Robert L. Tsai is professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law. He is a prize winning essayist on constitutional law and history. His latest book on failed and still born constitutions, Defiant Designs: American's Forgotten Constitutions, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2012.
He earned a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before entering the academy, he clerked for judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Southern District of New York.
Tsai's primary research interests include democratic theory, the formation of American political culture, criminal procedure, presidential strategies on rights, and radical constitutionalism. His work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Boston University Law Review. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, Boston Globe, and CNN. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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