Mark Tushnet | |
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.jpg) Tushnet in 2018 | |
| Born | Mark Victor Tushnet 18 November 1945 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Title | William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus |
| Children | |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MA, JD) |
| Influences | Thurgood Marshall |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison Georgetown University Harvard University |
Mark Victor Tushnet (born 18 November 1945)[1] is an American legal scholar. He specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law, and is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.[2] Tushnet is identified with the critical legal studies movement.[3]
Tushnet is a main proponent of the idea that judicial review should be strongly limited and that the Constitution should be returned "to the people."[4] In 2020, he published a book extending his previous writing about judicial overreach concerning the process of judicial review, which he originally started discussing in his 1999 book on this subject.[5]
- ^ date & year of birth according to LCNAF CIP data
- ^ "Mark Tushnet | Harvard Law School".
- ^ Gregory, David L. (1987). "A Guide to Critical Legal Studies". Duke Law Journal (6): 1138–1150. doi:10.2307/1372599. JSTOR 1372599.
- ^ Mark Tushnet. Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts (Princeton University Press 1999), pp. 1–11.
- ^ Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law, Yale U. Press, 2020.