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Howard Schweber
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Title: Associate Professor
Office: 407 North Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 9:00 - 11:00 @ Lakefront Cafe in Memorial Union & Fridays 9:00 - 11:00 @ Electric Earth Cafe
Phone: 608.263.2293
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: schweber@polisci.wisc.edu
Keywords: Constitution, Democratic Theory, Law
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Howard Schweber joined the department in Fall 1999. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 1999 and an MA in History from the University of Chicago after spending five years practicing law. He teaches courses focusing on constitutional law and legal and political theory. He is the author of "Speech, Conduct and the First Amendment" (Peter Lang Press, 2003), "The Creation of American Common Law,
1850-1880: Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship" (Cambridge 2004), and "The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism" (Cambridge 2007), as well as articles, essays, and book chapters on a variety of related topics. His current areas of research include comparative analyses of different constitutional systems and the construction of "public" and "private" as categories of legal and political discourse. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy and in the past has been actively involved with the Center for Civic Education's 'We the People' program. In addition, Schweber was the coach of the UW-Madison's College Mock Trial Team from 1999-2002, but has retired, according to a spokesman, "to spend more time with his family." Prof. Schweber is regularly featured on Wisconsin Public Radio programs and gives frequent newspaper and television interviews. In 2004 he was the recipient of the William H. Kiekhoffer Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has also twice been selected as the Pi Sigma Alpha Professor of the year, and received the Stephen and Marjorie Russell Award for Outstanding Teaching at Cornell University.
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Recent Publications
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Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber "Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part I: The Powers Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).
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Kenneth Mayer, Howard Schweber “Does Australia Have a Constitution? Part II: The Rights Constitution," 25 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (Spring 2008).
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
209 - Introduction to Political Theory
Instructors: Howard Schweber Field: Political Theory
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