Kim Wehle

Kim Wehle
Education	University of Pennsylvania Cornell University (BA) University of Michigan (JD)
Occupation(s)	Professor, lawyer, author, legal analyst and news commentator
Employer	University of Baltimore School of Law
Website	kimwehle.com

Kimberly Lynn Wehle is a tenured law professor, writer, and legal contributor for ABC News and a former legal analyst for CBS News. She is an expert in civil procedure, administrative law, and the separation of powers.

Wehle writes on democracy and the separation of powers, outsourcing government, and the federal administrative state. Before joining ABC News, Wehle was a contributor for the PBS-syndicated BBC World News and BBC World News America. She is also an op-Ed contributor for Politico , The Atlantic, The Hill, The Guardian and The Bulwark , and a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition . ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Wehle has authored three books, including How to Read the Constitution – and Why and What You Need to Know About Voting – and Why. ^[5] Her latest book is How to Think Like a Lawyer—and Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas. She is best known for her ability to demystify legal concepts. Her next book, How the Pardon Power Works and Why'', is due for publication with Woodhall Press on September 3, 2024.

Early life and education

Wehle grew up in Buffalo, New York, the second of five children. During her childhood, she attended Catholic elementary schools and a non-sectarian all-girls school where she played lacrosse and explored her talent for the visual arts. Her mother, Betty Jane Wehle, was an amateur artist who started her own Montessori preschool in a Buffalo suburb in the early 1970s; she died in 2006. Her father, Richard E. Wehle, was a management consultant who died in 2015.

Wehle graduated high school from the Buffalo Seminary and went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania for one year before transferring to Cornell University, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority as well as the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. ^[6] As an English major at Cornell, Wehle won a department award for the best honors thesis of her class. The paper was entitled The Vision of Flannery O'Connor. In the summer after her junior year, she attended the Leo Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France. Wehle was offered a full scholarship to remain at art school, but ultimately turned it down in order to complete her undergraduate degree at Cornell.

After graduating magna cum laude from Cornell, Wehle went on to attend the University of Michigan Law School. There, Wehle was an editor of the Michigan Law Review . She graduated with a J.D. cum laude . ^[7]

Career

Wehle began her career practicing law as a clerk to a federal judge, Hon. Charles R. Richey, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., then at the Federal Trade Commission; the Whitewater Investigation, where she worked with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C.; and then worked in private practice. She has also argued several cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and other appellate courts.^{[ citation needed ]}

Wehle is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She has previously taught at American University Washington College of Law, George Washington University Law School and the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Wehle specializes in the respective powers of the three branches of the federal government. ^[1] She teaches courses in Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, American Democracy, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wehle has written three books, and is, as of June 2022, a legal contributor for ABC News. ^[8] She began her career in legal journalism unexpectedly. In 2017, she came across a news article that referred to the President's pardon power under the Constitution as "absolute." This statement prompted her to write her first op-ed, published in The Baltimore Sun , to underscore that most of the Constitution is not black and white, but grey, and that even the pardon power is subject to checks and balances. ^[9] From there, she began writing with greater frequency on issues of constitutional and legal significance for various journalistic outlets, including The Hill , ^{[10] [11]} The Bulwark , ^[12] and, later, The LA Times , ^[13] The Atlantic , Politico , Newsweek , and The Guardian . Based on Kim's written work, she is regularly invited to make media appearances on radio, podcasts, and TV. She has appeared regularly as a guest on BBC, ^[14] CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ^{[1] [15] [16]} Fox News, Al Jazeera, C-SPAN, PBS NewsHour, Peacock TV, NBC, Newsy, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, France 24, and on major networks in the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland. Her current role for ABC News began with the hearings by the House Committee on January 6, 2021 and now spans other breaking legal news. During the Impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, she provided in depth legal analysis for CBS, and appeared on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. ^{[ citation needed ]} She hosts a periodic show called #SimplePolitics on Instagram.

Works

• How to Read the Constitution--and Why, New York, NY : Harper, 2019. ISBN   9780062914361, OCLC   1051078589 ^[17]
  "Not since perhaps the Nixon years have there been so many valid questions about the U.S. Constitution and its role in our lives—and so many perceived challenges to it. Kim Wehle's How to Read the Constitution—and Why provides essential, compelling reading on this glorious document. A must-read for this era." - Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent ^[18]
  "[An] accessible treatise...Wehle elegantly translates the Constitution into layperson-friendly terms" - Publishers Weekly ^[18]
• What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why, New York, NY : Harper, 2020. ISBN   9780062974785, ^[19]
  "Now, more than ever, Americans are realizing that their votes count. Kim Wehle's excellent guide tells you everything you need to know about the laws governing our greatest right and privilege. A must-read, especially in an election year." - Norah O'Donnell, Anchor and Managing Editor, CBS Evening News ^[20]
  "Approachable and informative...What You Need to Know About Voting and Why is a clearly written resource for voters across the political spectrum, and is especially useful as we approach the 2020 presidential election." - Booklist ^[20]
• ”How to Think Like a Lawyer and Why”, New York, NY : Harper, 2022. ISBN 0063067560 "Kim Wehle writes with clarity, verve, and a sense of style that combine to make legal thinking uniquely accessible to broad audiences.” Laurence Tribe, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School

References

1. "Professor of Law: Kimberly Wehle", University of Baltimore.
2. "Prof. Wehle on What Michael Flynn's Cooperation with the Mueller Team Might Say About the Larger Investigation", University of Baltimore School of Law, December 5, 2018.
3. "Kimberly Wehle", The Hill .
4. "Could Trump attorney Michael Cohen face criminal charges for Stormy Daniels payment?", CBS This Morning, March 27, 2018.
5. Kim Wehle, How to Read the Constitution--and Why, HarperCollins.
6. "Buffalo Seminary's Poetry Through the Years".
7. Kimberly N. Brown, "Justiciable Generalized Grievances" May 21, 2009, abstract.
8. "How to Read the Constitution—and Why – Kim Wehle – Hardcover". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher.
9. Kimberly L. Wehle, "Pardon power is not absolute", Baltimore Sun, August 28, 2017.
10. "What To Expect From The Mueller Report". NPR.org.
11. Stanage, Niall (February 4, 2019). "Juan Williams: Mueller report must not be whitewashed". TheHill.
12. "Kim Wehle, Author at The Bulwark". The Bulwark.
13. Kim Wehle, "Are Democrats overstepping by investigating all things Trump? Just ask William Barr", Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2019.
14. "Beyond 100 Days", BBC News, December 17, 2018 (archived).
15. Miles Parks, "Cohen, Trump Push To Decide What's Protected By Attorney-Client Privilege", NPR, April 16, 2018.
16. "Law Professor Analyzes Details Flynn Provided To Russia Probe", Morning Edition, NPR, December 5, 2018.
17. "'A Lot Of Gray Area': A Legal Expert Explains 'How To Read The Constitution'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
18. "How to Read the Constitution--and Why (Hardcover) | Politics and Prose Bookstore". www.politics-prose.com.
19. "What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why". harpercollins.com. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
20. "What You Need to Know About Voting--and Why". HarperCollins.

External links

• Personal website