Neil S. Siegel, Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
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- Education:
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
- J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
- Field Examination in American Constitutional Theory, 1999
- Field Examinations in Law & Economics, 1997
- M.A., Duke University, 1995
- B.A., summa cum laude, Duke University, 1994
- Specialties:
- American Politics
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Neil S. Siegel is Assistant Profesor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. His teaching and research center on constitutional law, federal courts, and related areas, including constitutional theory and strategic analysis of constitutional law. Professor Siegel clerked for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the U.S. Supreme Court's October 2003 Term. During the previous two years, he served first as a law clerk to then-Chief Justice J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Duke, and a law degree and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from UC Berkeley. He is currently Special Counsel to U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- N.S. Siegel, Taking Issue: Americans Deserve Answsers,, NPR. org. (October 20, 2005) [abs].
- N.S. Siegel, Remembering Chief Justice Rehnquist, Washington Post (September 5, 2005), pp. A30 (letter) .
- N.S. Siegel, A Theory In Search of a Court, and Itself: Judicial Minimalism at the Supreme Court Bar, 103 Michigan Law Review, vol. 1951 (2005) .
- N.S. Siegel, Rigorous Questions Would Be Only Fair, Philadelphia Inquirer (July 21, 2005), pp. A19 .
- N.S. Siegel, The Conservative Choice is a Moderate, Raleigh News & Observer (July 6, 2005), pp. A13 .