CURRICULUM VITAE September 2015 NAME ADDRESS GEORGE I. LOVELL Professor and Chair, Political Science Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies University of Washington Department of Political Science University of Washington P.O. Box 353530 Seattle, WA 98195 glovell@u.washington.edu EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Professor, Department of Political Science, Adjunct Professor, Program in Law Societies and Justice, University of Washington. 2013- present. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Adjunct Associate Professor, Program in Law Societies and Justice, University of Washington. 2006-2013. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. 2001-2006. Assistant Professor, Department of Government, College of William and Mary. 1997-2001. Lecturer, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park. 1996-1997. Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan. 1993-1995. Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina. Summer 1989. EDUCATION: University of Michigan, 1992-1997 Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science. Dissertation: Legislative Deferrals and Judicial Policy Making in American Labor Law University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987-1989 Master of Arts in Philosophy Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1983-1987 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, May 1987 BOOKS This is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America. University of Chicago Press, 2012. Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Paperback Reprint 2010.
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED/REFEREED JOURNALS Covering Legal Mobilization: A Bottom- Up Analysis of Wards Cove v Atonio, co- authored with Michael W. McCann and Kirstine Taylor. Law and Social Inquiry, 2015. The Myth of the Myth of Rights. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 59 (1-30), 2012. "Legislative Defaults: Interbranch Power Sharing and Abortion Politics", co- authored with Scott E. Lemieux. Polity 42 (210-43), 2010. "Understanding the Impact and Visibility of Ideological Change on the Supreme Court", co- authored with Scott E. Lemieux, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, 44 (1-33), 2008. "Justice Excused: The Deployment of Legal Claims in Everyday Political Encounters." Law and Society Review, 40 (283-324), 2006. Reprinted in The Law and Society Reader II, New York University Press, 2014. As Harmless as an Infant : Deference, Denial, and Adair v United States, Studies in American Political Development, 14 (212-233), 2000. The Ambiguities of Labor's Legislative Reforms in New York State in the Late Nineteenth Century," Studies in American Political Development, 8 (81-110), 1994. ARTICLES IN FACULTY EDITED JOURNALS/ANTHOLOGIES A Tangled Legacy: Federal Courts and Struggles for Democratic Inclusion, co- authored with Michael W. McCann. In The Politics of Democratic Inclusion, Wolbrecht and Hero, eds. Temple University Press. 2005. That Sick Chicken Won t Hunt: The Limits of a Judicially Enforced Non- Delegation Doctrine, Constitutional Commentary, 17:79-117 (Spring 2000). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES "Imagined Rights Without Remedies: The Politics of Novel Legal Claims". Loyola Los Angeles Law Review 44:91-119 (2010). "Assessing Juristocracy: Are Judges Rulers or Agents?" With Scott E. Lemieux. Maryland Law Review 65:100-114 (2006). REVIEWS AND SHORT ARTICLES Review of Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race, by Kevin McMahon, Journal of Politics, 67: 968-70. (August 2005). Legislative Power: Federal Legislation, in the Oxford Companion to American Law, Kermit Hall, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2002. 2
Review of Brown v Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, by James T. Patterson, Law and Politics Book Review, 11:357-359 (July 2001) Review of Constitutional Construction, by Keith E. Whittington, Ethics 111:655-657 (April 2001) WORKS IN PROGRESS A Union by Law: Filipino Cannery Workers and the Transpacific Struggle for Equal Rights, 1921-1991. Book in Progress, Under contract with University of Chicago Press, Co- authored with Michael McCann. GRANTS AND AWARDS National Science Foundation, Law and Society Program, Grant for Legal Mobilization in the Global Age: Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Analysis, with co- PI Michael McCann. $274,977. 2011-2013. Honorable Mention for the C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book of 2003, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association. For Legislative Deferrals. Research Grant, Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington, $16,537. 2003. Faculty Summer Research Grant, College of William and Mary, Summer 1998 and 1999 Rackham School of Graduate Studies One Term Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan, 1997. Gerald Ford Fellowship for Doctoral Research in American Politics, 1995-96, summer 1996. Horace Williams Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Philosophy, 1987-89. SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATION Turning Anguish into Anger: Organizing a Multi- Racial Coalition for Human Rights, with Michael McCann, American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 2015. Executing Good Civil Rights Law, with Michael McCann and Kirstine Taylor, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington DC, 2015. Analyzing Wards Cove: Filipino Cannery Workers and the Politics of Legal Mobilization, with Michael McCann, Law and Society Association Meetings, Honolulu, 2012. Worker Struggles and the Intergenerational Construction of Rights Claims: Filipino Labor Activism in Two Eras, co- author Michael McCann, Law and Society Association Meetings, San Francisco, 2011. 3
Is the United States A Regime of Judicial Supremacy? Political Empowerment of the Judiciary and the Finality of Constitutional Rulings, with Scott E. Lemieux, Western Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 2010. Assessing the Allure of Law. Law and Society Association Meetings, Denver, 2009. In Defense of Extravagant Rights Talk. Law and Society Association Meetings, Montreal, 2008. Legal Fiction and Constitutional Fantasy in Civil Rights Complaints. Law and Society Association Meetings, Berlin, 2007 Constitutional Visions, Constitutional Aspirations, and Constitutional Fantasies in Citizen Civil Rights Complaints, American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, 2007. "The Common Place of Lawyering: Citizen Strategies for Legitimating Novel Civil Rights Claims, 1939-1941," Law and Society Association Meetings, Baltimore, July 2006. Popular Rights Claiming before there were Rights, Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, April 2006. "Civil Rights Visions Before Civil Rights: Rejected Civil Rights Claims and Popular Concep- tualizations of Rights, 1939-1941." Western Political Science Association Meeting, Oakland CA, and Law and Society Association Meetings, Las Vegas. 2005. "Public and Bureaucratic Conceptions of Civil Rights in the U.S., 1939-40" Law and Society Association, Chicago, May 2004. Mr. President, Is your help lazy?: Citizen Challenges to Government Legal Expertise in the 1940s. Western Political Science Association, Denver CO, March 2003. Dog Licenses, Sign Painters, and Dope Peddling Sheriffs: Constitutional Consciousness from the Bottom Up. American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2002. Grassroots Challenges to Official Legal Discourse in 1940s Civil Rights Complaints. Law and Society Association, Vancouver, May 2002. This is not civil rights : Rejected Civil Rights Claims and the Development of Civil Rights Consciousness in the 1940s. Western Political Science Association, Long Beach, March 2002. 4
Legislative Deference to the Judiciary in a Separation of Powers System. American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, August 2001. Legislative Deferrals, Separation of Powers, and American Democracy. Law and Society Association, Budapest, Hungary, July 2001. "The Evolution of Human Beings and Society in Rousseau's Second Discourse", MA Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989. INVITED TALKS Rights Talk and Popular Constitutionalism, Public Law Colloquium, Princeton University Department of Politics, April 2013. Distinguished Visiting Scholar, College of St. Rose, Albany NY. Public Lecture: In Defense of Extravagant Rights Talk. March 24-25, 2011. UW Law School Faculty Colloquium, Imagined Rights Without Remedies. May 26, 2011. Imagined Rights without Remedy: The Politics of Novel Legal Claims. Loyola University Law School, March 2010. Government Litigation Campaigns and the Politics of Constitutional Change. Mary- land Discussion Group on Constitutionalism, University of Maryland Law School, February 2010. Vulgar Originalism and the Failure of Political Controls on the Court. Constitutional Law Advanced Workshop, Princeton University, December 2009. "Historical Institutional Perspectives on Courts from Political Science and Law & Society Scholarship: Is it time to Start Talking?", Indiana University Law School, October 2008. Civil Rights Claiming Before Civil Rights Law. University of Texas- Dallas. Fall 2005. "Assessing Juristocracy: Are Judges Rulers or Agents?" With Scott E. Lemieux. Maryland/Georgetown Discussion Group on Constitutional Law Group, Baltimore MD 2005. Legislative Deferrals and Democratic Accountability in the United States. Public Law Colloquium, Princeton University, March 2003. Legislative Deference to the Courts and the Politics of Judicial Policymaking. Maryland Discussion Group on Constitutionalism, Georgetown University / University of Maryland, March 2002. 5
Has the Rehnquist Court Hijacked Congress? Panel Participant. Thomas Foley Center. Washington State University. March 2002. NOTABLE CONFERENCE AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY Author Meets Readers Roundtable on George Lovell s This is Not Civil Rights, Law and Society Association meetings, 2013. Author Meets Readers Roundtable on George Lovell's Legislative Deferrals and Mitchell Pickerill's Constitutional Deliberation in Congress, Midwest Political Science Association meetings, 2005. Authors Meet Authors- - Recent Books on the Supreme Court, the Elected Branches, and the Constitution, Law and Society Association meetings, June 2005. (Legislative Deferrals was one of three books featured on this panel.) Faculty Member, Law and Society Association Summer Institute, Oxford University, 2005. Co- Leader of opening plenary session: The Intersection of Rights and Regulation across Social Spheres. Faculty Member, Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshops, Boston, 2013. Program Committee, Law and Society Association Meeting, 2011. Program Committee, Western Political Science Association Meeting, 2008. (Judicial Politics and Public Law) Program Committee, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, 2006 (Public Law). Summer Institute Committee, Law and Society Association, 2005-2006. Editorial Board, Law and Court Newsletter, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2005-2006. Award Committee, American Judicature Society Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association, 2004. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS Chair Department of Political Science University of Washington. 2014- present. Director, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington. 2012-2014. Associate Chair, Political Science, University of Washington, 2011-12. 6
Chair, Inequality and Social Justice Search Committee, Political Science, University of Washington, 2013. Director, Law/LSJ in Rome Summer Program, 2010, 2011; faculty member in 2008, 2009, 2012. Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. 2006-2008 Director of Honors Program, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. 2009-2010. Chair, American Politics Search Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, 2009. Standing Committee, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, 2002-2008, 2010-2012, ex officio 2014- present. Co- Chair of Strategic Planning Committee, 2003. Faculty Senate, University of Washington, 2002-2004. Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. Member 2001-2002, Chair 2002-2005, 2010-11. Faculty Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha, Undergraduate Political Science Honor Society, College of William and Mary, 1998-2000. 7