Andrea Scoseria Katz

Andrea Scoseria Katz is a Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She teaches and writes about constitutional law, with a focus on presidential power. Her work draws from constitutional law, legal history, political theory and comparative politics to explore questions of separation-of-powers theory, constitutionalism, and the development of the American president and the modern administrative state, especially during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). Her work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and has been cited in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Law, the L.A. Times, and by the Supreme Court of the United States. Katz has also published work on courts, constitutional amendments, and presidential power in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.

Katz holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, Katz clerked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France for Judge András Sajó, and in the District of Massachusetts for Judge Michael A. Ponsor. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of São Paulo, the University of Tokyo, and was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law School before joining the Washington University faculty in Fall 2020.