
Andrea Katz
Associate Professor of Law
Andrea Scoseria Katz is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Professor Katz teaches and writes about constitutional law, with a focus on the development of presidential power. Drawing from constitutional law, legal history, and political theory, her work explores questions of constitutional design, the separation of powers, and popular attitudes toward the constitution. Other work explores the origins of the modern administrative state in the Progressive Era (1890-1920), with an eye to the legality and legitimacy of administrative power.
With family roots in Latin America, Professor Katz also believes in the usefulness of applying a comparative lens to constitutional law. She has published work on courts, constitutional amendments, and presidential power in countries including Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.
Professor Katz received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her bachelors’ degree from Yale College. After law school, Professor Katz clerked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, for Judge András Sajó. She also held a clerkship in the District of Massachusetts for Senior District Judge Michael A. Ponsor. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of São Paulo, and the University of Tokyo, and spent last year in residence at NYU Law School as a Golieb Fellow in Legal History before joining the Washington University faculty in Fall 2020.
- Education
- J.D., Yale Law School
- Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University
- B.A., Comparative Literature, B.A. Japanese, Yale University
- Courses
- The American Presidency Seminar
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law
- Areas of Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- Presidential Power
- Comparative Law
- Legal Philosophy and History
- Administrative Law
- Publications
- The Lost Promise of Progressive Formalism, 99 Tex. L. Rev. (forthcoming, Fall 2020)
- Taming the Prince: Bringing Presidential Emergency Powers Under Law in Colombia, Int. J. of Con. Law (forthcoming, Fall 2020)
- La Suiza de América: Constitutional Entrenchment and Direct Democracy in Uruguay’s Constitution of 1918, Symposium, Int. J. of Con. Law (forthcoming, Winter 2020)
- The President in His Labyrinth: Checks and Balances in the New Pan-American Presidentialism (2016) (Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, manuscript under revision for publication)
- Making Brazil Work? Brazilian Coalitional Presidentialism at 30 and its Post-Lava Jato Prospects, in The Brazilian Constitution Turns 30: A Global Perspective (special edition of Revista de Investigações Constitucionais) (Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Sofia Ranchordas, and Richard Albert eds., summer 2019)
- ‘Fraternité’ in the Jurisprudence of Strasbourg, in Le Défi de la Fraternité 153-172 (Marie-Jo Thiel and Marc Feix eds., 2018) (with Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque)
- Is Religion a Threat to Human Rights? Or Is It the Other Way Around? Defending Individual Autonomy in the ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on Freedom of Religion, in Religion and International Law 277-293 (Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack et al. eds., 2018) (with Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque)
- Activity and Affiliations
- Law & Society Association
- American Society for Legal History
- International Association of Comparative Law
- American Political Science Association
- Honors and Awards
- Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship, NYU Law, Fall 2019-Summer 2020
- Robina Human Rights Fellowship, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, Fall 2016-Summer 2017
- Linkages Latin America, Yale Law School and UERJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and USP (São Paulo, Brazil), Summer 2014
- Fox Fellowship, University of Tokyo, Fall 2007-Summer 08
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