Christina Duffy Ponsa
Professor of Law
| Office: |
Jerome Greene Hall 913
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
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| Tel: |
212.854.6579 |
| Fax: |
212.854.7946 |
| Email: |
cponsa@law.columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Please note that Professor Ponsa recently changed her name from Christina Duffy Burnett
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 Ponsa'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.
