Glen A. Halva-Neubauer is a specialist in state and local government and politics and US domestic policy. His research has focused on state-level abortion policy and policymaking as well as engaged learning pedagogy, especially as it relates to public affairs internships. At present, Dr. Halva-Neubauer’s research centers on analyzing the development of the undue burden standard (the current Supreme Court test for determining the constitutionality of abortion statues) in the federal courts. Halva-Neubauer developed the department’s local internship program, and his current engaged learning project focuses on the Wilkins Fellowships in the State Legislative Affairs, which annually takes 10-12 students to Columbia, SC, to serve as an interns in the state legislature or with groups closely associated with the legislature. In 1995, Professor Halva-Neubauer founded the University’s mock trial program, which he continues to coordinate. He has served as the treasurer of the American Mock Trial Association, the sanctioning organization for undergraduate mock trial in the US, since 1999. A former chair of the Upstate Community Mediation Center, Professor Halva-Neubauer is active in local community affairs.

Halva-Neubauer teaches courses in American Government, Urban Politics, State Politics, Policy and Administration, and Racial and Ethnic Politics.

Dr. Halva-Neubauer is the 1994 recipient of the Alester G. Furman, Jr. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Advising, and the winner of the Association of Furman Students Faculty Member of the Year 1990, 1997, 1999, and 2003.