Laurence Claus
Tatiana Quiapo
tquiapo@SanDiego.edu
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. In recent years, he has consulted for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative on constitutional reform projects in the Middle East and North Africa.
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
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)
- 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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