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Maggie McKinley

| Maggie (McKinley) Blackhawk | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | New York University |
| Education: | •University of California, Los Angeles •Stanford Law School |
Maggie (McKinley) Blackhawk is an American legal scholar. She was a professor of law at NYU School of Law as of May 2024. Blackhawk's scholarship "combines empirical, theoretical, and historical methods to examine the structural representation and empowerment of minorities," according to her faculty profile at Penn Law.[1][2]
Career
Below is a summary of Blackhawk's education and career:[1][2][3]
Academic degrees:
- B.A. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles
- J.D. (2010), Stanford Law School
Professional positions and honors
- Law clerk, James Ware, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 2010-2011
- Attorney, civil litigation, Bredhoff & Kaiser in Washington, D.C., 2011-2012
- Law clerk, Susan Graber, United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 2013-2014
- Lecturer on law, Harvard Law School, 2014-2017
- Assistant professor of law, University of Pennsylvania, 2017-2021
- Professor of law, New York University, 2021-present
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by Blackhawk about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.
| Works related to the administrative state | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "Foreward: The Constitution of American Colonialism" | Harvard Law Review (2023) | ||
| "Federal Indian Law as Paradigm within Public Law" | Harvard Law Review (2019) | ||
| "Petitioning and the Making of the Administrative State" | Yale Law Journal (2018) | ||
| "Lobbying and the Petition Clause" | Stanford Law Review (2016) | ||
| "Plenary No Longer: How the Fourteenth Amendment 'Amended' Congressional Jurisdiction Stripping Power" | Stanford Law Review (2011) | ||
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes