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Ann Althouse (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell.

Since 1984 Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and written extensively on federalism (her central thesis being the normative value of federalism in protecting individual rights), sovereign immunity and other legal issues. She is currently the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a resident of Madison, Wisconsin.

Blogging

Althouse created and has moderated a weblog on law, popular culture and politics under her own name since January 2004, "as an art project and an exercise in personal freedom." Althouse has also served as a guest blogger for Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit. She is characterized by many self-identified "left-wing/ progressive" observers as to the right of the political spectrum, as suggested by her association with Instapundit. She does not endorse this characterization, and represents herself as politically liberal, but independent of the Democratic party..

A minor controversy erupted in late 2005 following remarks Althouse made criticizing of a group of bloggers who had posed for a photograph with former President Bill Clinton. Althouse maintained that the thrust of her criticism was a reiteration of her long-standing view that feminists had carved out a sui generis exception to their views on sexual harassment to protect Clinton; Althouse's critics on the left characterized her remarks as derogatory to the physical appearance of the blogger and rejected the argument that feminists should have a problem with Clinton. This controversy was briefly reprised in early 2007 following an on-camera argument between Althouse and journalist Garance Franke-Ruta about the original controversy.

Key scholarly works

• The Use of Conspiracy Theory to Establish In Personam Jurisdiction: a Due Process Analysis, 52 Fordham L. Rev. 234 (1983)
• How to Build a Separate Sphere: Federal Courts and State Power, 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1485 (1987)
• The Misguided Search for State Interest in Abstention Cases: Observations on the Occasion of Pennzoil v. Texaco, 63 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1051 (1988)
• When to Believe a Legal Fiction: Federal Interests and the Eleventh Amendment, 40 Hastings L.J. 1123 (1989)
• The Humble and the Treasonous: Judge-Made Jurisdiction Law, 40 Case W. Res. L.Rev. 1035 (1990).
• Standing, in Fluffy Slippers, 77 Va. L. Rev. 1177 (1991)
• Saying What Rights Are - In and Out of Context, 1991 Wis. L. Rev. 929 (1991)
• Tapping the State Court Resource, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 953 (1991)
• Beyond King Solomon's Harlots: Women in Evidence, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1265 (1992)
• Thelma & Louisa and the Law: Do Rape Shield Rules Matter? 25 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 757 (1992)
• Variations on a Theory of Normative Federalism: a Supreme Court Dialogue, 42 Duke L.J. 979 (1993)
• Who's to Blame for Law Reviews?, 70 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 81 (1994)
• The Lying Woman, The Devious Prostitute, and Other Stories from the Evidence Casebook, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 914 (1994).
• Time For the Federal Courts to Enforce the Guarantee Clause? A Response to Professor Chemerinsky, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 881 (1994)
• Federalism, Untamed, 47 Vand. L. Rev. 1207 (1994)
• Late Night Confessions in the Hart & Wechsler Hotel, 47 Vand. L. Rev. 993 (1994)
• Federal Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Federal Rights: Can Congress Bring Back the Warren Era? 20 Law & Social Inquiry 1067 (1995).
• Enforcing Federalism after United States v. Lopez, 38 Arizona L. Rev. 793 (1996)
• The Alden Trilogy: Still Searching for a Way to Enforce Federalism, 31 Rutgers L.J. 631 (2000)
• On Dignity and Deference: The Supreme Court's New Federalism, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 245 (2000)
• Inside the Federalism Case, 574 Annals of the Am. Acad. 132 (2001)
• Why Talking about States Rights Cannot Avoid the Need for Normative Federalism Analysis, 51 Duke L. J. 363 (2001)
• Electoral College Reform: Deja Vu, 95 Nw. U. L. REV. 993 (2001)
• The Authoritative Lawsaying Power of the State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court: Conflicts of Judicial Orthodoxy in the Bush-Gore Litigation, 61 Md. L. Rev. 508 (2002)
• The Vigor of the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine in Times of Terror, 69 Brook. L. Rev. 1231 (2004)
• Vanguard States, Laggard States: Federalism and Constitutional Rights, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1745 (2004)
• Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Search for Judicially Enforcable Federalism, 10 Tex. Rev. of L & Pol. 275 (2006)

External links

• Althouse
• Audible Althouse (podcast)
• Althouse's photos on Flickr
• Althouse University of Wisconsin Biography
• The Normblog profile
• Radio interview

References

1. The Bloggable Life of Professor Ann Althouse, UW Gargole Magazine, Winter 2007, pp.28-30
2. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/09/althouse-comments-persona.html#c112795528751952294

• American bloggers
• American legal academics
• New York University alumni
• University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty
• People from Wilmington, Delaware
• 1951 births
• Living people