Anya Bernstein PROFESSOR PhD, University of Chicago JD, Yale Law School BA, Columbia College
(716) 645-3683
anyabern@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
What Counts as Data, 86(2) Brooklyn
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Law Review 435 (2021).
JURISDICTION & CIVIL PROCEDURE
Porous Bureaucracy: Administrative
LEGISLATION & STATUTORY INTERPRETATION
Social Inquiry 28 (2020).
Culture in Taiwan, 45 Law and
We sometimes take the legitimacy of democratic
LAW AND SOCIETY
ARTICLES Ford’s Underlying Controversy,
governance for granted, but
Technologies of Language Meet
legitimacy is not something
Ideologies of Law, 2020 Michigan
that inheres in a particular
State Law Review 1241 (2020).
political form. It’s a dynamic,
(with Christine Bartholomew), 99 Washington University Law
Interpenetration of Powers: Channels
Review (forthcoming 2022).
and Obstacles for Populist Impulses,
culturally specific outcome of continuous work by numerous participants. I’m particularly
28 Washington International Judicial Populism (with Glen
interested in how bureaucrats
Law Journal 461 (2019).
and judges in democracies
Staszewski), 106 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2021).
legitimize their actions. I use
Democratizing Interpretation,
ethnography, interview, and
60 William and Mary Law Legal Corpus Linguistics and the
textual analysis to illuminate
Review 435 (2018).
how government actors
Half-Empirical Attitude, 106 Cornell
understand, describe, and
Law Review (forthcoming 2021).
shape law and governance. My work so far has focused on the United States as well as Taiwan; and this year I’ve expanded my research to Germany.”
The Bureaucracy of Democracy How democracies actually work—the day-to-day administration of government—is a continuing scholarly question for Anya Bernstein. Now she’s taking her longtime inquiry a step further with the help of a prestigious grant. Bernstein received a Fulbright Scholar Award through the U.S. Department of State to support her research in Germany on the country’s administrative state. The project is part of her broader interest in the bureaucracy of democracy, a topic she has studied in the U.S.—an old, large and powerful democracy—and in Taiwan—a new, small and relatively disempowered one. Bernstein views Germany as an interesting contrast to the other two sites, with its middle-aged democratic system, a parliamentary rather than presidential system, and a history of theorizing and valuing administration.
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