Christina Duffy Burnett
Professor of Law
| Office: |
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 913
435 W. 116 Street
New York NY 10027
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| Tel: |
212-854-6579 |
| Fax: |
212-854-7946 |
| Email: |
cburne@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Recent News
Juan Manuel Benitez of NY1 interviews Professors Christina Burnett and Jose Moya about immigration and civil rights...
Sina Najafi of Cabinet Magazine interviews Christina Burnett about islands and the law...
Professor Burnett testifies before the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status (May 25, 2010) (session begins 30 minutes in)...
Areas of Expertise
- American legal history
- Constitutional law
- Immigration Law
Education
- B.A., History and Latin American Studies, Princeton, 1990
- M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, Cambridge, 1995
- J.D., Yale, 1998
- Ph.D., History, Princeton, 2010
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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, Ph.D. 2010),
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.
