Education and career
Primus graduated from Harvard College with an A.B.,summa cum laude,in social studies. He then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in politics at Balliol College,Oxford,where he was a Rhodes Scholar and the Jowett Senior Scholar. After studying law at Yale Law School,Primus was a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. [3]
Primus then practiced law at the Washington,D.C. office of Jenner &Block before joining the Michigan Law School faculty in 2001. He has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School,New York University School of Law,and the University of Tokyo. Primus currently teaches Introduction to Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory at the University of Michigan.
His maternal grandfather,Sigmund Strochlitz (1916–2006),was a Holocaust survivor and confidant of Elie Wiesel. [4] Primus has been married to Eve Brensike,who is also a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law,since 2007. [5]
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