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Seidman LM

Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law Louis Michael Seidman A.B., University of Chicago; J.D., Harvard

Biography

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He then was a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the Law Center faculty in 1976. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, The University of Chicago Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Virginia Law School.

Publications

But the Constitution is not the Problem on Constitutional Disobedience

Professor Seidman really doesn’t like the United States Constitution, a “deeply flawed eighteenth century document” (4) laden with “silly or pernicious” provisions (135) reflecting some “quite unlovely” motivations. (21) Observance of the Constitution, based on “the pernicious myth that we are bound i... Read More»

Graglia LA and Seidman LM

Review Article: J Civil Legal Sci 4: 145

DOI: 10.4172/2169-0170.1000145

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