SANFORD VICTOR LEVINSON Born: June 17, 1941, Hendersonville, North Carolina Personal data: Married to Cynthia Yenkin Levinson; two daughters, Meira and Rachel two granddaughters, Rebecca and Gabriella Home address 3410 Windsor Road Austin, Texas 78703 512/477-6445 512/477/6458 (fax) 60 Glen Rd., #102 Brookline, Massachusetts 02445 617-734-6458 Office Address: University of Texas Law School 727 E. Dean Keeton Street Austin, Texas 78705 512/232-1351 (direct dial) fax: 512-471-6988 e-mail: [email protected] Education: Duke University, B.A., 1962 Harvard University, Ph.D., 1969 Stanford Law School, J.D., 1973 Honors and Fellowships: Phi Beta Kappa Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1962 Kent Fellowship, 1966 Russell Sage Fellowship, 1970 American Law Institute (elected to membership, 1986) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected to membership, 2001) National Constitution Center, Distinguished Scholars Advisory Panel, 2001-2003 Resident, The Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, October 18-November 15, 2005 Admitted to Bar: California, 1973 United States Supreme Court, 1981 Sanford Levinson, Page 2 EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Professor, University of Texas Law School, January 1980 Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law, 1986-90; Angus G. Wynne Sr. Professor of Civil Jurisprudence, 1990-91; W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, 1991- Professor, University of Texas, Department of Government, 1985- Associate, Shalom Hartman Center for Jewish Philosophy, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983- Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Fall, 1991, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009 Visiting Professor, Harvard Department of Government, Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Law School (Australia), August 2008 Visiting Professor of Law, University of Auckland Law School (New Zealand), July 2007 Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, Fall 2006 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Central European University, Summer 1997, Spring 2001, Spring 2005 Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Paris 1, May 2004 Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Paris 2, January 2003 Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, 1999-2000 Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Law, Spring 1997 Faculty, Cardozo Law School Summer Program-Central European University, Summer 1999 Fellow, Institute of United States Studies, University of London, May-June 1994 Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 1991-92 Faculty, seminar on "Raising Rights Consciousness," sponsored by Democracy After Communism, Hungary, June 1991, 1992 Sanford Levinson, Page 3 Professor, University of San Francisco Summer School at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), June 1987 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986-1987 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, October-December 1984 Assistant professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1975-79 Visiting assistant professor, University of Texas Law School, Summer 1978 Staff attorney, Children's Defense Fund, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974-75 Law clerk to Honorable James B. McMillan, United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1973-74 Research assistant to Professor Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford Law School, Summer 1972 Instructor and assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1968-70 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Government, 1963-68, Committee on Social Studies, 1967-68 Summer associate, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1964 Summer intern, Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 1963 Summer intern, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962 WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS Ph. D. Dissertation "Skepticism, Democracy, and Judicial Restraint: An Essay on the Thought of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter," Department of Government, Harvard University, 1969 Books Sanford Levinson, Page 4 POWER AND COMMUNITY: DISSENTING ESSAYS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (co-editor, with Phillip Green, Pantheon Books, 1970) PROCESSES OF CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONMAKING (co-editor, with Paul Brest, of 2d edition, Little, Brown & Co., 1983; 3d ed., 1992; with Jack Balkin and Akhil Amar, 4th ed., Aspen Law & Business, 2000; with Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, and Reva Siegel, 5th ed. Aspen Law & Business, 2006) CONSTITUTIONAL FAITH (Princeton University Press, 1988) (Winner of Scribes Book Award, 1989) LAW AND LITERARY INTERPRETATION (co-editor, with Steven Mailloux, Northwestern University Press, 1988) THE AMERICAN SUPREME COURT (expanded edition of the original book written by Robert G. McCloskey published in 1960)(University of Chicago Press, 1994, rev’d eds. 2000, 2004, 2010) RESPONDING TO IMPERFECTION: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN THEORY AND PRACTICE (editor)(Princeton University Press, 1995) CONSTITUTIONAL STUPIDITIES, CONSTITUTIONAL TRAGEDIES (co-editor, with William Eskridge)(New York University Press, 1998) WRITTEN IN STONE: PUBLIC MONUMENTS IN CHANGING SOCIETIES (Duke University Press, 1998) LEGAL CANONS (co-editor, with Jack Balkin)(New York University Press, 2000) WRESTLING WITH DIVERSITY (Duke University Press, 2003) TORTURE: A COLLECTION (editor)(Oxford University Press, 2004, rev’d and expanded edition, 2006) THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND AMERICAN EXPANSION, 1803-1898, (co-editor, with Bartholomew Sparrow)(Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) OUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION: WHERE THE CONSTITUTION GOES WRONG (AND HOW WE THE PEOPLE CAN CORRECT IT) (Oxford University Press, 2006, pb. ed. with new afterword 2008) Articles and Review Essays Sanford Levinson, Page 5 "The Supreme Court: Does It Have an Innovative Role?" 3 THE HARVARD REVIEW 1-23 (Fall-Winter 1965) "On 'Teaching' Political 'Science,'” in Green and Levinson, POWER AND COMMUNITY 59-84 (1970) "The Democratic Faith of Felix Frankfurter," 25 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 430-448 (1973) "Responsibility for Crimes of War," 2 PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS 244-273 (1973), reprinted in Scanlon, Nagel, and Cohen, eds., WAR AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY 104-133 (1974) "New Perspectives on the Reconstruction Court," 26 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 461-484 (1974) "The Rediscovery of Law," 57 SOUNDINGS 318-337 (1974) "Fidelity to Law and the Assessment of Political Activity (Or, Can a War Criminal Be a Great Man?)," 27 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1185-1202 (1975) "The Specious Morality of the Law," HARPERS, May 1977, pp. 35ff, reprinted in Eastman et al., eds., THE NORTON READER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EXPOSITORY PROSE 902- 913 (5th ed. 1980). "Taking Law Seriously: Reflections on 'Thinking Like a Lawyer,'" 30 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1071-1109 (1978) "An Exemplary Death," COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, May-June 1979, pp. 31-33 "Self-Evident Truths in the Declaration of Independence," 57 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 847-858 (1979) "The 'Constitution' in American Civil Religion," 1979 SUPREME COURT REVIEW 123-151 "AALS Law and Religion Panel: 'Law as Our Civil Religion,'" 31 MERCER LAW REVIEW 477-483 (1980) "Judicial Review and the Problem of the Comprehensible Constitution," 59 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 395-420 (1981) "Die Zulassung aum offentlichen Dienst und die Schranken der politischen Betatigung der Beamten in der USA" (with D. C. Umbach), in Bockenforde, Tomuschat and Umbach, eds., EXTREMISTEN UND OFFENTLICHER DIENST: RECHSTLAGE UND PRAXIS DES Sanford Levinson, Page 6 ZUGANGS ZUM UND DER ENTLASSUNG AUS DEM OFFENTLISHEN DIENST IN WESTEUROPA, USA, JUSOGLAWIEN UND DER EG 559-599 (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981). "Under Cover: The Hidden Costs of Infiltration," 12 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, August 1982, pp. 29-37, reprinted in Gerald Caplan, ed., ABSCAM ETHICS: MORAL ISSUES AND DECEPTION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT (1983) "Law as Literature," 60 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 373-403 (1982), reprinted in Levinson and Mailloux, INTERPRETING LAW AND LITERATURE (1988); Frederick Schauer, ed., LAW AND LANGUAGE (1993); with minor deletions in Thomas L. Haskell, ed., THE AUTHORITY OF EXPERTS 242-270 (1984); and in part in John H. Garvey and T. Alexander Aleinikoff, eds., MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY: A READER 54-60 (1989) "The Turn Toward Functionalism in Constitutional Theory," 8 DAYTON LAW REVIEW 567-578 (1983) "Escaping Liberalism: Easier Said Than Done," 96 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1466-1488 (1983), reprinted in CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES 480-502 (1986)(collection of essays published in the Harvard Law Review) "Law," 35 AMERICAN QUARTERLY 191-204 (1983) (Symposium on American Thought in the 1980's) "Princeton Versus Free Speech: A Post Mortem," in Craig Kaplan & Ellen Schrecker, eds., REGULATING THE INTELLECTUALS: PERSPECTIVES ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN THE 1980s 189-208 (New York: Praeger, 1983) "On Dworkin, Kennedy, and Ely: Decoding the Legal Past," 51 PARTISAN REVIEW 248- 264 (1984) "The Preferences of Friendship," 2 DUKE LAW MAGAZINE, Summer, 1984, pp. 21-24. "Testimonial Privileges and the Preferences of Friendship," 1984 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 631-662 (1984), excerpted in Edward J. Imwinnelried & Glen Wissenberger, eds., AN EVIDENCE ANTHOLOGY 166-173 (1996) "Freedom of Speech and the Right of Access to Private Property Under State Constitutional Law," in Bradley McGraw, ed., DEVELOPMENTS IN STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: THE WILLIAMSBURG CONFERENCE 51-70 (1985) "What Do Lawyers Know (And What Do They Do With Their Knowledge)?