Dean Krent graduated from Princeton University and received his law degree from New
York University School of Law, where he served as notes editor of the Law Review and
garnered several awards for excellence in writing. 

Dean Krent clerked for the Honorable William H. Timbers of the Second Circuit and then
worked in the Department of Justice for the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division,
writing briefs and arguing cases in various courts of appeals across the nation. He has
been teaching full-time since 1987 and has focused his scholarship on legal aspects of
individuals’ interaction with the government. His recent book, Presidential Powers, is a
comprehensive examination of the president's role as defined by the U.S.
Constitution and judicial and historical precedents. 

In addition, Dean Krent has served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of
the United States. He has also litigated numerous cases with students on behalf of
indigent prisoners. 

Dean Krent joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1994. He was appointed associate dean in
1997 and interim dean in 2002 before assuming the deanship on January 1, 2003.

Articles

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The Sometimes Unitary Executive: Presidential Practice Throughout History (reviewing S. Calabresi & C. Yoo, The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush 2008), Constitutional Commentary (2009)
 

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Whose Business is Your Pancreas?: Potential Privacy Problems in New York City's Mandatory Diabetes Registry (with N. Gingo et al.), Annals of Health Law (2008)

New York City authorities in 2006 formulated a policy requiring that medical data from all...

 

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Book Review, George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin, Defending Humanity: When Force Is Justified and Why, Law & Politics Book Review (2008)
 

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Fee Shifting as a Congressional Response to Adventurous Presidential Signing Statements (symposium), William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2007)
 

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The Lamentable Notion of Indefeasible Presidential Powers: A Reply to Professor Prakash, Cornell Law Review (2006)
 

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Books

E-Commerce, the Internet and the Law, Cases and Materials (with Richard Warner, Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Margaret Stewart) (2007)
 

Presidential Powers (2005)
 

Contributions to Books

Pardoning Power, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
 

Regulating Data Stored Online in the United States, When Worlds Collide: Intellectual Property, High Technology and the Law (2008)
 

United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
 

Ancillary Issues Concerning Agency Explanations, A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies (2005)
 

Judicial Review of Nonstatutory Legal Issues, A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies (2005)
 

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