About the Author

Ashutosh Bhagwat is Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and then for Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. He has published many scholarly articles on subjects ranging from constitutional law to administrative law to the California Electricity Crisis. He lives in Moraga, California with his wife and two children.