Mark Tushnet

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies examining (skeptically) the practice of judicial review in the United States and around the world. He also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and (currently) a long-term project on the history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s. This fall he is organizing a conference on American constitutional development and another that features a conversation among several current and former judges on the world's constitutional courts.

Appointments

• Felix Frankfurter Visiting Professor of Law, 2005
• William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, 2006

Education

• Harvard College B.A. 1967
• Yale University M.A. 1971, History
• Yale Law School J.D. 1971

Research Interests

• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Constitutional Law
• Twentieth Century American Legal History

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Civil Rights History
• Constitutional Law
• Free Speech and Religion

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Constitutional Law
• Legal history of U.S. slavery
• Twentieth Century U.S. Legal History

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• The New Constitutional Order (Princeton University Press, 2003)
• "New Forms of Judicial Review and the Persistence of Rights- and Democracy-Based Worries," 38 Wake Forest Law Review 813 (2003)
• "Defending Korematsu?: Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime," 2003 Wisconsin Law Review 273 (2003)
• "Alarmism versus Moderation in Responding to the Rehnquist Court," 78 Indiana Law Journal 47 (2003)
• The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, , ed. P. Cane & M. Tushnet (Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Defining the Field of Compartative Constitutional Law, , ed. V. Jackson & M. Tushnet (Praeger, 2002)

Bibliography

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