Professor, earned a B.A. from Queens College, an M.A. from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University. Senior Faculty Status, Spring 2009.

His areas of scholarship are constitutional law and politics, jurisprudence, and the semiotics of law.

Among his publications are NEGLECTED POLICIES: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL COMMENTARY AS CIVIC EDUCATION (Duke University Press, 2002), awarded C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Best Book on Law and Courts published by a political scientist in 2002.

His most recent publications are "An Indifference Thesis: Constitutional Law and Politics in an Era of Conservative Domination of the Judiciary," Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 44 (Austin Sarat, ed., Elsevier Science 2008).

Also, "When the Law Speaks: US Constitutional Law, Acts of Intolerance, & Threats to Self-Identity," DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE IN SOCIO-LEGAL CONTEXTS: EXPLORATIONS IN THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW (Ann Wagner and Vijay Bhatia, eds., Ashgate Publishing 2009).