Richard Primus - Biography

Richard Abraham Primus is an American legal scholar. He currently teaches United States constitutional law at Michigan Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation. Primus is occasionally mentioned as a potential future United States Supreme Court nominee.

Primus graduated from Harvard College with an A.B., summa cum laude, in social studies. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and the Jowett Senior Scholar. After studying law at Yale Law School, Primus clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Primus then practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block before joining the Michigan Law School faculty in 2001. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Tokyo.

He is a son of Dr. Romana Strochlitz Primus, a retired allergist and clinical immunologist, and Charles Primus, a retired professor of theology at Notre Dame and lawyer. Primus is married to Eve Lynn Brensike, assistant professor of criminal law at Michigan Law School.

External links

• Official bio at UMich.edu