Keith Whittington

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in government, finance and business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a master's degree in political science at Yale University, followed by a doctoral degree in 1995.^[1][2]

Whittington has focused on American constitutionalism, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law in his scholarship.^[3] His work has contributed to increased understanding of originalist thought, political construction of constitutional principles, and the history of political conflict over constitutional meaning.^[4]

His teaching career began in 1995, with an assistant professorship at the Catholic University of America.^[5] He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1997,^[5][6] and he became the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics in 2006, a professorship endowed for the study of law.^[7] He will join the Yale Law School faculty in July 2024.^[3] He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Texas School of Law.^[6]

Whittington was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.^[4] He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.^[6]

He was the founding chair of the Academic Freedom Alliance and serves on its academic committee.^[6]

In 2021, Whittington was appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.^[1]

He is a blogger at the Volokh Conspiracy and has had works in various media outlets, like The New York Times and The Washington Post.^[6]

• Whittington, Keith; Gillman, Howard; Mark A., Graber (2021). American Constitutionalism (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-752763-4.
• ———————— (2019). Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2779-0.
• ———————— (2018). Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691181608.
• ———————— (2016). American Political Thought: Readings and Materials. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-933886-3.
• ———————— (2007). Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09640-7.
• ———————— (1999). Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1141-6.
• ———————— (1999). Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-16541-0.