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Jack Beermann

Harry Elwood Warren Scholar Professor of Law at Boston University

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Jack Beermann is a noted scholar in the area of civil rights litigation against state and local governments and their officials. “Civil rights litigation is a very important part of our legal system because it involves holding government officials accountable when they violate constitutional and other important rights,” he says.

Professor Beermann has authored or co-authored four books on administrative law, including a widely used casebook and the Emanuel Law Outline on the subject. “What particularly fascinates me is studying the values underlying our public law system and how social movements and history have affected those values,” he says.

His articles have appeared in prominent American journals such as the Stanford Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Duke Law Journal and Boston University Law Review, and in foreign law journals including Germany’s Rechtstheorie and China’s Administrative Law Review. Recent articles include “Congressional Administration” in the San Diego Law Review and the “Constitutional Law of Presidential Transition” in the North Carolina Law Review. In 1998, he co-authored an article that examined civil rights violations in the popular television drama NYPD Blue and in 1993 he wrote “The Supreme Court’s Narrow View on Civil Rights” for the prestigious Supreme Court Review.

Before joining the Boston University faculty in 1984, Professor Beermann clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 2008, he was visiting professor at Harvard Law School and in 1997, he was distinguished visiting professor at DePaul Law School. In 2004, 2005 and 2007, he taught at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and in 2002, he taught at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He has lectured in Israel, Germany, Australia, Morocco, Portugal and Canada. At BU, Professor Beermann currently teaches administrative law, civil rights litigation, introduction to American law (for foreign LLM students) and local government law.

 

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Conservatives Urge Grassley to Stop Democrats from Blocking Trump Judicial Nominees

July 12, 2017

CNS News quoting Jack Beermann, School of Law “Conservatives groups such as the Judicial Crisis Network and the Heritage Foundation are asking Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to move forward and confirm President Donald Trump’s nominations for federal court vacancies…” Expert quote: “They left the Supreme Court seat open for almost a year.” […]

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Will POTUS Get His Pick For SCOTUS

March 21, 2017

WBZ News Jack Beermann, School of Law “Within the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court…”   View full article and video. 

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Chicago court’s Uber decision may hurt Boston taxi companies

October 12, 2016

Boston Globe Jack Beermann, School of Law As cab companies in Boston and Cambridge push a legal effort to have Uber drivers held to the same rules as taxis, a similar case in Chicago has run into a judicial roadblock… Expert quote: “It’s a constant complaint of people who are subject to regulation, that what […]

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Drug screening of students draws cautious reaction

March 11, 2016

Boston Globe (subscription required) Jack Beermann, School of Law Some parents and educators are cautiously backing a requirement that students be screened at schools for signs of substance abuse, but expressed concerns about confidentiality and how the state would implement the program… Expert quote: “I hope that school officials are careful when implementing the screening […]

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NightSide – The Future Of The Supreme Court

February 18, 2016

WBZ-AM  Jack Beermann, School of Law The sudden passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has left the highest court in the land shorthanded, and sparked a political battle in D.C. that is likely to last for months… Listen to audio of expert Jack Beermann

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Antonin Scalia remembered for close ties to Harvard

February 15, 2016

Boston Globe (subscription required) Jack Beermann, School of Law Antonin Scalia once vowed to Alan Dershowitz that he would someday convince the Harvard scholar that the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively award the presidency to George W. Bush was correct… Expert quote: “In particular, he refused to consider legislative history such as statements of individual […]

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Illinois Pension Clash Raises Question: Who Raises Taxes, Lawmakers Or The Courts?

May 13, 2015

Forbes Jack Beermann, School of Law A ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court on May 8 rejecting a state law designed to trim pension costs has already claimed its first casualty… Expert quote: “You’re talking about a potential constitutional crisis in that case.” View full article

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Chief justice could again swing Obamacare case in government’s favor

February 24, 2015

Reuters Jack Beermann, School of Law Three years ago, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts cast the tie-breaking vote in a ruling that saved President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform… View quote by expert Jack Beermann

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Experts Media Alert – Grand jury decisions in New York and Ferguson

December 4, 2014

A week after a Ferguson grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of Michael Brown, a Staten Island grand jury came down with the same decision in the death of Eric Garner who died from an apparent chokehold by a New York City policeman. Both decisions are raising the question […]

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John Boehner’s Foes in Health Care Suit? Scalia and Bork.

November 25, 2014

Legal Times Jack Beermann, School of Law Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, last week filed his long-anticipated lawsuit against the Obama administration. But the speaker’s biggest foe in this interbranch fight isn’t the president or the Democrats… Expert quote: “It’s a fallacy to turn every statutory misinterpretation into a constitutional violation, but when you’re talking […]

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