Allen Sumrall
Expertise:
American political and constitutional development, separation of powers, judicial politics, and the intersection of law and politics
Background:
Allen Sumrall is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. His research focuses on American political and constitutional development, separation of powers, judicial politics, and the intersection of law and politics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Presidential Studies Quarterly, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, the Elon Law Review, the Texas Law Review, Law & Politics Book Review, NBC News, The Constitutionalist, and House Divided.
He is a a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Public Law and American Politics. He received his MA in Government and J.D. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable James O. Browning, U.S. District Judge for the District of New Mexico.