Curriculum Vitae
H. Jefferson Powell
Professional Address
Duke Law School
Corner of Towerview and Science Drive
Box 90360
Durham , NC 27708-0360
Bar Admission North Carolina
Professional Employment
Professor of Law & Divinity
Duke University
(7/89 - present)Principal Deputy Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice
(7/96 - 9/96)Deputy Assistant Attorney General (or designate)
Office of Legal Counsel
United States Department of Justice
(6/93 - 6/94, 1/96 - 7/96)Special Counsel to the Attorney General
State of North Carolina
(1/91 - 6/93)Professor of Law
University of Iowa
(5/88 - 4/89)Associate Professor
(6/84 - 5/88)Research Associate
Yale Law School
(9/83 - 6/84)Law Clerk to the Honorable Sam J. Ervin, III
United States Court of Appeals (4 th Circuit)
(9/82 - 8/83)Visiting Professor, North Carolina (1991-92), Duke (1988-89);
Visiting Associate Professor, Duke (1987-88), Yale (1986-87).
Professional Experience (Litigation)
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Courts of Appeals (2 nd, 4 th, 5 th, and 9 th Circuits)
U.S. District Courts
Supreme Court of North Carolina
North Carolina Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of Texas
Academic Preparation
B.A., St. David’s University College , University of Wales , 1975
A.M., Duke University , 1977
M.Div., Yale Divinity School , 1979
J.D., Yale Law School , 1982
Ph.D., Duke University , 1991
Honors and Awards
St. David’s University College
Part One Scholar, 1973; Salisbury & Van Mildert Scholar, 1974; Senior Scholar, W.D. Llewellyn Memorial Scholarship, 1974-1975; graduated summa cum laude; Rev. Principal Maurice Jones Prize (Greek Scholarship), Rev. Evan Jones Greek Testament Prize, 1975
Duke University
Guerney Harris Kearns Fellow, 1975-77
Yale Divinity School
Mersick Prize, 1979
University of Iowa
Old Gold Fellow, 1985, 1986
Yale Law School
Senior Fellow, 1987-89
Duke University
University Research Council Major Grant, 1992-93
Excellence in Small Section Teaching Award, 1998-99
United Methodist Church University Scholar/Teacher Award, 2001-02
Choice
Outstanding Academic Title, 1999 (awarded to The Constitution and the Attorneys General)
Aegis
Award of Excellence, 2002
Telly Awards
Finalist, 2002
Videographer Award
Award, 2002 (all awarded to The Contracts Experience)
Professional Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Languages of Power: A Source Book of Early American Constitutional History (Carolina Academic Press, 1991);
The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation (Duke University Press, 1993);
The Constitution and the Attorneys General (Carolina Academic Press, 1999);
The President’s Authority over Foreign Affairs: An essay in constitutional interpretation (Carolina Academic Press, 2002);
William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (orig. ed. 1916) ( Carolina Academic Press, H. Jefferson Powell ed. 2002);
A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics ( University of Chicago Press, 2002; rev. ed. 2005);
How the Constitution Structures Government: The Founders’ Views, in A Workable Government: The Constitution after 200 Years (Burke Marshall ed. 1987);
Calder v. Bull, Higher Law, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Kermit L. Hall ed. 1992);
Joseph Story, in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Melvin I. Urofsky ed. 1994);
Creation as Apocalyptic: A Homage to William Stringfellow, in Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer (Andrew McThenia ed. 1995) (with Stanley Hauerwas);
The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic , in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., & Angela Carmella ed. 2001);
Preface to Philip Bobbitt, Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (Oxford University Press, rev. ed. forthcoming 2005);
William Bradford, Edmund Randolph & William Wirt, in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman ed. forthcoming 2005);
“That Heaven of Which We Have Heard:” Wendell Berry and Christian Hope, in Places of God: Theological Conversations with Wendell Berry (Joel Shuman & L. Roger Owens ed. forthcoming 2006).
Multi-media Teaching Materials
The Contracts Experience (Contracts Video Project 2002) (with John Weistart & Girardeau A. Spann)
Articles and Essays
The Byzantine Army, 2 Miniature Parade 17 (1969);
The Compleat Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism, 91 Yale L. J. 1317 (1982);
The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harvard L. Rev. 885 (1985);
Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution: A Belated Review, 94 Yale L. J. 1285 (1985);
Parchment Matters: A Meditation on the Constitution as Text, 71 Iowa L. Rev. 1427 (1986);
Rules for Originalists, 73 Virginia L. Rev. 659 (1987);
The Gospel according to Roberto: A Theological Polemic, 1988 Duke L. J. 1013 and 5 Modern Theology 97 (1989);
Social Theory as Exegetical Tool, 5 Forum 27 (1989);
Transparency, Opacity and Openness in Narrative, 38 J. Legal Education 161 (1990);
The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law, 79 Virginia L. Rev. 633 (1993);
The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law, 73 N.C. L. Rev. 949 (1993);
Cardozo’s Foot: The Chancellor’s Conscience and Constructive Trusts, 56 Law & Contemporary Problems 7 (1993);
The Principles of ‛98: An Essay in Historical Retrieval, 80 Virginia L. Rev. 689 (1994);
Constitutional Investigations, 72 Texas L. Rev. 1731 (1994);
The Constitutionality of the Bank Bill: The Attorney General’s First Constitutional Law Opinions, 44 Duke L. J. 110 (1994) (with Walter Dellinger);
Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 651 (1995);
The Attorney General’s First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Constitutional Commentary 309 (1996) (with Walter Dellinger);
Loyalty to the Law: Politics and the Practice of Public Lawyering in the United States , 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 78 (1996);
Laying it on the Line: A Dialogue on Line Item Vetoes and Separation of Powers, 47 Duke L.J. 1171 (1998) (with Jed Rubenfeld);
The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans, 77 N.C. L. Rev. 241 (1998);
The President’s Authority over Foreign Affairs: An Executive Branch Perspective, 67 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 527 (1999);
The Founders and the President’s Authority Over Foreign Affairs, 40 William & Mary L. Rev.
1471 (1999);
Marshall ’s Questions, 2 Green Bag 2d 367 (1999) (with Walter Dellinger);
Who’s Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?, 74 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 393 (1999);
With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims’ Rights Amendment, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 371 (2000) (with Robert P. Mosteller);
Convenient Shorthand: The Supreme Court and the Language of State Sovereignty, 71 U. Colorado L. Rev. 645 (2000) (with B.J. Priester);
William Wirt and the Invention of the Public Lawyer, 4 Green Bag 2d 297 (2001);
Attorney General Taney and the South Carolina Police Bill, 5 Green Bag 2d 75 (2001);
The Right to Self-Government after Bush v. Gore, Legal Electronic Document Archive (December 2001) <<a href="/pub/selfgov" >http://www.law.duke.edu/pub/selfgov> (with Paul D. Carrington);
The Desirability of Politics, 6 Green Bag 2d 279 (2002);
Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and Bush v. Gore, 17 J. Law & Politics 333 (2002);
Reflections on a Conversation, 19 Georgia St. L. Rev. 931 (2003) (symposium on Powell, The President’s Authority over Foreign Affairs);
The Three Independences, 38 U. Richmond L. Rev. 603 (2004).
Comments: 29 William & Mary L. Rev. 169 (1987); 98 Yale L. J. 1703 (1988); 45 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 467 (1989) (with others); 54 Albany L. Rev. 283 (1990); 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 11 (1996) (symposium on Powell, The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism); 78 N.C. L. Rev. 1709 (2000); Should Creed or Constitution Guide the Judiciary?, 132 USA Today (No. 2706) 14 (2004).
Book Reviews and Notes : 4 Law & Hist. Rev. 214 (1986); 80 Northwestern L. Rev. 1128 (1986); 1986 Duke L. J. 915; 65 Texas L. Rev. 859 (1987); 55 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1513 (1987); 67 Mich. L. Rev. 1527 (1989); 64 Notre Dame L. Rev. 767 (1989); 46 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d. Series) 828 (1989); 79 J. Amer. Hist. 1592 (1993); 49 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d series) 184 (1993); 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1197 (1993); 80 J. Amer. Hist. 1081 (1993); 83 J. Amer. Hist. 1561 (1996); 40 Amer. J. Leg. Hist. 377 (1996); 14 Modern Theology 160 (1998); 64 U. Chicago L. Rev. 365 (1998); 3 Jurist: Books-on-Law 2 (April 2000) <<a href="/%3chttp:/jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/reviews.htm%3e;" >http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/reviews.htm> 21 Modern Theology — (forthcoming 2005).