Keith J. Bybee
Associate Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
College of Law
Syracuse University
Biography:
A.B., Princeton University
M.A., University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Before joining Syracuse University in 2002, professor Bybee ws a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Bybee holds the Michael O.Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School, and he directs the Sawyer Law and Politics Program (SLAPP). He also directs the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, politics, and the Mecia (IJPM), an institute jointly sponsored by the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the Newhouse School of Public Communications. Bybee's teaching interests include American public law, legal theory, political philosophy, American politics, the politics of race, and LGBT politics. He is the author of Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation (Princeton, 1998; second printing. 2002), a book that focuses on theories of political identity at stake in the debate over race-conscious redistricting. He is also editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (forthcoming, Stanford University Press), a collection of essays on judicial independance written by legal scholars, sitting judges, and working journalists. He is currently at work on a book-length project examining the role of courtesy and hypocrisy in the judicial process.
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