Michael C. Dorf

Michael C. Dorf is an American law professor and a scholar of U.S. constitutional law. He is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. In addition to constitutional law, Professor Dorf has taught courses in civil procedure and federal courts. He has authored, co-authored, or edited six books, including ''Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights'' and ''On Reading the Constitution''. He is also a columnist fo
Verdict
and a regular contributor to his blog,
Dorf on Law
'. Dorf is a former law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Life

Before joining the Cornell faculty in 2008, Dorf was a professor at Columbia University School of Law and, before that, at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard as an undergraduate, he was the American Parliamentary Debate Association national champion. Before attending law school, he co-authored three peer-reviewed articles in physics arising out of a fellowship in the physics department of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Dorf has advised organizations involved in constitutional litigation, and he has written numerous amicus briefs filed with the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Dorf occasionally appears in American news media as a legal expert, and has been interviewed by and/or quoted in, for example, ''The New York Times'', CNN and ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. He has also been cited in numerous judicial opinions, including the majority opinion of Justice John Paul Stevens in the Supreme Court case '' City of Chicago v. Morales''. He is a practitioner of veganism. His late wife, Sherry Colb, was the inaugural C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Books

* with Jesse H. Choper, Richard H. Fallon Jr., & Frederick Schauer, ''Constitutional Law: Cases—Comments—Questions'', West Academic Publishing, 14th ed. 2023, 13th ed. 2019, 12th ed. 2015.

* with Sherry F. Colb, ''Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights'', Columbia University Press, 2016.
* with Trevor Morrison, ''The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Constitutional Law'', Oxford University Press, 2010.
* ''No Litmus Test: Law Versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century'', Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. ,
* ''Constitutional Law Stories'', New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2009. ,
* with Laurence H. Tribe, ''On Reading the Constitution'' Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University Press, 1992. ,

Selected law review articles

* ''A Tale of Two Formalisms: How Law-and-Economics Mirrors Originalism and Textualism'', 106 Cornell Law Review 591 (co-author Neil H. Buchanan, 2021).
* ''How to Choose the Least Unconstitutional Option: Lessons for the President (and Others) from the Debt Ceiling Standoff,'' 112 Columbia Law Review 1175 (co-author Neil H. Buchanan, 2012).
*''The Supreme Court 1997 Term—Foreword: The Limits of Socratic Deliberation'', 112 Harvard Law Review 4 (1998).
*''A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism'', 98 Columbia Law Review 267 (1998) (co-author Charles F. Sabel).
*''Incidental Burdens on Fundamental Rights'', 109 Harvard Law Review 1175 (1996).
*''Facial Challenges to State and Federal Statutes'', 46 Stanford Law Review 236 (1994).

See also

* List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)

References

External links

Dorf on Law - Official blogCornell Law School Faculty ProfileMichael C. Dorf: Amazon.com author's pageMichael C. Dorf: Findlaw.com columnist pageMichael C. Dorf: Verdict columnist page

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