DOUGLAS E. EDLIN
Department of Political
Dickinson College717.245.1388
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
EDUCATION
Oxford University, Linacre College, Oxford, England (1999-2002)
•Ph.D. (Public Law)
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York (1990-1993)
•J.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1988-1990)
•M.A. (Philosophy)
Hobart College, Geneva, New York (1984-1988)
•B.A. (Philosophy) cum laude
•Phi Beta Kappa
•Degree awarded with high honors
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (2004- )
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Core Faculty Member, Policy Studies Program
•Student Senate Faculty Award (2007)
•Political Science Department Professor of the Year (2006, 2007)
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (2002-2004)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government
•Profiles in Excellence Teaching Award (Winter 2004)
Oxford University, St. Edmund Hall, Tutor (2001-2002)
Oxford University, New College, Tutor (2000-2001)
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Friedman Siegelbaum LLP (now Goodwin Procter LLP), Roseland, New Jersey (1993-1999)
•Extensive experience in class action, commercial, computer, employment,
environmental, intellectual property and real estate litigation
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
•Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review
(University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2008)
•Common Law Theory (ed.)
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007)
Articles
•Judicial Review without a Constitution
Polity 38:345-368 (2006)
•The Anxiety of Sovereignty: Britain, the United States and the International Criminal Court
in Jeffrey McCausland and Douglas Stuart, eds., U.S.-UK Relations at the Start of the 21st Century (U.S. Army War College, 2006) and Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 29:1-22 (2006)
•From Ambiguity to Legality: The Future of English Judicial Review
American Journal of Comparative Law 52:383-401 (2004)
•Rule Britannia, University of Toronto Law Journal 52:313-329 (2002)
Book Review of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, The Sovereignty of Parliament
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
•A Problem About Privacy, Property, and Custody: Disputes About the Disposition of ‘Frozen Embryos’
in Nicholas Mercuro and Warren J. Samuels, eds.
The Fundamental Interrelationships Between Government and Property
(JAI Press, 1999) (co-authored with Scott L. Brophy)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
•Institutional Identity and the Rule of Law: Belmarsh, Boumediene, and the Construction of Constitutional Meaning in England and the United States
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2008)
(invited for Symposium on Comparative Judicial Review)
•A Constitutional Right to Judicial Review:
Access to Courts and Ouster Clauses in England and the United States
Article analyzing judicial reactions to efforts by Parliament and Congress to preclude judicial review of statutory and constitutional claims.
•“She offered him all the kingdom but he wanted only this”: Law, Policy and Frozen Embryos
Article examining different legal paradigms for regulating the use of cryogenically preserved pre-embryos.
•Subjective and Objective Standards in Constitutional Law
Article evaluating two lines of Supreme Court cases and their relative merits as modes of legal reasoning and articulations of constitutional doctrine.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
•“A Constitutional Right to Judicial Review:
Access to Courts and Ouster Clauses in England and the United States”
Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois (August 30-September 2, 2007)
•Discussant, Panel on “Supreme Court Decisionmaking and the History of
American Political Development”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois (August 30-September 2, 2007)
•“A Constitutional Right to Judicial Review:
Access to Courts and Ouster Clauses in England and the United States”
Presented at New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts (April 27-28, 2007)
•Chair, Panel on “Frontiers of Public Law Scholarship: Greatness, Vision and Retrenchment”
New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts (April 27-28, 2007)
•Chair, Public Law Section, New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (May 5-6, 2006)
•“Learning about Equality:
Affirmative Action, College Admissions and the Law of the United States”
Presented at symposium on China’s Positive Policies in Minority Education: Plural Perspectives
Carlisle, Pennsylvania (April 15, 2006)
• “The Role of the Supreme Court in American Politics”
Invited Panelist. Wilkes University. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (April 6, 2006)
•“Judicial Responses to Statutory Ouster Clauses in England and the United States”
Presented at Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 17-19, 2005)
•Nominated for Best Faculty Paper presented at the Meeting
•“The Anxiety of Sovereignty: Britain, the United States and the International Criminal Court”
Presented at conference on The U.S.-U.K. Special Relationship: Past, Present and Future
Carlisle, Pennsylvania (November 17-19, 2004) and London, England (April 12-14, 2005)
•“Judicial Review without a Constitution”
Presented at New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (April 30-May 1, 2004)
•“Judicial Review without a Constitution”
Dartmouth College Legal Studies Workshop. Hanover, New Hampshire (January 7, 2003)
•“Doctrinal and Theoretical Distinctions between Common Law and Natural Law”
Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group. Oxford, England (March 6, 2002)
PRIMARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS
•Constitutional Law and Theory
•Comparative Law
•Legal and Political Theory
•Lawyers, Courts and the Judicial Process
•Biomedical Technology Law and Policy
COURSES TAUGHT
•The Judiciary
•Comparative Law
•Philosophy of Law
•Biomedical Technology, Policy and Law
•Race and the Judicial Process
•American Government
•Constitutional Controversies
•The Supreme Court and Constitutional Development
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
•American Political Science Association (Law and Courts Section)
•Northeastern Political Science Association
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