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Mark "3 Nuts" Tushnet (born November 18, 1945) is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a scholar of constitutional law and legal history.

Early life

He is Jewish on his father's side, while his mother was Unitarian.

Career

Tushnet received his A.B. from Harvard College. He later received an M.A. in history from Yale University and his J.D. from the Yale Law School. Tushnet has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he taught for many years at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Tushnet served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court between 1972 and 1973. In a 1996 congressional hearing on President Bill Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Tushnet testified about his involvement in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that struck down state laws prohibiting abortion. During questioning it was alleged that a memorandum written by Tushnet to Marshall had a significant influence on the outcome of the case.

One of the more controversial figures in constitutional theory, he is identified with the 'critical legal studies' movement and once stated in an article that, were he asked to decide actual cases as a judge, he would seek to reach results that would "advance the cause of socialism". Tushnet is a main proponent of the idea that judicial review should be strongly limited and that the Constitution should be returned "to the people." Tushnet is, with Harvard Law Professor Vicki Jackson, the co-author of a casebook entitled Comparative Constitutional Law (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2006).

Personal life

Tushnet is married to Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Their daughter Rebecca Tushnet is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and their daughter Eve is a lesbian Roman Catholic author and blogger.

Books

1. In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court, (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013).
2. I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases, (Malaysia: Beacon Press, pp. 256, 2008)
3. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005)
4. The New Constitutional Order (Prininceton U. Press 2003).
5. The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (Peter Cane & Mark V. Tushnet eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2003).
6. Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law (Vicki C. Jackson & Mark Tushnet eds., Praeger 2002).
7. And L. Michael Seidman et al., Constitutional Law (Little, Brown and Co. 4th ed. 2001).
8. Et al., Federal Courts in the 21st Century: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2001).
9. Marshall, Thurgood; Tushnet, Mark V. (Editor); and Kennedy, Randall (Forward by). (2001). Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated -- Lawrence Hill Books. ISBN 9781556523861. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
10. Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991 (1997).
11. Brown v. Board of Education: The Battle for Integration (1995).
12. The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective (Mark V. Tushnet ed., 1993).
13. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961 (1994).
14. The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (1987).
15. The American Law of Slavery, 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest (1981).
16. And L. Michael Seidman et al., Constitutional Law (Little, Brown and Co. Supp. 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 2d ed. 1991, Supp. 1992, 1995, 1996, 3d ed. 1996, Supp. 1998, 4th ed. 2001).
17. And Vicki C. Jackson, Comparative Constitutional Law (Foundation Press 1999).
18. Taking the Constitution Away From the Courts (Princeton University Press 1999), excerpted in Great Cases in Constitutional Law (Robert P. George ed., Princeton University Press, 2000) (reprinting chapter 1 in substance). Symposium of Commentaries on this book: 34 University of Richmond Law Review 359-566 (2000).
19. And L. Michael Seidman et al., Teacher's Manual to The First Amendment (Aspen Law & Business 1999).
20. And Francisco Forrest Martin, The Rights International Companion to Constitutional Law: An International Human Rights Law Supplement (Kluwer Law International 1999).
21. And L. Michael Seidman, Remnants of Belief: Contemporary Constitutional Issues (Oxford University Press 1996).
22. Constitutional Issues: The Death Penalty (Facts On File, Inc. 1994).
23. Constitutional Law (International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory) (Mark V. Tushnet, ed., New York University Press 1992).
24. Comparative Constitutional Federalism: Europe and America (Mark V. Tushnet ed., Greenwood Press 1990).
25. Central America and the Law: The Constitution, Civil Liberties, and the Courts (South End Press 1988).
26. Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law (Harvard University Press 1988).
27. Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns (Inalienable Rights).

References

1. date & year of birth according to LCNAF CIP data
2. "A Gay Catholic Voice Against Same-Sex Marriage" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05beliefs.html
3. Origins & Scope of Roe v. Wade: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. DIANE Publishing. 1996. p. 119.
4. "The Dilemmas of Liberal Constitutionalism," 42 Ohio State Law Journal 411, 424 (1981).
5. "'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet". America Magazine. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
6. Oppenheimer, Mark (4 June 2010). "A Gay Catholic Voice Against Same-Sex Marriage". New York Times.

External links

• Harvard Law School faculty page for Professor Tushnet
• Georgetown profile of Professor Tushnet
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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