Mr. Feinstein, former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, is a Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow in the Office of Executive Programs. He conducts research, writes and develops executive education programs on labor policy and other issues.

During his nearly six-year tenure as General Counsel, Feinstein was recognized for efforts to improve the administration of the National Labor Relations Act. He instituted a system for case prioritization and made significant progress towards assuring that elections for union representation were consistently conducted in a timely manner. He received four "Hammer Awards" for these and other innovations in the operations of the Office of General Counsel.

Before he was NLRB General Counsel, Feinstein served for 17 years as Chief Labor Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. House of Representative’s Labor Management Relations Subcommittee. Responsible for directing the consideration of labor legislation, Mr. Feinstein was a lead staffer on the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act), and several efforts to amend the National Labor Relations Act.

Feinstein has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University School of Law, conducting courses on Legislation. He was also an elementary public school teacher in East Harlem, New York in the early 70's. Mr. Feinstein received a J.D. from Rutgers Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from Swarthmore College.