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Ann Althouse
Althouse in 2005
Born (1951-01-12) January 12, 1951 (age 73)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Michigan (BFA)
New York University (JD)
Occupation(s)Retired law professor, blogger, author
EmployerUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
TitleRobert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law
Websitealthouse.blogspot.com

Ann Althouse (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger.

Early life and education

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Althouse was raised in Newark and Wilmington, Delaware (and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey). She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in 1973 and graduated first in her class from the New York University School of Law with a J.D. in 1981.[1]

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Althouse clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. From 1984 to 2016, Althouse taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was tenured from 1989 until her retirement.[2] She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal courts scholarship,[3] 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 was the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Blog

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Since 2004, she has written an eponymous blog, posting photographs and commentary on law, politics, and popular culture.

Political views

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Althouse has said that she is pro-choice and opposes overruling Roe v. Wade,[4] 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."[5][6]

Althouse voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008.[7] In January 2009, remarking about Obama, she wrote: "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."[8]

Personal life

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In 2009, Althouse announced her engagement to Laurence Meade, a commenter she had met through the blog. The story attracted coverage in the blogosphere and in The New York Times.[7] Althouse and Meade were married in August 2009.[9] It is Althouse's second marriage; she has two adult sons from her first marriage.[7]

Selected works

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  • 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 Enforceable Federalism, 10 Tex. Rev. of L & Pol. 275 (2006)

References

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  1. ^ The Bloggable Life of Professor Ann Althouse Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, UW Gargoyle Magazine, Winter 2007, pp.28–30
  2. ^ Althouse, Ann (Sep 2, 2005). "Lawprofs opposed to John Roberts". Retrieved Oct 9, 2019.
  3. ^ Ernest Young, Institutional Settlement in a Globalizing Judicial System, 54 Duke L. J. 1143, 1149 n.18 and accompanying text (2005).
  4. '^ See, e.g., Ann Althouse, Stepping Out of Professor Fallon's Puzzle Box: A Response to 'If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World, 51 St. Louis U. L. Rev. __ (2007).
  5. ^ Althouse, Ann (Apr 4, 2008). "For me, 'I had an abortion' should be as morally loaded as 'I had a Pap smear.'". Retrieved Oct 9, 2019.
  6. ^ Althouse, Ann (Feb 5, 2009). "Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child". Retrieved Oct 9, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Hoffman, Jan (April 5, 2009). "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Althouse, Ann (Jan 22, 2009). "How was I going to photograph one man, in a suit, for many years to come?". Retrieved Oct 9, 2019.
  9. ^ "What Happened On Bellyache Ridge". 4 August 2009.
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