Christine Nemacheck

Background

Professor Christine Nemacheck joined the Department in 2002. She is a Professor of Government and Director of the W&M Legal Scholars Program. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from The George Washington University. Her research focuses on judicial selection, judicial federalism, and the role of the courts in a separation-of-powers system. Her book, Strategic Selection: Presidential Selection of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush, was published in 2007. Other work on judicial selection has appeared in political science and law review journals. She is also a co-author of Government by the People, an American politics textbook.  Nemacheck has received numerous awards for her teaching and research, most recently the Class of 2024 professorship. She co-directs the Dunn Civil Liberties Project and supervises students' independent civil liberties research associated with the Project. She previously served as the Director of the Center for the Liberal Arts, as a co-editor of the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics, and as W&M’s pre-law advisor.

Courses

Government 201: Introduction to American Politics

Government 372: American Legal Process

Government 373: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Government Department Seminars

• Federalism and the United States Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court's Religious Liberties Jurisprudence
• Constitutional Law
• The Politics of Religious Liberties
• The Politics of Criminal Suspects Rights

Dunn Civil Liberties Workshops & Research Seminars

William & Mary in Washington Semester Program Courses fall 2006, spring 2017, and spring break intensive courses