Everything about Louise Weinberg totally explained
Louise Weinberg is Professor of Law and holder of the Bates Chair at the
University of Texas Law School. She teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law and federal courts.
Weinberg was born in
New York and educated at
Cornell University and
Harvard Law School. She clerked for Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., and practiced in
Boston at Bingham, Dana, as the firm was then known. She has taught at Harvard Law School,
Brandeis University,
Suffolk Law School, and
Stanford Law School. She is an elected member of the
American Law Institute, The Philosophical Society of Texas, and
Phi Beta Kappa. She has served as a Forum Fellow of the
World Economic Forum,
Davos. Over time she's come to chair three different sections of the
Association of American Law Schools (the law professors’ learned society): the sections on Admiralty, on the Conflict of Laws, and on Federal Courts, twice chairing this last. A frequently invited public speaker, Weinberg recently appeared in the
Public Broadcasting System's four-part series, “The Supreme Court.”
Louise Weinberg is married to
Steven Weinberg, a scientist and Nobel laureate. They live in
Austin, Texas, and have a daughter.
Writings
Weinberg’s current writings in
constitutional law include
Overcoming Dred (forthcoming in Constitutional Commentary, Spring 2008),
Dred Scott and the Crisis of 1860 (Symposium, Chicago-Kent Law Review 2007);
Our Marbury (Virginia Law Review 2003); and
When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore (Symposium, Boston University Law Review 2002).
In the field of federal courts, Weinberg is author of
Federal Courts: Judicial Federalism and Judicial Power (1994). Her recent articles in this field include
Back to the Future: The New General Common Law, (Symposium, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 2004);
Of Sovereignty and Union: The Legends of Alden (Notre Dame Law Review 2001); and
The Article III Box, (Symposium, Texas Law Review 2000). She has contributed the entry on
Federal Courts for the
Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming).
In the field of conflict of laws, Weinberg is co-author, with William Richman and William Reynolds, of
The Conflict of Laws (1990) (2d ed., 2002). Her recent writings in this field include
Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws (Michigan Law Review 2005).
Weinberg has also worked in legal theory and jurisprudence, most recently contributing
Of Theory and Theodicy: The Problem of Immoral Law, in
Law and Justice in a Multistate World (2002) and
Choosing Law, Giving Justice (Symposium, Louisiana Law Review 2000).
Louise Weinberg has written such classics in the canon of legal literature as
Federal Common Law (Northwestern Law Review 1989) and
The New Judicial Federalism (Stanford Law Review 1977), and such provocative essays as
Holmes’ Failure (Michigan Law Review 1997) and
Against Comity (Georgetown Law Journal 1991). Her pieces for the general public have appeared in
The American Scholar,
The Public Interest, and
Daedalus, including 'Is It All Right to Read Trollope?'
The American Scholar, 1993).
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