About me
Jed Handelsman Shugerman is a professor and Harry Elwood Warren Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law. He received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. (History) from Yale.
He is currently working on a book “A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists,” questioning the Robert Court’s historical support for unchecked presidential power and immunity. It is also a cautionary tale about originalism in practice.
His next book project is “The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians: Race, War, and the Roots of Mass Incarceration.”
His first book, The People’s Courts (Harvard 2012), traces the rise of judicial elections, judicial review, and the influence of money and parties in American courts. It is based on his dissertation that won the 2009 Cromwell Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
He is also a co-author of amicus briefs on the Biden student debt waiver and the use of emergencies as pretexts; on presidential powers of appointment and removal; on the Emoluments Clauses; on the First Amendment rights of elected judges (cited by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Ginsburg); and on the conflicts between judicial elections and due process in death penalty cases. He has written a series of op-eds and essays about presidential power, judicial independence, and Trump investigations for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Slate, The Atlantic, Politico, and other media.
