Stephan Stohler

• 2024 Fall
  • PSC 324 Constitutional Law I

Stephan Stohler (he/him/his) joins the Political Science Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in fall 2024 as an associate professor. He will teach classes in public law. 

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Stohler was an associate professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) from 2022-2024, and an assistant professor from 2015-2022. While with the University at Albany, he taught courses on civil rights and civil liberties, constitutional law, election law, equal rights, the First Amendment, introduction to political inquiry, judicial power in comparative context, and the public law field seminar.

Stohler’s research focuses on public law. His book, “Reconstructing Rights: Courts, Parties, and Equality Rights in India, South Africa and the United States,” was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. His latest peer-reviewed articles include “Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V,” (co-authored with D. Bateman and R. Woodward Burns; Studies in American Political Development; 2022; 36:2, pp 83-103), “Giving Succor to Extremism? Judicial Behavior towards Extreme Speech in Constitutional Democracies” (Journal of Law and Courts; 2022, 10:2, pp. 287-318), and “Free Expression and Judicial Power in the Global South” (co-authored with S. Botero, R. Ellett and T. M. Keck; Law & Social Inquiry; 2021, 46:2, pp. 331-363).

Subsequent research has been supported by 2020 and 2017 SUNY Faculty Research awards, a 2017 award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and a 2015 National Science Foundation grant researching comparative free speech jurisprudence.

Stohler earned a Ph.D. and a J.D. (magna cum laude) in 2010 from The University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. with distinction from the University of Washington in 2000.

"Spatial Demography and American Constitutional Development", Sponsored by Center for Social and Demographic Analysis from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Seed Funding).

• Book
  • Stohler, S., Reconstructing Rights: Courts, Parties, and Equality Rights in India, South Africa, and the United States. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Journal Articles
  • Stohler, S., "Giving Succor to Extremism? Judicial Behavior toward Extreme Speech in Constitutional Democracies." Journal of Law and Courts, 2022.
  • Stohler, S., Bateman, D. and Woodward-Burns, R., "Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V." Studies in American Political Development, 2022.
  • Botero, S., Ellett, R., Keck, T. M. and Stohler, S., "Free Expression and Judicial Power in the Global South." Law & Social Inquiry, 2021.
  • Stohler, S., "Untangling the Partisan Roots of Affirmative Action." Polity, 2021.
  • Stohler, S., "Slavery and Just Compensation in American Constitutionalism." Law & Social Inquiry, 2019.
• Book Review
  • Stohler, S., "Review of M. Kelly Carr's "The Rhetorical Invention of Diversity: Supreme Court Opinions, Public Arguments, and Affirmative Action"." In Law and Politics Book Review. , 2018.
• Law Reviews
  • Thorson, E. A., Stohler, S., "Maladies in the Misinformation Marketplace." In First Amendment Law Review. , 2017.
  • Stohler, S., "Note: "One Person, One Dollar, One Vote: Campaign Finance, Elections, and Elite Democratic Theory"." In University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. , 2010.

Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, "Author-Meets-Readers: On the Basis of Race, by Lauren Foley" (2023)

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, "Creating a New Kind of Democracy: The Supreme Court and the First Amendment" (2023)

Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, "Judges and Their Regimes" (2023)

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Judicial Behavior and the Limits of Free Press Rights" (2022)

Keck, T. M., Claire, S., Carrington, N., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of ICON-S, The International Society of Public Law, "Extremist Speech, the Paradox of Tolerance, and American Exceptionalism" (2021)

Keck, T. M., Sigsworth, C., Carrington, N., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Extremist Speech, the Paradox of Tolerance, and American Exceptionalism" (2021)

Policy History Conference, "Free Speech and Abortion from the Comstock Act to the Examina- tion Room" (2020)

Bateman, D., Woodward-Burns, R., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "A Durable Shift in Article V Constitutional Politics" (2019)

Bateman, D., Woodward-Burns, R., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of the State Politics and Policy Conference, "A Durable Shift in Article V Constitutional Politics" (2019)

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Author Meets Readers: Reconstructing Rights" (2019)

Political Institutions and Challenges to Democracy Conference, Social Science Research Council and Stanford University's Global Populism Project, "Do Political Insurgents Benefit from Judicial Protection of Free Speech?" (2019)

Botero, S., Ellett, R., Keck, T. M., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Free Expression and Judicial Power in the Global South" (2019)

Botero, S., Ellett, R., Keck, T. M., Stohler, S., Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, "Free Speech and Global South Constitutionalism" (2019)

Toronto Political Development Workshop, "Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V" (2019)

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Roundtable: Toward a Global Free Speech Repository" (2019)

Professor Martin Edelman Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019)