{{short description|American law professor and blogger|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Ann Althouse | image = Ann Althouse 2005.jpg | caption = Althouse in 2005 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|1|12}} | birth_place = Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = University of Michigan (BFA)<br>New York University (JD) | employer = University of Wisconsin–Madison | occupation = Retired law professor, blogger, author | title = Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = {{url|althouse.blogspot.com}} | footnotes = }}
'''Ann Althouse''' (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger.
==Early life and education== Althouse was raised in Newark and Wilmington, Delaware (and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey). She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in 1973 and graduated first in her class from the New York University School of Law with a J.D. in 1981.<ref>[http://law.wisc.edu/webshare/02J6/v32n2.pdf The Bloggable Life of Professor Ann Althouse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708143330/http://law.wisc.edu/webshare/02J6/v32n2.pdf |date=2007-07-08 }}, UW Gargoyle Magazine, Winter 2007, pp.28–30</ref>
==Legal career== Althouse clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York and practiced law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. From 1984 to 2016, Althouse taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was tenured from 1989 until her retirement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/09/lawprofs-opposed-to-john-roberts.html|title=Lawprofs opposed to John Roberts.|first=Ann|last=Althouse|date=Sep 2, 2005|accessdate=Oct 9, 2019}}</ref> She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal courts scholarship,<ref>Ernest Young, ''Institutional Settlement in a Globalizing Judicial System'', 54 Duke L. J. 1143, 1149 n.18 and accompanying text (2005).</ref> she has written extensively on federalism (her central thesis being the normative value of federalism in protecting individual rights), sovereign immunity and other legal issues. She was the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
==Blog== Since 2004, she has written an eponymous blog, posting photographs and commentary on law, politics, and popular culture.
==Political views== Althouse has said that she is pro-choice and opposes overruling ''Roe v. Wade'',<ref>''See, e.g.,'' Ann Althouse, ''Stepping Out of Professor Fallon's Puzzle Box: A Response to 'If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World''', 51 St. Louis U. L. Rev. __ (2007).</ref> but has said that she "do[es] in fact think abortion is wrong. I think most Americans agree with me and think it's wrong, but not the role of government to police."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/04/for-me-i-had-abortion-should-be-as.html|title=For me, 'I had an abortion' should be as morally loaded as 'I had a Pap smear.'|first=Ann|last=Althouse|date=Apr 4, 2008|accessdate=Oct 9, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/02/suing-your-own-abortionist-for-making.html|title=Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child.|first=Ann|last=Althouse|date=Feb 5, 2009|accessdate=Oct 9, 2019}}</ref>
Althouse voted for George W. Bush in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008.<ref name=nyt/> In January 2009, remarking about Obama, she wrote: "He really is a solid, normal person who remained grounded in the middle of all this craziness. And I like to think that, now that he's President, with his steely nerve, his intelligence, and his groundedness, he'll do the job that must be done. The trickery is over."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-was-i-going-to-photograph-one-man.html|title=How was I going to photograph one man, in a suit, for many years to come?|first=Ann|last=Althouse|date=Jan 22, 2009|accessdate=Oct 9, 2019}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2009, Althouse announced her engagement to Laurence Meade, a commenter she had met through the blog. The story attracted coverage in the blogosphere and in ''The New York Times''.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/fashion/05althouse.html | work=The New York Times | title=Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version | first=Jan | last=Hoffman | date=April 5, 2009}}</ref> Althouse and Meade were married in August 2009.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-happened-on-bellyache-ridge.html|title=What Happened On Bellyache Ridge|date=4 August 2009 }}</ref> It is Althouse's second marriage; she has two adult sons from her first marriage to Richard Cohen.<ref name=nyt/>
==Selected works== *''The Use of Conspiracy Theory to Establish In Personam Jurisdiction: a Due Process Analysis'', 52 Fordham L. Rev. 234 (1983) *''How to Build a Separate Sphere: Federal Courts and State Power'', 100 Harv. L. Rev. 1485 (1987) *''The Misguided Search for State Interest in Abstention Cases: Observations on the Occasion of Pennzoil v. Texaco'', 63 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1051 (1988) *''When to Believe a Legal Fiction: Federal Interests and the Eleventh Amendment'', 40 Hastings L.J. 1123 (1989) *''The Humble and the Treasonous: Judge-Made Jurisdiction Law'', 40 Case W. Res. L.Rev. 1035 (1990). *''Standing, in Fluffy Slippers'', 77 Va. L. Rev. 1177 (1991) *''Saying What Rights Are – In and Out of Context'', 1991 Wis. L. Rev. 929 (1991) *''Tapping the State Court Resource'', 44 Vand. L. Rev. 953 (1991) *''Beyond King Solomon's Harlots: Women in Evidence'', 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1265 (1992) *''Thelma & Louisa and the Law: Do Rape Shield Rules Matter''? 25 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 757 (1992) *''Variations on a Theory of Normative Federalism: a Supreme Court Dialogue'', 42 Duke L.J. 979 (1993) *''Who's to Blame for Law Reviews?'', 70 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 81 (1994) *''The Lying Woman, The Devious Prostitute, and Other Stories from the Evidence Casebook'', 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 914 (1994). *''Time For the Federal Courts to Enforce the Guarantee Clause? A Response to Professor Chemerinsky'', 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 881 (1994) *''Federalism, Untamed'', 47 Vand. L. Rev. 1207 (1994) *''Late Night Confessions in the Hart & Wechsler Hotel'', 47 Vand. L. Rev. 993 (1994) *''Federal Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Federal Rights: Can Congress Bring Back the Warren Era?'' 20 Law & Social Inquiry 1067 (1995). *''Enforcing Federalism after United States v. Lopez'', 38 Arizona L. Rev. 793 (1996) *''The Alden Trilogy: Still Searching for a Way to Enforce Federalism'', 31 Rutgers L.J. 631 (2000) *''On Dignity and Deference: The Supreme Court's New Federalism'', 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 245 (2000) *''Inside the Federalism Case'', 574 Annals of the Am. Acad. 132 (2001) *''Why Talking about States Rights Cannot Avoid the Need for Normative Federalism Analysis'', 51 Duke L. J. 363 (2001) *''Electoral College Reform: Deja Vu'', 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 993 (2001) *''The Authoritative Lawsaying Power of the State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court: Conflicts of Judicial Orthodoxy in the Bush-Gore Litigation'', 61 Md. L. Rev. 508 (2002) *''The Vigor of the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine in Times of Terror'', 69 Brook. L. Rev. 1231 (2004) *''Vanguard States, Laggard States: Federalism and Constitutional Rights'', 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1745 (2004) *''Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Search for Judicially Enforceable Federalism'', 10 Tex. Rev. of L & Pol. 275 (2006)
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==External links== * [http://althouse.blogspot.com Althouse's blog] * [http://law.wisc.edu/profiles/althouse@wisc.edu Althouse University of Wisconsin–Madison Biography] * [http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2004/11/the_normblog_pr_4.html The Normblog profile] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023651/http://www.wuwm.com/view_le.php?articleid=148 Radio interview] * [http://bloggingheads.tv/?s=althouse Video discussions/debates featuring Althouse] on Bloggingheads.tv
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