Curriculum Vita
Michael M. Uhlmann
Department of Politics and Policy
School of Politics and Economics
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-8210
Michael.Uhlmann@cgu.edu
Education and Academic Honors
B.A. (History), Yale University, 1962.
LL.B., University of Virginia Law School, 1966.
Ph.D. (Government), Claremont Graduate School, 1978 (with distinction).
H.B. Earhart Fellow, 1966-68.
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1968-70.
Henry Salvatori Research Fellow, 1968-70.
Career Highlights
Variously visiting professor and research professor, Claremont Graduate University and adjunct
professor, Claremont McKenna College.
Vice-President for Public Policy Research, subsequently Senior Vice-President, The Lynde and Harry
Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, WI, 1998-2003.
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C., 1994-98.
Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, by appointment of President George
H.W. Bush, 1988-89.
Associate Counsel, Office of the Presidential Transition and Chair, Department of Justice Transition
Team, Winter 1988-89.
Partner, Pepper, Hamilton, & Scheetz, Washington, D.C., 1984-93, Of Counsel, 1993-96.
Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, Executive Secretary to the Cabinet for Legal Policy, &
Associate Director of the White House Office of Policy Development, 1981-84.
Director of Legal and Administrative Policy, Office of the Presidential Transition, and Policy Director,
Department of Justice Transition Team, Winter 1980-81.
President, National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., 1978-80.
Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1977-78.
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, by appointment of
President Gerald Ford, 1975-77.
Assistant General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, 1974-75.
Legislative Cou7nsel and Staff Director, Office of Senator James L. Buckley of New York, 1971-74.
Chief Minority Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity,
1970-71.
Selected Professional Activities:
Received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2003-2006 to direct summer
workshops for teachers of American history and government. The first four workshops, attended by more
than 200 teachers, featured a cross-disciplinary study of the architecture of the Constitution and the
architecture of the Nation’s Capital. At the invitation of the NEH, applied for and received a grant for
Summer 2008 to conduct a two-week seminar on the Constitution’s war powers for advanced teachers.
Have been invited to reapply for 2009.
Co-director and lecturer, Seminar in Constitutional Law, an annual four-day program for federal and state
judges, 1995-2002.
Guest lecturer at more than 70 colleges, law schools, and universities. Appearances in the past few years
include Amherst College (2006), University of Kansas Law School (2006), University of Minnesota Law
School (2006), St. Thomas Law School (2006), and Bowdoin College (2005).
Trustee, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa, 1990-present.
Director, Revere Copper Products, Inc., 1988-present.
Director, The Philadelphia Trust Company, 2002-present.
Recent Publications:
“Taming Big Government,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2007. [Assessment of the impact of
Woodrow Wilson’s constitutional ideas on liberal and conservative thought. A sequel, dealing with
constitutional war powers, will appear in the Spring 2008 issue.]
“A Tell-All with Nothing to Tell,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2007. [Review essay on Damon
Linker’s Theocons.]
“The Supreme Court v. The United States of America,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006.
[Review essay on Johnathan O’Neill’s Originalism in American Law and Politics and Stephen Breyer’s
Active Liberty.]
“The Supreme Court Rules, 2005,” First Things, October 2005. [Review of the October 2004 Term of
Court.]
“Administrative Agencies,” entry in The Heritage Encyclopedia of the Constitution (Washington, D.C.
2005).
“William F. Buckley and the American Conservative Movement,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer
2005.
“The Old (Electoral) College Cheer,” National Review, Nov. 8, 2004.
“The Supreme Court Rules, 2004,” First Things, October 2004. [Review of the October 2003 Term of
Court.]
“The Road Not Taken: Brown v. Board at 50,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2004. [Assessment
of Justice Robert H. Jackson’s unpublished draft opinion in Brown.]
“Great Learning Lightly Borne,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004. [Review essay on the work of
political scientist Francis Canavan.]
“The Supreme Court Rules, 2003,” First Things, October 2003. [Review of the October 2002 Term of
Court.]
“The Use and Abuse of Just-War Theory,” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2003.
“Hail to the Chief: Reflections on John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court,“ Claremont
Review of Books, Fall 2002.
“Federalism and Election Reform,” Texas Review of Law and Politics (Summer 2002).
“The Darwinian Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2001.
“The Electoral College and the Future of American Political Parties,“ in Gary L. Gregg, ed., Securing
Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College (ISI Books, 2001).
The Electoral College: Proven Constitutional Pillar of Freedom (Claremont Institute, 2001).
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