlantic planning and response efforts in catastrophic or complex crises. An officer in the French Navy Reserve specialized in policy planning and U.S.-EU relations, he has worked at the U.S. mission to the European Union and NATO (2006), the French military representation to the EU's Political and Security Committee (2007), and with the military attache at the French embassy in the United States (since 2008). He is an affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. He previously was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004-2005), and an independent consultant for the French Foreign Ministry's Policy Planning Staff (2005), as well as for Electricite de France (2006). He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He holds a D.Phil. (PhD) in medieval history from the University of Oxford (Trinity College), and an MA from the University of Paris-I (Sorbonne). He can be contacted at erwan.lagadec@jhu.edu.

William Lane: Lecturer
William C. Lane is a leading business advocate for free trade and global engagement in Washington D.C. Mr. Lane has been with Caterpillar since 1975 and has been the company's Washington Director for Government Affairs since 1998. He is a co-chair of the U.S. Andean Free Trade Coalition and the ABC Doha Coalition. In addition, he is Vice President of the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, a group supporting a robust international affairs budget. In 2005, Speaker Hastert appointed Bill to the HELP Commission, a presidential committee examining the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid.

Previously, Mr. Lane founded and chaired the USA Engage Coalition and helped lead the business advocacy efforts in support of the Australia and Chile Free Trade Agreements, as well as Trade Promotion Authority. He is a member of the U.S. Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Capital Goods and a Board Member of Partners for Democratic Change. Mr. Lane received his BA and MA degrees from Penn State and attended the University of Cologne in Germany. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and a Board Member of the Penn State Smeal College Alumni Society. He may be contacted at lane_william_c@cat.com.

Laura Langberg: Professorial Lecturer
Laura Langberg received an LL.M. in international legal studies from American University in 1997. She holds a JD degree from the University of Buenos Aires, where she served as Adjunct Professor on International Human Rights for eight years. Ms. Langberg received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1994 to conduct research on violence against women. She was also a visiting scholar with the International Visitor Exchange Program in 1993, and received the Organization of American States Fellowship, XIII Course on International Law, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1986. Ms. Langberg is currently independent advisor on Anti-Trafficking in Persons and has served as Anti-Tip Specialist at the Inter-American Commission of Women of the Organization of American States from 2000-2005, traveling extensively in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. This course will examine international migration and the global problem of trafficking in persons, which affects individuals, communities, and countries around the globe.

David C. Larson:
Mr. Larson is a senior assistant general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, specializing in policy guidance and legal advice pertaining to federal criminal investigations. He has worked for the FBI for nearly ten years in that capacity and has developed a background on FBI jurisdictional issues within and outside the United States; the use of basic and sophisticated investigative techniques; and the protection of civil liberties during the investigative process. He has lectured on the legal authorities and restrictions governing FBI investigations to law enforcement communities in the U.S. and in Europe, Latin America, and Asia on several occasions. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Larson completed a 30-year career in the U.S. Navy, including 10 years as a naval aviator during the Vietnam time frame followed by 20 years as a judge advocate, retiring in the grade of captain (0-6). During the majority of his career in the Navy JAG Corps, he specialized in criminal justice and served in his final tour as Chief Judge, Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals at the Washington Navy Yard. Mr. Larson holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Santa Clara and a Masters in Law from the George Washington University National Law Center. He is a member of the State Bars of Maryland and California. He may be contacted at David.Larson@ic.fbi.gov

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James Lasswell: Lecturer
Prof. Lasswell is currently the Tech Director and Head of the Office of Science & Technology Integration at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. He is responsible for developing the Marine Corps Science and Technology Strategic Plan and articulating Marine Corps technology requirements to the Office of Naval Research and DARPA. He is a retired Marine infantryman with over 27 years of active service in a variety of infantry, planning, and operational concept development assignments. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in History, has a BS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and MA in Strategy and Policy from the Naval War College, and is a graduate of the Army War College. Prior to his retirement in 1998, he served as the Head of Experimentation Operations for the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab in Quantico, VA. More recently, he was responsible for formulating Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Campaign Plans and Five Year Experimentation Plans. Prior to his assignment to the Lab, he was the head of the Strategic Initiatives Branch at Headquarters Marine Corps where he acted as the Co-Chairman to two OSD-sponsored task forces on the Revolution in Military Affairs as well as the Marine Corps author for the strategic concept white paper for the Navy and Marine Corps titled Forward . . . From the Sea. In this assignment, he drafted the initial Service responses to the Chairman's seminal Joint Vision 2010 and the initial Joint Mission Needs Statement for the Mobile Off-Shore Base. Jim Lasswell can be contacted at james.lasswell@usmc.mil.

James Andrew Lewis: Professorial Lecturer
James Andrew Lewis is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at CSIS. He came to CSIS from the U.S. Foreign Service and the Senior Executive Service. Lewis worked on regional security, arms transfer and military space issues. He developed policies for commercial remote sensing, commercial launch services, satellite exports, defense technology, high tech trade with China, and sanctions. His awards include a Gold Medal (the Commerce Department's highest award), appointment as a Senior Intelligence Fellow and two Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State. Lewis received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1984. Lewis has authored more than twenty five publications since coming to CSIS, including "Preserving America's Strength in Satellite Technology," "Assessing the Risk of Cyber Terrorism, Cyber War and Other Cyber Threats," "Globalization and National Security," and "China as a Military Space Competitor." He has appeared in the press and testified before Congress numerous times. His current research includes innovation; military space programs; and national security in the information age. He may be contacted at jalewis@csis.org.

Jessica Lieberman: Professorial Lecturer
Jessica Lieberman is an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor where she advises on Middle East policy and coordinates the Bureau's programming on a number of Near East countries. Prior to joining the State Department, Lieberman worked for several years in international relations focusing on human rights, religion, intergroup relations, and gender. She has worked for both Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations in the Middle East, at the United Nation's Alliance of Civilizations, and carried out research for the Ford Foundation and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. She was a Fulbright fellow in Jordan. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University, a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, and an A.B in Government from Smith College.

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Phillip Linderman: Professorial Lecturer
Phillip Linderman is a career diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service assigned to the Organization of American States (OAS) as that institution's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Coordinator. Previously he served in the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons where he worked closely on human trafficking issues in the Western Hemisphere. His overseas assignments include diplomatic postings in Leipzig, Germany (1998-2002), Havana, Cuba (1995-1998), Santiago, Chile (1993-1995) and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (1990-1993). He may be contacted at PLinderman@oas.org.

Kristin M. Lord:
Kristin Lord is a fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she directs the science and technology task force of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World and focuses on public diplomacy, U.S. foreign policy, and international security. She was formerly the Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations at the Elliott School and Special Advisor to the Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She recently published the report "Voices of America: Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century."

Matthew Loveless:
Matthew Loveless received his Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington in Political Science. Last year, he was a researcher at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) in Mannheim, Germany where he co-managed the European Elections Study 2004. In on-going participation, he continues to be involved in this and the Prospects for EU Democracy after Eastern Enlargement projects. His personal research interests include the European Union, and political behavior and political communication in Central and Eastern Europe. This fall he will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. For now, please use ploveles@indiana.edu to contact him.

Ronald Luna: Professorial Lecturer

Corbin B. Lyday:
Dr. Corbin B. Lyday served for 10 years as a former Senior Policy Analyst with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) including two years as a Democracy Fellow at USAID's Office of Democracy and Governance. During that time, he authored several agency approaches to anti-corruption, pioneered a research project to understand the influence of host-country political clientelism on the agency's governance programs, and authored Rebuilding the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Environments-a manual for program implementers working to restore justice systems in the wake of state failure. He has also served in the private and not-for-profit sectors as senior integrity advisor for Planning and Development Collaborative, Inc. (PADCO), an international project director at the National Center for State Courts and an independent consultant and technical writer for organizations implementing anti-corruption and good governance programs on behalf of multilateral and bilateral development agencies. He has written on post-communist state-building and national integrity efforts, on corruption and human trafficking, and led training seminars for USG officials on corruption and post-conflict justice in various regional contexts. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.A. University of Michigan; and B.A. University of California, Berkeley. He may be contacted at clyday@gwu.edu.

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