Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics

• Administrative Law,
• Constitutional Law I and II, 
• Environmental Law,
• Graduate Environmental Law Seminar

B.A. 1967 Harvard University
J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and James Kent Scholar, 1973 Columbia University School of Law
Writing and research editor, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law

Before coming to the law school to teach, Professor Funk was an assistant general counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy and earned a special citation for exceptional performance from the Secretary of Energy. Prior to that Funk served as the principal staff member of the Legislation Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he was instrumental in the drafting of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Before joining the House Committee, Funk was a staff attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he received a special commendation for outstanding service. Immediately after law school he clerked for Judge James Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Professor Funk is a co-author of one of the leading administrative law casebooks, Administrative Procedure and Practice: Problems and Cases, as well as Administrative Law: Examples & Explanations and the Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook. Together with Professor Craig Johnston, Professor Funk is also a co-author of Legal Protection of the Environment, an environmental law casebook. In 2004-05, Funk was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught both American constitutional law and environmental law. Funk writes regularly on administrative and environmental issues and has chaired both the Administrative Law and Natural Resources Law Sections of the American Association of Law Schools. He is also active in the American Bar Association, including chairing its Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section and serving on its Council. Professor Funk is also a Center for Progressive Reform Scholar and a member of the American Law Institute. He has been admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Supreme Court.