Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Emily F. Regier is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Truman School of Government & Public Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.  She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Emily works on American constitutionalism, public law, and legal theory.  Her research interests center on the relationship between theories of judicial decision making and democracy, with a particular focus on the mid-twentieth century jurisprudential framework known as Legal Process Theory.  Her recent article in Jurisprudence develops an original account of the influence of the American pragmatist philosopher John Dewey on the democratic orientation of the legal philosopher Lon Fuller.  Before earning her Ph.D., Emly clerked for a federal district court judge and practiced in a large law firm.