A.B.  Princeton University, 1987
M.A. University of California, San Diego, 1990
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1995

Additional SU Affiliations:
Director of The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM)
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, The Maxwell School

Courses:
Constitutional Law (in PSC and at College of Law)
Law Politics, and the Media
Second Year Research/Writing Seminar

Political Argument and Reasoning     

Civil Liberties                                                                                 Judicial Politics                                                                                Constitutional Democracy in America
Political Science Research Workshop


Recent Publications:                                                                                           The Most Acceptable Forms of Hypocrisy: Common Courtesy and the Rule of Law.  Book manuscript under contract with Stanford University Press.

Bench Press:  The Collision of Courts, Politcs, and the Media.  Edited volume.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

“Legal Realism, Common Courtesy, and Hypocrisy,” Law Culture, and the Humanities. (2005):75-102.

“The Polite Thing To Do,” in The Future of Gay Rights in America, H.N. Hirsch, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2005).

“The Liberal Arts, Legal Scholarship, and the Democratic Critique of Judicial Power,” in Legal Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Austin Sarat (ed.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2004).

Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Paperback edition, 2002.

Web page: http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/kjbybee/


Research Interests: American public law, legal and political theory, American politics, cultural studies, LGBT politics, and the politics of race.

Current Research: An examination of how ambiguity and the appearance of hypocrisy sustain the exercise of legal power in the United States.