Matthew Steilen

AREAS OF INTEREST

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LEGAL THEORY

ARTICLES Objectivity and Normativity in Historical Writing (My Dinner with Schlegel), 69(1) Buffalo Law Review 133 (2021).

Response: Our Imperial Federal Courts, 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 25 (2021).

The Constitutional Convention and Constitutional Change: A Revisionist History, 24 Lewis and Clark Law Review 1 (2020).

Presidential Whim, 46(3) Ohio Northern University Law Review 489 (2020). PROFESSOR

JD, Stanford Law School PhD, Northwestern University BA, Carleton College

(716) 645-8966 mjsteile@buffalo.edu

The Legislature at War: Bandits, Runaways and the Emergence of a Virginia Doctrine of Separation of Powers, 37 Law and History Review 493 (2019).

The Security Court, 78 Maryland Law Review Online 1 (Sept. 2018).

How to Think Constitutionally About Prerogative: A Study of Early American Usage, 66 Buffalo Law Review 557 (May 2018).

BOOK REVIEWS Book Review, Law & History Review 612 (2021) (reviewing Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism: The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon (Oxford University Press, 2020)). My central research interest is the development of legal institutions and ideas. I am currently at work on an intellectual history of the separation of powers.”