Christopher S. Havasy
Assistant Professor of LawChris Havasy is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. His principal research interest is in administrative law and separation of powers, with an emphasis on examining the relationships between political institutions and civil society. His primary research and teaching interests are in administrative law, constitutional law, legislation, legal history, and statutory interpretation. He has additional interests in law and political economy, law of democracy, corporate governance, and legal philosophy. His current projects examine how to evaluate conflicts between different forms of social justice in public law; how to properly structure interest group lobbying; the intellectual history of administrative law; and the use of political theory in constitutional interpretation. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review (twice), UC Davis Law Review, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Chris also recently completed his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University. Before entering his doctoral program, Chris worked at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the DOJ Criminal Division’s Office of Policy and Legislation, and the EEOC’s Appellate Services Division. Chris also has extensive pro bono experience in civil rights and criminal justice reform efforts. He was previously a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. He holds a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an executive editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He also has a M.A. in Government from Harvard and a Sc.B. magna cum laude with Honors in Political Science and Honors in Biology from Brown University.
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Havasy’s Publications
Christopher S. Havasy, “Social Justice Conflicts in Public Law,” 113 Calif. L. Rev. ___ (Forthcoming 2025)
Christopher S. Havasy, “Radical Administrative Law,” 77 Vand. L. Rev. 647 (2024)
Stavros Gadinis & Christopher S. Havasy, “The Quest for Legitimacy: A Public Law Blueprint for Corporate Governance,” 57 UC Davis L. Rev. 1581 (2024)
“Relational Fairness in the Administrative State,” Virginia Law Review, Vol. 109 (2023)
“Against Political Theory in Constitutional Interpretation,” Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 76 (2023) (with Joshua C. Macey & Brian Richardson)
“Interest Group Lobbying and Political Equality,” Harvard Law School; Harvard University, Department of Government
“The Negative Effect Fallacy: A Case Study of Incorrect Statistical Reasoning by Federal Courts,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 14, 2017
Havasy’s Presentations and Panels
Penn/Berkeley Energy Law Workshop at Penn Law
2024 Law & Society Conference in Denver
International Association on Regulation and Governance Conference at Penn Law
Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable at Notre Dame Law
Administering a Democratic Political Economy at Yale Law School
2024 National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars at Arizona Law
Junior Scholars Conference at Northeastern Law
Critical Approaches to Public Law Workshop at BC Law
Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.