Christina D. Burnett

Ph.D. candidate, History & Former Visiting Scholar at LAPA

Columbia Law School
435 W. 116th Street
New York NY 10027
cburne@law.columbia.edu
phone: 212-854-6579
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Date archived: June 1, 2008
Christina Duffy Burnett is a legal historian whose work focuses on the constitutional and international legal history of American empire. She is the co-editor (with Burke Marshall) of Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (Duke University Press, 2001), and the author of "Untied States: American Expansion and Territorial Deannexation," 72 University of Chicago Law Review 797 (2005), among other articles. Ms. Burnett holds a law degree from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history from Cambridge University, and a Master's degree in American history from Princeton University, where she is completing a doctorate in nineteenth-century American legal history. She served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the United States Supreme Court in the October 2004 Term and to Judge José A. Cabranes on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the August 2000 Term. She joined the faculty at Columbia Law School in 2007.