CURRICULUM VITAE
H. W. Perry, Jr.
The University of Texas School of Law 727 East Dean Keeton St. Austin, TX 78705 [email protected] (512) 232-1852
Education Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Political Science, 1987 Legal Coursework at The University of Michigan Law School
M.A., The University of Michigan, Political Science B.A., with honors, Southern Methodist University, Political Science, Social Sciences, 1974
Academic Appointments University Distinguished Teaching Professor Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, 2000-present Associate Professor of Government, College of Liberal Arts, 1994-present The University of Texas at Austin
Interdisciplinary professor, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997-2000
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1990-1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1986-1990
Instructor, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, 1983-1986
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, The University of Michigan, Spring/Summer 1981; Summer 1982
Visiting Appointments Distinguished Visiting Professor, LaTrobe Law School, Melbourne, Australia, June 2017, 2018
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Centre for Law, Governance and Public Policy, Bond University, Queensland, Australia, June, 2010
Astor Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Socio-legal Studies, Oxford University, June 2000
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Non-academic Director of Development, S.M.U. School of Law, 1975-1977 Employment Assistant Director of Development, S.M.U., 1974-1975
Selected Administrative Founding and current Director, Combined JD/Ph.D. program in law and Responsibilites, U.T. politics . Co-Principal Investigator, Ford Foundation Grant for Difficult Dialogs
Director, Texas-Oxford Law Faculty interchange 2000-2007
Chair, Public Law subfield 1994-2005
Director, Democracy in the Third Millennium Program 1997-2000
Research Areas U. S. Supreme Court; Constitutional law; Law and Politics; Comparative Constitutionalism and Courts; American political institutions
Current Research State Solicitors General; Elitification of Appellate Law; Hate Speech in the U. S. and Abroad; Comparative Study of Access to Constitutional Courts; Decline of Professions: Law, Medicine, and Journalism
Teaching Fields Constitutional Law; First Amendment; Constitutional Law for Foreign Lawyers ;Civil Liberties, Public Law/Judicial Behavior courses; Comparative Constitutional Law and Courts; American Politics; Difficult Dialogs
Selected Teaching “Texas 10” 2019 (Award for professors whose former students nominate as Recognition having had the most impact on them.)
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, U.T. Austin, 2018
Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 2018
Texas Spirits Teaching Award 2018
Teaching and Mentoring Award, American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section, 2017
Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas System, 2015
Texas Spirits Teaching Award, 2018
Texas Excellence in Teaching Award
College of Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award
Texas Blazers Teaching Award
Liberal Arts Nominee, U.T. System Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2017, 2018
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Liberal Arts Nominee, Blunk Award, 2013-2014
Liberal Arts Nominee, Piper Award 2012-2013
Orange Jacket Recognition for Teaching
Senate of College Councils Teaching Award nominee for Liberal Arts
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award finalist, The University of Texas
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, Harvard University
Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Award, Harvard University
Distinguished Teaching Award, Washington University
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Michigan
Honors and Awards American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section Wadsworth (selected, non-teaching) Publishing Award in Political Science, 2007 for a book 10 years old or older that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts.
Sixth Annual Lecture in Socio-legal Studies, Oxford University, May 2000
Patterson-Banister Chair Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, 1997-2000
C. Herman Pritchett Award for the best book in Public Law, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Deciding to Decide
Thomas J. Wilson Prize of the Board of Syndics of Harvard University Press for the best first book accepted by the Press, Deciding to Decide
Edward S. Corwin Award, American Political Science Association, for the best doctoral dissertation in public law
Arts and Sciences Commencement Speaker Washington University, May, 1986
Faculty Research Grant, Washington University, 1986
Horace H. Rackham Dissertation Grant The University of Michigan, 1983
Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow The University of Michigan, 1982
H. B. Earhart Foundation Fellowship The University of Michigan, 1979-1980
"M" Award (highest honor at S.M.U.), 1974
Pi Sigma Alpha, 1973
Selected Publications “The Elitification of the U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyering.” South H. W. Perry, Jr. 4
Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2020 )
“Solicitors-General in the United States” in Public Sentinels: A Comparative Study of Australian Solicitors-General, Gabrielle Appleby, Patrick Keyser and John Williams, eds., Ashgate Publishing (February 2014)
“Constitutional Faith, Constitutional Redemption, and Political Science: Can Faith and Political Science Coexist?,” 71 MD. L. REV. 1098 (2012).
Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Cases and Commentaries 9th ed.(co-editor) New York: Longman (earlier editions, Prentice Hall), 2011
Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Cases and Commentaries Online Supplement (co-editor) New York: Longman, 2011
Access to Justice: Procedure, Polity and Politics, 22(3) BOND LAW REVIEW 192 (2010)
Deciding to Decide: Agenda-Setting in the United States Supreme Court, The American Law Library, 2009. (Simplified Chinese translation copyright 2006 by China University of Political Science and Law Press. Published by arrangement with Harvard University Press)
Contributor, Dallas Community College online course in American Politics, 2010
“Law or Politics” in The Future of Political Science Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie, eds. Routledge Press, 2009
“Federalism” in "Federalismo y Regionalismo" Valadés, Diego y Serna de la Garza, José M. (coords.), 2005
“Federalism: The Counterrevolution that Was, Wasn’t, Was? Law and Courts Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter 2005)
“The Political Battle for the Constitution,” with Scot Powe, Constitutional Commentary Vol. 20 #3 ( 2004), 641-696
“Taking Political Science Seriously” 47 St. Louis University Law Review” (Spring 2003)
“Executive-Legislative Relations in Fragile Democracies,” Texas International Law Journal Symposium (Spring 2001) 338
Civil Liberties and the Constitution 8th ed.(co-editor) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999
“United States Attorneys—Whom Shall They Serve?” Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 61 No. 1 Duke University School of Law, (Winter 1998) 129
Deciding to Decide: Agenda-Setting in the United States Supreme Court, H. W. Perry, Jr. 5
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Documentary for P.B.S.(participant): "The Supreme Court: How it Works," 1992
"Writ of Certiorari," The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, Joel Grossman and Kermit Hall, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992
"Agenda-setting in Courts," American Courts: A Critical Assessment, John Gates and Charles Johnson, eds. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1991
"Racial Vote Dilution," Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections, Charles Basset and Sandy Maisel, eds. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991
"Interviewing Supreme Court Personnel," 73 Judicature, December, 1990
"Deciding to Decide: Bargaining, Accommodation, Strategy and Roses," The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, Working Paper Series, April 21, 1987
"Interaction and Decision-Making on Collegial Courts," Judicature, April 1988
Book Reviews
Selected Academic Speeches, Colloquia, Conference Participation Duke University Law School The Supreme Court and its Agenda Setting. LLM program for judges 2019
Distinguished Scholar Lecture “Power and Ethics” Ashesi University, Ghana, 2019
Distinguished Scholar Annual Political Science Lecture, Texas State University “Deciding to Decide: How the U. S. Supreme Court Selects Its Cases.” 2019
“Ewa University, Seoul, Korea “Ethics of Social Science Research of in an Era of Big Data,”, July 3, 2017,
Duke University Law School, “Qualitative Research” and "Deciding to Decide in the Supreme Court,” June 2017
University of Birmingham, England, “Hate Speech: America vs. Europe” May 26, 2016
University of Birmingham, England, “Women in the Academy” May 26, 2016
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Duke University Law School, “Interviewing Judges and Deciding to Decide,” May 26, 2015
Mexico Electoral Tribunal “Freedom of Expression in Campaigns, Elections, and Politics,” ; Program:Two Paths on the Law of Democracy. October 16, 2015
Sorbonne (Paris I) “Hate Speech and Provocative Speech” June 16, 2015
Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, “Speech on College Campuses," Oct. 20, 2017
Dept. of Religion, Tenth Anniversary Celebration, "Constitutional Law of Freedom of Religion," Feb. 17, 2017
Commentator, Public Law Graduate Student Conferences (yearly)
Law School Faculty Research Colloquium, “The Rise of State Solicitors General”
Southwestern Social Science Association,Roundtable on Trends in Certiorari Review: From the Burger Court to the Roberts Court, April 18, 2014
Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, “Growth Of State Solicitors General: Description And Implications Of A New Phenomenon,” June 1 2013
Baylor University Political Science Research seminar, “Research Strategies for Elite Interviewing: Deciding to Decide,” April 8, 2013
“Mexican Electoral Commission (highest court in Mexico for electoral issues) American Politics” and “Campaign Finance,” February 10, 2012
University of Texas Law School, “Where is Power?” Commentary at Constitutional Faith/Constitutional Redemption Symposium, Oct. 22, 2011
Public Lecture, Midland Texas Sponsored by The Bill of Rights Institute, “Civic Knowledge,” Sept. 21, 2011
Sage Program, “The U.S. Constitution: Old Issues, New Developments,”, University of Texas, Sept. 19, 2011
Bond University, Australia, “The U.S. Solicitor General: Winning Ways, Winning Model,” Conference of Solicitors-general of Australia and New Zealand,. April 14, 2011”
“Political Parties in the United States,” Academic Seminar TEPJF: Two Paths in the Law of Democracy: Mexico-United States, University of Texas Law School, Oct. 28, 2010
Bond University, Australia “Access to U. S. Federal Courts,” Access to Constitutional Justice Program, 2010
“Teaching the Teachers” 2007 U.T. Law School H. W. Perry, Jr. 7
Princeton University, “Political Parties and the Supreme Court,” Law and Politics Colloquium, , 2005
World Conference on Federalism and Regionalism, Puebla Mexico, “Federalism,” 2004
Thomas Foley Institute, Washington State Univ. “Future of The U.S. Supreme Court,” 2004
University of London, Institute of American Studies, Bicentennial of Marbury vs. Madision, May 2003
St. Louis University School of Law, Childress Annual Lecture, Presenter at colloquium November, 2002
Invited panel participant at Conference on Constitutional Courts, Washington University November, 1-3 2001. Participants at conference included Jurgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin, Walter Murphy, John Ferejohn, Douglas North, Robert Alexi, and others.
“Elite Interviewing,” Short course for A.P.S.A., September, 2001
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, “American Constitutional Law” August 20-22, 2001
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo Brazil, “Teaching Law,” August, 2001
Oxford University, “Judicial Independence” presented to Law faculty, May 2001
U.S. Mexico Judicial Conference panel participant with Justice Breyer and others, School of Law, May 2001
Oxford University, “Americanization of European Courts,” June 2000
Oxford University, “America’s Constitutional Court,” May 2000
Fragile Democracies Symposium U. T. Law School, “Executive Legislative Relations,” 2000
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil, “Federalism and the Environment” November, 1999
Presenter, “A Dialog on Ackerman’s Constitutional Moments,” with Bruce Ackerman and others 1998
Russell- Sage Democratic Engagement Conference, (by invitation)“Religion in America,” 1998
Seminars for Asian academics, political leaders, and executives on American government, politics and law H. W. Perry, Jr. 8
African National Congress Constitutional Negotiators, "The American Founding," Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1992
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School Faculty Lecture, April 1993
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Political Science Colloquium, April, 1993
Stanford Department of Political Science Speaker Series, "Decision making at the Department of Justice," May ,1992
Seminar for School Superintendents, "The First Amendment in Schools," Harvard Graduate School of Education, July 18, 1992
Documentary for P.B.S.(participant): "The Supreme Court: How it Works," 1992
Supreme Court of Mexico, "The U.S. Supreme Court," Mexico City, July 12, 1991
High Tribunal of Federal District of Mexico, "Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court," Mexico City, July, 1991
National Commission of Human Rights, "Vote Dilution and Issues of Human Rights," Mexico City, July, 1991
Secretaria de Gobernacion (Mexican Ministry for political affairs), "American Political Institutions," Mexico City, July, 1991
Universidad de Las Americas, "Trends in American Politics," Mexico City, July, 1991
Panamerican University Law Department, "The U.S. Supreme Court," Mexico City, July, 1991
Instituto de Estudios Superiors de la Empresa (IESE), Barcelona, Spain, "1787 and 1992", March, 1990
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Politics Department, Princeton University, "Deciding to Decide in the U.S. Supreme Court," April, 1988
Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, "Gun Control," February, 1988
Center for the Study of Public Affairs, Washington University, "The Bork Nomination," October, 1987
Dartmouth College Bicentennial Series, "Deciding to Decide in the U.S. Supreme Court: Bargaining, Accommodation, Strategy, and Roses" Commentators: Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and former United States Solicitor General Rex E. Lee. April, 1987
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Inaugural Alice S. Evangelides Lecture, "Inside the Supreme Court." Rutgers University, March, 1987
Selected Professional Association Activities American Political Science Association Teaching Award Committee, 2018- 2019
American Political Science Association Nominating Committee, 2008-2009
Teaching and Mentoring Committee, Law and Courts Section, APSA 2008- 2009
Program Chair, Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence Section, American Political Science Association, 1999
Executive Committee, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 1994-1996
Frequent presenter, discussant, chair at professional association meetings
Chair, Edward S. Corwin Committee of the American Political Science Association, for the best doctoral dissertation in public law, 1992-1993
Ralph Bunche Institute for Minority Students, 1992
Reviewer: National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Political Science Review American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry,Judicature, Justice System Journal, The Law and Politics Book Review, The Western Political Quarterly other journals
Professional Associations American Political Science Association American Association of Law Schools Law, Courts & Judicial Process Section--A.P.S.A. Midwest Political Science Association (frequently) Southern Political Science Association (frequently)
Selected University Not nearly a full listing of committee or other service, but representative of Service. different types
(University of Texas) Executive Committee, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2019-present
Provost Committee to revise teaching award process,2019
Faculty Mentor for U.T. Tower Fellows Program 2018-present Capital Campaign Video for the University 2018 Taped Supreme Court portion for American Government video 2018 Participate in weekly seminar in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers to H. W. Perry, Jr. 10
discuss and lead programs in teacher improvement 2018- Director, Joint JD/Ph.D. Program in Law and Government 2002-present U.T./Mexican Electoral Tribunal training program 2010-present Chair, (2015-16), Law School Promotion and Tenure committee 2013-2016 Graduate Portfolio Program in Dispute Resolution Oversight Committee, 1999-2016 Bar prep course in Con Law for LLM students (ongoing) Law School Admissions Committee Law School Special Task Force on Admissions 2012-2014 Public Law Admissions Gov. (ongoing) Archer Selection Committee (2015-present) Teaching Committee Law School2014-2015; 2018-present Extensive pre-law advising ongoing Graduate Assembly 2011-2013 University Career Center Committee 2012-2013 Academic Affairs Committee 2011-2013 Special Task Force Option III programs 2012-2013 Vice-Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee 2010-2012 Co-PI, Ford Foundation Grant for Difficult Dialogs initiative
Academy of Distinguished Teachers Selection Committee 2004, 2005 Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1995-97 Field Chair, Public Law, 1994-2005 UT/AID project on Mexican Judiciary Provost’s representative to establish exchange programs with institutions in Argentina, and Chile, May 2000
Chair, Law School Curriculum Committee, 2002 major revision to 1st year curriculum Law School Curriculum Committee (several times) Government Dept. Executive Committee (several times) Legal Writing Task Force McDonald Chair search committee Director Law School Oxford University Faculty seminar exchange, 2001- 2007 Maymester Program Various Committees yearly Law and Gov. (e.g., Admissions, Financial Aid) Directed the Inaugural Bernard and Audre Rapoport Symposium, College of Liberal Arts, Spring, 2000 Created and directed Democracy in the Third Millennium Program Joint Committee with Women’s studies, 2000-2001 FRA-SRA Committee, 2000-2003 Advisor, foreign LL.M. students (Law School) 2000-2001 “American Constitutional Law” Lecture LL.M. seminar, September, 2000- 2004 Chair, Government and History Department Commencement Committee, (to move graduation to departments) 1999 Lecturer, Plan I Honors Program, 1994-1997 Graduate Program Evaluation Committee, 1995 Graduate Admissions and/or Financial Aid Committee, 1994-present Public Law Recruitment Committee, 1994-1995
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(Harvard) Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award Committee Departmental Teaching Fellow Coordinator, 1991-1994 Head of Government Dept. Sophomore Tutorial Program Graduate School Administrative Board, 1990-1994 Chairman, Board of Senior Examiners, 1990-1991 Senior Common Room, Leverett House 1989-1994 Government Tutor, Leverett House, 1989-1994 Fellowship committees (e.g., Rhodes, Truman, etc.) Adviser, Women in Government and Economics, 1989-1990 Admissions Committee, 1989-1990 Faculty Council, Arts and Sciences, 1987 Board of Tutors, Department of Government, 1986-88 Junior Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1986-1988 Panel with Robert Coles, Fall Teaching Orientation, Bok Center, September 12, 1991 Speech, Danforth Center, September 1987 Speech, The Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project, Sept. 1990 Numerous speeches to Harvard-Radcliffe Clubs around the nation Speech, Class of 1965, Cambridge, December 10, 1988 Speech, Parents Club of San Francisco, November 4, 1988 Speech, Class of 1939, New York, October 6, 1988 Speech, Parents Club of Los Angeles, January 20, 1988 Speech, GSAS Professional Development Seminar, December 1, 1987 Various talks for Senior Common Rooms and Harvard Houses