Theodore Ruger is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is a law professor at Penn Law School, and began his career in 2001 at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Ruger's scholarship to date has examined some of the oldest questions of American constitutional law--namely issues relating to the theoretical justifications for, and empirical contours of, the application of judicial authority. In exploring these issues Ruger supplements traditional legal analysis with the methods of other disciplines, including history and political science. His work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern Law Review, and as the centerpiece of a symposium in Perspectives on Politics, a leading peer-reviewed political science journal. In addition to his interests in constitutional law and legislation, Ruger also teaches and writes in the area of health law. His current research in that field draws on his broader work on judicial power, and addresses the manner in which American courts—and particularly the United States Supreme Court—have shaped the field of health law in recent decades.

Education
J.D., Harvard, 1995
A.B., Williams, 1990

Courses Taught
Health Law and Regulation
Legislation