Amanda L. Hollis-Brusky is an American constitutional law scholar who specializes in the politics of the U.S. Supreme Court and the conservative legal movements of originalism and textualism.[1] She is the chair of the politics department at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[1]

Early life and education

Hollis-Brusky majored in political science and philosophy at Boston University, graduating in 2003.[1] She then pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, which she earned in 2010.[1] Her dissertation was titled "The Federalist Society and the Structural Constitution: An Epistemic Community at Work".[1]

Career

Hollis-Brusky joined the politics department at Pomona College in 2011. In 2014, she won the Wig Award, the college's highest faculty honor, in recognition of her teaching.[1][2] She is frequently consulted by media outlets on Supreme Court issues.[1] In 2015, she interviewed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,[3] and in 2020 she interviewed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder[4] and testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on judicial independence.[5]

Her first book, Ideas with Consequences, about the Federalist Society, won the 2016 C. Herman Pritchett award, the American Political Science Association's award for best legal studies book.[6]

Her second book, Separate but Faithful, was written with Joshua C. Wilson and focuses on the Christian conservative legal movement. Reviewer Daniel Bennett, writing in Perspectives on Politics, called it "a detailed and methodologically impressive account" that uses "an innovative theoretical framework" and "has the potential to wield lasting influence".[7]

She is an editor of The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post.[8]

Books

Personal life

Hollis-Brusky lives in Claremont, California.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Amanda Hollis-Brusky". Pomona College. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  2. ^ "Wig Awards". Pomona College. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Salgado, Harini (October 23, 2015). "Justice Sonia Sotomayor Visits Pomona, Talks Life, Education, and SCOTUS". The Student Life. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  4. ^ Chalk, Liam (February 18, 2020). "Former A.G. Eric Holder advocates for SCOTUS term limits, blasts Barr at Pomona talk". The Student Life. Archived from the original on August 16, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  5. ^ Way, India Soranson (October 2, 2020). "Pomona professor Hollis-Brusky testifies before House Judiciary Committee". The Student Life. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  6. ^ An, Anu (September 16, 2016). "PO Professor Hollis-Brusky Wins C. Herman Pritchett Award for Latest Book". The Student Life. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Bennett, Daniel (June 2021). "Review of Separate but Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture". Perspectives on Politics. 19 (2): 650–652. doi:10.1017/S1537592721000359. S2CID 236396771.
  8. ^ Sides, John (January 1, 2019). "About The Monkey Cage". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  9. ^ McGinnis, John O. (March 26, 2015). "Constitutional Revolution". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  10. ^ Bartels, Brandon L. (December 2016). "Review of Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution". Law and Politics Book Review. American Political Science Association. 26 (8): 160–164. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  11. ^ "Amanda Hollis-Brusky". Twitter. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2021.

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