Kermit Roosevelt III

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Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt III (born July 14, 1971 in Washington, D.C.) is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (often referred to as "Penn Law") and author of The Myth of Judicial Activism (Yale University Press, 2006) and the D.C. legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). He is the grandson of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the great-grandson of Kermit Roosevelt and the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He is a graduate of St. Albans School, Harvard University and Yale Law School. He was a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, and worked as a lawyer with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago before joining the Penn Law faculty in 2002. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is married to Felicia Lewis.

Roosevelt's areas of academic interest include conflicts of law and constitutional law.

Some of his recent scholarly publications include Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond (2005), published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, "Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does," University of Virginia Law Review (2005), and Resolving Renvoi: the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence by Means of Language, Notre Dame Law Review (2005).