John Oldham McGinnis

Stanford Clinton Sr. Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-3235
E-mail: j-mcginnis@law.northwestern.edu

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Professor John O. McGinnis is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He also has an MA degree from Balliol College, Oxford, in philosophy and theology. Professor McGinnis clerked on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. From 1987 to 1991, He was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. Professor McGinnis is a scholar in both the areas of constitutional and international law. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representatives 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.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Constitutional Law
International Trade
Antitrust Law

International Law
International Transactions
Law and Economics

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Reviving Tocqueville's America: The Rehnquist Court's Jurisprudence of Social Discovery, 90 Cal. L. Rev. 485 (2002)
Majority and Supermajority Rule Three Views of the Capitol, 85 Tex. L. Rev. 1115 (2007) (with M. Rappaport)
Should International Law Be Part of Our Law?, 59 Stan L. Rev. 1175 (2007) (with I. Somin)
Medellin and the Future of International Delegation, 118 Yale L. J. __ (2009)

Recent Publications

Judging Facts Like Law, 25 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 69-130, 2008
Original Methods Originalism: A New Theory of Interpretation and the Case Against Construction, 103 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 751-802 , 2009
Reconciling Originalism and Precedent , 103 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 803-856 , 2009
Medellín and the Future of International Delegation , 118 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1712-1760 , 2009
Losing the Law War: The Bush Administration’s Strategic Errors, 25 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 377-396 , 2008

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EDUCATION

BA, magna cum laude, Harvard College
MA, Balliol College, Oxford
JD, magna cum laude, Harvard University