Christopher J. Peters

Professor of Law

B.A., Amherst College
J.D., University of Michigan Law School

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

• American constitutional law
• Federal civil procedure
• Constitutional theory
• Legal and political theory

Contact Information

Telephone: (410) 837- 4509
Room Number: LC 101C
E-mail
Administrative Assistant: Barbara Coyle, (410) 837-4635, (on campus x4635), LC 300

Courses Taught

Civil Procedure I and II

• First Class Assignment for Civil Procedure II (Spring 2010)
• Syllabus for Civil Procedure II (Spring 2010)

Constitutional Law I and II

• First Class Assignment for Constitutional Law I (Spring 2010)
• Syllabus for Constitutional Law I (Spring 2010)

C.J. Peters teaches constitutional law, constitutional theory, and civil procedure and writes in the areas of legal, political, and constitutional theory. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, and the peer-reviewed journal Legal Theory, among others.

Prior to joining Baltimore's faculty in 2009, Peters taught for two years as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and for twelve years at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has taught as a visitor at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Loyola Los Angeles, and the University of Toledo. At Wayne State, Peters received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Donald H. Gordon Award for Teaching Excellence, and three Teacher of the Year awards.

Peters earned his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he received the Havighurst Prize in history, and his law degree cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he served on the Michigan Law Review. Before entering teaching, Peters practiced in civil litigation with the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins.

Selected Publications

Under-the-Table Overruling, 54 Wayne Law Review 1067 (2009)

Alexander Bickel and the New Judicial Minimalism (with Neal Devins), in Kenneth D. Ward & Cecilia R. Castillo, The Judiciary and American Democracy: Alexander Bickel, The Countermajoritarian Difficulty, and Contemporary Constitutional Theory (SUNY Press, 2005)

Adjudicative Speech and the First Amendment, 51 UCLA Law Review 705 (2004)

Participation, Representation, and Principled Adjudication, 8 Legal Theory 185 (2002)

Persuasion: A Model of Majoritarianism as Adjudication, 96 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2001)

Assessing the New Judicial Minimalism, 100 Columbia Law Review 1454 (2000)

Outcomes, Reasons, and Equality, 80 Boston University Law Review 1095 (2000)

Slouching Towards Equality, 84 Iowa Law Review 801 (1999)

Equality Revisited, 110 Harvard Law Review 1210 (1997)

Adjudication as Representation, 97 Columbia Law Review 312 (1997)

Foolish Consistency: On Equality, Integrity, and Justice in Stare Decisis, 105 Yale Law Journal 2031 (1996)

View and Download C.J. Peters's Papers on SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=85555