Keith Whittington

Keith E. Whittington (born July 12, 1968) is an American political scientist and legal scholar. In July 2024, he joined the Yale Law School faculty as the David Boies Professor of Law, having previously served as the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he continues as professor emeritus. Whittington's research focuses on American constitutionalism, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law.

Early life and education He graduated with a bachelor's degree in government, finance and honors business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a master's degree in political science at Yale University, followed by a doctoral degree in 1995.

Academia Whittington's work has contributed to increased understanding of originalist thought, political construction of constitutional principles, and the history of political conflict over constitutional meaning. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1997, and he became the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics in 2006, a professorship endowed for the study of law. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Texas School of Law. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

He is a blogger at the Volokh Conspiracy and has had works in various media outlets, like The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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