William Baude

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William Baude
Personal details
Born
William Patrick Baude
EducationUniversity of Chicago (BA)
Yale University (JD)

William Patrick Baude is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and the director of its Constitutional Law Institute. He is a leading scholar of constitutional law and originalism.[1]

Life and career[]

Baude graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. with honors in 2004, majoring in economics. He was a member of Sigma Xi. In 2007, he graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles and essay editor on the Yale Law Journal.[1]

After graduating from law school, Baude clerked for Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Chief Justice John G. Roberts on the U.S. Supreme Court.[1] Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as an associate at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP in Washington, D.C.. Between 2012 and 2013, he was a summer fellow at the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego Law School and a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, where he later worked as a visiting assistant professor of law.[1]

Baude joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 2014 and was appointed as a tenured professor in 2018. He teaches constitutional law, federal courts, and conflicts of law.[1] In 2020, he established the law school's Constitutional Law Institute, on which he serves as faculty director.[2] He is a co-editor of The Constitution of the United States (3rd ed., 2016).[1] and has written extensively on originalism in the U.S. Constitution.[3]

Baude writes for the Volokh Conspiracy blog[4] and has contributed to the New York Times[5] and the Chicago Tribune.[6] He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.[7] He is the 2017 recipient of the Federalist Society's Paul M. Bator award.[8]

Baude co-hosts a podcast, Divided Argument, with law professor Daniel Epps on which they discuss recent Supreme Court decisions.[9]

The term shadow docket was coined in 2015 by Baude.[10][11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "William Baude | Federalist Society". www.fedsoc.org.
  2. ^ "Law School Launches Constitutional Law Institute, Center on Law and Finance | University of Chicago Law School". www.law.uchicago.edu.
  3. ^ "Conservatives, Don't Give Up on Your Principles or the Supreme Court | New York Times". www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ "Opinion - Will Baude is back!".
  5. ^ "William Baude".
  6. ^ Baude, William (February 15, 2016). "Commentary: The Supreme Court after Scalia". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  7. ^ Institute, The American Law. "Members - American Law Institute".
  8. ^ "Federalist Society Presents 2017 Bator Award".
  9. ^ Divided Argument, https://www.dividedargument.com/
  10. ^ Millhiser, Ian (August 11, 2020). "The Supreme Court's enigmatic "shadow docket," explained". Vox. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2021.
  11. ^ "Many of the Supreme Court's decisions are reached with no hearings or explanation". The Economist. August 28, 2021. Archived from the original on September 1, 2021. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
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