Josh Chafetz
Professor of Law
208 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-1698
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: jc2284@cornell.edu
Assistant:
Megan Olivares
Cornell Law School
249 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Email: mf676@cornell.edu
Professional Biography
Josh Chafetz received his B.A. from Yale University, his doctorate in Politics from Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
His research interests include structural constitutional law, American and British constitutional history, legislation and legislative procedure, American political development, and the intersection of law and politics. His second book, Congress's Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers, was published by Yale University Press in 2017. He is also the author of Democracy's Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions (Yale University Press, 2007) and is a co-editor (along with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Elizabeth Garrett, and James Brudney) of the leading casebook in Legislation, Cases and Materials on Legislation and Regulation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy, published by West.
His scholarship has been published in a number of top law reviews, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, and Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, among others. He has also written for a number of popular press outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, Slate, and the New Republic. He is currently a Contributing Writer for the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill.
Prof. Chafetz: What do Presidents Need to Know?
New York Times
Chafetz on Protections for Special Prosecutors such as Mueller
Five Thirty Eight
Chafetz on Trump Allegedly Pressuring Senators to End Russia Probe
The Washington Post
Chafetz on How Republicans Could Kick Roy Moore Out of the Senate
Pittsburgh Gazette