Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityJohn McGinnis
John O. McGinnis clerked for Hon. Kenneth W. Starr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. From 1987 to 1991, Professor McGinnis was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. He is a scholar in both the area of constitutional and international law. Professor McGinnis has been appointed chairman of the government’s advisory committee on free trade agreements and labor standards. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representatives also has added him to the roster of Americans who can be appointed as panelists to resolve World Trade Organization disputes. He is a past winner of Paul Bator award given by the Federalist Society to an outstanding academic under 40. He contributes regularly to both law reviews and popular journals.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Constitutional Law
- International Trade
- Antitrust Law
- International Law
- International Transactions
- Law and Economics
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Appendix to Condercet Paper, (pdf) (pdf)
- Reviving Tocqueville's America: The Rehnquist Court's Jurisprudence of Social Discovery, 90 Cal. L. Rev. 485 (2002)
- Federalism v. States' Rights: A Defense of Judicial Review in a Federal System, 99 N.W. L. Rev. 89 (2004) (with I. Somin)
- The Judicial Filibuster, the Median Senator, and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 2005 Supreme Court Rev. 257 (with M. Rappaport)
- Should International Law Be Part of Our Law?, 59 Stan L. Rev. _____ (2007) (with I. Somin)
Recent Publications
- Democracy and International Human Rights Law, 2008
- The Desirable Constitution and the Case for Originalism, 2008
- The Federalist Approach to the First Amendment , HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY , 2008
- McCain and the Supreme Court , WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2008
- Executive Power in the War on Terror , POLICY REVIEW , 2007
EDUCATION
- BA, magna cum laude, Harvard College
- MA, Balliol College, Oxford
- JD, magna cum laude, Harvard University
