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Robert J. Pushaw, J.D.
James Wilson Endowed Professor of Law

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  • J.D., Yale University, 1988
  • B.A., La Salle College, 1980, summa cum laude

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In law school, Robert Pushaw served as notes editor of the Yale Law Journal and received an Olin Foundation Fellowship. After graduation, he clerked for Judge James Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then worked as an associate for Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle.

Joining the University of Missouri School of Law faculty in 1992, Professor Pushaw taught Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Contracts, and Estates & Trusts. In 1998, he won the Blackwell Sanders Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award as the law school's top teacher. In 2000, Pushaw received the William Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the University of Missouri's highest teaching honor. He came to Pepperdine in 2001.

Professor Pushaw's scholarship studies the influence of eighteenth-century Anglo-American political and legal theory on the development of the modern law governing the Constitution (especially the Commerce Clause) and the federal courts (particularly the justiciability doctrines and inherent judicial powers). At the University of Missouri, he twice earned the Shook Hardy & Bacon Excellence in Research Award. Professor Pushaw's scholarly writings have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Notre Dame Law Review, BYU Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and the Election Law Journal, as well as in symposium issues published by the principal law reviews at North Carolina, William & Mary, Florida State, Missouri, Arkansas, Lewis & Clark, and Chapman.

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