Kermit Roosevelt III
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| Born | July 14, 1971 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Yale Law School |
Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt III (born July 14, 1971) is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of The Myth of Judicial Activism (Yale University Press, 2006) and the D.C. legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).
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[edit] Early life
Kim Roosevelt III was born in Washington, D.C. He is the grandson of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the great-grandson of Kermit Roosevelt and the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He graduated from St. Albans School (where he was a presidential scholar[1]), Harvard University and Yale Law School. He was a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.[2]
[edit] Career
Roosevelt worked as a lawyer with Mayer Brown in Chicago from 2000 to 2002 before joining the Penn Law faculty in 2002.[3]
Roosevelt's areas of academic interest include conflicts of law and constitutional law. He has published in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others, and his articles have been cited twice by the United States Supreme Court and numerous times by state and lower federal courts.
Some of his recent scholarly publications include "Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World," delivered as the Donahue Lecture at Suffolk University Law School in 2008, “Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond” (2005), published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, “Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does,” University of Virginia Law Review (2005), and “Resolving Renvoi: the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language,” Notre Dame Law Review (2005).
[edit] Works
- Conflict of Laws (Foundation Press 2010) (offers an analytical overview of the field)
- Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions (West, 7th ed. 2010) (co-edited with David Currie, Herma Hill Kay & Larry Kramer) (one of the leading conflict-of-laws casebooks)
- The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit Roosevelt III. Yale Univ., $30 (272p) ISBN 0-300-11468-0. (The work defends the Supreme Court against the charge of undue judicial activism.[4])
- In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005).
[edit] References
- ^ Presidential Scholars. Charles Elder. The Washington Post. DISTRICT WEEKLY; PAGE J3; PEOPLE. June 1, 1989.
- ^ Politics skews perception on judicial rulings: author. STEPHANIE POTTER. Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Pg. 10001. January 23, 2007.
- ^ Politics skews perception on judicial rulings: author. STEPHANIE POTTER. Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Pg. 10001. January 23, 2007.
- ^ The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions. Staff. Publishers Weekly Reviews REVIEWS; Nonfiction; Pg. 67. July 31, 2006.
