Political Science Faculty
Ken I. Kersch
Professor
Ken I. Kersch
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall Room 515
Telephone: 617-552-4167
Email: kenneth.kersch.1@bc.edu
Education
- B.A. Williams College
- J.D. Northwestern University
- M.A. Cornell University
- Ph.D. Cornell University
Research Interests
American Political and Constitutional Development; American Political Thought; Politics of Courts
Selected Publications
“Equality,” in John Compton and Karen Orren, editors, Cambridge Companion to the U.S. Constitution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
“Originalism’s Curiously Triumphant Death: The Interpenetration of Aspirationalism and Historicism in U.S. Constitutional Development,” Constitutional Commentary (Summer 2016)(re-published in Problema Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho (International Journal on Legal Theory and Philosophy) (forthcoming, January 2017) (Mexico City, Mexico).
“Constitutional Conservatives Remember The Progressive Era,” in Stephen Skowronek, Stephen Engel, and Bruce Ackerman, editors, The Progressives’ Century: Democratic Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).
“Constitutive Stories About the Common Law in Modern American Conservatism,” in Sanford Levinson, Joel Parker, Melissa Williams, editors, NOMOS: American Conservatism (New York: New York University Press, 2016).
“The Gilded Age Through the Progressive Era,” in Mark Tushnet, Mark Graber, and Sanford Levinson, editors, Oxford Handbook on The United States Constitution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
“The Talking Cure: How Constitutional Argument Drives Constitutional Development," Boston University Law Review 94 (May 2014): 1083-1108.
“Systems and Feelings," in James E. Fleming, editor, NOMOS LIII: Passions and Emotions (New York: New York University Press, 2013): 289-303.
“Beyond Originalism: Conservative Declarationism and Constitutional Redemption," Maryland Law Review 71 (2011): 229-282.
Review Essay on Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), Journal of Policy History, 23:4 (2011): 586-593.
“Ecumenicalism Through Constitutionalism: The Discursive Development of Constitutional Conservatism in National Review, 1955-1980," Studies in American Political Development (Spring 2011): 1-31.
"A Friend to the Union," A Review of John Marshall: Writings (New York: Library of America, 2010) (Charles Hobson, editor), Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2010): 57-59.
“Everything is Enumerated: The Developmental Past and Future of an Interpretive Problem,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 8 (September 2006): 957-982.
“Justice Breyer’s Mandarin Liberty," University of Chicago Law Review 73 (Spring 2006): 759-822.
“How Conduct Became Speech and Speech Became Conduct: A Political Development Case Study in Labor Law and the Freedom of Speech,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2 (March 2006): 255-297.
“Smoking, Progressive Liberalism, and the Law,” Critical Review 16 (2005): 405-430.
“The New Legal Transnationalism, the Globalized Judiciary, and the Rule of Law," Washington University Global Studies Law Review 4 (2005): 345-387.
“The Reconstruction of Constitutional Privacy Rights and the New American State,” Studies in American Political Development 16 (Spring 2002): 61-87.