Andrew Coan
Assistant Professor of Law
E-mail: acoan@wisc.edu
Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
J.D., Stanford Law School
Teaching Areas:
Constitutional Law
Federal Jurisdiction
Research Interests:
Constitutional Law
Federal Courts
Legal Theory
Biography
Andrew Coan teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, and related subjects. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated first in his class, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He then clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit and served as the inaugural James C. Gaither Fellow at Stanford Law School. In that capacity, he taught Federal Courts and a seminar on constitutional litigation from 2006 to 2008.
Professor Coan’s scholarly interests include constitutional law, federal courts, and legal theory. A central goal of his scholarship is to ground normative theory firmly in the empirical realities of American legal and political practice. Among other projects, he is currently working on a wide-ranging normative analysis of popular constitutionalism.
In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Coan is a prolific op-ed writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and Legal Times.
Professor Coan is on leave for the 2009-10 academic year, visiting at the University of Michigan Law School.
Recent Scholarship
The Irrelevance of Writtenness in Constitutional Interpretation (under review)
Talking Originalism, 2009 B.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming)
Well Should They? A Response to “If People Would Be Outraged Should Judges Care?,” 60 Stan. L. Rev. 213 (2007)
Text as Truce: A Peace Proposal for the Supreme Court’s Costly War over the Eleventh Amendment, 74 Ford. L. Rev. 2511 (2006)
The Legal Ethics of Release-Dismissal Agreements: Theory and Practice, 1 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 371 (2005)
Professor Coan's papers are available on SSRN at http://ssrn.com/author=670199.
