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Robert
Tsai
Law, Politics, Imagination
Robert L. Tsai is associate professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law. From 2002-08, he taught at the University of Oregon, where he received the Lorry I. Lokey Award for exemplary interdisciplinary scholarship and the Orlando J. Hollis Teaching Award.
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 the formation of American political culture, criminal procedure, presidential strategies on rights, and radical constitutionalism. His work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, 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.
