David Steinberg, a professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University, says he is not very optimistic that Burma's military government will respond positively to the new U.S.policy or release the country's more than two thousand political prisoners.
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But the Treasury Department's conference on competitiveness in U.S. capital markets, to be held at Georgetown University Tuesday, could well prove to be more of a brainstorming session than an action plan.
He also taught law at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, Georgetown and Stanford and work as an assistant attorney general and judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals before Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court.