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UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

MICHAEL B. RAPPAPORT, JD, DCL

Michael Rappaport is the Hugh & Hazel Darling Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he is also the director of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism. Professor Rappaport teaches Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. His research interests include originalism, administrative law, supermajority rules and the separation of powers.

Originalism Blog , which he founded. He has taught overseas at both the Sorbonne and Paris Two in Paris, France, at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, at LUISS in Rome, Italy, and at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. He has published in the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times, National Review, and the Weekly Standard , and has been cited many times by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Previously, Professor Rappaport worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced appellate law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He received a JD and a DCL (political theory) from the Yale Law School, and served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Professor Rappaport is the author (with John McGinnis) of Originalism and the Good Constitution (Harvard 2013). He has published scores of law review articles, in journals such as the Yale Law Journal , the Virginia Law Review , the University of Pennsylvania Law Review , and the Northwestern Law Review . He blogs at The

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