Michael D. Ramsey
Professor of Law
A.B. 1986, Dartmouth College; J.D. 1989, Stanford Law School
Professor Ramsey teaches and writes in the areas of Constitutional
Law, Foreign Relations Law and International Business Law. He is the
author of The Constitution's Text in Foreign Affairs (Harvard Univ.
Press, 2007) and of numerous articles in leading scholarly journals,
including "Textualism and War Powers" (Chicago Law Review, 2002) and
"The Executive Power over Foreign Affairs" (with Professor Saikrishna
Prakash) (Yale Law Journal, 2001). Ramsey received the 1998 Thorsnes
Prize for excellence in teaching, and the 2002 and 2007 Thorsnes
Prizes for outstanding scholarship. He has taught as a visiting
professor for the University of California, San Diego, Department of
Political Science and for the University of Paris-Sorbonne,
Department of Comparative Law. Before joining the USD faculty in
1995, he served as a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia
of the U.S. Supreme Court, and practiced international business law
with the firm of Latham & Watkins. Ramsey is a summa cum laude
graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as senior articles
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