Richard H. Pildes is a faculty co-director at the Center on Law and Security and the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law. He specializes in constitutional law and legal issues involving the structure of democratic processes. He is the co-author of the casebook The Law of Democracy (3rd ed. 2007), editor of the book The Future of the Voting Rights Act (2006), and the author of numerous academic articles that have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and other leading legal journals. His work is frequently cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has received Guggenheim and Carnegie Foundation fellowships. From 1988 to 2000, he was a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Pildes received his A.B. degree summa cum laude in chemistry from Princeton University in 1979, and his J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he was Supreme Court note editor on the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of “Between Civil Libertarianism and Executive Unilateralism: An Institutional Process Approach to Rights During Wartime” (co-authored with Sam Issacharoff) and “Conflicts Between American and European Views of Law: The Dark Side of Legalism.”
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New Directions in Terrorism Policy, April 16th, 2010
