University of Southern California

Faculty

Howard Gillman

Professor of Political Science, History and Law

Contact Information
E-mail: gillman@dornsife.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-8861
Office: VKC 327

LINKS
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Biographical Sketch

Howard Gillman is a Professor of Political Science, History and Law at the University of Southern California. From 2007-2012 he served as Dean of the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the largest, oldest, and most diverse academic unit on USC's University Park Campus, comprising 33 academic departments, dozens of research centers and institutes, 7000 undergraduates, 1300 Ph.D. students, and nearly 800 faculty members with expertise across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  Notable accomplishments include fundraising of approximately $450 million over five years and a central role securing a $200 million naming gift of unrestricted endowment, the largest single gift in the history of USC and the largest naming gift in the history of higher education for a research university's college of letters, arts and sciences.  As Dean he was credited with promoting innovation in academic programs, securing yearly increases in external funding for research, recruiting over 100 new faculty, making diversity an institutional priority, developing a new funding model for Ph.D. programs, and expanding undergraduate opportunities to conduct research, study overseas, and engage in service learning (see dornsife.usc.edu/proclamation-howard-gillman).  He previously held positions as Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement and Chair of the Department of Political Science.

Gillman's scholarship focuses on American constitutional law, politics, history and theory. He is the author of The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (Duke, 1993) and The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election (Chicago, 2001), as well as a number of edited volumes on "new institutionalist" approaches to the study of judicial politics.  Most recently he has published (with co-authors Mark Graber and Keith Whittington) American Constitutionalism: Volume I Separation of Powers (Oxford University Press, 2013) (773pp) and American Constitutionalism:  Volume II Rights and Liberties (Oxford University Press, 2014) (1086pp).  In addition to his books he has over 30 other publications, including articles in leading journals such as The American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, and Law and Society Review, as well as more than 40 conference papers and meeting presentations.  He has received a number of awards for his scholarly contributions, including the C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book in the field of public law and the American Judicature Society Award for best paper presented at a regional or national conference (both presented by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association). He was elected Chair of APSA's Law and Courts Section in 2006, and in 2012 received the Law and Courts Service Award for exceptional service.

He has received numerous awards for teaching and dedication to students, including USC College's General Education Teaching Award and USC's highest award for career achievement, the Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Education

  • Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/1988
  • M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 12/1981
  • B.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/1980

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
  • Professor of Political Science, History, and Law (Law by courtesy), University of Southern California, 2012-  
  • Professor of Political Science, History, and Law (History and Law by courtesy), University of Southern California, 2002-2012  
  • Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California, 1995-2002  
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California, 1990-1995  
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1989-1990   
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, 1988-1989  
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 1986-1988  

Publications

Book
  • Gillman, H., Graber, M. A., Whittington, K. E. (2014). American Constitutionalism: Vol II Rights and Liberties. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gillman, H., Graber, M. A., Whittington, K. E. (2013). American Constitutionalism: Vol I Structures of Government. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gillman, H. (2001). The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. University of Chicago Press.
  • Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • Gillman, H. (1993). The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Book Chapter
  • Gillman, H. (2008). Courts and the Politics of Partisan Coalitions. The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics pp. 644-658. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gillman, H. (2006). Party Politics and Constitutional Change: The Political Origins of Liberal Judicial Activism. The Supreme Court and American Political Developme pp. 138-168. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • Gillman, H. (2005). The Waite Court, 1874-1888: The Collapse of Reconstruction and the Transition to Conservative Constitutionalism. pp. p.124-146. Boston and New York: The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice/Houghton Mifflin.
  • Gillman, H. (2004). Constitutional Law as Hardball Politics: Bush v. Gore (2000). pp. p.49-63. Creating Constitutional Change: Clashes over Power and Liberty in the Supreme Court/University of Virginia Press.
  • Gillman, H. (2003). Robert G. McCloskey, Historical Institutionalism, and the Arts of Judicial Governance. Pioneers of Public Law pp. 336-360. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Gillman, H. (1999). Reconnecting the Modern Supreme Court to the Historical Evolution of American Capitalism. pp. p.235-256. Lawrence, KS: The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Institutionalist Interpretations/University Press of Kansas.
  • Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Introduction. The Supreme Court in American Politics: New Insti pp. 1-12. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • Gillman, H. (1999). The Court is an Idea, Not a Building (or a Game): Interpretive Institutionalism and the Analysis of Supreme Court Decision-Making. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionali pp. 65-87. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gillman, H., Clayton, C. W. (1999). Beyond Judicial Attitudes: Institutional Approaches to Supreme Court Decision-Making. (Vol. Institutional Approaches to Supreme Court Decision). pp. 1-12. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Journal Article
  • Gillman, H. (2006). Regime Politics, Jurisprudential Regimes, and Unumerated Rights. University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Vol. 9 (1), pp. 107-119.
  • Gillman, H. (2005). Disaster Relief, ‘Do Anything’ Spending Powers, and the New Deal. Law and History Review/University of Illinois Press. Vol. 23, pp. 443-450.
  • Gillman, H. (2005). First Amendment Doctrine as Regime Politics. The Good Society/Penn State University Press. Vol. 14
  • Gillman, H. (2005). De-Lochnerizing Lochner. Boston University Law Review/Boston University School of Law. Vol. 85, pp. 859-865.
  • Gillman, H. (2004). Martin Shapiro and the New Institutionalism in Judicial Behavior Studies. Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 7, pp. 363-382.
  • Gillman, H. (2003). Judicial Independence Through the Lens of Bush v. Gore: Four Lessons from Political Science. Ohio State Law Journal. Vol. 64, pp. 249.
  • Gillman, H. (2002). How Political Parties Can Use the Courts to Advance Their Agendas: Federal Courts in the United States, 1875-1891. American Political Science Review. Vol. 96, pp. 511-524.
  • Gillman, H. (2001). What’s Law Got to Do With It? Judicial Behavioralists Test the ‘Legal Model’ of Judicial Decision Making. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. Vol. 26, pp. 465-504.
  • Gillman, H. (1998). From Fundamental Law to Constitutional Politics -- and Back. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. pp. 185-202.
  • Gillman, H. (1997). The Collapse of Constitutional Originalism and the Rise of the Notion of the ‘Living Constitution’ in the Course of American State-Building. Studies in American Political Development/Cambridge University Press. Vol. 11, pp. 191-247.
  • Gillman, H. (1996). The Antinomy of Public Purposes and Private Rights in the American Constitutional Tradition, or Why Communitarianism is Not Necessarily Exogenous to Liberal Constitutionalism. Law and Social Inquiry/University of Chicago Press. Vol. 21, pp. 67-77.
  • Gillman, H. (1996). More on the Origins of the Fuller Court’s Jurisprudence: The Scope of Federal Power Over Commerce and Manufacturing in Nineteenth-Century Constitutional Law. Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 49, pp. 415-437.
  • Gillman, H. (1994). Preferred Freedoms: The Progressive Expansion of State Power and the Rise of Modern Civil Liberties Jurisprudence. Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 47, pp. 623-653.
  • Gillman, H. (1994). The Struggle Over Marshall and the Politics of Constitutional History. Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 47, pp. 877-887.
  • Gillman, H. (1994). On Constructing a Science of Comparative Judicial Politics: Comment on Tate and Haynie’s ‘Authoritarianism and the Functions of Courts. Law and Society Review. Vol. 28, pp. 901-922.
  • Gillman, H. (1989). The Constitution Besieged: TR, Taft, and Wilson on the Virtue and Efficacy of a Faction-Free Republic. Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol. 19, pp. 179-201.


Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Faculty Fellow, USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-  
  • Law and Courts Service Award, presented by APSA's Law and Courts Section, 2012  
  • USC Endowed Chair, Anna Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 6/1/2007-6/30/2012  
  • Enlund Distinguished Scholar in Residence (DePaul Univ. School of Law), 2006  
  • USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, 2001  
  • Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, American Judicature Society Award for Best Paper on Public Law, 2001  
  • USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, College of Letters and Science, 2001  
  • USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, 1999-2000  
  • Hewlett Grant for Innovative Course Development, 1995  
  • Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in Public Law, 1994  
  • USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, Faculty Award for Outstanding Classroom Teaching and Dedication to Students, 1992-1994  
  • Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the Western Political Science Association, 1992  
  • Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the Western Political Science Association, 1988  

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
  • Dean, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2007-2012  
  • Associate Vice Provost for Research Advancement, 2005-2007  
  • Chair, Department of Political Science, 2004-2005  

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Editorial Policy Board Member, Political Research Quarterly, 2006-  
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Society Review, 2007-2009  
  • Co-editor (with Maeva Marcus, Mark Tushnet, Melvin Urofsky), Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution, 2006-2007  
  • Editorial Board Member, Law and Courts, 1998-2005  
  • Editorial Board Member, Law and Social Inquiry, 2000-2001  
  • Editorial Policy Board, Political Research Quarterly, 1993-1996  
Professional Offices
  • Elected Chair, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Ass'n, 2007-2008  
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Law and Society Association, 2005-2008  
  • Member, Executive Committee, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Ass'n, 2003-2006  
  • Creator/Moderator, The Law and Courts Discussion List (lawcourts-l), Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Ass'n, 1996-2006  
Professional Memberships
  • American Historical Association, 2012-  
  • USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, 1999-  
  • American Political Science Association, 1986-  
  • Western Political Science Association, 1985-  
  • American Society for Legal History, 1995-2006  
  • Law and Society Association, 1988-2006  


Faculty may update their profile by logging into the Dornsife portal from a computer on campus or off-campus via a VPN connection.