Andrew Coan

Andrew Coan is a Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and related subjects. His scholarly interests include the Supreme Court, federalism, executive power, and constitutional interpretation. In 2019, he received the College's Leslie F. and Patricia Bell Faculty Service Award.

Coan is the author of two books, Rationing the Constitution (Harvard University Press 2019) and Prosecuting the President (Oxford University Press 2018). The former explains how judicial capacity shapes Supreme Court decision-making. The latter explains how special prosecutors hold Presidents accountable and protect the rule of law and is a finalist for the ABA's Silver Gavel Award. Coan’s work has also appeared in Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. He frequently appears in the national media and has contributed articles to The Atlantic, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today.

Professor Coan received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated first in his class, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He then clerked for Judge Richard Posner and returned to Stanford Law School as the inaugural James C. Gaither Fellow. He joined the Wisconsin law faculty in 2008 and the James E. Rogers College of Law in 2014. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Representative Publications

• Rationing the Constitution:  How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making (2019).
• Prosecuting the President:  How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law (2019).
• Amending the Law of Constitutional Interpretation, 13 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol'y 83 (2018).
• The Foundations of Constitutional Theory, 2017 Wis. L. Rev. 833 (2017).
• Judicial Capacity and Executive Power, 102 Va. L. Rev. 765 (2016) (co-author, with Nicholas Bullard).
• Judicial Capacity and the Substance of Constitutional Law, 122 Yale L.J. 422 (2012).
• The Irrelevance of Writtenness in Constitutional Interpretation, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1025 (2010).
• Complete List of Publications

Education

• J.D. Stanford Law School

  2005

• B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2000

Work Experience

• Professor of Law

  James E. Rogers College of Law

  2014 - present

• Director
  William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government
  2019 - present

• Associate Director

  William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government

  2014 - 2019

• Associate Professor of Law

  University of Wisconsin Law School

  2013 - 2014

• Assistant Professor of Law

  University of Wisconsin Law School

  2008 - 2013

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

  University of Michigan Law School

  2009 - 2010

• James C. Gaither Fellow & Lecturer in Law

  Stanford Law School

  Fall 2006 - Summer 2008

• Law Clerk

  Honorable Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  2005 - 2006