Robert L. Tsai
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Robert L. Tsai

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Robert L. Tsai is Professor of Law & Harry Elwood Warren Scholar at Boston University. He has been named a '24-'25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton's University Center for Human Values. His work spans the fields of constitutional law, legal history, and democratic theory. Tsai’s essays have appeared in Politico, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Review, Slate, and L.A. Review of Books. His most recent book is “Demand the Impossible: One Man's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All” (W.W. Norton 2024), which explores the remarkable career of Stephen B. Bright, former Legal Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and lifelong advocate for the poor. Tsai’s last book, "Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation" (W.W. Norton 2019 & 2020) examined how to do the hard work of equality in a time of ideological polarization and was featured in the New Yorker and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Tsai is also the author of "America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community" (Harvard 2014) and "Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture" (Yale 2008). He has been a guest on Meet the Press, ABC News, and NPR.
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