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Howard Gillman

Anna Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science and History
Dean of USC College

Contact Information
Office: ADM 302
Phone: (213)740-2531
E-mail: dean@college.usc.edu

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Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Education

B.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1/1980
M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1/1981
Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1/1988
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Gillman specializes in constitutionalism, the U.S. Supreme Court, and judicial politics. He has authored several pieces on these interests. His most recent book is The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (University of Chicago Press, 2001). His first book, The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (Duke University Press, 1993), received the C. Herman Pritchett Award for "best book in public law" from the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. He is also co-editor and contributor to two other books on the Supreme Court: Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations (University Press of Kansas, 1999). He has published numerous articles in journals such as The American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Studies in American Political Development.
 

Research Specialties

American Constitutional Development, Judicial Politics, Legal Theory
 

Publications

Book

Gillman, H. (2001). The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election. Chicago and London: The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election/University of Chicago Press.
Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches/University of Chicago Press.
Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations. Lawrence, KS: The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations/University Press of Kansas.
Gillman, H. (1993). The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence. The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence/Duke University Press.
 

Book Chapter

Gillman, H. (2006). Party Politics and Constitutional Change: The Political Origins of Liberal Judicial Activism. pp. p.138-168. Lawrence, KS: The Supreme Court and American Political Development/University Press of Kansas.
Gillman, H. (2006). Courts and the Politics of Partisan Coalitions. (Vol. n/a). Oxford: The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics/Oxford University Press.
Gillman, H. (2005). The Waite Court, 1874-1888: The Collapse of Reconstruction and the Transition to Conservative Constitutionalism. pp. p.124-146. Boston and New York: The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice/Houghton Mifflin.
Gillman, H. (2004). Constitutional Law as Hardball Politics: Bush v. Gore (2000). pp. p.49-63. Creating Constitutional Change: Clashes over Power and Liberty in the Supreme Court/University of Virginia Press.
Gillman, H. (2003). Robert G. McCloskey, Historical Institutionalism, and the Arts of Judicial Governance. pp. p.336-360. Ann Arbor: Pioneers of Public Law/University of Michigan Press.
Gillman, H. (1999). Reconnecting the Modern Supreme Court to the Historical Evolution of American Capitalism. pp. p.235-256. Lawrence, KS: The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations/University Press of Kansas.
Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Introduction. pp. p.1-12. Lawrence, KS: The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations/University Press of Kansas.
Gillman, H. (1999). The Court is an Idea, Not a Building (or a Game): Interpretive Institutionalism and the Analysis of Supreme Court Decision-Making. pp. p.65-87. Chicago and London: Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches/University of Chicago Press.
Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Beyond Judicial Attitudes: Institutional Approaches to Supreme Court Decision-Making. pp. p.1-12. Chicago and London: Institutional Approaches to Supreme Court Decision-Making/University of Chicago Press.
 

Journal Article

Gillman, H. (2006). Regime Politics, Jurisprudential Regimes, and Unenumerated Rights. Journal of Constitutional Law/University of Pennsylvania Press. Vol. NA
Gillman, H. (2005). Disaster Relief, ‘Do Anything’ Spending Powers, and the New Deal. Law and History Review/University of Illinois Press. Vol. Vol.23, pp. pp.443-450.
Gillman, H. (2005). First Amendment Doctrine as Regime Politics. The Good Society/Penn State University Press. Vol. Vol. 14
Gillman, H. (2005). De-Lochnerizing Lochner. Boston University Law Review/Boston University School of Law. Vol. Vol.85, pp. pp.859-865.
Gillman, H. (2004). Martin Shapiro and the New Institutionalism in Judicial Behavior Studies. Annual Review of Political Science/Annual Reviews. Vol. Vol.7, pp. pp.363-382.
Gillman, H. (2003). Judicial Independence Through the Lens of Bush v. Gore: Four Lessons from Political Science. Ohio State Law Journal/Ohio State Law School. Vol. Vol.64, pp. p.249.
Gillman, H. (2002). How Political Parties Can Use the Courts to Advance Their Agendas: Federal Courts in the United States, 1875-1891. American Political Science Review/American Political Science Association. Vol. Vol.96, pp. pp.511-524.
Gillman, H. (2001). What’s Law Got to Do With It? Judicial Behavioralists Test the ‘Legal Model’ of Judicial Decision Making. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. Vol. Vol.26, pp. pp.465-504.
Gillman, H. (1998). From Fundamental Law to Constitutional Politics -- and Back. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. pp. p.185-202.
Gillman, H. (1997). “The Collapse of Constitutional Originalism and the Rise of the Notion of the ‘Living Constitution’ in the Course of American State-Building. Studies in American Political Development/Cambridge University Press. Vol. Vol.11, pp. pp.191-247.
Gillman, H. (1996). The Antinomy of Public Purposes and Private Rights in the American Constitutional Tradition, or Why Communitarianism is Not Necessarily Exogenous to Liberal Constitutionalism. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. Vol. Vol.21, pp. pp.67-77.
Gillman, H. (1996). More on the Origins of the Fuller Court’s Jurisprudence: The Scope of Federal Power Over Commerce and Manufacturing in Nineteenth-Century Constitutional Law. Political Research Quarterly/University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political Science Association. Vol. Vol.49, pp. pp.415-437.
Gillman, H. (1994). Preferred Freedoms: The Progressive Expansion of State Power and the Rise of Modern Civil Liberties Jurisprudence. Political Research Quarterly/University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political Science Association. Vol. Vol.47, pp. pp.623-653.
Gillman, H. (1994). The Struggle Over Marshall and the Politics of Constitutional History. Political Research Quarterly/University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political Science Association. Vol. Vol.47, pp. pp.877-887.
Gillman, H. (1994). On Constructing a Science of Comparative Judicial Politics: Comment on Tate and Haynie’s ‘Authoritarianism and the Functions of Courts. Law and Society Review/Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Law and Society Association. Vol. Vol.28, pp. pp.901-922.
Gillman, H. (1989). The Constitution Besieged: TR, Taft, and Wilson on the Virtue and Efficacy of a Faction-Free Republic. Presidential Studies Quarterly/Blackwell Publishing for the Center of the Study of the Presidency. Vol. Vol.19, pp. pp.179-201.
 

Honors and Awards

Endowed Chair, Anna Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2007-  
Board of Trustees, Law and Society Association (elected), 2005-2008  
Elected Section Chair, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association, 9/1/2007-8/30/2008  
Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, American Judicature Society Award for Best Paper on Public Law, 2001  
USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, 2001  
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, College of Letters and Science, 2001  
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, 1999-2000  
Hewlett Grant for Innovative Course Development, 1995  
Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in Public Law, 1994  
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, Faculty Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching and Dedication to Students, 1992-1994  
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments

Dean of USC College, 06/01/2007-  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Policy Board Member, Political Research Quarterly, 2006  
Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution, Cambridge University Press, 2005-2006  
Editorial Board Member, Law and Social Inquiry, 2000-2001  
Editorial Board Member, Law and Courts, 1998  
 

Professional Memberships

Western Political Science Association Executive Committee, 2003-2006  
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, 1999-2006  
American Political Science Association, The Law and Courts Discussion List, Creator and Moderator, 1996-2006  
American Society for Legal History, 1995-2006  
Law and Society Association, 1988-2006  
Western Political Science Association, 1985-2006  
Law and Society Association, Chair, Membership Committee, 2003-2005  
 
 
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