Keith Whittington

Keith Whittington

William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics | Princeton University

Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and is currently the chair of Academic Freedom Alliance and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He works on American constitutional history, politics and law, and on American political thought. He is the author of “Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present” and “Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,” among other works. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of Texas School of Law, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Yale University