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Biography:
Professor Griffin joined the faculty in 1989 after serving as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago and research instructor in law at New York University. He has published over 30 articles, book chapters, and reviews focusing on constitutional law and theory. He published American Constitutionalism: From Theory to Politics in 1996 with Princeton University Press and coedited a reader, Constitutional Theory: Arguments and Perspectives with Lexis in 2007. In 2000, he received the Sumter Marks Award in recognition of his publications. In 2002, he received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award from the graduating class. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and helped organize a joint AALS/APSA Conference on Constitutional Law held in 2002. He was chair of the AALS section on Constitutional Law for 2006. He served as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs from 2001-04 and 2006-09 and as Interim Dean during 2009-10. His book, Long Wars and the Constitution, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2013.
Professor Griffin's CV | SSRN author page
Courses:
Fall 2012 - Constitutional Law: 14th Amendment; Constitutional Theory Seminar
Spring 2013 - Constitutional Law I
Other courses -Introduction to Jurisprudence
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Articles
| “Rebooting Originalism,” U. Ill. L. Rev. 1185 (2008) |
“Stop Federalism Before It Kills Again: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina,” 21 St. John’s J. of Legal Commentary 527 (2007) (invited article)
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| Scholars and Public Debates: A Reply to Devins and Farnsworth, 82 B. U. L. REV. 227 (2002) |
| Judicial Supremacy and Equal Protection in a Democracy of Rights, 4 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 281 (2002) |
| Presidential Immunity from Criminal Process: Amateur Hour at the Department of Justice, 5 WIDENER L. SYMP. J. 49 (2000) |
| Constitutional Theory Transformed, 108 YALE L.J. 2115 (1999) |
| The Problem of Constitutional Change, 70 TUL. L. REV. 2121(1996) |
| Judicial Review and Democracy Revisited, 95 AM. PHIL. ASS'N NEWSL. ON PHIL. & L. 64 (Spring) (Special Editor for issue) (1996) |
| Constitutional Rights and Democracy in the U.S.A.: The Issue of Judicial Review (co-author), 8 RATIO JURIS 180 (1995) |
| The Nominee Is...Article V, 12 CONST. COMM. 171(1995) |
| Pluralism in Constitutional Interpretation, 72 TEX. L. REV. 1753 (1994) |
| Political Philosophy Versus Political Theory: The Case of Rawls, 69 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 691(1994) |
| Bringing the State into Constitutional Theory: Public Authority and the Constitution, 16 L. & SOC. INQUIRY 659 (1991) |
| How to Analyze the American State, 16 L. & SOC. INQUIRY 731 (1991) |
| Constitutionalism in the United States: From Theory to Politics, 10 OXFORD J. LEG. STUDIES 200 (1990) |
| Politics and the Supreme Court: The Case of the Bork Nomination, 5 J. L. & POL. 551 (1989) |
| What is Constitutional Theory? The Newer Theory and the Decline of the Learned Tradition, 62 S. CAL. L.REV. 493 (1989) |
| Reconstructing Rawls' Theory of Justice: Developing a Public Values Philosophy of the Constitution, 62 N.Y.U. L.REV. 715 (1987) |
| A Right of Press Access to United States Military Operations (co-author), 21 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 989 (1987) |
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