Other Faculty Involved With Constitutional Issues
Bernard M. Levinson
William Scheuerman
Bernard M. Levinson
Biography: Bernard M. Levinson is Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law, holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, and serves as the Director of Undergraduate studies for the Center for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern studies, specializing in biblical and cuneiform law (particularly the role of the ancient Near East in the emergence of constitutional thought); Deuteronomy and the history of interpretation; and literary approaches to biblical studies. Professor Levinson teaches graduate courses in "Biblical Law and Jewish Ethics" and "Scripture and Interpretation in Israelite Religion and Judaism." He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Biblical Literature, Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, and Orientalia Biblica et Christiana. He presents regularly at national and international conferences.
Constitutional Law Materials
The First Constitution: Rethinking the Origins of Separation of Powers and Rule of Law in Light of Deuteronomy (© in submission).
You Must Not Add Anything to What I Command You: Paradoxes of Canon and Authorship in Ancient Israel, in 50:1 Numen: International Review for the History of Religions 1 (2003).
The Reconceptualization of Kingship in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic Historys Transformation of Torah, 51 Vetus Testamentum 511 (2001).
Argument of Revelation, in THE JEWISH POLITICAL TRADITION, Vol. 1: AUTHORITY, (2000) (Michael Walzer et al., eds.)
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William Scheuerman
Biography: William E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science. He received his Ph.D from Harvard in 1993. His research interests include modern political thought, legal theory, democratic theory, 20th continental political and social thought, and globalization. His publications include Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law; Carl Schmitt: The End of Law; The Rule of Law Under Siege (editor); From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Political and Legal Thought in the Weimar Republic (co- editor); Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); Social Acceleration: Conceptions, Causes, Consequences (Verso, forthcoming).
Constitutional Matters Materials
AMERICAN KINGSHIP? The Monarchical Origins of Modern Presidentialism, Polity (Winter 2005).
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