Alfred C. Aman

Former Fellow, 2002-2003
Former Visiting Scholar, 2005-2006
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington

211 South Indiana Venue, Bloomington, IN 47405
aaman@indiana.edu
phone: 812-856-0743
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While at LAPA
Alfred C. Aman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester with a bachelor of arts in political science in 1967. He earned his J.D. in 1970 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Law Review. Following his graduation, he clerked for the late Elbert Parr Tuttle, senior judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Atlanta. Aman joined the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan (of Atlanta and Washington, D.C.) in 1972. In 1977, he joined the faculty of the Cornell Law School, where he taught until 1991, leaving to become dean at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. Aman has continued to teach and write throughout his deanship, and has held appointments as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Trento, Italy; Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Paris; and Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, England. A specialist in constitutional and administrative law, Aman has published a monograph on globalization (Administrative Law in a Global Era, Cornell University Press), a treatise and casebooks on administrative law, and numerous articles and essays. Aman will soon begin work on a book dealing with globalization and democracy. He plans to return to Bloomington following his Princeton fellowship as a member of the law faculty where, in 1999, he was named Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law.

Life after LAPA
After LAPA, I returned to Indiana University in the fall of 2003 with a joint appointment as the Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law and as Director of the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study. In the following year, NYU Press published my most recent book, most of which was written while I was a LAPA Fellow. It is called: The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization through Law Reform. In 2005, I returned to LAPA as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and, among other projects, worked on a chapter for a forthcoming book to be published by Harvard University Press, entitled Government by Design. My chapter deals with the law that governs outsourcing of various kinds, especially as it affects vulnerable populations. In the spring of 2006, I was the John Marshal Harlan Visiting Professor of Law at the New York Law School. I returned to IU in the fall of 2006 to continue to teach in the law school as well as serve as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the spring semester of 2007, I was named Dean of Suffolk University Law School, effective July 1, 2007.

Publications
The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization Through Law Reform by Alfred C. Aman, Jr.
(New York University Press, 2004)

Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading—globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depends on the ability of citizens to reclaim a voice in taming globalization through domestic politics and law reform.

Can citizens govern globalization? Aman argues that they can, and that domestic law has a crucial role to play in this process. He proposes to redefine the legal distinction between public and private to correspond to the realities of the new role of the private sector in delivering public services, and thereby to bring crucial sectors of globalization back within the scope of democratic reform.

Basing his argument on the history of the policies that led to globalization, and the current policies that sustain it, Aman advocates specific reforms meant to increase private citizens' influence on globalization. He looks at particular problem areas usually thought to be domestic in nature, such as privatization, prisons, prescription drugs, and the minimum wage, as well as constitutional structural issues such as federalism and separation of powers.