{"id":105172,"date":"2023-10-27T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=105172"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:17:50","slug":"examining-executive-power","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/articles\/2023\/examining-executive-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining Executive Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin record-block-editorial-leadin is-style-text-over-image has-media has-box has-media-focus-center-middle has-text-position-x-center has-text-position-y-bottom has-secondary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"The White House\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1101x826.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-909x682.jpg 909w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1761x1321.jpg 1761w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-459x344.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-917x688.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1411x1058.jpg 1411w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1819x1364.jpg 1819w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1333x1000.jpg 1333w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2020\/11\/white-house-david-everett-strickler-unsplash-1600x1200.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Constitutional Law<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExamining Executive Power\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Professor Jed Shugerman leverages legal history expertise to advocate for checks on the executive branch.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar record-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">October 27, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/authors\/kimberly-miragliuolo\/\">Kimberly Miragliuolo<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/jed-handelsman-shugerman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jed Handelsman Shugerman<\/a> realized he wanted to be a law professor and a legal historian soon after starting law school. \u201cI continued to find the historical questions\u2014the social and political context, the legal realist perspective\u2014the most important and interesting,\u201d he shares, \u201cand I discovered that many of the law professors on the faculty were filing historical amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases and writing historical articles with immediate legal significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded alignfarright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman.png\" alt=\"Professor Jed Shugerman\" class=\"wp-image-94715\" width=\"479\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman.png 957w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-636x636.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-828x826.png 828w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-683x682.png 683w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-345x344.png 345w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-530x529.png 530w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-689x688.png 689w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-710x710.png 710w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2022\/09\/Jed_Shugerman-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Shugerman joins Boston University as professor of law and Joseph Lipsitt Scholar. He is coauthor of amicus briefs on the history of presidential power, the Emoluments Clauses, the Appointments Clause, the First Amendment rights of elected judges, and the due process problems of elected judges in death penalty cases. Most recently, Shugerman <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed an amicus brief in <em>SEC v. Jarkesy<\/em><\/a>, focusing on the question of presidential power. He also wrote a series of op-eds and essays about the Trump investigations and impeachments for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>Slate<\/em>, the<em> Atlantic<\/em>, <em>Politico<\/em>, and other publications. Prior to joining BU Law, he taught at Fordham Law School for seven years, one of which was spent as a visiting professor at BU Law. He teaches Torts, Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Statutory Interpretation, and Federal Courts, in addition to re-starting the Clark Legal History Colloquium this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote record-block-bu-pullquote alignwide is-style- has-image-focus-center-middle has-secondary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><figure><\/figure><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">I continued to find the historical questions\u2014the social and political context, the legal realist perspective\u2014the most important and interesting [in law school].<\/div><footer class=\"caption\">Professor and Joseph Lipsitt Scholar Jed Shugerman<\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Shugerman received his BA, JD, and PhD in history from Yale. In between college and law school, he lived in Israel for two years, studying Jewish law and interning with Rabbis for Human Rights, assisting Israeli Arabs and West Bank Palestinians in protecting their property rights. While at Yale Law School, he worked on death penalty cases and \u201cdiscovered that one could be a legal historian doing interesting intellectual work with real-world relevance.\u201d Shugerman continues, \u201cI decided to work on a joint JD\/PhD, and my dissertation research emerged from my death penalty defense work.\u201d Shugerman published his dissertation as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674055483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The People\u2019s Courts<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Harvard University Press 2012), tracing the rise of judicial elections, judicial review, and the influence of money and parties in American courts. &nbsp;This year, he is drawing on that research as an expert assisting the NAACP\u2019s defense of African American voting rights in Jackson, Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shugerman\u2019s upcoming book projects are shaped by his experience with clinical death penalty defense work and prisoners\u2019 rights litigation as a law student and a graduate student. One book, tentatively titled <em>A Faithful President: The Founders vs. the Originalists<\/em>, focuses on the Roberts Court\u2019s \u201cunitary executive theory\u201d\u2014the theory that the president has unconditional powers beyond the checks and balances of the other branches\u2014as a case study of originalism overreach. Drawing on new historical evidence and re-interpretations of misunderstood evidence, he puts the presidency in the context of fiduciary duties of good faith, loyalty, and public accountability, with practical legal consequences for constitutional law, administrative law, civil rights law, and the law of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second book project, titled <em>The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians: Race, War, and Mass Incarceration<\/em>, also examines power dynamics. Shugerman illustrates how prosecutors influenced political campaigns in the mid-twentieth century. He points out that prosecutors\u2019 increased leverage in the late twentieth century caused the rates of arrests to prosecution to double, leading to mass incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">Outside of work, Shugerman contributes to his local community through the Newton-Brookline Asylum Resettlement Coalition, an interfaith group assisting asylum seekers in the greater Boston area. He also enjoys spending time with family through sports, movies, \u201clong dramatic television series,\u201d and travel. Shugerman is a third baseman in a local synagogue softball league (though he confesses that his arm isn\u2019t what it once was). He writes about law, history, politics, and sports on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shugerblogcom.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shugerblog.com<\/a>. He advises BU Law students, \u201cFind balance\u2014whatever balance means to you. Keep in touch with old friends, make new friends, and find mentors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jed Handelsman Shugerman realized he wanted to be a law professor and a legal historian soon after starting law school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11260,"featured_media":75454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"{\"post_id\":105020,\"hed\":\"Solving for a Crisis in Empirical Legal Studies\",\"dek\":\"Next Article\",\"class\":\"wp-block-editorial-billboard record-block-editorial-billboard is-style-half-photo has-light-overlay has-media\",\"backgroundId\":\"105042\",\"backgroundUrl\":\"\\\/law\\\/files\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/Zeiler-Kathy-portrait.jpg\",\"backgroundType\":\"image\",\"backgroundOpacity\":\"100\"}","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Constitutional Law","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[1673],"bu-publication":[3742],"record-article-category":[3751,4135,4129,3786],"record-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/105172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/105172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105180,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/105172\/revisions\/105180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105172"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=105172"},{"taxonomy":"record-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/record-article-category?post=105172"},{"taxonomy":"record-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/record-topic?post=105172"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=105172"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=105172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}