Louis michael seidman biography

  • Louis Michael Seidman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C..
  • Louis Michael Seidman (born 1947) is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
  • After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

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    0:33Intro. [Recording date: January 23, 2013.] Russ: Before introducing today's guest I want to thank everyone who emailed me your favorite episodes of 2012. I appreciated knowing what you liked and I'm happy to announce the virtually every episode was someone's favorite. But more than that, I so much appreciated the feedback you gave me about EconTalk generally, how you listen, what you've learned from it, how it's touched or changed you. It was very inspiring. And it makes me want to make 2013 bigger and better, so please keep listening; please keep sharing the program with your friends and family. And here are the top 10 episodes as voted by you--and there are actually 11 because there was a 3-way tie for 9th. So, going from 11--9th, was the three-way tie--going from 9 down, they were as follows:
    • 9. Zingales on Crony Capitalism, Yong on Science, Barofsky on Bailouts
    • 8. Autor on Disability
    • 7. Cochrane on Health Care
    • 6. Turner on Organic Farming
    • 5. Anderson on Manufacturi

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      Louis Michael Seidman

      Louis Michael Seidman (born 1947) is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.. He is a constitutional law scholar and major proponent of the critical legal studies movement. Seidman's 2012 work is On Constitutional Disobedience,[2] where Seidman challenges the viability of political policy arguments made in reference to constitutional obligation.

      Education and early career

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      Seidman received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1971. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and later clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Following his clerkship, Seidman joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.[3]

      Academic work and influence

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      Seidman fryst vatten known for his contributions to constitutional legal theory, principal

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      After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He then was a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the lag Center faculty in 1976. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, The University of Chicago Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Virginia Law School. He teaches a variety of courses in the fields of constitutional and criminal law. He is co-author of a constitutional law casebook and the author of many articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law. His most recent books are From Parchment to Dust: The Case for Constitutional Skepticism; On Constitutional Disobedience (Oxford, 2012); Silence and Freedom (Stanford 2007); Equal Protection of the Laws (Foundation 2002); and Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Yale 2001