| Kermit Roosevelt III | |
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| Born | July
14, 1971 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Penn Law School |
| Alma mater | Harvard
University Yale Law School |
Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt III (born July 14, 1971) is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of The Myth of Judicial Activism (Yale University Press, 2006) and the D.C. legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005).
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Kim Roosevelt III was born in Washington, D.C. He is the grandson of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the great-grandson of Kermit Roosevelt and the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He graduated from St. Albans School (where he was a presidential scholar[1]), Harvard University and Yale Law School. He was a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit, and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.[2]
Roosevelt worked as a lawyer with Mayer Brown in Chicago from 2000 to 2002 before joining the Penn Law faculty in 2002.[3]
Roosevelt's areas of academic interest include conflicts of law and constitutional law.
Some of his recent scholarly publications include “Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond” (2005), published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, “Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does,” University of Virginia Law Review (2005), and “Resolving Renvoi: the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language,” Notre Dame Law Review (2005).
   | Recent publications - Penn Law - Current and Recent Research |
| | University of Pennsylvania Faculty Webpage - Penn Law Faculty: Kermit Roosevelt, expert on Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction |
| | Bookbrowse provides jacket information, media reviews and excerpt from In the Shadow of the Law - In The Shadow of The Law: Summary and reviews of In The Shadow of The Law by Kermit Roosevelt. |
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