Evan Gerstmann
Professor of Political Science and International Relations | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Biography
After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, Dr. Gerstmann practiced law in New York City for five years. Subsequently, he completed his Master’s and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He studies the interaction between law and politics. He has published three books on constitutional law, The Constitutional Class: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Campus Sexual Assault: Constitutional Rights and Fundamental Fairness (Cambridge University Press, 2019) He has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com on where his posts on the Supreme Court and educational issues have been viewed millions of times. He has also written law review and journal articles on subjects ranging from freedom of speech to how criminal law affects victims of domestic violence. He teaches courses on constitutional law at both the undergraduate level and has also taught at Loyola Law School.
Dr. Gerstmann has appeared regularly on radio and television, speaking on issues of constitutional law. His work has been widely cited in law reviews, including The Harvard Law Review, The University of Chicago Law Review, The Stanford Law Review, Cornell Law Review, The UCLA Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review.
