Christina Duffy Burnett

Associate Professor of Law

Office: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 913
435 W. 116 Street
New York NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-6579
Email: cburne@law.columbia.edu

Assistant Info

Name: Jeannie Chung
Phone: 212-854-0723
Email: jchung4@law.columbia.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • American legal history
  • Constitutional law
  • Immigration Law

Education

  • B.A. in History and Latin American Studies, Princeton
  • M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History, Cambridge University
  • J.D., Yale

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Detailed Biography:

Christina Duffy Burnett's work focuses on American legal history. She is the co-editor of Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (Duke University Press, 2001), and the author of several articles and essays on the constitutional implications of American territorial expansion. She is currently at work on a constitutional and international legal history of American empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor  Burnett holds degrees from Princeton (A.B. 1990, M.A. 2004), Cambridge (M.Phil. 1995), and Yale (J.D. 1998). Before joining the Columbia faculty in 2007, she served as a law clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and to Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.