Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
LL.B. Harvard University
B.A. Catholic University of America
w Winner of the
John Phillip Reid Prize
awarded by the
American Society for Legal History
for the best book in legal history published
during the calendar year 2006, Professor Wiecek's most recently published book is a history of the United
States Supreme Court from 1941 to 1953, covering the chief-justiceships of
Harlan Fiske Stone and Fred Vinson, for the
Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States Volume 12, The Birth of the Modern
Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953, New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
w Professor Wiecek practiced law in New Hampshire and taught legal and
constitutional history at the University of Missouri-Columbia for sixteen
years before coming to Syracuse.
w He has written extensively on slavery and its abolition, republicanism,
nineteenth-century constitutional development, nuclear power, and the United
States Supreme Court.
w Teaching Highlights: He has taught courses in legal and constitutional
history, constitutional law, property, race and law, corporations, civil
procedure, and Roman law. He has experimented with the use of electronic
casebooks in the classroom. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of
History in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. As Merriam Distinguished Professor of Law,
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, he
taught courses in property and constitutional history Spring 2009. Spring 2010
finds him teaching Constitutional Law and Habeas Corpus and the 11th Amendment
at University of California, Davis, School of Law.
w Professor Wiecek received the University
Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award in 1997 and
Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement
in 2001, the
university's highest academic award. He was profiled in the Winter 1999-2000
issue of the
Syracuse University Magazine
and in the Spring 2008 issue of
Syracuse Law. For more information see his
Curriculum Vitae and
Publications.
