Amanda Frost
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Room 476
Phone: 202-274-4046
E-mail: afrost@wcl.american.edu
Amanda Frost joined the faculty of WCL in 2004. She specializes in the federal court system and federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, statutory interpretation, and transparency in government. Prior to coming to WCL, Professor Frost was a staff attorney for Public Citizen, where she litigated cases in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Frost clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and she has worked on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the Fall of 2007, Professor Frost was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- The Federal Court System and Federal Jurisdiction
- Civil Procedure
- Statutory Interpretation
Degrees & Universities
- A.B., Harvard College
- J.D., Harvard Law School
Selected Publications
- Amanda Frost, Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty, 96 Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010).
- Amanda Frost, The Limits of Advocacy, 59 Duke L.J. 101 (2009).
- Amanda Frost, Overvaluing Uniformity, 94 Va. L. Rev. 1567 (2008). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, Certifying Questions to Congress, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2007). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1931 (2007). SSRN Link
- Amanda Frost, Keeping Up Appearances: A Process-Oriented Approach to Judicial Recusals, 53 Kan. L. Rev. 531 (2005). SSRN Link
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More Publications...
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- Amanda Frost, Only a Partial Win, Op-Ed Natl. L.J. (June 15, 2009).
- Amanda Frost & Justin Florence, Reforming the State Secrets Privilege, 3 Advance 111 (Spring 2009).
- Amanda Frost, One Dollar for Every West Virginian: The Crazy Judicial Corruption Case that the Supreme Court Should Hear, Slate (Oct. 10, 2008).
- Amanda Frost, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union, 9 Eur. Pub. L. 87 (Mar. 2003).
- Amanda Frost, Judicial Review of FDA Preemption Determinations, 54 Food & Drug L.J. 367 (1999).
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Selected Presentations
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, Competing Judicial Philosophies (Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers, Wash., D.C., June 26, 2009).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Limits of Advocacy (University of of Texas Law School’s Faculty Workshop, Austin, Tex., Apr. 17, 2009).
- Amanda Frost, Panelist, Judicial Elections and Due Process (American Constitution Society, Feb. 26, 2009).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Limits of Advocacy (Notre Dame Law School’s Faculty Workshop, South Bend, Ind., Nov. 14, 2008).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Limits of Advocacy (University of Georgia Law School’s Faculty Workshop, Athens, Ga., Oct. 20, 2008).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, Overvaluing Uniformity (Harvard Law School’s faculty workshop, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 6, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, Overvaluing Uniformity (Boston University Law School’s Faculty Workshop, Bos., Mass., Oct. 25, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Panel Moderator, Press Briefing on the Supreme Court Case Davenport v. Washington Education Association (American Constitution Society, D.C., Jan. 4, 2007).
- Amanda Frost, Testimony, Senate Hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court Nomination (Wash., D.C., Jan. 21, 2006).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Federal Advisory Commitee Act: The Public Interest Perspective, the Federal Advisory Committee Act Training (Government Services Administration, Wash., D.C., June & Aug. 2001-04).
- Amanda Frost, Presentation, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union (“Colloque sur Gouvernance et Identités en Europe,” Sponsored by the Sorbonne, Universite Paris I., Paris, Fr., Dec. 2001).
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Selected Media Appearances