Edward Rubin is University Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in administrative law, constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Soul, Self and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State (Oxford, 2015); Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State (Princeton, 2005) and two books with Malcolm Feeley, Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise (Michigan, 2011) and Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge, 1998). In addition, he is the author of two casebooks, The Regulatory State (with Lisa Bressman and Kevin Stack) (3rd ed., 2019); The Payments System (with Robert Cooter) (West, 1990), three edited volumes (one forthcoming) and The Heatstroke Line (Sunbury, 2015) a science fiction novel about the fate of the United States if climate change is not brought under control. Professor Rubin joined Vanderbilt Law School as Dean and the first John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law in July 2005, serving a four-year term that ended in June 2009. Previously, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1998 to 2005, and at the Berkeley School of Law from 1982 to 1998, where he served as an associate dean. Professor Rubin has been chair of the Association of American Law Schools' sections on Administrative Law and Socioeconomics and of its Committee on the Curriculum. He has served as a consultant to the People's Republic of China on administrative law and to the Russian Federation on payments law. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his law degree from Yale.
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State Sovereignty or Fair-Weather Federalism?
Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group
Online EventHorizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
2019 National Lawyers Convention
Originalism
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
War Memorial or Monument to Christianity: The American Legion v. American Humanist Association
Vanderbilt Student Chapter
Vanderbilt Law School Flynn Auditorium131 21st Ave S
Nashville, TN 37203
Federalism: The Spending Clause After the Health Care Decision
2012 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
State Sovereignty or Fair-Weather Federalism?
Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group
The last few administrations have seen an increasing willingness by states to challenge the executive...
Horizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 14, 2019, the Federalist Society's Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group hosted...
Horizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 14, 2019, the Federalist Society's Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group hosted...
Federalism: The Spending Clause After the Health Care Decision
2012 National Lawyers Convention
The Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group hosted this panel on "The Spending Clause...
Federalism: The Spending Clause After the Health Care Decision
2012 National Lawyers Convention
The Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group hosted this panel on "The Spending Clause...