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About Neal E. Devins

Joined the faculty in 1987. Served as Assistant General Counsel for the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights and Project Director for the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.

Author of Shaping Constitutional Values: The Supreme Court, Elected Government and the Abortion Dispute and articles in the Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, William and Mary and Yale law reviews. Co-author of Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law, The Democratic Constitution, and The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court. Editor of the book series, Constitutional Conflicts, published by Duke U. Press.

Positions

2015 - Present Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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1997 - Present Professor of Government, William & Mary Law School
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2004 - 2020 Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
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1997 - 2015 Goodrich Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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1993 - 1997 Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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1990 - 1993 Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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1987 - 1990 Assistant Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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Education

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J.D., Vanderbilt University
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A.B., Georgetown University
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Books Authored (10)

Books Edited (5)

Book Contributions (14)