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.<1> 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.
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