Scott Hempling

Scott Hempling has taught the law of public utilities to a generation of regulators and practitioners.

As an attorney, he has assisted clients from all industry sectors -- regulators, utilities, consumer organizations, independent competitors and environmental organizations. As an expert witness, he has testified numerous times before state commissions and before committees of the United States Congress and the legislatures of Arkansas, California, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. As a seminar presenter, he has appeared throughout the United States and in Canada, Central America, Germany, India, Jamaica, Mexico and Nigeria.

His articles have appeared in The Electricity Journal, Public Utilities Fortnightly, ElectricityPolicy.com and other professional publications, covering such topics as mergers and acquisitions, the introduction of competition into formerly monopolistic markets, corporate restructuring, ratemaking, utility investments in nonutility businesses, transmission planning, renewable energy and state–federal jurisdictional issues. From 2006 to 2011, he was the Executive Director of the National Regulatory Research Institute.

Hempling is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course on public utility law. His book of essays, Preside or Lead? The Attributes and Actions of Effective Regulators, was published in 2010. An expanded edition will be published in fall 2013. His treatise, Public Utility Performance: Legal Principles and Modern Applications, will be published by the American Bar Association in fall 2013.

Hempling received a B.A. cum laude in (1) Economics and Political Science and (2) Music from Yale University, where he was awarded a Continental Grain Fellowship and a Patterson research grant. He received a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was the recipient of an American Jurisprudence award for Constitutional Law.

Mr. Hempling is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland.