Ann Althouse
Encyclopedia
Ann Althouse is an American
law professor and blog
ger. Raised in Newark
and Wilmington
, Delaware
(and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey
), Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan
, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law
, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand
in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell
.
Since 1984, Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure
, and constitutional law
at the University of Wisconsin Law School
, tenured since 1989.http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/09/lawprofs-opposed-to-john-roberts.html She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School
for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal courts
scholarship, she has written extensively on federalism
(her central thesis being the normative value of federalism
in protecting individual rights), sovereign immunity and other legal issues. She is currently the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor
of Law
at the University of Wisconsin Law School
and a resident of Madison
, Wisconsin
.
Since 2004, she has written a popular eponymous blog
, posting photographs and commentary on law, politics, and popular culture. In 2009, she announced her engagement to a commenter she had met through the blog, a story that attracted coverage in the blogosphere and the New York Times.
In September 2006, Althouse sparked controversy in the blogosphere
by publishing an entry on her blog under the title "Let's take a closer look at those breasts." that accused feminist blogger Jessica Valenti of wearing "a tight knit top that draws attention to her breasts" while posing for a picture with former president Bill Clinton
.
Althouse has said that she is pro-choice and opposes overruling Roe v. Wade
, but has said that she "do[es] in fact think abortion
is wrong. I think most Americans agree with me and think it's wrong but not the role of government to police." http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/04/for-me-i-had-abortion-should-be-as.html#c5861949428975182608http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/02/suing-your-own-abortionist-for-making.html#c1794567525456677729
Cliff Kresge
, a golfer
on the PGA
tour, is the nephew
of Professor Althouse.
Althouse voted for Barack Obama for President in the 2008 election, and she remarked in January 2009: "he really is a solid, normal person who remained grounded in the middle of all this craziness. And I like to think that, now that he's President, with his steely nerve, his intelligence, and his groundedness, he'll do the job that must be done. The trickery is over."
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
law professor and blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
ger. Raised in Newark
Newark, Delaware
Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...
and Wilmington
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
, Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
(and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne is a Township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than from midtown Manhattan. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 54,069....
), Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand
Leonard B. Sand
Leonard Burke Sand is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Sand received a B.S. from the New York University School of Commerce in 1947 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1951. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional...
in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an international law firm headquartered in New York. The firm has approximately 800 lawyers in 12 offices, located in financial centers in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe. Sullivan & Cromwell was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson...
.
Since 1984, Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure
Civil procedure
Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits...
, and constitutional law
Constitutional law
Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....
at the University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin Law School
The University of Wisconsin Law School is the professional school for the study of law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. The law school was founded in 1868.-Facilities:...
, tenured since 1989.http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/09/lawprofs-opposed-to-john-roberts.html She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School is a law school located in Brooklyn Heights, in Downtown Brooklyn, New York.-History:Founded in 1901 by William Payson Richardson and Norman P. Heffley, Brooklyn Law School was the first law school on Long Island. Using space provided by Heffley’s business school, the law...
for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal courts
United States federal courts
The United States federal courts make up the judiciary branch of federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.-Categories:...
scholarship, she has written extensively on federalism
Federalism
Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. The term "federalism" is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and...
(her central thesis being the normative value of federalism
Federalism
Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. The term "federalism" is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and...
in protecting individual rights), sovereign immunity and other legal issues. She is currently the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
at the University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin Law School
The University of Wisconsin Law School is the professional school for the study of law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. The law school was founded in 1868.-Facilities:...
and a resident of Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
.
Since 2004, she has written a popular eponymous blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
, posting photographs and commentary on law, politics, and popular culture. In 2009, she announced her engagement to a commenter she had met through the blog, a story that attracted coverage in the blogosphere and the New York Times.
In September 2006, Althouse sparked controversy in the blogosphere
Blogosphere
The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions...
by publishing an entry on her blog under the title "Let's take a closer look at those breasts." that accused feminist blogger Jessica Valenti of wearing "a tight knit top that draws attention to her breasts" while posing for a picture with former president Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
.
Althouse has said that she is pro-choice and opposes overruling Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, , was a controversial landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion,...
, but has said that she "do[es] in fact think abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
is wrong. I think most Americans agree with me and think it's wrong but not the role of government to police." http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/04/for-me-i-had-abortion-should-be-as.html#c5861949428975182608http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/02/suing-your-own-abortionist-for-making.html#c1794567525456677729
Cliff Kresge
Cliff Kresge
Clifford Terry Kresge is an American professional golfer. He has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour since 1997....
, a golfer
Professional golfer
In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...
on the PGA
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
tour, is the nephew
Nephew
Nephew is a son of one's sibling or sibling-in-law, and niece is a daughter of one's sibling or a sibling-in-law. Sons and daughters of siblings-in-law are also informally referred to as nephews and nieces respectively, even though there is no blood relation...
of Professor Althouse.
Althouse voted for Barack Obama for President in the 2008 election, and she remarked in January 2009: "he really is a solid, normal person who remained grounded in the middle of all this craziness. And I like to think that, now that he's President, with his steely nerve, his intelligence, and his groundedness, he'll do the job that must be done. The trickery is over."
Writings
- The Use of Conspiracy Theory to Establish In Personam Jurisdiction: a Due Process Analysis, 52 Fordham L. Rev. 234 (1983)
- How to Build a Separate Sphere: Federal Courts and State Power, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1485 (1987)
- The Misguided Search for State Interest in Abstention Cases: Observations on the Occasion of Pennzoil v. Texaco, 63 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1051 (1988)
- When to Believe a Legal Fiction: Federal Interests and the Eleventh Amendment, 40 Hastings L.J. 1123 (1989)
- The Humble and the Treasonous: Judge-Made Jurisdiction Law, 40 Case W. Res. L.Rev. 1035 (1990).
- Standing, in Fluffy Slippers, 77 Va. L. Rev. 1177 (1991)
- Saying What Rights Are – In and Out of Context, 1991 Wis. L. Rev. 929 (1991)
- Tapping the State Court Resource, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 953 (1991)
- Beyond King Solomon's Harlots: Women in Evidence, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1265 (1992)
- Thelma & Louisa and the Law: Do Rape Shield Rules Matter? 25 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 757 (1992)
- Variations on a Theory of Normative Federalism: a Supreme Court Dialogue, 42 Duke L.J. 979 (1993)
- Who's to Blame for Law Reviews?, 70 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 81 (1994)
- The Lying Woman, The Devious Prostitute, and Other Stories from the Evidence Casebook, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 914 (1994).
- Time For the Federal Courts to Enforce the Guarantee Clause? A Response to Professor Chemerinsky, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 881 (1994)
- Federalism, Untamed, 47 Vand. L. Rev. 1207 (1994)
- Late Night Confessions in the Hart & Wechsler Hotel, 47 Vand. L. Rev. 993 (1994)
- Federal Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Federal Rights: Can Congress Bring Back the Warren Era? 20 Law & Social Inquiry 1067 (1995).
- Enforcing Federalism after United States v. Lopez, 38 Arizona L. Rev. 793 (1996)
- The Alden Trilogy: Still Searching for a Way to Enforce Federalism, 31 Rutgers L.J. 631 (2000)
- On Dignity and Deference: The Supreme Court's New Federalism, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 245 (2000)
- Inside the Federalism Case, 574 Annals of the Am. Acad. 132 (2001)
- Why Talking about States Rights Cannot Avoid the Need for Normative Federalism Analysis, 51 Duke L. J. 363 (2001)
- Electoral College Reform: Deja Vu, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 993 (2001)
- The Authoritative Lawsaying Power of the State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court: Conflicts of Judicial Orthodoxy in the Bush-Gore Litigation, 61 Md. L. Rev. 508 (2002)
- The Vigor of the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine in Times of Terror, 69 Brook. L. Rev. 1231 (2004)
- Vanguard States, Laggard States: Federalism and Constitutional Rights, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1745 (2004)
- Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Search for Judicially Enforcable Federalism, 10 Tex. Rev. of L & Pol. 275 (2006)
External links
- Althouse
- Audible Althouse (podcast)
- Althouse's photos on Flickr
- Althouse University of Wisconsin–Madison Biography
- The Normblog profile
- Radio interview
- Video discussions/debates featuring Althouse on Bloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tv is a political, world events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which is then broadcast online to viewers...