Sonu Bedi

Assistant Professor

M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Yale University
J.D., Harvard Law School
A.B., A.M., Brown University

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Books

• Rejecting Rights. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009)
• Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen. (New York: New York University Press 2007) (co-editor)

Articles

• “Expressive Exclusion: A Defense,” in Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 7(4), 2010 (lead article)
• "How Constitutional Law Rationalizes Racism,” in Polity, Vol. 42, 2010
• “What is so Special About Religion? The Dilemma of the Religious Exemption,” in Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 15, 2007
• “Repudiating Morals Legislation: Rendering the Constitutional Right to Privacy Obsolete,” in Cleveland State Law Review, 53 (3) (2006)

Other Publications

• Book Review. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2010). Human Rights and Their Limits (by Wiktor Osiatynski) (Cambridge University Press: 2009).
• Book Review. Law and Politics Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2010). The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism (eds., Katuz, Melzer, Weinberger, and Zinman) (University of Pennsylvania Press: 2009).
• “Judicial Activism” and “Judicial Restraint,” Entries for the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (CQ Press, forthcoming).

Research Interests

• Political Theory
• Law
• Jurisprudence

Teaches

• The Supreme Court and Constitutional Development (66)
• Civil Liberties and Individual Rights in the United States (67)
• Contemporary Readings in Justice (86.18)