Keith Bybee

Vice Dean (Law)
Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor (Law)
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Degree

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995

Specialties

Public law, the judicial process, the politics of race, legal theory, and political philosophy

Courses

Elements of Law
Constitutional Law (in PSC and at College of Law)
Law Politics, and the Media
Second Year Research/Writing Seminar
Political Argument and Reasoning     
Civil Liberties                                                                                
Judicial Politics                                                                               
Constitutional Democracy in America
Political Science Research Workshop

Publications

Books:

How Civility Works. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016

All Judges Are Political - Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
 
Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media. Edited volume. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Second printing, 2002.

Articles, Book Chapters, and Critical Essays:

“The Rise of Trump and the Death of Civility,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities. First published online June 28, 2018. 

“Potter Stewart Meets the Press” in Judging Free Speech: First Amendment Jurisprudence of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Helen J. Knowles and Steven B. Lichtman, eds. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015): 147-68.

“Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Importance of Appearances,” (co-authored with Angela Narasimhan) in The Wiley Handbook of Law and Society, Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick, eds. (Malden, MA: Wiley & Sons, 2015): 118-33.

“Muckraking: The Case of the United States Supreme Court,”Oñati Socio-Legal Series [online], 4 (2014), 597-612.

“The Supreme Court:  An Autobiography,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society

Research Interests

American public law, legal and political theory, American politics, cultural studies, LGBT politics, and the politics of race. 

Research Projects

An examination of how civility functions in American public life.

SU Affiliations

The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM)")

Campbell Public Affairs Institute