Richard Primus

Richard Abraham Primus (born 1969) is an American legal scholar. He currently teaches United States constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation.[2]

Richard A. Primus
Born1969 (age 50–51)
NationalityUnited States
Alma materYale Law School (J.D.)
Balliol College, Oxford (D.Phil.)
Harvard College (A.B., Social Studies, 1992) [1]
Spouse(s)
Eve Lynn Brensike
(
m. 2007)
Scientific career
FieldsConstitutional law
InstitutionsMichigan Law School

Education and career

Primus graduated from Harvard College with an A.B., summa cum laude, in social studies. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and the Jowett Senior Scholar. After studying law at Yale Law School, Primus clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[3]

Primus then practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block before joining the Michigan Law School faculty in 2001. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Tokyo. Primus currently teaches Introduction to Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory at the University of Michigan.

His maternal grandfather, Sigmund Strochlitz (1916–2006), was a Holocaust survivor and confidant of Elie Wiesel.[4] Primus has been married to Eve Brensike, who is also a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, since 2007.[5]

References
  1. Official bio at The University of Michigan Law School
  2. "Richard Primus". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. "Primus, Richard". University of Michigan Law School. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  4. Martin, Douglas (October 21, 2006). "Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Leader in Holocaust Causes, Dies". The New York Times. p. B7.
  5. "Eve Brensike, Richard Primus". New York Times. May 6, 2007. p. ST21.


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