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Mr. Spencer Overton
Spencer Overton teaches law at The George Washington University Law School where his scholarly interests include property, campaign finance, voting rights, and race. Overton formerly taught at the University of California, Davis, and has given academic presentations at a variety of law schools, including Harvard, North Carolina, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Washington & Lee. Prior to Overton's appointment at the University of California, he served as the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he co-taught a course on Law and the Political Process with Professor Lani Guinier. He also serves as a director of the National Voting Rights Institute and the Fannie Lou Hamer Project. Prior to joining academia, Overton practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Debevoise & Plimpton, where he worked on several widely noticed cases, including investigations by Congress and the Justice Department into fundraising techniques employed by the Democratic National Committee.
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