GANESH SITARAMAN
Vanderbilt Law School 131 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
EDUCATION
Harvard Law School, JD 2008 magna cum laude Harry S. Truman Scholar Harvard Law Review, Book Reviews & Essays Chair, Articles Committee, Vol. 121 Harvard Law and Policy Review, Executive Policy Editor, Vol. 2
University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MPhil 2005 Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar
Harvard College, AB 2004 magna cum laude Charles Joseph Bonaparte Prize Phi Beta Kappa Detur Book Prize John Harvard Scholarship
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Vanderbilt Law School Professor of Law, 2017-Present Chancellor Faculty Fellow, 2018-2020 Director, Program on Law and Government, 2017-Present
Associate Professor of Law, 2016-2017 Assistant Professor of Law, 2013-2016 Assistant Professor of Law (on leave), 2011-2013
Yale Law School Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Fall 2016
Harvard Law School Public Law Fellow, 2008-2010 Lecturer on Law, 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow, 2013-Present
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senior Counsel, 2013
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Elizabeth Warren for Massachusetts, Policy Director, 2011-2012
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Law Clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams, 2010-2011
Center for a New American Security, Visiting Fellow, Summer 2010
Counterinsurgency Training Center – Afghanistan, Research Fellow, Summer 2009
Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, Advisor, 2008-2009
FELLOWSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, 2018-2020
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University, Faculty Affiliate, 2013- Present
Program on State-Building and Human Rights in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliate, 2009-2010
The Tobin Project, National Security Research Grant, Summer 2009
Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge University, Prize Fellow, 2004–2005
American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, Junior Fellow, 2004
Center for American Political Studies, Fellow, 2003–2004
Harvard College Research Fellowship, 2003–2004
MEMBERSHIPS AND BOARDS
Massachusetts Bar
American Law Institute, 2019-Present
The American Prospect, Board of Directors, 2017-Present
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Board of Directors, 2017-Present Board of Academic Advisors, 2016-Present
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Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member, 2014-2019
Truman National Security Project, Principal, 2004-Present
Society for U.S. Intellectual History
American Society of International Law
Truman Scholars Association, Board of Directors, 2004-2007
BOOKS
THE GREAT DEMOCRACY: HOW TO FIX POLITICS, UNRIG THE ECONOMY, AND UNITE AMERICA (Basic Books 2019)
THE PUBLIC OPTION: HOW TO EXPAND FREEDOM, INCREASE OPPORTUNITY, AND PROMOTE EQUALITY (Harvard University Press 2019) (with Anne Alstott)
THE CRISIS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS CONSTITUTION: WHY ECONOMIC INEQUALITY THREATENS OUR REPUBLIC (Alfred A. Knopf 2017) • One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2017 • PROSE Award for Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher (2018) (awarded by the Association of American Publishers) • Awarded a Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research (2017) • Reviewed or featured in The New York Times (cover review), Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, NPR’s Indivisible and On Point with Tom Ashbrook. • Featured for a Symposium in the 98 Boston University Law Review Online (2018).
THE COUNTERINSURGENT’S CONSTITUTION: LAW IN THE AGE OF SMALL WARS (Oxford 2012) • Awarded the Palmer Prize for Civil Liberties (2013)
INVISIBLE CITIZENS: YOUTH POLITICS AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 (2003) (edited, with Previn Warren).
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Regulation and Geographic Inequality, Duke Law Journal (forthcoming) (with Morgan Ricks & Christopher Serkin)
The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech, Knight First Amendment Institute, Jan. 30, 2020.
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The Choice between Single Director Agencies and Multimember Commissions, 71 Administrative Law Review 719 (2019) (with Ariel Dobkin).
How to Save the Supreme Court, 129 Yale Law Journal 2 (2019) (with Dan Epps).
Trade and the Separation of Powers, 107 California Law Review 583 (2019) (with Timothy Meyer).
The Middle-Class Constitution: A Response, 98 Boston University Law Review Online 27 (2018).
The Puzzling Absence of Economic Power in Constitutional Theory, 101 Cornell Law Review 1445 (2016).
Economic Structure and Constitutional Structure: An Intellectual History, 94 Texas Law Review 1301 (2016).
The Origins of Legislation, 91 Notre Dame Law Review 79 (2015).
The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law, 128 Harvard Law Review 1897 (2015) (with Ingrid Wuerth).
Behavioral War Powers, 90 N.Y.U. Law Review 516 (2015) (with David Zionts).
Foreign Hard Look Review, 66 Administrative Law Review 489 (2014).
Contracting Around Citizens United, 114 Columbia Law Review 755 (2014).
Credibility and War Powers, 127 Harvard Law Review Forum 123 (2014).
Counterinsurgency, the War on Terror, and the Laws of War, 95 Virginia Law Review 1745 (2009).
The Use and Abuse of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation, 32 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 653 (2009).
Service Pays: Creating Opportunities by Linking College with Public Service, 1 Harvard Law and Policy Review 127 (2006) (with Elizabeth Warren and Sandy Baum).
Counterinsurgency and Constitutional Design, 121 Harvard Law Review 1622 (2008).
ARTICLES IN BOOKS
4 Conclusion, in DEMOCRACY UNCHAINED (David Orr, Andrew Gumbel, Bakari Kitwana & William Becker, eds., The New Press, 2020).
Economic Inequality and Constitutional Democracy, in CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS? (Mark A. Graber, Sanford Levinson, and Mark Tushnet eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2018).
The People’s Pledge: Campaign Finance Reform without Legal Reform, in DEMOCRACY BY THE PEOPLE: REFORMING CAMPAIGN FINANCE IN AMERICA (Eugene Mazo and Timothy Kuhner eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018).
Foreword: Drift and Mastery in the 21st Century, in WALTER LIPPMANN, DRIFT AND MASTERY (Univ. Wisc. Press, centennial edition, 2015).
The Professional Campaign, in THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (Gary King, Kay Lehmann Schlozman & Norman H. Nie eds., 2009).
Suez Crisis, Diego Garcia, in BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAS: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND HISTORY (Will Kaufmann & Heidi Macpherson eds., 2005).
Why Young Americans Hate Politics, in CROSSROADS: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS (Andrew Cuomo ed., 2003) (with Previn Warren).
POLICY PAPERS
A Blueprint for a New American Trade Policy, Great Democracy Initiative, Dec. 2018 (with Tim Meyer).
Taking Antitrust Away from the Courts, Great Democracy Initiative, Sept. 2018.
Regulating Tech Platforms: A Blueprint for Reform, Great Democracy Initiative, May 2018.
Reforming Regulation: Policies to Counteract Capture and Improve the Regulatory Process, Center for American Progress, 2016.
Unbundling Too Big to Fail, Center for American Progress, July 15, 2014.
POPULAR ARTICLES
Soulcraft in a Complex Society, American Affairs, Spring 2020.
Too Big to Prevail: The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech, Foreign Affairs (March/April 2020).
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After Neoliberalism, The Nation, Dec. 24, 2019.
The Collapse of Neoliberalism, The New Republic, Dec. 23, 2019.
Artificial Intelligence is Too Important to Leave to Google and Facebook Alone, The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2019 (with Ben Gansky & Michael Martin).
What Kind of Economy Works Best? The Interplay of Markets and Democracy, The American Prospect High School Essay Contest (2019) (with Robert Kuttner).
To Rescue Democracy, We Must Revive the Reforms of the Progressive Era, The Guardian, Aug. 30, 2019.
When Millions Can’t Afford to Retire, the U.S. Needs a Better Option, The Atlantic, July 11, 2019 (with Anne L. Alstott).
There Should Be a Public Option for Everything, The New York Times, July 6, 2019 (with Anne L. Alstott).
The Constitutionality of the 5-5-5 Supreme Court Plan, Take Care, May 17, 2019 (with Dan Epps).
Is Elizabeth Warren’s College Plan Really Progressive? Yes., The Guardian, May 5, 2019.
Ten Theses on Political Economy and Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, April 29, 2019.
The Emergence of Progressive Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, April 15, 2019.
Facebook Threatens the Economy, Health, and Democracy, The Guardian, Feb. 24, 2019.
It’s Economic Strategy, Stupid: The Case for Department of Economic Growth and Security, American Affairs (Spring 2019) (with Tim Meyer).
What Comes After Trickle-Down Trade Liberalization? ProMarket, Jan. 28, 2019 (with Tim Meyer).
Antitrust Ideas: Bring Back Investigations, Take Care, Dec. 21, 2018.
Countering Nationalist Oligarchy, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Winter 2019.
Unchecked Power: How Monopolies have Flourished – and Undermined Democracy, The New Republic, December 2018.
How to Regulate Tech Platforms, The American Prospect, Fall 2018.
6 Don’t Trust the Courts to Fight Monopolies. They are a Barrier to Progress, The Guardian, Oct. 26, 2018.
Trump’s New NAFTA Supports Tech Monopolies like Facebook and Google, Quartz, Oct. 16, 2018 (with Todd N. Tucker & Marshall Steinbaum).
A Simple Plan for Saving the Supreme Court, Vox, Sept. 6, 2018 (with Daniel Epps).
We Must Hold Capitalism Accountable. Elizabeth Warren Shows How, The Guardian, Aug. 18, 2018.
Why Democrats Should Embrace ‘Internet for All,’ The Nation, Aug. 1, 2018 (with Sean McElwee and Jon Green).
A Trade Policy for All, Foreign Affairs, June 26, 2018 (with Timothy Meyer).
The Case for Glass-Steagall, the Depression Era Law We Need Today, The Guardian, June 16, 2018.
In Corporate America, Too Many Bosses Tell Employees Who to Vote For, The Guardian, May 7, 2018.
Introducing the Great Democracy Project, Take Care, May 7, 2018 (with Julie Margetta Morgan).
The Second Republican Revival, Law & Political Economy, April 30, 2018 (with K. Sabeel Rahman).
The Perils of National Security Exceptionalism, Take Care, April 23, 2018 (with Ingrid Wuerth).
The Power to Declare Trade War, Lawfare, March 23, 2018 (with Tim Meyer).
The Three Crises of Liberal Democracy, The Guardian, March 17, 2018.
How the Oligarchy Wins: Lessons from Ancient Greece, The Guardian, Oct. 15, 2017.
National Security Exceptionalism and the Travel Ban Litigation, Lawfare, Oct. 12, 2017 (with Ingrid Wuerth).
Our Constitution Wasn’t Built for This, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2017.
Divided We Fall, The New Republic, April 10, 2017.
The National Security Consequences of Deregulation, Lawfare, April 3, 2017.
7 You Should Love What You Do. But What if You Don’t, Speech at Vanderbilt Law School Commencement, May 8, 2015. Available at Medium, reprinted by the New York Observer, May 25, 2015.
A People’s Pledge Could Quell the Politics in Judicial Elections, National Law Journal, Nov. 3, 2014 (with Trevor Potter).
America’s Post-Crash Constitution, Politico Magazine, Oct. 5, 2014.
The Rule of Law and the New Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Small Wars Journal, Jun. 12, 2014.
Counterinsurgency for Foxes, Foreign Policy (online), May 20, 2014.
Progressive Pragmatism, The American Interest, May/June 2014.
How to Clean Up American Elections, Politico Magazine, Apr. 8, 2014.
How Candidates Can Sidestep Supreme Court Rulings on Campaign Finance, Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 22, 2013.
Why Counterinsurgents Should Follow the Laws of War, ABA Insights on Law & Society 13.3 (Spring 2013).
Course Correction: My Term at Afghanistan’s Graduate School of War, The New Republic, Oct. 8, 2009.
The Land of 10,000 Wars, N.Y. Times Global Edition / Int’l Herald Trib., Aug. 16, 2009.
Out of the Hole of College Debt, Boston Globe, June 5, 2008 (with Elizabeth Warren).
A Ticket to the Middle Class: Working Off College Debt, Federal Reserve, Communities and Banking, Winter 2007 (with Elizabeth Warren and Sandy Baum).
The Mildmay Society: Past, Present, Future, Emmanuel College Mag., December 2005.
Winning Between the Lines, The New York Times, July 10, 2004 (with Peter Buttigieg and Peter Van D. Emerson).
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