
Field-Of-Study: Constitutional Studies




Holly Brewer
Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American Cultural and Intellectual History and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Her work crosses boundaries between Early American and British history, cultural and intellectual history, and political and legal history. Marked by slow and methodical research, her work tends to ask questions that others have not


Asifa Quraishi-Landes
Asifa Quraishi-Landes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School where she teaches courses in Islamic law and American constitutional law. She has a reputation for illuminating and creative explanations of complex and unfamiliar topics, a talent exhibited in both oral and written form. A 2009 Carnegie Scholar, Quraishi-Landes’ published work addresses

Stephen Gardbaum
Stephen Gardbaum is the MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UCLA School of Law. An internationally recognized constitutional scholar, his research focuses on comparative constitutional law, federalism, and the foundations of liberal legal and political theory. His numerous articles on constitutional law have appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law

Lea VanderVelde
Lea VanderVelde is best known for drawing contemporary insights on work law and constitutional liberties from her historical study of the Thirteenth Amendment, free labor, and slavery. She examines legal rules and practices of free labor and slavery, as an oppressive labor and caste system. Her focus is upon how these legal rules are reactive

Risa L. Goluboff
Risa Goluboff teaches constitutional law, civil rights law, and legal and constitutional history at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on the history of civil rights, labor, and constitutional law in the 20th century. Her book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Harvard University Press, 2007), explored alternative understandings of civil rights in the

Richard Primus
Richard Primus teaches constitutional law at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the relationship between history and constitutional law. His book The American Language of Rights (Cambridge, 1999) analyzes the ways in which conceptions of rights in the United States have changed in response to different crises at different times in history, and

Randy E. Barnett
Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he currently teaches constitutional law and contracts. A graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, both of which he has returned to as a visiting professor, he is one of the two inaugural Guggenheim Fellows in the