Tom Keck is the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University‘s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre on Law & Social Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Judicial Politics in Polarized Times and The Most Activist Supreme Court in History, as well as articles in the American Political Science Review, Constitutional Studies, Journal of Law & Courts, Law and Society Review, and Law and Social Inquiry. He is currently writing a book on the judicial protection of free speech in the context of democratic backsliding.

Professor Keck received his B.A. in Politics from Oberlin College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. As holder of the Sawyer Chair since 2009, he directs the Sawyer Law and Politics Program (SLAPP), an interdisciplinary initiative devoted to advancing teaching and research in the field of law and politics. Prospective graduate students in the field should contact him for further information.