Michael C. Tolley

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

311 Meserve Hall
(617) 373-2780
(617) 373-5311 (fax)
m.tolley@neu.edu

Areas of Study

Public Law, Judicial Process, Comparative Constitutionalism, American Politics

Freedom, Rule of Law, and Democracy in the United States and Britain Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing (forthcoming)
American Government: Conflict, Compromise and Citizenship. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000 (with Christopher J. Bosso and John H.Portz)
"Judicial Review of Agency Interpretation of Statutes: Deference Doctrines in Comparative Perspective." Policy Studies Journal, 31 (2003)
"Legal Controversies over Federal Judicial Selection in the United States: Breaking the Cycle of Obstruction and Retribution over Judicial Appointments," in Malleson and Russell's Judicial Selection Around the World. University of Toronto Press (Forthcoming)
Freedom, Rule of Law, and Democracy in the United States and Britain. (Forthcoming)
Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1995 (with David R. Owen)
State Constitutionalism in Maryland. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992
"Coercive Federalism and the Search for Constitutional Limits." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 25 (1995) (with Bruce A. Wallin)
"The Impact of Form on Substance: Court Reform and the Work of the Maryland Court of Appeals." Justice System Journal 15 (1992)
"Maryland and Its Anglo-Legal Inheritance." Journal of Legal History 11 (1990)

Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1996-1997
European Law Prize, United Kingdom Association for European Law, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, "Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," Notre Dame Law School, 1993
Young Scholar's Award, International Political Science Association, 1989

Spring 2009

Fall 2008

POL U505 U.S. Civil Liberties

POL G310 Administrative Law and Politics

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Fall 2006

Fall 2005