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Tel: 215.746.8775
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: krooseve@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- Conflict of Laws
- Federal Jurisdiction
Bio
Kermit Roosevelt works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws.
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Kermit Roosevelt works in a diverse range of fields, focusing on constitutional law and conflict of laws. His latest book, Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press 2010) offers an accessible analytical overview of conflicts. His prior book, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (Yale, 2006) sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the Supreme Court is abusing its authority. He has also published in the Virginia, Michigan and Columbia law reviews, among others, and his articles have been cited twice by the Supreme Court and numerous times by state and lower federal courts. He represents a detainee in the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He also is the author of a novel, In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005).
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Representative Professional Positions
Associate - Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago (2000-02)
Yale Law - Fellow, Information Society Project (1998- )
Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter (1999-2000)
Penn Law - Professor (2007- ); Assistant Professor (2002-05)
Law Clerk to the Hon. Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1997-98)
Representative Publications
What if Slaughterhouse Had Been Decided Differently?, 45 IND. L. REV. 61 (2011).
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Judicial Activism and Judicial Restraint, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA (2010).
Clerking for Justice Souter, 35 J. S.CT. HIST. 7 (2010).
CONFLICT OF LAWS: CONCEPTS AND INSIGHTS (Foundation Press 2010).
CONFLICT OF LAWS: CASES, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS (West 8th ed. 2010) (with DAVID CURRIE, ET AL.)
Deal or No Deal, L. LEADER Q. (Summer 2009).
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)
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Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World (Donahue Lecture), 42 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 1 (2008).
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Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Activism: Cooper v. Aaron and Parents Involved, 52 ST. LOUIS U. L. J. 1191 (2008)
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A Retroactivity Retrospective, With Thoughts for the Future: What the Supreme Court Learned from Paul Mishkin and What It Might, 95 CAL. L. REV. 1677 (2007).
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Aspiration and Underenforcement, 119 HARV. L. REV. F. 193 (2006),
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THE MYTH OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: MAKING SENSE OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS (Yale Univ. Press 2006).
Forget the Fundamentals: Fixing Substantive Due Process, 8 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 983 (2006).
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Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does, 91 VA. L. REV. 1649 (2005).
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Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 2017 (2005).
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Justice Scalia’s Constitution – and Ours, 8 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 27 (2005).
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Resolving Renvoi: The Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language, 80 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1821 (2005).
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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).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Choice of Law in Federal Courts, 105 NW. U. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2011)
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Cooper v. Aaron, OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN POLITICAL, POLICY, AND LEGAL HISTORY (Donald T. Critchlow & Philip R. VanderMeer eds., forthcoming). (forthcoming 2011)
Representative Professional Activities
Chair-Elect, AALS Section on Conflict of Laws, 2009-10; Chair, 10-11; Executive Board 10-11
Ad Hoc Peer Reviewer: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Public Administration Review; Polity; Yale University Press; Oxford University Press; Aspen; West.
Member, American Law Institute
Advisory Board, Law Leader Quarterly
Advisory Board, Roosevelt Institution
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