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Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, specializing in constitutional law, constitutional theory, federal courts, and animal law. He earned his AB and JD from Harvard, clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, and has authored six books and dozens of scholarly articles cited by federal and state courts.