Meyler and Persily Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
, JD ’03, the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and associate dean for research and intellectual life, and Nate Persily, JD ’98, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law and senior fellow at FSI, have both been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 2020. Meyler, who will be in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center next year, will use her fellowship to complete her book on constitutional interpretation, Common Law Originalism, which looks at the various meanings of constitutional terms and phrases. She also plans to finish an introductory textbook on law and literature designed for undergraduate and graduate classrooms as well as readers generally interested in the subject.
Persily had intended for his fellowship project to be a book on ways the internet and social media platforms place unique stress on democracy in the U.S. and around the world. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the direction of Persily’s research, and he now plans to spend much of the year researching and writing about the pandemic’s effect on the administration of the 2020 election.