Assistant Professor

Office: 1703 HW
Phone:212-396-6588
Email: ezackin@hunter.cuny.edu

Office Hours

CV (PDF)

Education:
PhD, Politics – Princeton University (2010)
MA, Political Science – Columbia University (2004)
BA, Political Science and English – Swarthmore College (2002)

Forthcoming Book:
Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America’s Positive Rights
Princeton University Press (forthcoming 2013).
Introduction (PDF)

Articles:

• "Kentucky’s Constitutional Crisis and the Many Meanings of Judicial Independence" Studies in Law, Politics & Society. 58 (forthcoming 2012): 73-99.
• "What’s Happened to American Federalism?" (Review Essay) Polity. 43, no. 3 (July 2011): 388–403.
• "'To Change the Fundamental Law of the State': Protective Labor Provisions in U.S. Constitutions" Studies in American Political Development. 24, no. 1 (April 2010): 1-23.
• "Popular Constitutionalism’s Hard When You’re Not Very Popular: Why the ACLU Turned to Courts" Law and Society Review. 42, no. 2 (June 2008): 367-395.

Selected Awards and Fellowships:

• Edward S. Corwin Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Public Law (2011)
  given by the American Political Science Association
• Walter Dean Burnham Award for Best Dissertation in Politics and History (2011)
  given by the American Political Science Association, politics and history section
• Wilson Society Fellowship, Princeton University (2008, 2009)
  selective interdisciplinary program supporting dissertation research on international and domestic public policy
• Miller Center of Public Affairs Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellowship, University of Virginia (2008)
  competitive national fellowship, awarded to a graduate student in political science or history whose dissertation combines political theory and American politics

Courses:

• PolSc 110: American Government: A Historical Introduction
• PolSc 240: The American Judiciary
• PolSc 341: Constitutional Law: Civil Rights
• PolSc 342: Constitutional Law: First Amendment