Professor

Nancy

E.

Weiss

Nancy Weiss has over 30 years of experience in executive leadership positions advancing cultural engagement and expression.  Within the U.S. Government, she served as the first General Counsel of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Deputy General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and as the Fifth Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office. 

Nancy has represented the United States Government on delegations to the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),  United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Organization of American States (OAS), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and international conferences relating to Holocaust-Era Assets.  She has played a key role in drafting international instruments pertaining to copyright and digital content, cultural activity and expression, human rights and information policy, and Nazi-confiscated art.  

Earlier in her career, Nancy served as Deputy General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, practiced litigation and media law at Williams and Connolly, held a research fellowship in New Delhi, India, and held a federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. William W Schwarzer (N.D. California and Director of the Federal Judicial Center). Nancy graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School, and phi beta kappa with a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.   She is a Senior Fellow at the Washington College of Law.