Bruce allen murphy biography

Bruce Allen Murphy is an American judicial biographer and scholar of constitutional law and politics.
I have taught Constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, and American politics, originally at Penn State University and, for the past 25 years, at.
Bruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he teaches American constitutional.

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Bruce Allen Murphy, PhD, Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who

Dr. Murphy has been endorsed by Marquis Who's Who as a leader in the fields of law and higher education

EASTON, PA, January 25, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Bruce Allen Murphy, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Murphy celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

The Fred Morgan Kirby professor of civil rights at Lafayette College since 1998, Dr. Murphy is a former professor of political science as well as of

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Scalia

“[A] fair-minded biography. . . . Murphy's deeper and more scholarly focus on Scalia offers . . . an opportunity to study one justice's progress from the Reagan administration's great right hope to the more problematic character he's become.”

– Paul M. Barrett, The San Francisco Chronicle

“May be the most exhaustive treatment of a sitting justice ever written. . . . Scalia is a skeptical, often critical look at its subject, but free of snark; it does its readers the service of taking Scalia’s ideas seriously.”

– Jeff Shesol, The New York Times Book Review

“An intellectual biography of one of [the Supreme Court’s] most colorful members. . . . A lucid account of a wide variety of topics through the lens of judicial biography.”

– Alexander Tsesis, The Chicago Tribune

“Thoroughly researched and accessible . . . a lively and informative account of Scalia’s upbringing; his education at Georgetown University, where he excelled in debate; his academic career at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago; his work in the Nixon administration in the offi

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Bruce Allen Murphy

Bruce Allen Murphy is an American judicial biographer and scholar of constitutional law and politics. He is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, a position he has held since 1998. Prior to that appointment, he was a professor of Political Science and a professor of American History and Politics at Pennsylvania State University.^[1]

Early life and education

Born and raised in Abington, Massachusetts, Murphy is a 1973 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While there, he was a student of Professors Dean Alfange, Jr. and Sheldon Goldman.^[2] In 1978, Murphy received his Ph.D. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia where he studied with Professors Henry J. Abraham and Robert J. Harris.

Book publications

Professor Murphy is the author of four judicial biographies, the co-author of a text book, and the editor of a reader.^[3] In addition, he is the author of