Professor Eric Claville
Eric W. Claville currently serves as the Executive Advisor (I) for Governmental Relations to the President and director of the Center for African American Public Policy (CAAmPP) at Norfolk State University. He has worked for two and half decades in politics, public policy, education, and law.
As a professor, he has taught Public Policy, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, Law and the Judicial Process, Ethics, and Critical Thinking. His teaching philosophy is from a prism of analysis that includes history, politics, law and public policy, economics, and human behavior.
He has presented at various conferences and engagements on topics of civil rights, racial and social justice, inequity, inequality, and laws and public policy affecting African Americans. As a professor, he has been recognized with the Pearson ONE PROFESSOR Award as one of the best and most impactful professors.
As a consultant, he has worked with many campaigns over two decades as an organizer and strategist. More specifically, he has consulted with candidates on the local and state levels for their campaigns and served as a campaign director.
As a political and legal analyst and commentator, he provides on-air analysis on local radio and television stations in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He has participated in the on-air analysis of the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections. In that capacity, he informed the viewing public of the issues, voting trends and election predictions.
He is the creator of The Claville Report: Law, Policy and Politics, which was created to educate individuals about the laws, public policy, and politics that affect their daily lives. In 2016, The Claville Report: Law, Policy and Politics, was awarded “NABJ Best Commentary in the United States, Market 16 and Below,” at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention, Washington, D.C. He is also the creator and host of State of the Water Radio Show, the Center for African American Public Policy radio initiative. It airs on Norfolk State University’s WNSB-FM, the Soul of VA.
Live on air, one of his standout moments of analysis is that in 2015 he predicted that former President Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee when he was last in polling. Likewise, live on air, in 2016, he predicted that Trump would be President when challenger Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls.
He is a 2000 graduate of the Southern University Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, and a 2006 cum laude honors graduate of Southern University Law Center where he received his Juris Doctorate. He is also a 2009 graduate of Louisiana State University with a Master of Library and Information Science, a licensed attorney and certified mediator.