Speakers
Eric McClafferty
Program Topic: The Tech Energy Transition
Eric McClafferty’s practice focuses on counseling, compliance programs, internal investigations and enforcement matters related to economic sanctions and denied parties, export controls, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), customs, antidumping and countervailing duties, and reviews and investigations before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Mr. McClafferty guides senior company officers and compliance personnel involved in international transactions through the restrictions imposed by evolving U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba, Crimea, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Sudan and Syria, and other rules administered by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition, he advises on export licensing and classification; performs due diligence export compliance reviews; establishes company and product-specific compliance and training programs for product, software and technology exports; and guides clients through export enforcement investigations and penalty negotiations related to exports of military, dual-use and nuclear items.
Mr. McClafferty’s clients include exporters of industrial, aerospace, high-technology and agricultural products and technology, such as chemicals, chemical processing equipment, pharmaceuticals, software, electronics, unmanned vehicles and military items, including aircraft and related components, computers, satellite software and components, semiconductors, nuclear power plant components and specialty metals, powders and alloys.
He works with all export control agencies of the U.S. government, including the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC); and counterparts at the Department of Defense (DOD), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE).
Omar Nashashibi
Program Topic: The Tech Energy Transition
Mr. Nashashibi is a lobbyist and consultant in Washington, D.C. with more than two decades working with politicians and policymakers on behalf of the manufacturing industry.
Mr. Nashashibi has represented clients before the previous and current administrations, the U.S. Congress, particularly the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance, Appropriations, and Transportation Committees. He has also consulted clients on matters in several state and local governments, including the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Illinois, among others.
Prior to entering the private sector, Mr. Nashashibi worked for the Office of Management and Budget, focusing on federal procurement policy. He also has extensive experience working with non-profits and public policy foundations. Mr. Nashashibi served as a research assistant at the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nation-wide consortium of public policy researchers and analysts. In 1995, he began his career in Washington, D.C. covering congressional hearings and agency proceedings for a nation-wide nonprofit publication.
Mr. Nashashibi graduated from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he studied Political Science and International Affairs.
Amy L. Stein, JD, Cone Wagner Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Program Topic: The Tech Energy Transition
Professor Stein is the former Associate Dean for Curriculum and current Cone Wagner Professor of Law and affiliate faculty for the University’s AI2 Center at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She serves on the University’s AI Working Group in AI Ethics and Policy and the Florida Climate Institute, as well as the Association of American Law Schools’ Natural Resources and Energy Law and Environmental Sections. Popular Science named Professor Stein one of the “Visionary Thinkers” of 2022 for her work on algorithms and the climate crisis. She writes and teaches at the intersection of emerging technologies and the law. Among other courses, she has been teaching Energy Law for the past fifteen years and Artificial Intelligence and the Law for the past six years.
Professor Stein is an internationally recognized law and technology scholar, sharing her work on the legal, sustainability, and ethical implications of various technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). Some of her AI-related publications explore the possibilities of using AI to address aspects of climate change, Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change, 37 Yale Journal on Regulation 890 (2020), work that has been cited in Forbes, as well as the implications of artificial intelligence for tort defenses in civil liability, Assuming the Risks of Artificial Intelligence, 102 Boston University Law Review 979 (2022). More recently, she is exploring the impacts of data center growth on the electric grid and the sustainability implications of generative AI. Prior scholarship focuses on energy data monopolies, delegations of authority related to emergency powers, pathways to integrate emerging energy technologies, and the federalism implications of energy and climate change, all of which can be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=1216973.
Professor Stein began her academic career at George Washington University Law School and Tulane Law School. Prior to her academic appointments, she practiced as an environmental and litigation associate for Latham & Watkins LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley offices. She is a member of the District of Columbia, Illinois, and California state bars. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago (AB) and the University of Chicago Law School (JD). She is a member of the Order of the Coif, an honorary society for professors that have attained high distinction for their scholarly accomplishments.