Professor Snyder teaches constitutional law, constitutional history, and sports law. He is the author of The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has published law review articles in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Law & History Review, UC-Davis Law Review, and Boston College Law Review. Prior to teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Professor Snyder worked as an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP and wrote two critically acclaimed books about baseball including A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports(Viking/Penguin, 2006). A graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, he clerked for the Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Scholarship

Books

Brad Snyder, The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press 2017). [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Brad Snyder, Sacco-Vanzetti and the Supreme Court, 43 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 107-124 (2018).
Brad Snyder, Rejecting the Legal Process Theory Joker: Bill Nelson's Scholarship on Judge Edward Weinfeld and Justice Byron White, 89 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1065-1084 (2014). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Brad Snyder, The Former Clerks Who Nearly Killed Judicial Restraint, 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2129-2154 (2014). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
Brad Snyder, Frankfurter and Popular Constitutionalism, 47 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 343-417 (2013). [WWW] [HEIN] [W] [L]
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