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Josh Chafetz

Professor of Law

Cornell Law School

Josh Chafetz is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He received his B.A. from Yale University, his doctorate in Politics from Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

His research interests include structural constitutional law, American and British constitutional history, legislation and legislative procedure, American political development, and the intersection of law and politics. His second book, Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers, was published by Yale University Press in 2017. He is also the author of Democracy's Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions (Yale University Press, 2007) and is a co-editor (along with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Elizabeth Garrett, and James Brudney) of the leading casebook in Legislation, Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy, published by West. 

His scholarship has been published in a number of top law reviews, including the Harvard Law ReviewYale Law JournalUniversity of Chicago Law ReviewUniversity of Pennsylvania Law ReviewDuke Law JournalNotre Dame Law Review, and Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, among others. He has also written for a number of popular press outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington PostPoliticoSlate, and the New Republic. He is currently a Contributing Writer for the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill.

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The Politics of Administrative Reform

1/10/18  //  In-Depth Analysis

Michaels is absolutely right in his diagnosis of the current state of administrative governance. And his book could well prove an important step towards fixing it. But if that fix comes, it is far more likely to be primarily via those politicians than by the judges they appoint.

Josh Chafetz

Cornell Law School

Congress’s Constitution, Redux

8/28/17  //  In-Depth Analysis

Here I respond to insightful comments on Congress's Constitution.

Josh Chafetz

Cornell Law School

Congress's Constitution

8/21/17  //  In-Depth Analysis

An introduction to the Take Care symposium on my new book, Congress's Constitution

Josh Chafetz

Cornell Law School

The Contingency of Partisanship

3/27/17  //  In-Depth Analysis

Both history and recent events make clear that President Trump can’t rely on partisan allegiance alone to save his presidency.

Josh Chafetz

Cornell Law School