Richard Primus, the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, teaches the law, theory, and history of the US Constitution. In 2008, he won the first-ever Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation. Primus is now a senior editorial adviser of the Journal of American Constitutional History.
Featured Scholarship
"Suspect Spheres, Not Enumerated Powers: A Guide for Leaving the Lamppost"
- Constitutional Law
"Reframing Article I, Section 8"
- Constitutional Law
"The Federalist Constitution: Foreword"
- Constitutional Law
"Segregation in the Galleries: A Reconsideration"
- Constitutional Law
Activities
Testified as a constitutional expert at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on D.C. Statehood.
Co-organizer of the Symposium on the Federalist Constitution, held under the auspices of the Fordham Law Review.
Co-authored U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief representing 19 Republican former members of Congress in Trump v. Vance.