Professor of Law
B.A. Oxford, 1980
C.P.E. College of Law, London, 1981
M.Sc. Sociology and Politics, University of London, 1985
Ph.D. Political Theory, Columbia, 1989
J.D. Yale, 1990
UCLA Law faculty since 1998

Stephen Gardbaum teaches Constitutional Law I, Comparative Constitutional Law, European Union Law, Comparative Law, and International Human Rights. His scholarship focuses on comparative constitutional law, federalism, and the foundations of liberal legal and political theory. His current research is on the comparative structure of constitutional rights.

He received a B.A. with First Class Honors from Oxford University, an M.Sc. from London University, a Ph.D. with distinction in political theory from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, and practiced litigation and European Community law at the London firm of Kingsley Napley. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he was a professor of law at Northwestern University and has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona.

Gardbaum’s numerous articles on constitutional law have appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and the American Journal of Comparative Law. His recent publications include "The Myth and the Reality of American Constitutional Exceptionalism," Michigan Law Review (2008), "Human Rights as International Constitutional Rights," European Journal of International Law (2008), "Limiting Constitutional Rights," UCLA Law Review (2007), and "Where the (State) Action Is," International Journal of Constitutional Law (2006).  His article, “Rethinking Constitutional Federalism,” Texas Law Review (1996) was cited in Justice Breyer’s dissenting opinion in United States v. Morrison. His scholarship was also cited by the Canadian Supreme Court in the case of R. v. Butler.

Email: gardbaum@law.ucla.edu