Gerard Magliocca

Gerard Magliocca (born February 6, 1973) is an American legal scholar who is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.^[1] He is a noted scholar and expert on constitutional issues, particularly its historical underpinnings.

Biography

Magliocca received his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School. He served for a year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then two years as an attorney at Covington & Burling. Thereafter, Magliocca joined the faculty at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.^[1]

Magliocca's first book, Andrew Jackson and the Constitution (

Magliocca's third book, American Founding Son (NYU Press, 2013), focuses on John Bingham and his role in crafting the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Pushing back against many who tend to overlook Bingham, Magliocca argues he deserves to be remembered as one of America's great leaders. The book received critical praise, including from Laurie Levenson in the Los Angeles Review of Books, who wrote, "Professor Magliocca spares no detail in his comprehensive review of John Bingham’s life and his drafting of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution."^[3]

Magliocca's fourth book, The Heart of the Constitution (

Contributing to the anthology Our American Story (2019), Magliocca addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative and focused on insights a foreigner's view of America may offer, in particular the Americans' "uncommon degree of political common sense."[7]

In 2008 Magliocca held the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the

• The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
• American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment (New York University Press, 2013)
• The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash (Yale University Press, 2011)
• Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes (University Press of Kansas 2007; paperback edition 2011)
• Washington's Heir: The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022)
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• "Constitutional Change" in The Oxford Handbook of the American Constitution, Mark Graber, Sandy Levinson & Mark Tushnet, eds. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
• "Yankee Ingenuity" in Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative, Joshua Claybourn, ed. (Potomac Books, 2019)

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