Alison L. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the

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. She is also an Associate Member of the

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Department of History.

Early life and education

LaCroix attended

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for her

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degree in history, where she served as managing editor of the ''

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'' and graduated ''

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'' in 1996. She then enrolled at

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for her

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and served as essays editor of the ''

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'', graduating in 1999. In 2001, she matriculated at

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, where she received an MA in history in 2003 and a PhD in history in 2007.

Career

Prior to joining the faculty at the

in 2006, LaCroix was an attorney at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. She received tenure from the University of Chicago in 2011 and, in 2017, was awarded a

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Fellowship in U.S. History for her project entitled, ''The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery from the War of 1812 to the Civil War''. On April 9, 2021, LaCroix was named a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Selected publications

* LaCroix, Alison L
"The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment"
''Stanford Law Review'' (2015): 397–445. * LaCroix, Alison L. ''The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms''. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2024. * LaCroix, Alison L. "The Shadow Powers of Article I." ''Yale Law Journal'' 123 (2013): 2044. * LaCroix, Alison L. "Historical Gloss: A Primer." ''Harvard Law Review Forum'' 126 (2012): 75. * LaCroix, Alison L. ''The Ideological Origins of American Federalism''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011. * LaCroix, Alison L. "Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction." ''Law and History Review'' 30, no. 1 (2012): 205–244.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:LaCroix, Alison L. Living people 1974 births Writers from Milwaukee Yale Law School alumni Yale Law School faculty University of Chicago Law School faculty Yale College alumni American scholars of constitutional law People associated with Debevoise & Plimpton American women legal scholars American legal scholars Harvard University alumni