Alison LaCroix
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale College, BA, 1996 Yale Law School, JD, 1999 Harvard University, AM, History, 2003 Harvard University, PhD, History, 2007 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional Law, History |
| Institutions | The University of Chicago Law School Debevoise & Plimpton |
Alison L. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. She is also an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History.
Early life and education
LaCroix attended Yale College for her Bachelor of Arts degree in history, where she served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News and graduated summa cum laude in 1996. She then enrolled at Yale Law School for her Juris Doctor and served as essays editor of the Yale Law Journal, graduating in 1999.[1] In 2001, she matriculated at Harvard University, where she received an MA in History in 2003 and a PhD in History in 2007.[2]
Career
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 2006, LaCroix was an attorney at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.[1] She received tenure from the University of Chicago in 2011 and, in 2017, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in U.S. History for her project entitled, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery from the War of 1812 to the Civil War.[3] On April 9, 2021, LaCroix was named a Commissioner on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.[4]
Selected publications
- A Man for all Treasons: Crimes By and Against the State in the Novels of Hillary Mantel (2016)[5]
- The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment (2015)[6]
- Rhetoric and Reality in Early American Legal History: A Reply to Gordon Wood (2011)[7]
- Book:The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (2010)[8]
References
- ^ a b "Alison L. LaCroix curriculum vitae" (PDF). law.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "Alison L. LaCroix". law.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "LaCroix Awarded NEH Fellowship". law.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "President Biden to Sign Executive Order Creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States". whitehouse.gov. 9 April 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press. December 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-061078-4. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Stanford Law Review". stanfordlawreview.org. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "University of Chicago Law Review" (PDF). lawreview.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "Harvard University Press". hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
Category:Living people
Category:1974 births
Category:People from Milwaukee
Category:Yale Law School alumni
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Category:University of Chicago Law School faculty
Category:American legal scholars
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Category:Yale University alumni