William V. Luneburg is professor emeritus of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He was an editor of and contributor to the second, third, and fourth editions of The Lobbying Manual. Starting his career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Regions I and V), he later entered private practice in Chicago where he specialized in civil litigation.He began teaching law as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Chicago Law School and then became a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he taught until his retirement in 2013.

Bill's teaching specialties included civil procedure, conflict of laws, legislation, administrative law, litigation with the federal government, and environmental law. His published work, including books and articles, covered all of those areas as well as federal lobbying disclosure and related topics.During the course of this teaching career, Bill also advised and litigated on behalf of various local, state, and national environmental groups involved with issues of air and water pollution and forest preservation. He was a consultant to the Administration Conference of the United States on various projects, including those dealing with petitions for rulemaking; contracting with the federal government for legal services; the federal personnel complaint, appeal, and grievance system; and the federal juvenile justice and delinquency prevention formula grant program.Bill was chair of the Association of American Law Schools Legislation Section and vice-chair, chair-elect, and chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Among other positions with the Section, he was a member of its Task Force on Federal Lobbying Laws that issued in 2011 a report and recommendations for reform of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Lobbying Law in the Spotlight: Challenges and Proposed Improvements). He is a life member of the American Law Institute and a former member of its advisory group for its project dealing with lobbying and government ethics.