Georgetown Democracy Initiative

Josh Chafetz is the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics at Georgetown Law, and he is affiliated faculty in the Department of Government and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He received his B.A. from Yale University, his doctorate in politics from Oxford University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Before coming to Georgetown, he spent 12 years on the faculty at Cornell Law School. His research interests include structural constitutional law, American and British constitutional history, legislation and legislative procedure, American political development, and the intersection of law and politics. He is the author of Democracy’s Privileged Few: Legislative Privilege and Democratic Norms in the British and American Constitutions (Yale University Press, 2007) and Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers (Yale University Press, 2017). Chafetz is a member of the Georgetown Democracy Initiative Steering Committee.