Kimberly L. Wehle

Kimberly Wehle is a law professor and CBS News legal analyst. She writes on the separation of powers, outsourcing government, and the federal administrative state. In addition to being a legal analyst for CBS, Wehle contributes to the PBS-syndicated BBC World News and BBC World News America. She is also an op-Ed contributor for The Atlantic, The Hill and The Bulwark, and a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition.[1][2][3][4] Wehle has written publications such as How to Read the Constitution – and Why and What You Need to Know About Voting – and Why.[5] She is best known for her ability to demystify legal concepts.

Kimberly Wehle
OccupationProfessor, lawyer, author, legal analyst and aews commentator
EmployerUniversity of Baltimore School of Law, CBS
Websitekimwehle.com

Early life and education

Wehle grew up in Buffalo, New York, as the second of five kids. During her childhood, she attended Catholic elementary schools and a non-sectarian all-girls school where she played lacrosse and explored her talent for the visual arts. Her mother, Betty Jane Wehle, was an amateur artist who started her own Montessori preschool in a Buffalo suburb in the early 1970s. She passed away in 2006. Her father, Richard E. Wehle, was a management consultant. He passed away in 2015.

Wehle graduated high school from the Buffalo Seminary and went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania for one year before transferring to Cornell University, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority as well as the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.[6] As an English major at Cornell, Wehle won a department award for the best honors thesis of her class. The paper was entitled The Vision of Flannery O'Connor. In the summer after her junior year, she attended the Leo Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France. Wehle was offered a full scholarship to remain for the year, but ultimately turned it down in order to complete her undergraduate degree at Cornell.

After graduating magna cum laude from Cornell in 1990, Wehle went on to attend the University of Michigan Law School as a natural progression to her penchant for writing and critical thinking. There, Wehle was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. She graduated with a J.D. cum laude in 1993.[7]

Career

Wehle began her career practicing law as a clerk to a federal judge, then at the Federal Trade Commission, Whitewater investigation, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and private practice. Wehle was of counsel in the litigation group of the Washington, D.C. tax boutique Caplin & Drysdale, where her work focused on asbestos creditors' rights and campaign and election law litigation. She has also practiced before the United States Supreme Court and argued several cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Wehle is a Visiting Professor and Fellow in Law and Government at American University's Washington College of Law and a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She has previous teaching experience at George Washington University Law School and the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Wehle specializes in teaching the respective powers of the three branches of the federal government.[1]

Wehle has written two books and serves as a media legal analyst at CBS.[8] Kim began her career in legal journalism unexpectedly. In 2017, she came across a news article that referred to the President’s pardon power under the Constitution as “absolute.” This statement prompted her to write her first op-ed, which appeared in The Baltimore Sun, to underscore the foundational notion that most of the Constitution is not black and white, but grey, and that even the pardon power is subject to checks and balances.[9] From there, she began writing with greater frequency on issues of constitutional and legal significance for various journalistic outlets, including The Hill[10][11], The Bullwark[12], and, later, The LA Times[13], The Atlantic, and Politico. Based on Kim’s written work, she was invited to make media appearances on radio, podcasts, and TV. She appeared regularly as a guest on BBC[14], CNN, MSNBC, NPR[1][15][16], and Fox News, before joining CBS News as a Legal Analyst. During the Impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, she provided in depth legal analysis for CBS.

Works
  • How to Read the Constitution--and Why, New York, NY : Harper, 2019. ISBN 9780062914361, OCLC 1051078589[17][17]
  • What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why, New York, NY : Harper, 2020. ISBN 9780062974785,[18]

References
  1. "Professor of Law: Kimberly Wehle", University of Baltimore.
  2. "Prof. Wehle on What Michael Flynn’s Cooperation with the Mueller Team Might Say About the Larger Investigation", University of Baltimore School of Law, December 5, 2018.
  3. "Kimberly Wehle", The Hill.
  4. "Could Trump attorney Michael Cohen face criminal charges for Stormy Daniels payment?", CBS This Morning, March 27, 2018.
  5. Kim Wehle, How to Read the Constitution--and Why, HarperCollins.
  6. "Buffalo Seminary’s Poetry Through the Years".
  7. Kimberly N. Brown, "Justiciable Generalized Grievances” May 21, 2009, abstract.
  8. "How to Read the Constitution—and Why – Kim Wehle – Hardcover". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher.
  9. Kimberly L. Wehle, "Pardon power is not absolute", Baltimore Sun, August 28, 2017.
  10. "What To Expect From The Mueller Report". NPR.org.
  11. Stanage, Niall (February 4, 2019). "Juan Williams: Mueller report must not be whitewashed". TheHill.
  12. "Kim Wehle, Author at The Bulwark". The Bulwark.
  13. Kim Wehle, "Are Democrats overstepping by investigating all things Trump? Just ask William Barr", Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2019.
  14. "Beyond 100 Days", BBC News, December 17, 2018 (archived).
  15. Miles Parks, "Cohen, Trump Push To Decide What's Protected By Attorney-Client Privilege", NPR, April 16, 2018.
  16. "Law Professor Analyzes Details Flynn Provided To Russia Probe", Morning Edition, NPR, December 5, 2018.
  17. "'A Lot Of Gray Area': A Legal Expert Explains 'How To Read The Constitution'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  18. "What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why". harpercollins.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
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