Chris Edelson Assistant Professor Department of Government
- Additional Positions at AU
- Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
- Degrees
- JD, Harvard Law School
BA, Brandeis University - Favorite Spot on Campus
- A tie between the library, the gym, and Kerwin 101.
- Book Currently Reading
- From Fascism to Populism in History
- Bio
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Chris Edelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. His teaching and research interests focus on presidential national security power under the U.S. Constitution. His first book, Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in fall 2013. His second book, Power Without Constraint: The Post 9/11 Presidency and National Security was published in spring 2016.
- See Also
- SPA Department of Government
- SPA Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call 国产小呦女Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Spring 2024
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GOVT-226 Const, Pres Power, War on Terror: Const, Pres Power, War on Terr
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GOVT-226 Const, Pres Power, War on Terror: Const, Pres Power, War on Terr
Fall 2024
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GOVT-226 Const, Pres Power, War on Terror: Const, Pres Power, War on Terr
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GOVT-226 Const, Pres Power, War on Terror: Const, Pres Power, War on Terr
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GOVT-396 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Authorit Challng to US Democ
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
- How to Keep the Republic (Before It's Too Late): Why a New Constitution is Necessary to Strengthen Liberal Democracy in the United States聽(book chapter, 2020)聽
- Sounding the Alarm: Trump's Emergency Declaration at the Southern Border and Constitutional Failure聽(2020)听
- Power Without Constraint: The Post-9/11 Presidency and National Security聽(University of Wisconsin Press 2016)
- Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror聽(University of Wisconsin Press 2013)
- Judging in a Vacuum, Or Once More Without Feeling: How Justice聽Scalia鈥檚 Jurisprudential Approach Repeats Errors Made in Plessy v.聽Ferguson (Akron Law Review 2012)
Professional Presentations
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鈥淭he Constitution in Wartime: Discussion for Constitution Day鈥, Virginia Military Institute
(Lexington, VA), September 18, 2023
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鈥淭he Unaccountable Presidency: How the US Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals A Breakdown in the Constitutional System鈥, Southern Political Science Association, January 8, 2021 (online)
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鈥淭rump, Presidential Power and the Constitution鈥 (discussant), American Political Science
Association, September 12, 2020. (online)
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鈥淧ower without Constraint: the post-9/11 Presidency and National Security鈥, Lafayette (LA)
Public Library, May 1, 2019 (online)
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鈥淗ow to Keep the Republic (Before It鈥檚 Too Late): Why a New Constitution is Necessary to
Strengthen Liberal Democracy in the United States,鈥 American Political Science Association,
August 31, 2018.聽 (Boston).
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鈥淭he Trump Administration鈥檚 Challenge to Constitutional Democracy,鈥 Conference on Cultural
聽Diplomacy in the UN, 国产小呦女, February 26, 2018.
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鈥淭he Trump Administration鈥檚 Challenge to Constitutional Democracy,鈥 North Carolina Central
University, February 15, 2018 (Durham, North Carolina).
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鈥淭rump is (Un)doing More Than You Think,鈥 国产小呦女, November 29, 2017.
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鈥淭he Trump Administration鈥檚 Challenge to Constitutional Democracy,鈥 George Mason University, October 12, 2017 (Fairfax, Virginia).
- 鈥淭rump鈥檚 Challenge to Constitutional Democracy,鈥 国产小呦女, January 18, 2017.
国产小呦女Experts
Area of Expertise
Constitution, Constitutional law, executive power, presidential power, Congress, emergency power, national security, civil rights law, terrorism, national security law, human rights law
Additional Information
Chris Edelson is an assistant professor in the Department of Government. He is an expert in presidential national security power under the U.S. Constitution. Edelson is a Harvard Law School graduate and practiced law before joining the 国产小呦女faculty. He has authored Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror (Wisconsin Press, 2013) and Power without Constraint: The Post 9/11 Presidency and National Security (Wisconsin Press, 2016). Edelson is available to discuss: the legal scope and limits of presidential national security power; Congress's role regarding national security and the use of military force; relevant precedents applicable to the use of military force; and issues of presidential national security power arising in the context of the presidential election. Edelson's op-eds have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, Newsday, Constitution Daily, US News & World Report, Reason Magazine, The Hill, as well as other print and online outlets. He's appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and Book TV, NPR, and Sinclair Broadcast Group Television, in addition to other media outlets.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 国产小呦女Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.