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Christopher Shortell, Ph.D.

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Dr. Christopher Shortell
ST 234
(818) 677-7230
christopher.shortell.84@csun.edu

 

Education

• Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2004.

Courses Taught

Selected Publications and Presentations

The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy (University Press of Kansas 2002) with Evan Gerstmann and an article on the institutional stability of the judiciary in Judicature with Charles Anthony Smith.  

Research and Interests

Constitutional law, the interaction between law and society, and federalism.