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Prior to joining the John Marshall faculty, Samuel Olken practiced business law with a small Boston law firm. He also served as a litigation associate with large firms in Los Angeles and New Jersey.
Professor Olken's primary research interests are constitutional history and judicial biography. He has written articles about Chief Justices John Marshall and Charles Evans Hughes, and most recently, Associate Justice George Sutherland. In addition, Professor Olken has written extensively about the New Deal Court, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economic regulation, judicial review, and the First Amendment.
In 1991, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded him its prestigious Hughes-Gossett Prize for outstanding historical scholarship. Professor Olken was the chair of the "Symposium on Chief Justice John Marshall and the United States Supreme Court: 1801-1835," hosted April 2000 by the law school. He was chair of the fall 2003 symposium, "Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review: Legitimacy, Tyranny, and Democracy."
Professor Olken joined the faculty in 1989. He teaches American Legal History, Constitutional Law I and II, and Lawyering Skills.
Full Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Chief Justice John Marshall and the American Supreme Court, in Liberte e Liberdade: Judges and Justice in Brazil and the United States of America (M. Sellers, P. Messitte, E.G. Northfleet eds.) (forthcoming).
Justice Sutherland Reconsidered, 62 Vand. L. Rev.639, 2009 (forthcoming).
"Pierce Butler" essay in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, (Roger K. Newman ed.), Yale University Press (forthcoming).
"Willis Van Devanter" essay in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, (Roger K. Newman ed.), Yale University Press (forthcoming).
"Spencer Roane" essay in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, (Roger K. Newman ed.), Yale University (forthcoming).
"Pierce Butler" essay in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, (Paul Finkelman ed.), 2006
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Professional Memberships
Bar Admission, Massachusetts (1987)
United States District Court (Massachusetts) (1988)
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit (1988)
American Bar Association
American Society for Legal History
The Supreme Court Historical Society
Society for American Baseball Research
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