Education | Courses Offered | Research Interests | Selected Publications

Education:

        BA Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, MA, PhD University of Connecticut

Courses Taught

Professional/Research Focus

        American Constitutional Law and Independent Counsel/Government Ethics
Civic engagement, especially among young people

• Independent Justice: The Federal Special Prosecutor in American Politics. University Press of Kansas, 1992.
• "The Federalism Debate in the Transformation of Federal Habeas Corpus Law," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 27 (Fall 1997).
• "The History of the Independent Counsel Statute: How the Past Informs the Current Debate." Mercer Law Review, 49 489 (Winter 1998).
• "Cues and Miscues in the Constitutional Dialogue," Review of Politics Vol. 60 (Summer 1998): 497-524.
• "Damned If She Does and Damned If She Doesn't: The Attorney General and the Independent Counsel Statute, " Georgetown Law Review, 86 2097 (July 1998).
• The Special Prosecutor in American Politics. 2nd ed., revised. University Press of Kansas, 2000.
• “The Independent Counsel and the Limits of the Law.” In Superintending Democracy: The Courts and the Political Process. Edited by Christopher Banks and John Green. University of Akron Press (2001).
• “The President and the Independent Counsel: Reflections on Prosecutors, Presidential Prerogatives, and Political Power.” Presidential Studies Quarterly (June 2001).
• Editor. Separation of Powers: Commentary and Documents. Congressional Quarterly Press (2003)
• “Clinton v. Jones and the Limits of Presidential Immunity”. Creating Constitutional Change:  People, Power, and the Law, Editors Gregg Ivers and Kevin McGuire. University of Virginia Press (2004).
• Speaking of Politics:  Preparing College Students For Democratic Citizenship Through Deliberative Dialogue, Co-authored with Jill J. McMillan, Kettering Foundation Press (2007).