Richard Primus, the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law, teaches the law, theory, and history of the U.S. Constitution. In 2008, he won the first-ever Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation.
Featured Scholarship
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.
Spoke about originalism and living constitutionalism in connection with the PBS project "A More or Less Perfect Union," Hillsdale College.
Featured speaker on constitutional interpretation (in debate with Randy Barnett) at the U.S. Supreme Court, which was sponsored by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society, May 2018.
Participant in the Roundtable on Constitutional Norms, Duke Law School.
Invited commentator at the Cooley Symposium sponsored by the Center on the Constitution, Georgetown Law School.
Presented "Enumerated Powers and the Bank of the United States" at the Works-in-Progress Conference, Center for the Study of Originalism, University of San Diego.
Invited commentator at the Brennan Center Jorde Symposium, Berkeley Law School.
Representative Matters
Argued case as lead counsel for plaintiffs.