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Josh Chafetz is the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches and researches constitutional law, legislation, and the intersection of law and politics. He previously served on the faculty at Cornell Law School for twelve years.
His research focuses on structural constitutional law, American and British constitutional history, legislative procedure, and democratic norms. He is the author of influential works including Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers (Yale University Press, 2017) and Democracy’s Privileged Few (Yale University Press, 2007), and co-edits the leading casebook Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation.
His recent scholarship addresses judicial power, corruption, and congressional authority, with publications in top law journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and University of Chicago Law Review, as well as public commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico. He testified before Congress in 2024 on the implications of the post-Chevron administrative law landscape.
- Rhodes Scholar
Chafetz has served on the American Political Science Association Presidential Task Force on Congressional Reform (2019–2020) and regularly contributes to public discourse on constitutional crises, presidential power, and democratic resilience. He advises on legislative policy and engages with governmental institutions on constitutional reform.
He is affiliated with Georgetown Law’s centers and institutes, contributing to interdisciplinary research on law and governance, though specific lab or team affiliations are not detailed in the text.
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