Kirk L. Jowers is a member in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Jowers joined the firm in 2001. For the past several years, Mr. Jowers has worked exclusively in the election law and government ethics arena. He has experience advising clients on the full range of issues arising under federal, state, and local campaign finance laws and regulations. He also has worked with clients on their lobbying registrations and has represented clients in all phases of Federal Election Commission and related federal court proceedings.
Mr. Jowers currently serves as the Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Associate Director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs, and and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah, where,
inter alia , he co-teaches a course on the U.S. Presidency, and as Director of Academic Affairs and Deputy General Counsel to the Campaign Legal Center. Mr. Jowers has advised more than 30 Republican congressional candidates and provided legal counsel to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign on Electoral College issues and in Broward County, Florida during the 2000 election recount controversy. In addition, he has served as the Deputy General Counsel for the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (1999-2000) and as General Counsel of the Washington, D.C. Republican Party (1999-2000).
Mr. Jowers is a frequent lecturer on campaign finance laws, government ethics requirements, and lobbying disclosure. He is the author of several publications, including:
Speech Governed by Federal Election Laws and
Election Law and the Internet in Corrado, Mann, Ortiz and Potter, The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook (The Brookings Institution 2005);
Upholding the Law: The Role of the Courts in Election Law , Catholic University Law Review, Fall 2002;
Election Law and the Internet, THE CIVIC WEB (Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003); and
Issue Advocacy: If It Cannot Be Regulated When It Is Least Valuable, It Cannot Be Regulated When It Is Most Valuable , Catholic University Law Review, Fall 2000. He served as the Assistant Editor of POLITICAL ACTIVITY, LOBBYING LAWS AND GIFT RULES GUIDE (Glasser Legal Works, 1999).