Christine Desan

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Professor of Law

Office: Griswold 408
Assistant: Sarah Davitt 617/496-1716
Phone: (617) 495-4613
Fax: (617) 496-5156
Email: desan@law.harvard.edu

Research Interests

  • Legal and Political Thought

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional History
  • Legal History
  • Legal Theory

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

  • Constitutional Law History
  • Legal History

Education

  • Princeton University A.B. 1981, Religion
  • Yale Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy J.D./M.A.L.D. 1987

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1992
  • Professor of Law, 1998

Representative Publications

  • Desan, Christine. "The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History," 30 Law and Social Inquiry 1 (2005).
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  • Desan, Christine. "Contesting the Character of the Political Economy: Rights and Remedies in the Early Republic" in The House and the Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development (Kenneth R. Bowling & Donald R. Kennon eds., Ohio University Press, 2002).
  • Desan, Christine. "The Constitutional Commitment to Legislative Adjudication in the Early American Tradition," 111 Harvard Law Review 1383 (1998).
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Bibliography

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