Biography:
A.B., magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1999
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2010 (expected)


Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse, Professor Culbertson was a Fellow with the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School and a Lecturer in Political Science at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Culbertson's research and writing focus on equal protection, fundamental rights, war, and family. Recent and forthcoming work appears in Washington University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, University of Miami Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Journal of Animal Law, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and two anthologies of critical legal theory. At present, Professor Culbertson is writing a book on the ontological primacy of war in Anglo-American conceptions of statehood, law, and justice.

Courses:

LAW 602:Constitutional Law I LAW 699:Constitutional Law II LAW 871:Foreign Relations

Constitutional law I Constitutional Law II Foreign Relations

Publications:

The Constitution, the Camps, and the Humanitarian Fifth Amendment, 62 Miami Law Review 307 (2008)

 

Arguments against Marriage Equality: Commemorating and Reconstructing Loving v. Virginia, 85 Washington University Law Review 575 (2008)

 

Another Genealogy of Equality: Further Arguments against Colorblind Constitutionalism, 4 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 51 (2008)

 

Racial Migrations, 20 St. Thomas Law Review 449 (2008)

 

Law and the Emotions, Women’s Studies Quarterly (Spring 2008)

 

 Human Dominion, Animal Equality, and Constitutional Personhood, Journal of Animal Law (forthcoming, 2009)

 

Proper Objects, Different Subjects, and Juridical Horizons in Legal Critique, with Jack Jackson; in Strange Bedfellows?  Uncomfortable Conversations in Queer and  Feminist Theory (forthcoming, 2009 from Ashgate Press)