Kermit Roosevelt
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Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia. Author of Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions; Conflict of Laws: Concepts and Insights; The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions; and In the Shadow of the Law.
photograph: Courtesy of Kermit Roosevelt
Primary Contributions (2)
Judicial activism, an approach to the exercise of judicial review, or a description of a particular judicial decision, in which a judge is generally considered more willing to decide constitutional issues and to invalidate legislative or executive actions. Although debates over the proper role of…
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Publications (3)
Conflict of Laws: Cases - Comments - Questions (American Casebook) (June 2013)
The new edition of the popular Conflicts book (formerly Currie, Kay, Kramer and Roosevelt) contains two new main cases for personal jurisdiction, one for extraterritorial application of US law, and one for the New York choice of law approach. In addition, the latest edition features revised materials on the European legal approach to include recent codifications in the Rome I and II conventions. This edition continues the tradition of organizing the teaching of conflicts around the broad themes...
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The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (January 2008)
Can the Constitution change with the times without forsaking the framers’ original intent? This carefully considered book is a welcome addition to the debate over “judicial activism.” Constitutional scholar Kermit Roosevelt III offers an elegantly simple way to resolve the heated discord between conservatives, who argue that the Constitution is immutable, and progressives, who insist that it is a living document that must be reinterpreted in new cultural contexts so that its meaning...
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In the Shadow of the Law: A Novel (June 2006)
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the YearWinner of the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award\nIn the Shadow of the Law is the story of Morgan Siler, a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm that has transformed itself from a traditional practice serving those most in need into a shrewd giant serving the interests of the wealthy. Through the intertwined stories of a pro bono murder case and a class action lawsuit brought against a large chemical company,...
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