Keith E. Whittington (born 12 July 1968) is an American political scientist. Whittington studied government, finance and business at the

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, then earned a master's and doctoral degree in political science from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He attended

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where he graduated in the Class of 1986. His teaching career began in 1995, with an assistant professorship at the

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. He joined the

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faculty in 1997. Whittington was promoted to associate professor in 2002, and became William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics by 2006. Whittington was elected a fellow of the

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in 2012. In 2021, Whittington was appointed to the

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. He was the founding chair of the

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and serves on its academic committee. He is a visiting fellow at the

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. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Texas School of Law. He is a blogger at the

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Selected publications

*Gillman, Howard, Graber, Mark A., and Whittington, Keith E. (2021). ''American Constitutionalism''. Third Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0197527639 *Whittington, Keith E. (2019). ''Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present''. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700627790. * *Whittington, Keith E. (2016). ''American Political Thought: Readings and Materials''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199338868. * * *Reviews of ''Constitutional Construction'' include: * *

References

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