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Tel: 215.746.8775
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: krooseve@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Conflict of Laws
- Constitutional Law
- Federal Jurisdiction
Bio
Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law, works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws.
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Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law, works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. His new book, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (Yale Univ. Press, 2006) sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the Supreme Court is abusing its authority. He has also published in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Professor (2007 -); Assistant Professor (2002-05)
Associate - Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago (2000-02)
Law Clerk - U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter (1999-2000)
Law Clerk - Judge Stephen F. Williams, Washington (1997-98)
Harvard Kennedy School Of Government - Member, Human Rights Advisory Board (1998 -)
Yale Law - Fellow, Information Society Project (1998 -)
Representative Publications
Walter Wheeler Cook, in the YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale U. Press, Roger K. Newman, ed., 2009).
Polyphonic Stare Decisis: Listening to Non-Article III Actors, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1303 (2008)
Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World (Donahue Lecture), 42 Suffolk U. L. REV. 1 (2008).
Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Activism: Cooper v. Aaron and Parents Involved, 52 ST. LOUIS U. L. J. 1191 (2008)
CONFLICT OF LAWS: CASES, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS (West 7th ed. 2006) (with DAVID CURRIE, ET AL.)
THE MYTH OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: MAKING SENSE OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS (Yale Univ. Press 2006).
Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does, 91 VA. L. REV. 1649 (2005).
Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 2017 (2005).
Justice Scalia’s Constitution – and Ours, 8 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 27 (2005).
Resolving Renvoi: The Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language, 80 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1821 (2005).
IN THE SHADOW OF THE LAW (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
Exhaustion Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act: The Consequence of Procedural Error, 52 EMORY L.J. 1771 (2003).
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Light From Dead Stars: The Procedural Adequate and Independent State Ground Reconsidered, 103 COLUM. L. REV. 1888 (2003).
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Extrajurisdictional Takings after SWANCC, 31 ENVTL L. REP. 11225 (2001) (with Timothy S. Bishop).
The Future of Filtering, Invited Testimony Before the COPA Commission, July 20, 2000 (copacommission.org/meetings/hearing2/additional.shtml).
Understanding Lockups: Effects in Bankruptcy and the Market for Corporate Control, 17 YALE J. ON REG. 94 (2000).
The Myth of Choice of Law: Rethinking Conflicts, 97 MICH. L. REV. 2448 (1999).
A Little Theory is a Dangerous Thing: The Myth of Adjudicative Retroactivity, 31 CONN. L. REV. 1075 (1999).
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