Keith Bybee holds the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics.  He is an associate professor of law and political science.  His teaching interests include constitutional law, courts, the politics of race and ethnicity, LGBT rights, American politics, and political philosophy.  His articles have appeared in a number of academic journals.  He is author of Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation (Princeton University Press, 1998; second printing, 2002), an examination of the theories of political identity at stake in the debate over race-conscious redistricting.  He is also editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (Stanford University Press, 2007), a collection of essays on the current state of judicial independence written by legal scholars, sitting judges, and working journalists. His current research examines the role of courtesy and hypocrisy in the judicial process. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1995. Until 2002, he was a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University.

Curriculum Vita

Courses

HNR 260/ PCS 200

PCS 325 Constitutional Law II

PSC 600: Writing Seminar

PCS 715 Judicial Politics

LAW 699