Richard Primus

Richard Primus
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Waterford, Connecticut
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Yale Law School (J.D.) Balliol College, Oxford {Ph.D.) Harvard College (A.B., Social Studies, 1992)
Scientific career
Fields	Constitutional law
Institutions	Michigan Law School

Richard Abraham Primus (b. 1969) is an American legal scholar. He currently teaches United States constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation.

Education and career

Primus graduated from Harvard College with an A.B., summa cum laude, in social studies. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and the Jowett Senior Scholar. After studying law at Yale Law School, Primus clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Primus then practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block before joining the Michigan Law School faculty in 2001. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Tokyo.

Personal life and family

He is a son of Dr. Romana Strochlitz Primus, a retired allergist and clinical immunologist, and Charles Primus, a retired professor of theology at Notre Dame and a lawyer. Primus is married to Eve Lynn Brensike, professor of criminal law also at the University of Michigan Law School.