Lynda Dodd
Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 387
Phone: 202-274-4431
E-mail: ldodd@wcl.american.edu
Lynda Dodd joined the WCL faculty in September of 2005. She teaches and specializes in constitutional law and theory, civil rights litigation, and jurisprudence. Professor Dodd received her JD from Yale Law School in 2000, and completed her PhD in Politics at Princeton University in 2004. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the history of Sec. 1983, from its origins in the Civil Rights Act of 1871 to the contemporary era, with a special focus on the political debates regarding civil rights enforcement strategies. Her most recent research is entitled, “DeShaney v. Winnebago County: Governmental Neglect and the “Blessings of Liberty,” in Civil Rights Stories, Myriam Gilles & Risa Goluboff, editors (forthcoming, Foundation Press).
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Constitutional Law and Theory
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Law and the Political Process
- American Political Development
Degrees & Universities
- Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University 2004
- J.D., Yale University School of Law 2000
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Selected Publications- Lynda Dodd, Implementing the Rule of Law: The Role of Citizen-Plaintiffs, The Good Society: A PEGS Journal (Fall 2004).
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Selected Works in Progress
- Lynda Dodd To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: The History and Politics of Constitutional Torts Litigation ( forthcoming) ().
- Lynda Dodd Deshaney v. Winnebago County & the Lost Promise of Progressive Constitutionalism ( forthcoming) ().
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Selected Presentations
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, Progressive Liberalism and the ‘Culture Gap’: A Roundtable on the Future of the Democratic Party (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Aug. 2005).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, Regime Politics and the Supreme Court: New Institutionalist Perspectives (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Aug. 2005).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, Constitutional Torts in the (Western Political Science Association, Mar. 2005).
- Lynda Dodd, Speech, Implementing the Rule of Law: The Role of Citizen-Plaintiffs (Conference on Democracy and the Rule of Law, sponsored by Democracy of Collaborative at the University of Maryland, June 2004).
- Lynda Dodd, Speech, Constitutional Torts in the Forgotten Years (Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Mar. 2004).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, The Constitution of the Welfare State (Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 2002).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, Courts and Policy (Annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 2001).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, The State Action Doctrine: An Indispensable Element of Liberal Constitutionalism? (Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Apr. 200).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, The Politics of Constitutional Interpretation (Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Mar. 2001).
- Lynda Dodd, Panelist, Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Affirmative Duties and the Rise of the Positive State (Annual Meeting of the New England Policial Science Assocaition, Mar. 2000).
