Keith J. Bybee
Associate Professor, Law and Political Science
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media
Degree
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1995
Specialties
Public law, American politics, the politics of race, legal theory, and political philosophy
Personal Website
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/kjbybee/
Publications
The Most Acceptable Forms of Hypocrisy: Common Courtesy and the Rule of Law. Book manuscript under contract with Stanford University Press.
Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politcs, and the Media. Edited volume. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
“Legal Realism, Common Courtesy, and Hypocrisy,” Law Culture, and the Humanities. (2005):75-102.
“The Polite Thing To Do,” in The Future of Gay Rights in America, H.N. Hirsch, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2005).
“The Liberal Arts, Legal Scholarship, and the Democratic Critique of Judicial Power,” in Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Austin Sarat (ed.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2004).
Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Paperback edition, 2002.
Courses
Constitutional Law (in PSC and at College of Law)
Law Politics, and the Media
Second Year Research/Writing Seminar
Political Argument and Reasoning
Civil Liberties
Judicial Politics
Constitutional Democracy in America
Political Science Research Workshop
Research Interests
American public law, legal and political theory, American politics, cultural studies, LGBT politics, and the politics of race.
Research Projects
An examination of how ambiguity and the appearance of hypocrisy sustain the exercise of legal power in the United States.
SU_Affiliations
Director of The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM)
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Maxwell School