Caroline Fredrickson is a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Practice at Georgetown Law and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. She served as the President of the American Constitution Society from 2009-2019. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Fredrickson is also the leader of the Progressive Team for the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project and a Senior Congressional Fellow at the Stennis Center.
Before joining ACS, Fredrickson served as the Director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office and as General Counsel and Legal Director of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In addition, she served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Maria Cantwell, of Washington, and Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, of South Dakota. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs.
Fredrickson is currently an elected member of the American Law Institute. Fredrickson received her J.D. from Columbia Law School with honors and her B.A. from Yale University in Russian and East European Studies summa cum laude, phi beta kappa. She clerked for the Hon. James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After her clerkship, she spent a year in Germany as a Fellow of the Bosch Foundation where she examined German labor and employment laws.
Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers
Caroline Fredrickson, Will American Democracy Last in Light of the Shadow Docket?, Nev. L.J. (forthcoming).
Books
Caroline Fredrickson, La Cour Suprême, Le Pouvoir Suprême [The Supreme Court, The Supreme Power] (Paris: L’Harmattan 2023). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Caroline Fredrickson, Fixing the Confirmation Process, Or Fiddling While Rome Burns, 2023 Wis. L. Rev. 631-657. [WWW]
Caroline Fredrickson, “We the People” Can Fix What’s Broken - If We Try,N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y (Online First), Apr. 16, 2023. [WWW]
Congressional Testimony
Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 117th Cong., Dec. 8, 2022 (Statement of Caroline Fredrickson)(CIS-No.: 2023-H521-232285). [WWW]