Nancy Kassop

Nancy Kassop is a Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz,[1] and former chair of the Political Science Department at the school. Some of the courses she teaches are American Government and Politics and Constitutional Law. Her research focuses on constitutional law and the Presidency. Among her many articles and publications is "Expansion and Contraction: Clinton's Impact on the Scope of Presidential Power" from her book titled The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy by Adler and Genovese and "A Political Question By Any Other Name: Government Strategy in the Enemy Combatant Cases of Hamdi and Padilla" from her Lexington Books 2007 publication "The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States."

Since the George W. Bush administration, her focus has shifted towards presidential war powers and national security law.[2] Some of her most recent research explores the role of the Obama administration's political staff and Office of Legal Counsel in making counterterrorism policy.[3]

Dr. Nancy C. Kassop graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Political Science and earned her Ph.D and M.A. in political science from New York University.

References

  1. "PRG Steering Committee - 2006-2007". THE PRESIDENCY RESEARCH GROUP. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
  2. Kassop, Nancy (September 2003). "The War Power and Its Limits". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 33 (3): 509–529. doi:10.1111/1741-5705.00004.
  3. Kassop, Nancy (August 20, 2013). "Rivals for Influence on Counterterrorism Policymaking in the Obama Administration: White House Political Staff vs. Executive Branch Legal Advisors". APSA Annual Meeting Paper. SSRN 2300386.
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