Jesse H. Choper
Prof. Jesse H. Choper
Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, University of California School of Law
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/jesse-choper
Jesse Choper served as law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court following graduation from law school. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1960, and at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1961 to 1965. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1965. Choper has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, University of Milan, Free University in Amsterdam, Autonoma University in Barcelona, University of New South Wales in Sydney, University of Lucerne in Switzerland, and Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon and Porto. He served as Boalt Hall's dean from 1982 to 1992.
From 1979 to 1998, Choper was one of the three major lecturers at U.S. Law Week's Annual Constitutional Law Conference in Washington, D.C. He has delivered 20 titled lectures at major universities throughout the country, including the Cooley Lectures at Michigan, the Stevens Lecture at Cornell, the Baum Lecture at Illinois, and the Lockhart Lecture at Minnesota. He has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and on the executive council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (of which he has been vice president for the last ten years). He was national president of the Order of the Coif and is a member of the American Law Institute. In 1998 he received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction at Boalt Hall in 2006. In 2005 the Boalt Hall Alumni Association presented Choper with the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Pennsylvania Law School gave him the James Wilson Award, its highest award for alumni.
Choper's major publications include the books, Judicial Review and the National Political Process: A Functional Reconsideration of the Role of the Supreme Court, which received the Order of the Coif Triennial Book Award in 1982, and Securing Religious Liberty: Principles for Judicial Interpretation of the Religion Clauses. His recent publications include the tenth edition of his Constitutional Law casebooks; the seventh edition of hisCorporations casebook; the second edition of The Supreme Court and Its Justices; "The Political Question Doctrine: Suggested Criteria," in Duke Law Journal (2005); "Wartime Process: A Dialogue on Congressional Power to Remove Issues From the Federal Courts," in California Law Review (2007) (co-author); and "Who's Afraid of the Eleventh Amendment? The Limited Impact of the Court's Sovereign Immunity Rulings," inColumbia Law Review (2006) (co-author).
B.S., Wilkes University (1957)
LL.B., University of Pennsylvania (1960)
D.Hu. Litt., Wilkes University (1967)
Tuesday 5:45 p.m.
U.S. Supreme Court Roundup
Sheppard Mullin 4 Embarcadero Center, 17th Floor
Jesse H. Choper • John C. Yoo
San Francisco Lawyers Chapter
Tuesday 12:00 a.m.
Supreme Court Review/Preview
California - Berkeley Student Chapter
Monday 5:30 p.m.
Supreme Court Round-Up and Preview 2014-2015
Gibson Dunn 555 Mission Street, 30th floor
Carlos T. Bea • Jesse H. Choper • John C. Yoo
Supreme Court Review
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Sep 12 2011 Publication
The Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Richard A. Epstein, Jesse H. Choper
Engage Volume 12, Issue 2, September 2011
The topic of the discussion between Professor Jesse Choper and myself is the Commerce Clause...
Sponsors: Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group
Mar 10 2011 Podcast
Debate on Obamacare - Event Audio
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
On March 10, 2011, the California-Berkeley Student Chapter hosted this debate on Obamacare between Prof. Richard Epstein of NYU School...
Sep 12 2008 Video
A Discussion about Judicial Review of Federalism - Event Audio/Video
Randy E. Barnett, Jesse H. Choper, Michael S. Greve
The Future of Federalism
On September 12, 2008, the Federalist Society and the American Enterprise Institute co-sponsored a conference...
Apr 5 2007 Podcast
Is the Military Commissions Act Constitutional? - Event Audio
Jesse H. Choper, John C. Yoo
Congress passed the Act to overrule Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and to divest federal courts of...