Andrea Katz
Associate Professor of Law
Andrea Scoseria Katz is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Professor Katz teaches and writes about constitutional law, with a focus on presidential power. Her work draws from constitutional law, legal history, political theory and comparative politics to explore questions of separation-of-powers theory, constitutionalism, and the development of the American president and the modern administrative state, especially during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). Her work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, among others. Professor Katz has also published work on courts, constitutional amendments, and presidential power in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.
Professor Katz received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, Professor Katz clerked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France for Judge András Sajó, and in the District of Massachusetts for Judge Michael A. Ponsor. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of São Paulo, the University of Tokyo, and was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law School before joining the Washington University faculty in Fall 2020.
- Education
- J.D., Yale Law School
- Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University
- B.A., Comparative Literature, B.A. Japanese, Yale University
- Courses
- The American Presidency Seminar
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law
- Areas of Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- Presidential Power
- Comparative Law
- Legal Philosophy and History
- Administrative Law
- Publications
- Separation-of-Powers Lochnerism, 94 FORDHAM L. REV. (forthcoming 2025)
- Taking Legality Seriously: What the Major Questions Doctrine Is — And Isn’t (with Ofra Bloch), 94 GEO. WASH. L. REV. (forthcoming 2026)
- A Regime of Statutes: Building the Modern President in Gilded Age America, 4 J. OF AM. CONST. HIST. 737 (November 2024)
- No higher law: The Uruguayan plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment, INT. J. OF CON. L. (2024)
Ninguna ley superior: El plebiscito uruguayo de 1980 como constituyente fallido (No higher law: The Uruguayan Plebiscite of 1980 as a failed constituent moment) (in Spanish), 21 INT. J. OF CON. L. 1428 (Dec. 2023) - Becoming the Administrator-in-Chief: Myers and the Progressive Presidency (w/ Noah A. Rosenblum), 123 COLUM. L. REV. 2153 (2023)
- Removal Rehashed (a response to Professors Saikrishna Prakash and Aditya Bamzai’s “The Executive Power of Removal”) (with Noah A. Rosenblum), 136 HARV. L. REV. F. 404 (2023)
- Courts and Constitutions, in A POLITICAL SCIENCE EXPERIMENT – TEXTBOOK (Andrew Rudalevige & Joshua Tucker eds.) (2022)
- Activity and Affiliations
- Law & Society Association
- American Society for Legal History
- International Association of Comparative Law
- American Political Science Association
- Honors and Awards
- Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship, NYU Law, Fall 2019-Summer 2020
- Robina Human Rights Fellowship, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, Fall 2016-Summer 2017
- Linkages Latin America, Yale Law School and UERJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and USP (São Paulo, Brazil), Summer 2014
- Fox Fellowship, University of Tokyo, Fall 2007-Summer 08
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