Vita                                                            July 2005

                                                               DANIEL B.  LEVIN

 

Department of Political Science                                                          daniel.levin@csbs.utah.edu

University of Utah                                                                                                  801-587-9096 (tel)

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112                                                                                801-585-6492 (fax)

 

Academic Positions

 

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

              Utah, 2005 to present

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

              Utah, 2000 to 2005.

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho,

1994 to 2000.

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Ripon College,

              Ripon, Wisconsin, 1993-1994.

 

 

Academic Background

B.A.       University of Wisconsin-Madison (1985). Honors in Political Science, Distinction in English Literature.

 

M.A.      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988).

 

Ph.D.    University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993).

 

Academic Honors and Grants

University Research Committee Faculty Fellow, University of Utah, 2004-2005.

 

Participant, Institute for Constitutional Studies, Supreme Court Historical Society, 1999.

 

Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship, 1998-1999.

 

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1998.

 

Faculty Research Grant, Boise State University, 1996, 1998.

 

Top Ten Scholar Honored Faculty Member, Boise State University, 1998, 2000.

 

Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991-1993.

 

Detling Trust Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991.

 

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, 1988-1989.


 

Research Publications

Representing Popular Sovereignty: The Constitution in American Political Culture (Albany:

              State University of New York Press, 1999).

 

AThe Nation=s Conscience: Assessing Bioethics Commissions,@ Kennedy

Institute of Ethics Journal 14(4) (2004), 333-360, (with Albert Dzur).

 

AAccountability and the Use of Volunteer Officers in Public Safety Organizations,@ Public

Performance and Management Review 27(4) (2004), 118-143, with Patricia Fredericksen.

 

AFederalists in the Attic: Original Intent, the Heritage Movement, and Democratic Theory,@

              Law and Social Inquiry 29, No. 1 (2004),105-126.

 

AWhen Good Lockeans Go Bad: The Political Theory of Right-Wing Constitutionalism,@

              Polity 34 (2001), 141-162.

 

A>Not a Law at All=: A Plea for a Return to the Common Law Right to Resist Unlawful Arrest,@

              Southwestern Law Review 29 (2000), 1‑50, with Craig R.. Hemmens

 

AResistance is Futile: The Right to Resist Arrest and Contemporary Forms of Civility

Policing,@ Crime and Delinquency 46 (2000), 472-496, with Craig R.. Hemmens.

 

AA Law Unto Themselves: The Ideology of the Common Law Court Movement,@ South Dakota

              Law Review 44 (1998-1999), 9-40, with Michael W. Mitchell.

 

"The Constitution as Rhetorical Symbol in Western Anti-Gay Rights Initiatives: the Case of Idaho"

               in Stephanie L. Witt and Suzanne McCorkle, eds., Anti-Gay Rights: Assessing Voter

               Initiatives (Westport CT: Praeger, 1997), 33-49.

 

AThe Constitution in the Postmodern Marketplace: Philip Morris and the Bicentennial of

              the Bill of Rights,@ Legal Studies Forum 20 (1996), 367-386.

 

In Progress

Civil Liberties/Un-American Activities: The Supreme Court and the Cold War.

 

ANegotiated Rulemaking as Democratic Deliberation,@revise and resubmit to American

              Review of Public Administration (with Albert Dzur).

 

ALine Dancing: Municipal Unification Across a State Line,@ for submission to Publius (with

            Bryan Thiriot).

 

A>A Strange Eventful History=: The Supreme Court=s Historiography of the Establishment

            Clause,@ for submission to the Journal of Church and State.

 

ARegulatory Reform and Inter‑Branch Rivalry@


 

Book Reviews

 

AReview of Mark Rozell, Executive Privilege, 2nd Ed,@ Presidential Studies Quarterly,

forthcoming.

 

AReview of Michael Welch, Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail

             Complex, @ Law and Politics Book Review 13, No. 4 (April 2003), .

 

AReview of Richard A. Posner, Frontiers of Legal Theory,@ Law and Politics Book Review

              12 No. 1 (January 2002) pp. 5‑8.

 

AReview of Thomas B. McAffee,  Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular

              Sovereignty: The Founders' Understanding.@ Law and Politics Book Review 11

               No. 1 (January 2001), pp. 11‑13.

 

AReview of Debra L. DeLaet, U.S. Immigration Policy in an Age of Rights,@ Law and

              Politics Book Review 10 (2000), 265-267.

 

AReview of Noah M. J. Pickus, ed.,  Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century,@

              Law and Politics Book Review 10 (2000), 177-180.

 

AReview of Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry, Beyond All Reason,@ Law and Politics Book

              Review 8 (1998), 44-46.

 

AReview of Timothy C. Shiell, Campus Hate Speech on Trial,@ Law and Politics Book Review

              8 (1998), 345‑347.

 

AReview of John Arthur, Words that Bind,@ Law and Politics Book Review 7 (1997), 108-110.

 

 

Short Entries

 

AAttorney General=s List of Subversive Organizations,@ AMcCarren Act,@ APennsylvania v. Nelson,@

              AScales v. United States,@ AWatkins v. United States,@ in David Schultz and John Vile, eds.

              The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming)

 

AJudicial Review of Administrative Action,@ in David Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of

            Public Administration and Public Policy. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2003.

 

AExecutive Privilege,@ AFurman v. Georgia,@ AGideon v. Wainwright,@ Lochner v. New York,@

               AStates Rights,@ in David Schultz, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Law (New York: Facts on File,2002).

 

AU.A.W. v. Johnson Controls,@ in Judith Baer, ed., Historical and Multicultural

Encyclopedia of Women=s Reproductive Rights in the United States (Westport CT: Greenwood, 2002).

 


ARoy Cohn,@ American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

 

ATeaching Administrative Law through a Legal Research Project,@ SPAE Forum, (January 1999)

 

"Majority Rule/ Minority Rights" in The Encyclopedia of Democracy (Washington, D.C.:

              CQ Press, 1995), with Joel B. Grossman.

.

 

Papers Presented

 

A>A Strange, Eventful History=: The Supreme Court=s Historiography of the Establishment

              Clause delivered at the 2004 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science

              Association.

 

ALine Dancing: Municipal Unification Across a State Line,@ delivered at the 2004 Meeting

              of the Western Political Science Association (with Bryan Thiriot).

 

AFederalists in the Attic: Original Intent, the Heritage Movement, and Democratic Theory,@ delivered

              at the 2002 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association .

 

AProtecting the Posse: Volunteer Programs in Public Safety Organizations,@ delivered at the 2002

              Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, with Patricia Fredericksen.

 

ABringing the Audience Backstage: Doing Bioethics in Public,@delivered at the 2001 Meeting of

              the Western Political Science Association, with Albert Dzur.

 

AA Game of Circles=: Negotiated Rulemaking as Democratic Deliberation,@ delivered at the 2001

              Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, with Albert Dzur.

 

ARegistration of Communists and Sex Offenders: The Administrative Process as a Means of

              Surveillance and Condemnation,@ delivered at the 1999 Meeting of the Western Political

              Science Association.

 

ACommunists, Congressional Committees, and the Rise of the Administrative Welfare

State,@ delivered at the 1999 Meeting of the Western Political Science Association.

 

APledging Allegiance: The Oath Cases and the Certification of Loyalty during the Cold

              War,@ delivered at the 1999 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

 

AAliens, Subversion and the Rise of Administrative Due Process,@ delivered at the 1998 Meeting

              of the Western Political Science Association.

 

AThe Communist Party Cases and the Origins of the Due Process Revolution,@ delivered at the1997

               Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association.

 


"The Constitution as a Rhetorical Symbol in Western Anti-Gay Rights Initiatives,"

              delivered at the 1995 Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

 

"The Constitution as Text and Context: The Cultural Significance of a Written

Constitution," delivered at the 1994 Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association.

 

"The Past as Paradigm: The Supreme Court's Evolving Historiography of the

              Establishment Clause," delivered at the 1993 Meeting of the Southern Political

              Science Association.

 

"Rituals of Rights: Constitutional Commemoration and Mass Media Displays," delivered at

              the 1992 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

 

"The Price of Rights: The Commodification of the Constitution during the Bicentennial,"       

              delivered at the 1992 Meeting of the Law and Society Association.

 

"The Bill of Rights as Commodity: Philip Morris and the Politics of Ritual Pollution,"

              delivered at the 1992 Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Constitutional Law, University of Utah, 2000-2003; Boise State University, 1994-1999.

 

Constitutional Law for Public Administrators, University of Utah, 2001- 2003.

 

Administrative Law, University of Utah, 2001-2005; Boise State University, 1996, 1998, 2000.

 

Introduction to Law and Politics, University of Utah, Summer 2005.

 

20th Century American Political Thought (Special Topics), University of Utah, Summer 2004, Summer 2005.

 

Federalism (Special Topics), University of Utah, Spring 2004.

 

American Political Thought, Ripon College, Fall, 1993; University of Utah, Summer 2002.

 

The First Amendment, Ripon College, Fall, 1993; University of Utah, Summer 2003.

 

Civil Liberties, Boise State University, 1995-2000.

 

Jurisprudence, Boise State University, 1995, 1997, 1999.

 

Western Political Thought II (Modern Political Thought), Boise State University, Spring 2000.

 

Law, Politics, and Society, Boise State University, Fall, 1995-1999; UW-Madison, Fall, 1992.

 

American National Government, Boise State University, 1994-1999; Ripon College, Fall, 1993.

             


Introduction to Law, Ripon College, Spring, 1994.

 

American Political Culture (Special Topics), Ripon College, Spring, 1994.

 

Congress and the Presidency, Ripon College, Spring, 1994.