SCHOOL OF LAW

Louise Weinberg

William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice

LLM Harvard
JD Harvard
AB Cornell

Louise Weinberg is Professor of Law and holder of the Bates Chair at the University of Texas. Weinberg teaches and writes in Constitutional Law and Federal Courts. She received her undergraduate degree summa from Cornell, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, holds two Harvard Law degrees, and clerked for Judge Wyzanski. She practiced in Boston as an associate in litigation with Bingham Dana & Gould. She has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, and Stanford, receiving the Texas Exes' Excellence in Teaching Award in 1996. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. A frequently invited public speaker, she has served as a Forum Fellow of the World International Forum, Davos. Professor Weinberg has chaired four different Sections of the Association of American Law Schools, twice chairing the AALS Section on Federal Courts. Recently she appeared in the Public Broadcasting System's four-part series, "The Supreme Court."

Weinberg is a versatile scholar. Her current work in Constitutional Law includes "Overcoming Dred" (Constitutional Commentary forthcoming 2008), "Dred Scott and the Crisis of 1860" (Symposium, Chicago-Kent Law Review 2007); "Our Marbury" (Virginia Law Review 2003); and "When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore" (Symposium, Boston University Law Review 2002). In the field of Federal Courts, Weinberg is author of Federal Courts: Judicial Federalism and Judicial Power (1994); her recent articles on Federal Courts include "Back to the Future: The New General Common Law," (Symposium, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 2004); "Of Sovereignty and Union: The Legends of Alden" (Notre Dame Law Review 2001); and "The Article III Box," (Symposium, Texas Law Review 2000). In the field of Conflict of Laws, Weinberg is co-author of The Conflict of Laws (2d ed, 2002). Her recent work in this field includes "Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws" (Michigan Law Review 2005). Professor Weinberg has also done some work in Legal Theory and Jurisprudence, most recently "Of Theory and Theodicy: The Problem of Immoral Law," in Law and Justice in a Multistate World (2002) and "Choosing Law, Giving Justice" (Symposium, Louisiana Law Review 2000).

Professor Weinberg has written such classics in the canon of legal literature as "Federal Common Law" (Northwestern Law Review 1989) and "The New Judicial Federalism" (Stanford Law Review 1977), and such provocative essays as "Holmes' Failure" (Michigan Law Review 1997) and "Against Comity" (Georgetown Law Journal 1991). She is a contributor to legal encyclopedias for the Oxford and Yale University Presses. Her pieces for the general public have appeared in The American Scholar, The Public Interest, and Daedalus.