Princeton University

Specialization: American constitutional theory and development; politics of law and courts; presidency; American political thought

Keith E. Whittington's interests include constitutional law and theory, separation of powers, American political development, and American political thought and culture. He is the author of Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meanings and Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review, and editor (with Neal Devins) of Congress and the Constitution. He has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, federalism, judicial politics, and the presidency. He is the author of the forthcoming Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History, and editor (with R. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A. Caldeira) of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics. He has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow and American Council of Learned Societies Junior Faculty Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas Law School.

PhD, Yale University

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