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Education
  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1978
  • Duke University, Ph.D., 1967
  • Duke University, M.A., 1963
  • Ohio State University, B.A., 1960

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Robert Dove
Public Policy Specialist

Public Policy and Lobbying
Political Law
Appropriations
  


  2550 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
T: 202-457-6450  F: 202-457-6315
Robert Dove provides Congressional advice and strategy to Patton Boggs’ partners and select clients. Currently Mr. Dove teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on Congressional leadership as a Congressional Professor at George Washington University. In addition, he serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Federal Legislation Clinic at the school’s Law Center.

Mr. Dove possesses extensive experience that makes him well-qualified to serve as a public policy specialist for the firm. After serving as Second Assistant Parliamentarian and Assistant Parliamentarian in the United States Senate, he served as Parliamentarian from 1981-1987 and 1995-2001, working as Legislative Consultant to the Republican Leader Senator Robert J. Dole in the interim.

Outside of the Senate, Mr. Dove has been Parliamentary Consultant at several institutions – as Faculty at the Kennedy School of Government (Seminar for Russian Duma) in Moscow, as Advisor to the Parliaments of Yemen and Kuwait (National Endowment for Democracy), as Advisor to the Bulgarian Legislature (also National Endowment for Democracy), as Representative of the Far East Asia Studies Center, as USIA Advisor in the Polish Legislature and as Republican Platform Committee Parliamentarian at the Republic National Convention.

Mr. Dove also has taught as a Professor of Legislative Procedure at the Legislative Studies Institute, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Associate Professional Lecturer at the University of Maryland, Assistant Professor of Government at Iowa State University and Assistant Professor of Political Science at The Citadel. He served as Moderator/Advisor to the Model Student Senate and taught at Goucher College (Stetson University) as well.