Louis michael seidman biography of abraham

Louis Michael Seidman (born 1947) is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C..

He is a constitutional law scholar and major proponent of the critical legal studies movement.

Louis michael seidman biography of abraham

Seidman's 2012 work is On Constitutional Disobedience,^[2] where Seidman challenges the viability of political policy arguments made in reference to constitutional obligation.

Education and early career

Seidman received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1971.

After graduation, he clerked for Judge Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and later clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Following his clerkship, Seidman joined the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.^[3]

Academic work and influence

Seidman is known for his contributions to constitutional legal theory, principally his theor