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Federalism in the Age of Virtual Democracy | Jonathan Turley
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Professor Turley explores the history and reform of the Supreme court, including past controversies.
Professor Turley explores the growing attacks on free speech from hate speech laws to anti-discrimination laws.
Professor Turley explores how cultural defenses of immigrants have been used in state and federal cases.
Professor Turley explores how we continue to struggle with legitimacy and constitutionality of morality laws.
Professor Turley explores conflicts from cakeshops to wedding planners to photographers and others caught at the intersection between the protections of free exercise (and free speech) and equality.
Professor Turley looks at the evolution of trials from medieval to modern times.
Professor Turley explores our history and standards of impeachments.
Professor Turley explores the history and law governing war making.
Biography
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.
After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications, Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, former cabinet members, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successfully challenge both a federal and a state law.
In 2010, Professor Turley represented Judge G. Thomas Porteous in his impeachment trial. The trial before all 100 U.S. Senators was only the 14th time in history of the country that such a trial of a judge has reached the Senate floor.
In November 2014, Turley served as lead counsel to the United States House of Representatives in its successful constitutional challenge to changes ordered by President Obama to the Affordable Care Act. He has also represented four former attorneys general and high-ranking members of all three branches of government. He has also served as lead counsel in some of the most famous espionage and national security cases in the last two decades, including the Area 51 litigation and the Daniel King espionage case. He was also lead counsel in the World Bank protest case leading to the highest settlements in history for the one-day arrests of journalists and observers.
Professor Turley is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues as well as tort reform legislation, including the confirmation hearings of cabinet members and jurists like Justice Neil Gorsuch. Professor Turley is also a nationally recognized legal commentator. Professor Turley was ranked as 38th in the top 100 most cited “public intellectuals” (and second most cited law professor) in the study by Judge Richard Posner.
He has been repeatedly ranked in the nation’s top 500 lawyers in annual surveys. In prior years, he was ranked as one of the nation’s top ten lawyers in military law cases. He has been ranking among the top lawyers in the world on various international surveys. In 2012, Turley has selected as one of the top 20 legal experts on Twitter by Business Insider. In 2016, he was ranked as one of the 100 most famous (past and present) law professors. Turley was also named as the choice of the Libertarians for the next Supreme Court nominee on 2016.
Professor Turley’s articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. He is a regular contributor for USA Today and The Hill newspaper. He has worked as a legal analyst for both NBC News and CBS.
His award-winning blog is routinely ranked as one of the most popular legal blogs. His blog was received various awards and, in 2013, the ABA Journal inducted the Turley Blog into its Hall of Fame.
Professor Turley received his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his J.D. at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest.
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