Louise Weinberg
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Louise Weinberg is Professor of Law and holder of the Bates Chair at the University of Texas School of Law
. She teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law and federal courts.
Weinberg was born in New York
and educated at Cornell University
and Harvard Law School
. She clerked for Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., and practiced in Boston
at Bingham, Dana, as the firm was then known. She has taught at Harvard Law School, Brandeis University
, Suffolk Law School, and Stanford Law School
. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute
, The Philosophical Society of Texas, and Phi Beta Kappa. She has served as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum
, Davos
. Over time she has come to chair three different sections of the Association of American Law Schools
(the law professors’ learned society): the sections on Admiralty, on the Conflict of Laws, and on Federal Courts, twice chairing this last. A frequently invited public speaker, Weinberg recently appeared in the Public Broadcasting Service
's four-part series, “The Supreme Court.”
Louise Weinberg is married to Steven Weinberg
, one of the 1979 Nobel laureates in Physics
. They live in Austin, Texas
, and have a daughter.
In the field of federal courts, Weinberg is author of Federal Courts: Judicial Federalism and Judicial Power (1994) (revised edition in preparation). Her recent articles in this field include Back to the Future: The New General Common Law, (Symposium, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 2004); Of Sovereignty and Union: The Legends of Alden (Notre Dame Law Review 2001); and The Article III Box, (Symposium, Texas Law Review 2000). She has contributed the entry on United States: Federal Courts for the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming).
In the field of conflict of laws, Weinberg is co-author, with William Richman and William Reynolds, of The Conflict of Laws (1990) (2d ed., 2002). Her recent writings in this field include Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws (Michigan Law Review 2005).
Weinberg has also worked in legal theory and jurisprudence, most recently contributing Of Theory and Theodicy: The Problem of Immoral Law, in Law and Justice in a Multistate World (2002) and Choosing Law, Giving Justice (Symposium, Louisiana Law Review 2000).
Louise Weinberg has written such classics in the canon of legal literature as Federal Common Law (Northwestern Law Review 1989) and The New Judicial Federalism (Stanford Law Review 1977), and such provocative essays as Holmes’ Failure (Michigan Law Review 1997) and Against Comity (Georgetown Law Journal 1991). Her pieces for the general public have appeared in The American Scholar, The Public Interest, and Daedalus, including 'Is It All Right to Read Trollope?' in "The American Scholar" (1993).
University of Texas School of Law
The University of Texas School of Law, also known as UT Law, is an ABA-certified American law school located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. The law school has been in operation since the founding of the University in 1883. It was one of only two schools at the University when it was...
. She teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law and federal courts.
Weinberg was born in New York
New York City
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and educated at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
. She clerked for Hon. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., and practiced in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
at Bingham, Dana, as the firm was then known. She has taught at Harvard Law School, Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
, Suffolk Law School, and Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...
. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute
American Law Institute
The American Law Institute was established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of American common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. The ALI drafts, approves, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model codes, and other proposals for law...
, The Philosophical Society of Texas, and Phi Beta Kappa. She has served as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
, Davos
Davos
Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...
. Over time she has come to chair three different sections of the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...
(the law professors’ learned society): the sections on Admiralty, on the Conflict of Laws, and on Federal Courts, twice chairing this last. A frequently invited public speaker, Weinberg recently appeared in the Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
's four-part series, “The Supreme Court.”
Louise Weinberg is married to Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
, one of the 1979 Nobel laureates in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
. They live in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, and have a daughter.
Writings
Weinberg’s current writings in constitutional law include the book, "The Supreme Court and the Coming of the Civil War" (in preparation); and law-review articles, Overcoming Dred (Constitutional Commentary 2007); Dred Scott and the Crisis of 1860 (Symposium, Chicago-Kent Law Review 2007); Our Marbury (Virginia Law Review 2003); and When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore (Symposium, Boston University Law Review 2002).In the field of federal courts, Weinberg is author of Federal Courts: Judicial Federalism and Judicial Power (1994) (revised edition in preparation). Her recent articles in this field include Back to the Future: The New General Common Law, (Symposium, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 2004); Of Sovereignty and Union: The Legends of Alden (Notre Dame Law Review 2001); and The Article III Box, (Symposium, Texas Law Review 2000). She has contributed the entry on United States: Federal Courts for the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Legal History (forthcoming).
In the field of conflict of laws, Weinberg is co-author, with William Richman and William Reynolds, of The Conflict of Laws (1990) (2d ed., 2002). Her recent writings in this field include Theory Wars in the Conflict of Laws (Michigan Law Review 2005).
Weinberg has also worked in legal theory and jurisprudence, most recently contributing Of Theory and Theodicy: The Problem of Immoral Law, in Law and Justice in a Multistate World (2002) and Choosing Law, Giving Justice (Symposium, Louisiana Law Review 2000).
Louise Weinberg has written such classics in the canon of legal literature as Federal Common Law (Northwestern Law Review 1989) and The New Judicial Federalism (Stanford Law Review 1977), and such provocative essays as Holmes’ Failure (Michigan Law Review 1997) and Against Comity (Georgetown Law Journal 1991). Her pieces for the general public have appeared in The American Scholar, The Public Interest, and Daedalus, including 'Is It All Right to Read Trollope?' in "The American Scholar" (1993).