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A. Christopher Bryant

Professor of Law
v: 513-556-0099
f: 513-556-1236
e: chris.bryant@uc.edu

Areas of Interest
Constitutional Law
American Legal History
Legislative Process and Statutory Interpretation
Federal Courts
Criminal Law and Procedure
Conflict of Laws

Education
BA, Hanover College
JD, University of Chicago

Professor Bryant is a prolific scholar and a popular teacher. Prior to joining the faculty here, he spent three years on the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was voted Law Professor of the year in 2001-02.

After earning his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Bryant clerked for James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a litigation associate at Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. and Assistant Senate Legal Counsel in the U.S. Senate Office of Legal Counsel.

Download a copy of Professor Bryant's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

"Powers Reserved for the People and the States": A History of Ninth and Tenth Amendments (Greenword Press, forthcoming 2005) (with Thomas B. McAffee and Jay S. Bybee).

Quirin Revisited, 2003 Wis. L. Rev.309 (Symposium on Civil Liberties in a Time of Terror) (invited) (with Carl Tobias).

Stopping Time: The Pro-Slavery and "Irrevocable" Thirteenth Amendment, 26 Harv. J.L. & Po'y 501 2003).

Youngstown Revisited, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 373 (2002) (with Carl Tobias).

Retroactive Applications of "New Rules" and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2002).

Reading the Law in the Office of Calvin Fletcher, 1 Nev. L.J. 19 (2001) ( Symposium on Lawyers in the American West).

Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court's New "On the Record" Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001) (with Timothy J. Simeone).