Just call him professorDoug Emhoff.
The husband of Vice President-electKamala Harriswas announced Thursday as joining the faculty at theGeorgetown University Law Center, where he will teach a two-credit course beginning in January for the spring semester titled “Entertainment Law Disputes,” according to a spokeswoman for the Biden-Harris transition.
The 56-year-old entertainment attorney, who has been practicing law for almost three decades, will also serve as “a Distinguished Fellow of the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy drawing on his expertise in entertainment and media law,” the transition team says.
“I couldn’t be more excited to join the Georgetown community,” he added.
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From left: Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.Adam Schultz/Biden for President
Georgetown Law Dean William M. Treanor said in the release that he was “delighted” that Emhoff will be coming on board, referring to his new faculty member as “one of the nation’s leading intellectual property and business litigators” with “a strongcommitment to social justice.”
“I know our students will greatly benefit from his experience and insight, and I am eagerly looking forward to his arrival,” Treanor said.
Doug Emhoff.Michael Perez/AP/Shutterstock
The transition spokeswoman notes to PEOPLE that Emhoff’s new position at Georgetown “will be separate and apart fromhis official role as second gentleman.”
“Mr. Emhoff continues to work with the Biden-Harris transition team to develop the portfolio he will focus on to support the work of the Administration,” the spokeswoman said.
From left: Sen. Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff.Carolyn Kaster/AP/Shutterstock
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Emhoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, before moving to California when he was 17 years old. A graduate of University of Southern California’sGould School of Law, he notably represented the advertising agency TBWA Worldwide in a case over the rights to theTaco Bellchihuahua in the fast-food company’s “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” ads.
Harris' husband is still listed as apartner at DLA Piper Law Firmin Los Angeles, but it was reported in November that he will beleaving the California firmahead of the presidential inauguration next month, amid his new work in Washington, D.C.
“She’s got plenty of great people giving her political advice,” Emhoff said then. “I’mher partner, I’m her best friend and I’m her husband. And that’s what I’m here for. I’m here to have her back.”
source: people.com
