After receiving his J.D. from Yale, Professor Tushnet served as a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1972-73. He then was a member of the law faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison until joining the Law Center faculty in 1981. He is co-author of three casebooks, Federal Courts in the 21st Century: Policy and Practice; Constitutional Law: Cases and Commentary; andco-author with Vicki Jackson of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law. His other recent writings include The NAACP’s Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education 1925-1950, which received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association; Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law; Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961;Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991; and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts. He was the secretary of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies from 1976-85, and is President of the Association of American Law Schools for 2004.
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Mark V. Tushnet, The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall,52 How. L.J. 691-708 (2009). [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Mark V. Tushnet, Heller and the Perils of Compromise,13 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 419-432 (2009). [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Mark V. Tushnet, Constitutional Workarounds,87 Tex. L. Rev. 1499-1515 (2009). [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Mark V. Tushnet, The Inevitable Globalization of Constitutional Law,49 Va. J. Int'l L. 985-1006 (2009). [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Mark V. Tushnet, Some Notes on Congressional Capacity to Interpret the Constitution,89 B.U. L. Rev. 499-509 (2009). [HEIN] [W] [L]
In The News
February 13, 2016
"Scalia’s Supreme Court Seat and the Next Frontier in Political Hardball," coverage in The New York Times, February 13, 2016, featuring Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet.
