Christina Duffy Ponsa

Académica Correspondiente

Académica Correspondiente

Educación

  • Universidad de Princeton, Princeton, Nueva Jersey Ph.D., Historia, 2010.
    Disertación: “Constituciones contingentes: Imperio y la Ley de las Américas”.
    Otorgada y una Mención de Honor por el William Nelson
    Comité del Premio Tesis Fundación Cromwell, Otoño 2011.
  • Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
    J. D., 1998. Actividades: Asociación Latina de Estudiantes de Derecho (miembro de la Junta, 1996-1997); Streetlaw (enseñanza voluntaria en la escuela pública), Programa de Absentismo Escolar (mentoring); Proyecto Prisión Greenhaven (programa de educación a reclusos).
  • Universidad de Cambridge, Cambridge, Inglaterra M. Phil., Pensamiento Político e Historia Intelectual de 1995. Tesis: “The American Delegates at the Cortes de Cádiz: Citizenship, Sovereignty, Nationhood“. Seleccionado para la colección Biblioteca de la Universidad de Cambridge.
  • Universidad de Princeton, Princeton, Nueva Jersey
    BA, Honores, Historia y Estudios Latinoamericanos, 1990.

Carrera Profesional

  • Columbia Law School, Nueva York, NY
    • Profesor de Derecho (2011-presente)
    • Profesor Asociado de Derecho (2007-2012)
  • Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos, Washington, DC Derecho secretario de Justicia Stephen G. Breyer, octubre de 2004
  • Programa en Derecho y Asuntos Públicos de la Universidad de Princeton, Princeton, NJ Estudiante Visitante (2001-2002)
  • EE.UU. Corte de Apelaciones del Segundo Circuito, New Haven, NJ Law clerk para el juez José A. Cabranes, agosto de 2000

Publicaciones

Libro (volumen editado)

  • FOREIGN IN A DOMESTIC SENSE: PUERTO RICO, AMERICAN EXPANSION, AND THE CONSTITUTION (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001). Co-editado el volumen y co-autor de la introducción (con Burke Marshall).

Artículos

  • A Guarantee Clause for the Americas: The United States in Cuba, 1898-1902 (forthcoming, CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY). Los Casos Insulares: Doctrina Desanexionista, 78:3 REVISTA JURÍDICA UNIVERSIDAD DE
  • PUERTO RICO 661 (2009) (with Adriel Cepeda Derieux). A Convenient Constitution? Extraterritoriality after Boumediene, 109:5 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW 973 (2009).
  • “They Say I Am Not an American”…: The Non-Citizen National and the Law of American Empire, 48:4 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 659 (2008). Article was the subject of a symposium on Opinio Juris, at http://opiniojuris.org/tag/vjil-symposium-vol-48-4/, and was selected for republication in volume 29 of the IMMIGRATION & NATIONALITY LAW REVIEW.
  • Untied States: American Expansion and Territorial Deannexation, 72:3 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 797 (2005).

Ensayos, Capítulos y Revistas

  • “Empire and the Transformation of Citizenship,” in Alfred W. McCoy & Francisco A. Scarano, eds., COLONIAL CRUCIBLE: EMPIRE IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN AMERICAN STATE (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009).
  • Two Puerto Rican Senators Stay Home, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 408 (2007). Essay was part of a symposium on the pros and cons of obtaining congressional representation for Puerto Rico by simple legislation, at http://yalelawjournal.org/116/6/tio.html.
  • “None of the Above Means More of the Same: Why Solving Puerto Rico’s Status Problem Matters,” in Frances Negrón Muntaner, ed., NONE OF THE ABOVE: PUERTO RICANS IN THE GLOBAL ERA (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
  • “The Edges of Empire and the Limits of Sovereignty: American Guano Islands,” in Mary Dudziak and Leti Volpp, eds., Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders, 57:3 AMERICAN QUARTERLY 779 (Special Issue, 2005). Volume was also published as a book by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • “The Constitution and Deconstitution of the United States,” in Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow, eds., THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND AMERICAN EXPANSION, 1803-1898 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
  • The Case for Puerto Rican Decolonization, 45 ORBIS: A JOURNAL OF WORLD AFFAIRS 433 (Summer 2001).
  • Puerto Rico, 23 YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 561 (Summer 1998). Review of José Trías Monge’s PUERTO RICO: THE TRIALS OF THE OLDEST COLONY IN THE WORLD (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).

Monografías

  • The Status of Puerto Rico: Political, Social, and Economic Dimensions (with Howard Hills) (Working Paper No. 9, Center for International Development, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 2002).
  • Who’s in Control?: The Courts, the Legislature, and the Public in Colorado’s School Finance Debate (with Drew Dunphy), STUDIES IN JUDICIAL REMEDIES AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT (Campaign for Fiscal Equity series), vol. 2(1) (June 1999).

Prensa Popular y Publicaciones Diversas

  • “Islands and the Law: An Interview with Christina Duffy Burnett,” CABINET: A QUARTERLY OF ART AND CULTURE, Issue 38 (Summer 2010): 60. Interviewed by Sina Najafi.
  • “Promises, Promises,” Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2008, p.A8 (op-ed).
  • “Puerto Rico Chooses,” Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 11, 1998, p.11 (op-ed). “Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Reflections on the Centenary of the United States’
  • Acquisition of Puerto Rico” (with Damon J. Hemmerdinger), 45:2 Yale Law Report 12 (1998).