Mark V. Tushnet

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus at Harvard Law School and Carmack Waterhouse Profess of Constitutional Law emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center. He is the co-author of four casebooks, has written numerous books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of Constitutional Law, Why the Constitution Matters, and Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Perspective, and has edited several others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scholarship

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.