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Keith Bybee

Vice Dean, Professor Law and Political Science; Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM); Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper '72 Judiciary Studies Professor
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Professor Bybee is Vice Dean and Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor at the College of Law. He holds tenured appointments in the College of Law and in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

He also directs the (IJPM), a collaborative effort between the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Bybee’s areas of research interest are the judicial process, legal theory, political philosophy, LGBT politics, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics, constitutional law, codes of conduct, and the media.

His books includeÌýÌý(Princeton, 1998; second printing, 2002),ÌýÌý(Stanford, 2007), andÌýAll Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not: Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of LawÌý(Stanford, 2010). His most recent book isÌýÌý(Stanford, 2016). He is currently at work on a grant-funded project examining the positive uses of fake news.

 

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