Declan Tomlinson
dtomlinson@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-4179
Professor of Law
- DPhil Law, University of Oxford
- LLB, University of Queensland
- BEcon, University of Queensland
Areas of Expertise
Professor Claus teaches Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts and Animal Law. He writes about public law and legal theory.
Professional Experience
Claus clerked for distinguished jurists in Australia and for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He served for three years at the U.S. Embassy in London for the Office of Foreign Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice.
Honors and Affiliations
Most recently, Professor Claus was named the 2024-2025 Class of 1975 Endowed Professor. USD awarded Professor Claus a University Professorship in 2013-14. He received the Herzog Endowed Scholar Award in 2007 and 2011 and won USD’s Thorsnes Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008 and 2013. In 2022, Professor Claus was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.
Scholarly Work
- Authority and Meaning, 52 Connecticut Law Review 1497 (2021)
- Separation, Enumeration, and the Implied Bill of Rights, 36 Journal of Law & Politics 93 (2021)
- The Law of Constitutional Characterization, 33 National Law School of India Review 476 (2021)
- A Republic, If the Courts Can Keep It?, 2020 Wisconsin Law Review 395 (2020)
- The Framers' Compromise, 67 American Journal of Comparative Law 677 (2019)
- Enumeration and the Silences of Constitutional Federalism, 16 International Journal of Constitutional Law 904 (2018)
- The Divided Executive, 13 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy 25 (2018)
- Vindicating Judicial Supremacy, in Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities: Essays on the Influence of Larry Alexander (Heidi M. Hurd ed., Cambridge University Press 2018)
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