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Anthony J. Bellia Jr.

Professor of Law
Concurrent Professor of Political Science
Notre Dame Presidential Fellow

Office Number: 3153 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.9353
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Anthony.J.Bellia.3@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gloria Krull

A.J. Bellia teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional law, federal courts, federalism, legal history, procedure, and contracts. He has published numerous articles in those fields. Professor Bellia joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 2000 and has twice been named Distinguished Professor of the Year by graduating classes (2003 and 2008). He also has served as a visiting professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law (2007), and is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Prior to joining the faculty in 2000, Professor Bellia practiced law as an associate with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C., litigating First Amendment, death penalty, contract, and employment cases in state and federal courts. He also clerked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge William M. Skretny of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

Professor Bellia earned his J.D. summa cum laude in 1994 from the Notre Dame Law School, where he received the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award for outstanding academic achievement. While a student at the Notre Dame Law School, Professor Bellia also received the prestigious Judge Roger T. Kiley Fellowship and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Notre Dame Law Review. Professor Bellia earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Canisius College in 1991, where he was named the outstanding graduate in economics and political science as well as a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

In the News

LAW60105, Contracts

LAW60307, Constitutional Law

LAW60308, Civil Procedure

LAW70311, Federal Courts

LAW70372, Federalism

LAW70838, History of the Common Law

LAW73372, Federalism Seminar

LAW75749, Law Review

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Federal Courts
  • Federalism
  • Constitutional Law
  • Legal History
  • Contracts
  • Civil Procedure

Books

The Law of Nations in United States Courts (forthcoming 2012, Oxford University Press) (with Bradford R. Clark).

Federalism (Aspen Publishers 2011).

Articles

The Law of Nations as Constitutional Law, 98 Va. L. Rev. ___ (2012) (with Bradford R. Clark) (forthcoming).

Kiobel and the Alien Tort Statute, 43 Geo. J. Int’l L. ___ (2012) (with Bradford R. Clark) (forthcoming).

General Law in Federal Court, 53 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. ___ (2012) (with Bradford R. Clark) (forthcoming).

The Alien Tort Statute and the Law of Nations, 78 U. Chi. L. Rev. 445 (2011) (with Bradford R. Clark).

The Political Branches and the Law of Nations, 85 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1795 (2010) (with Bradford R. Clark).

The Federal Common Law of Nations, 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1 (2009) (with Bradford R. Clark).

The Origins of Article III Arising Under Jurisdiction, 57 Duke L. J. 263 (2007).

Federalism Doctrines and Abortion Cases: A Response to Professor Fallon, 51 St. Louis U. L. J. 767 (2007).

State Courts and the Interpretation of Federal Statutes,. 59 Vand. L. Rev. 1501 (2006).

Congressional Power and State Court Jurisdiction, 94 Geo. L. J. 949 (2006).

State Courts and the Making of Federal Common Law, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 825 (2005).

Article III and the Cause of Action, 89 Iowa L. Rev. 777 (2004).

Promises, Trust, and Contract Law, 47 Am. J. Juris. 25 (2002).

Contracting with Electronic Agents, 50 Emory L. J. 1047 (2001).

Federal Regulation of State Court Procedures, 110 Yale L. J. 947 (2001).

Shorter Articles

Re-examining Customary International Law and the Federal Courts: An Introduction, 85 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1787 (2010).

La sussidiarieta’ e il sistema americano (Subsidiarity and the American Federal System), 18 Atlantide 41 (2010).

Federalismo e matrimonio omosessuale nell’Unione Europea: una prospettiva americana di diritto comparato (Federalism and Same-Sex Marriage in the European Union: A Comparative American Perspective), 2009/1 Quaderni Costituzionale 134 (2009) (translated from English to Italian by Annalisa Stefani).

Establishment and Judicial Administrability, 26 Const. Comment. 259 (2009) (review of Kent Greenawalt, Establishment and Fairness (2008)).

Form, Function, and Justiciability, 86 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 1 (2007).

Sosa, Federal Question Jurisdiction, and Historical Fidelity, 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 15 (2007).