Louise Weinberg

Louise Weinberg is Professor of Law and holder of the Bates Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. She teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law and federal courts.

Weinberg was born in New York and educated at Cornell University and Harvard Law School. She clerked for Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., and practiced in Boston at Bingham, Dana, as the firm was then known. She has taught at Harvard Law School, Brandeis University, Suffolk Law School, and Stanford Law School. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, The Philosophical Society of Texas, and Phi Beta Kappa. She has served as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Davos. Over time she has come to chair three different sections of the Association of American Law Schools (the law professors’ learned society): the sections on Admiralty, on the Conflict of Laws, and on Federal Courts, twice chairing this last. A frequently invited public speaker, Weinberg recently appeared in the Public Broadcasting System's four-part series, “The Supreme Court.”

Louise Weinberg is married to Steven Weinberg, a scientist and Nobel laureate. They live in Austin, Texas, and have a daughter.

Writings

Weinberg’s current writings in constitutional law include "Overcoming Dred" (forthcoming in Constitutional Commentary, Spring 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 in this field 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). She has contributed the entry on "Federal Courts" for the Oxford University Press "Encyclopedia of Legal History" (forthcoming).

In the field of conflict of laws, Weinberg is co-author, with William Richman and William Reynolds, of "The Conflict of Laws" (1990) (2d ed., 2002). Her recent writings in this field include "Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws" (Michigan Law Review 2005).

Weinberg has also worked in legal theory and jurisprudence, most recently contributing "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).

Louise 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). Her pieces for the general public have appeared in "The American Scholar", "The Public Interest", and "Daedalus", including 'Is It All Right to Read Trollope?' "The American Scholar", 1993).

External links

Louise Weinberg's [http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=lw482 faculty profile page] at the University of Texas School of Law.