Robert Katzmann

Robert A. Katzmann (born April 22, 1953) is a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Biography

A lawyer and a political scientist by training, Judge Katzmann received his A.B. (summa cum laude) in 1973 from Columbia College, A.M. and Ph.D degrees in government in 1976 and 1978 from Harvard University, and a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for Judge Hugh H. Bownes, he joined the Brookings Institution Governmental Studies Program, where from 1981-99, he was a research associate, senior fellow, visiting fellow, and acting program director.

Work

Katzmann was nominated by President Clinton to his appeals court judgeship on March 8, 1999 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a voice vote on July 14, 1999. At the time of his appointment as a Judge on the Second Circuit, he was Walsh Professor of Government, Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University; a Fellow of the Governmental Studies Program of the Brookings Institution; and president of the Governance Institute (a nonprofit organization concerned with the nexus between law, institutions, and policy).

He has written articles on a variety of subjects, including regulation, judicial-congressional relations, disability, the administrative process, court reform, and the war powers resolution. He has offered courses on administrative law, constitutional law, and the judiciary. Apart from Georgetown, he has taught at N.Y.U. School of Law, U.C.L.A. (Washington D.C. program), and in the fall of 1992 was the Wayne Morse Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon.

His work on interbranch relations began at the invitation of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch, then chaired by Judge Frank M. Coffin. Judge Katzmann also directed a project on the legal profession and public service at The Brookings Institution, which considered the law firm and the public good.

Judge Katzmann has been a board director of the American Judicature Society, a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and a vice-chair of the Committee on Government Organization and Separation of Powers of the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He has also been a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee. He served as co-chair of the FTC transition team, and as special counsel to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the confirmation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He has also been chair of the Section on Legislation of the American Association of Law Schools.

He is recipient of the American Political Science Association's Charles E. Merriam Award (2001), "given to a person whose published work and career represents a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research."

elected publications

* Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Policy (MIT Press, l980; paperback with new afterword, l98l) ISBN 978-0262610346
* Institutional Disability: The Saga of Transportation Policy for the Disabled (Brookings, l986) ISBN 978-0815748335
* Managing Appeals in Federal Court, co-editor (Federal Judicial Center, l988) ASIN B000IKDJBE
* Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life, editor and contributing author (Johns Hopkins, 1998) ISBN 978-0801879678
* Judges and Legislators: Toward Institutional Comity, editor and contributing author, (Brookings, l988) ISBN 978-0815748625
* Courts and Congress (Brookings/Governance, 1997) ISBN 978-0815748656
* The Law Firm and the Public Good (Governance/Brookings 1995) ISBN 978-0815748632