Jed Shugerman

Assistant Professor of Law

Research Interests

• American Legal History
• Constitutional Law and Theory
• Criminal Procedure and the Death Penalty
• State and Federal Courts
• Torts

Education

• Yale College B.A. 1996, History
• Yale Law School J.D. 2002
• Yale University M.A./M.Phil. 2004, History
• Yale University Ph.D. 2008, History

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2005

Representative Publications

• Shugerman, Jed. The People's Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America (Harvard University Press forthcoming 2011).
  Full text: WWW
  (based on dissertation (2008) (received the Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History for the best dissertation or article in American legal history))
  
• Shugerman, Jed. "In Defense of Appearances: What Caperton v. Massey Should Have Said (Clifford "Rising Stars" Symposium)," DePaul Law Review, (forthcoming 2010).
  
• Shugerman, Jed. "Panic and Judicial Power: Financial Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review," 123 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2009).
  
• Shugerman, Jed. "The Twist of Long Terms: Disasters, Elected Judges and American Tort Law," 98 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2009).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Shugerman, Jed. "A Watershed Moment: Reversals of Tort Theory in the Nineteenth Century," 2 Journal of Tort Law (2008).
  Full text: WWW
  

Bibliography

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