Osler's Razor

 

I'm devoting Wednesdays on the blog to profiling my classmates in the Yale Law class of 1990. I'm finding them to be pretty interesting, all these years down the road!

Stephen Gardbaum was another of those people whose education extended way beyond Yale Law. By the time I had graduated with my BA in 1985, he had gathered up both a BA from Oxford University and a master's degree from the University of London in Sociology and Politics. And before we graduated from law school, he had received a Ph.D. from Columbia in political theory. It's... pretty impressive.

After law school he found his way to the academy, first at Northwestern and then at UCLA, where he now holds the Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair.

His specialty is comparative international law, and particularly constitutional law in the international context. Not surprisingly, he has been a visiting professor in Australia and France, and has published his work all over the place. If you want to check out what he does, you can read his upcoming (and quite timely) article, "The Counter-Playbook: Resisting the Populist Assault on Separation of Powers" here.

It's not my field-- but it sounds pretty interesting!