Doug joined the Colorado College faculty in 2018. He holds a PhD from Oxford University, a JD from Cornell Law School, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Hobart College. His teaching and research focus on the courts and the judicial process, constitutional and comparative law, legal and constitutional theory, and the politics of race in the United States. He is the author of Common Law Judging (University of Michigan Press, 2016) and Judges and Unjust Laws (University of Michigan Press, 2008), and the editor of Common Law Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2007). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Polity, Jurisprudence, and other journals. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Queen Mary University of London, a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, and a Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School’s Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
