Anthony Michael Kreis
Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-reviv…
- Six weeks weeks until the GSU History of the Common Law class hits the streets of London!
- When you ask a scholar about their methodological choices and they’ll talk about anything to make you look unreasonable instead…
- He just doesn’t get it. It has nothing to do with one cite or another. Law professors should not offer themselves as subject matter experts to the Supreme Court when the thoroughness of the work belies the claim of having special insight. Inexplicably skipping over 100 years of history is bad.
- Note, he doesn’t actually engage with the substantive questions unless it benefits him. He’s wrong on safe conducts. He’s wrong to jump over a century. He’s wrong to not address expulsions. He’s wrong to not explain whether he did archival work or why he didn’t feel it methodologically needed.
- I am sure there’s a 24 year old first year graduate from law school who will take the spot to someone’s critical acclaim.
- Something that I think gets terribly overlooked in American law professors’ discussions about the common law is the extent to which the origins of the early law of alienage in England is driven by animosity over things happening in France.
- I don’t know a heck of a lot about this period at all. So ask me not for details.
- However, if you’re starting with Dyer or Coke, one might want to ask about this.
- Need a t-shirt for England next month, "Do you even de Bracton, bro?"
- Pollock & Maitland, History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1898) "The place of birth is all-important."
- I can keep doing this every day between now and April 1.
- Court system on 'brink of collapse', former senior judge warns bbc.com/news/article...
- Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Wait until American law professors learn about the regulation of the Irish from the Pale.
