Amanda Hollis-Brusky Explained

Amanda L. Hollis-Brusky is an American constitutional law scholar who specializes in the politics of the U.S. Supreme Court and the conservative legal movements of originalism and textualism. She is the chair of the politics department at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[1]

Early life and education

Hollis-Brusky majored in political science and philosophy at Boston University, graduating in 2003. She then pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, which she earned in 2010. Her dissertation was titled "The Federalist Society and the Structural Constitution: An Epistemic Community at Work".

Career

Hollis-Brusky joined the politics department at Pomona College in 2011. In 2014, she won the Wig Award, the college's highest faculty honor, in recognition of her teaching.[2] She is frequently consulted by media outlets on Supreme Court issues. In 2015, she interviewed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,[3] and in 2020 she interviewed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder[4] and testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on judicial independence.[5]

Her first book, Ideas with Consequences, about the Federalist Society, won the 2016 C. Herman Pritchett award, the American Political Science Association's award for best legal studies book.[6]

Her second book, Separate but Faithful, was written with Joshua C. Wilson and focuses on the Christian conservative legal movement. Reviewer Daniel Bennett, writing in Perspectives on Politics, called it "a detailed and methodologically impressive account" that uses "an innovative theoretical framework" and "has the potential to wield lasting influence".[7]

She is an editor of The Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post.[8]

Personal life

Hollis-Brusky lives in Claremont, California.[9]

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amanda Hollis-Brusky . Pomona College . 27 August 2021 . en . June 3, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210603153740/https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/amanda-l-hollis-brusky . live .
  2. Web site: Wig Awards. live. 2021-08-27. Pomona College. en. April 20, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210420161329/https://www.pomona.edu/faculty/wig-awards.
  3. News: Salgado . Harini . Justice Sonia Sotomayor Visits Pomona, Talks Life, Education, and SCOTUS . 27 August 2021 . . 23 October 2015 . February 25, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210225200335/https://tsl.news/news5138/ . live .
  4. News: Chalk . Liam . Former A.G. Eric Holder advocates for SCOTUS term limits, blasts Barr at Pomona talk . 27 August 2021 . . 18 February 2020 . August 16, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210816131559/https://tsl.news/eric-holder-payton-lecture/ . live .
  5. News: Way . India Soranson . Pomona professor Hollis-Brusky testifies before House Judiciary Committee . 27 August 2021 . . 2 October 2020 . January 22, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210122121813/https://tsl.news/pomona-professor-hollis-brusky-testifies-before-congress/ . live .
  6. News: An . Anu . PO Professor Hollis-Brusky Wins C. Herman Pritchett Award for Latest Book . 27 August 2021 . . 16 September 2016 . February 28, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210228213606/https://tsl.news/news5914/ . live .
  7. Bennett . Daniel . June 2021 . Review of Separate but Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture . . 19 . 2 . 650–652 . 10.1017/S1537592721000359 . 236396771.
  8. News: Sides . John . John M. Sides . About The Monkey Cage . 27 August 2021 . . January 1, 2019.
  9. Web site: Amanda Hollis-Brusky. live. 2021-08-27. Twitter. en. December 15, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215184321/https://twitter.com/hollisbrusky.
  10. News: McGinnis . John O. . John O. McGinnis . 26 March 2015 . Constitutional Revolution . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021021318/https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-ideas-with-consequences-by-amanda-hollis-brusky-1427411182 . October 21, 2020 . 27 August 2021 . The Wall Street Journal.
  11. Bartels . Brandon L. . December 2016 . Review of Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution . live . Law and Politics Book Review . . 26 . 8 . 160–164 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210425190452/http://www.lpbr.net/2016/12/ideas-with-consequences-federalist.html . April 25, 2021 . 27 August 2021.

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