Nancy Kassop is a professor at the

State University of New York at New Paltz The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an a ...

, and former chair of the Political Science Department at the school. Some of the courses she teaches are American Government and Politics and Constitutional Law.

Biography

Kassop graduated from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

with a B.A. in political science and earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. Her research focuses on

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a State (polity), state, namely, the executive (government), executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as th ...

and the

presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by a ...

. Among her many articles and publications is "Expansion and Contraction: Clinton's Impact on the Scope of Presidential Power" from her book titled ''The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy by Adler and Genovese'' and "A Political Question By Any Other Name: Government Strategy in the Enemy Combatant Cases of Hamdi and Padilla" from her

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2007 publication "The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States." Since the George W. Bush administration, her focus has shifted towards presidential war powers and national security law. Some of her most recent research explores the role of the Obama administration's political staff and Office of Legal Counsel in making counterterrorism policy.

Personal life

Kassop was born April 1, 1950, in New York, to Harry Kassop and Harriet (Weinberger) Kassop. Her maternal grandfather Emanuel Weinberger was a Jewish immigrant from Austria. Her maternal grandmother Eva Cohen was born in New York to Russian Jewish parents. Harry Kassop was also Ashkenazi Jewish.

References

External links

Faculty page at SUNY New Paltz
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kassop, Nancy Living people University of Pennsylvania alumni New York University alumni American educators American women political scientists American political scientists 21st-century American women 1950 births