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Joseph Tartakovsky

Joseph Tartakovsky is the James Wilson Fellow in Constitutional Law and a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

He has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Fordham Law School, where he received the David F. and Mary Louise Condon Prize and the Henrietta Metcalf Prize, was named a Mary Daly Scholar, and served as vice president of the Federalist Society. 

During law school he was appointed clerk to the Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, chaired by the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff. After graduating he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. 

He co-presented papers on refugee law at a conference on Israel and international law, held at Northwestern University School of Law (May 2010) and on copyright at the 10th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, at UC Berkeley School of Law (August 2010).

His writings on history, politics, literature, and culture have appeared in the New York TimesWall Street JournalLos Angeles TimesNew CriterionNational Review, Commentary, New York SunForbes.com, and other publications. Mr. Tartakovsky is also a Publius Fellow of the Claremont Institute.

His email address is joseph.tartakovsky@gmail.com.

Articles on this Site

Liberty and Union

Posted on May 24, 2013 in Claremont Review of Books

I Still Expect to Win

Posted on May 2, 2012 in Claremont Review of Books

Tartakovsky on Charles Dickens and Lawyers

Posted on February 6, 2012 in New York Times

Tartakovsky on Richard Epstein's Design for Liberty

Posted on January 27, 2012 in National Review magazine

Tartakovsky on Shakespeare and the Law

Posted on July 1, 2011 in Commentary magazine

Tartakovsky on Lochner

Posted on June 20, 2011 in National Review magazine

Tartakovsky on Remembering James Wilson

Posted on June 2, 2011 in The New Criterion

Tartakovsky on the Roosevelt Court

Posted on March 25, 2011 in National Review magazine

Tartakovsky on Moonshine

Posted on September 7, 2010 in The New Criterion

Tartakovsky on Sex and the University

Posted on August 13, 2010 in The Wall Street Journal

No Time to Lose, But Plenty to Gain

Posted on July 26, 2010 in The Wall Street Journal

Spirits Rising

Posted on May 15, 2009 in The Wall Street Journal

Dead End

Posted on April 24, 2009 in Claremont Review of Books

Remember the Children

Posted on April 13, 2009 in The New Criterion

Pun for the Ages

Posted on March 31, 2009 in New York Times

Math Wrath

Posted on February 13, 2009 in Forbes

A Man of Imagination

Posted on January 4, 2009 in The New Criterion

Documents and Disorder

Posted on December 2, 2008 in The Wall Street Journal

Oval Objects of Desire

Posted on October 6, 2008 in The Wall Street Journal

In Praise of Political Insults

Posted on July 2, 2008 in The Wall Street Journal

Man of a Thousand Faces

Posted on June 13, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

Golden Juggler

Posted on May 28, 2008 in Claremont Review of Books

A Life of Allegory

Posted on March 1, 2008 in The New Criterion

Mother Tongue

Posted on December 3, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

Persecution in War and Postwar

Posted on October 3, 2007 in New York Sun

Pith and Pen

Posted on September 4, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

Tribute to Professor Librescu

Posted on April 19, 2007 in Writings

The Spirits Behind the Writers

Posted on February 27, 2007 in Los Angeles Times

Ungrateful Volcano

Posted on February 19, 2007 in Claremont Review of Books

The Opiate of the Masses

Posted on March 24, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

Islamic Chauvinism and the Mohammed Cartoons

Posted on February 19, 2006 in Writings

Pictures Worth a Thousand Lives

Posted on January 6, 2006 in Claremont Review of Books

When Winston Churchill Met Mark Twain

Posted on December 1, 2005 in Precepts

Gaza and Victory?

Posted on September 5, 2005 in Writings

The Right Stuff

Posted on June 15, 2005 in Writings

Strange Creatures

Posted on June 6, 2005 in Claremont Review of Books

Israel, Campus Unreality and Democratic Reality

Posted on January 10, 2005 in Writings

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