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Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is the author of "Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History," "Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent and Judicial Review," and "Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning," among others. He is also a co-editor of "Congress and the Constitution" and "The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics." He has published widely on American constitutional theory and development, judicial politics, the presidency, and federalism.
Whittington is currently working on a political history of the judicial review of federal statutes and preparing, with Howard Gillman and Mark Graber, a book of cases and materials on American constitutionalism. His work has won the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book in law and courts and the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history. He has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, an 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 School of Law. He is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
Professor Whittington will deliver the Salvatori Center’s Lofgren Lecture on American Constitutionalism. Along with the Salvatori Center, his talk is also co-sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC.