Peter Shane
Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law
Moritz College of Law
467 Drinko Hall
614.688.3014
shane.29@osu.edu
Education
A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University (1974)
J.D., Yale Law School (1977)
Teaching/Research
Professor Shane is an internationally recognized scholar in administrative law, with a specialty in separation of powers law, and has co-authored leading casebooks on each subject. His recent research focuses also on the use of new information and communication technologies to revitalize democratic governance. He has served on the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law and was dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Selected Publications
"Legislative Delegation, the Unitary Presidency, and the Legitimacy of the Administrative State" (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming)
"Resolved: Presidential signing statements threaten to undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers," in Debating the Presidency, ed. by Richard J. Ellis and Michael Nelson (CQ Press, forthcoming)
Madison’s Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
"Introduction: Online Consultation and Democratic Communication" (I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 2009)
"Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Deliberation: A Framework for Action" (Moritz College of Law, 2008)
"Behind the Mask of Method: Political Orientation and Constitutional Interpretive Preferences," with Joshua Ferguson and Linda Babcock (Law and Human Behavior, 2008)
"Do a Law's Policy Implications Affect Beliefs About Its Unconstitutionality: An Experimental Test," with Joshua Ferguson and Linda Babcock (Law and Human Behavior, 2008)
"Presidential Signing Statements and the Rule of Law as an 'Unstructured Institution'" (William and Mary Bill of Rights Law Review, 2007)
"The Bureaucratic Due Process of Government Watch Lists" (George Washington Law Review, 2007)
"Social Theory Meets Social Policy: Culture, Identity and Public Information Policy After September 11" (I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 2006)
"Analyzing Constitutions," in Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, ed. by R.A.W. Rhodes, Sarah Binder and Bert Rockman (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Separation of Powers Law: Cases and Materials, ed. with Harold Bruff (Carolina Academic Press, 1996; 2nd ed., 2005)
Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal through the Internet (Routledge, 2004)
A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security and Public Information After September 11, ed. with John Podesta and Richard C. Leone (Century Foundation Press, 2004)
Administrative Law: The American Public Law System, ed. with J. Mashaw and R. Merrill(West Group, 5th ed. 2003)
"When Interbranch Norms Break Down: Of Arms-for-Hostages, 'Orderly Shutowns,' Presidential Impeachments, and Judicial Coups"(Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2003)
"Disappearing Democracy: How Bush v. Gore Undermined the Federal Right to Vote for Presidential Electors" (Florida State University Law Review, 2001)
"Returning Separation of Powers Analysis to its Normative Roots: The Constitutionality of Qui Tam Actions and Other Private Suits to Enforce Civil Penalties" (Environmental Law Reporter, 2000)
"Federalism's 'Old Deal': What’s Right and Wrong With Conservative Judicial Activism" (Villanova Law Review, 2000)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Executive Director, Knight Commission on Media and the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, Aspen Institute (2008-09)
Team Lead, International Trade Commission Agency Review, Obama-Biden Transition Project (2008)
Executive Director, Knight Commission on Media and the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, Aspen Institute (2008-)
Co-chair, International Working Group (IWG) on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making (2007-09)
Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Information Technology and Politics (2006-)
Co-Founder and Chair, Faculty Editors, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University (2004-)
Member, ABA Committee on the Status and Future of Federal E-Rulemaking (2007-08)
Chair, U.S. Advisory Group: Oversight, ABA Project on the Administrative Law of the European Union (2004-07)
Distinguished Service Award, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (2004)
Inaugural Visiting "Foreign Chair," University of Ghent Program in Foreign and Comparative Law, Ghent, Belgium (2001)
Attorney-Adviser, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (1978-81)
Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. (1981)
Mershon Project
Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New Media
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