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McGuinn Hall Room 226
Telephone: 617-552-1896
Email: shep.melnick@bc.edu
Courts; Public Policy
M 4:30-6 pm, W 2-3 pm
R. Shep Melnick is the Thomas P. O鈥橬eill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government.聽 He is the author of The Transformation of Title IX:聽 Regulating Gender Equality in Education, (Brookings, 2018), Between the Lines:聽 Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings,1994), and Regulation and the Courts:聽 The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983), as well as many articles on courts, agencies, and public policy. He is currently completing a book on education and the civil rights state.聽 In 2012 he received the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section鈥檚 鈥淟asting Contribution鈥 award.聽 He received his BA and PhD from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to Boston College.聽 He has also been a Research Associate at Brookings, President of the New England Political Science Association, and an elected member of the NH House of Representatives.
The Transformation of Title IX:聽 Regulating Gender Equality in Education聽(Brookings, 2018)
Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Morton Keller (Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge Press, 1999)
Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings, 1994)
Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983)
鈥淒esegregation, Then and Now,鈥 National Affairs, Winter, 2020
鈥淎nalyzing the Department of Education鈥檚 final Title IX rules on sexual misconduct,鈥 Brookings Report, June 11, 2020
鈥淭he Title IX Spotlight Shifts from the Campus to the Schoolhouse,鈥 贰诲耻肠补迟颈辞苍听狈别虫迟, May 27, 2020
鈥淭he Mismeasure of 鈥楨nforcement,鈥欌 Education Next Blog, February, 2020
鈥淭he Department of Education鈥檚 Proposed Sexual Harassment Rules:聽 Looking Beyond the Rhetoric,鈥 Brookings Brief, January, 2019
鈥淭he Strange Evolution of Title IX,鈥 National Affairs, Summer, 2018
鈥淩ethinking Federal Regulation of Sexual Harassment:聽 The Need for Debate, not Demagoguery in the Age of Trump,鈥 Education Next, Winter, 2018
鈥淪exual Harassment and the Evolving Civil Rights State,鈥 in Lynda Dodd, ed., The聽Rights Revolution Revisited:聽 Institutional Perspectives on the Private聽Enforcement of Civil Rights in the U.S. (Cambridge, 2018)
鈥淪calia鈥檚 Dilemmas as a Conservative Jurist,鈥 in Paul E. Peterson and Michael W. McConnell, eds., Scalia鈥檚 Constitution:聽 Essays on Law and Education聽(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
鈥淎dversarial Legalism, Civil Rights, and the Exceptional American State,鈥 in Thomas Burke and Jeb Barnes, eds., Varieties of Legal Order:聽 The Politics of Adversarial and Bureaucratic Legalism (Routledge, 2017)
鈥淕ridlock and the Madisonian Constitution,鈥 in Benjamin Wittes and Pietro Nivola, eds., What Would Madison Do?聽 The Father of the Constitution Meets聽Modern American Politics (Brookings, 2015)
鈥漈he Gridlock Illusion,鈥 The Wilson Quarterly (Winter, 2013)
鈥淧olitics as a Vocation: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of James Q. Wilson,鈥 The Forum, vol. 10, #1 (May, 2012)
鈥淭aking Remedies Seriously:聽 Can Courts Control Public Schools?鈥 in Joshua Dunn and Martin West, eds., From Schoolhouse to Courthouse:聽 The Judiciary鈥檚 Role in American Education (Brookings, 2009)
Martin Shapiro鈥 in Thomas Ginsburg and Robert Kagan, eds., Institutions and Public Law (Peter Lang, 2005)
鈥淔rom Tax-and-Spend to Mandate-and-Sue:聽 Liberalism After the Great Society鈥 in Sidney Milkis and Jerome Mileur, eds., The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
聽鈥淐onstitutional Bureaucracy,鈥 in Mark Blitz and William Kristol, eds., Educating聽the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
鈥淪eparation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights:聽 The Expansion of Special Education,鈥 in Landy and Levin, eds., The New Politics of Public Policy聽(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)
鈥淎dministrative Law and Bureaucratic Reality,鈥 Administrative Law Review聽(Summer, 1992)
聽鈥淧ollution Deadlines and The Coalition for Failure,鈥 The Public Interest, (Spring, 1984); reprinted with a new epilogue in Environmental Politics:聽 Public
Costs, Private Rewards, Greve and Smith, eds., (Praeger, 1992)
鈥淭he Courts, Congress, and Programmatic Rights,鈥 in Remaking American聽Politics, Milkis and Harris, eds. (Westview, 1989)