Kate Andrias

{{Short description|American legal scholar}}

Kate E. Andrias (born c. 1976) is an American jurist and legal scholar.

Biography

Andrias was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She attended Yale College and Yale University, earning a Bachelor's of Arts degree in 1997, followed by a Juris Doctor in 2004. Andrias clerked for Stephen Reinhardt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then joined Perkins Coie, specializing in election law and working with Barack Obama's first presidential campaign. During Obama's presidency, Andrias served as associate counsel and special assistant, then chief of staff of the White House Counsel's Office.{{cite news |title=Kate Andrias |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kate-andrias |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=Columba Law School}}

Andrias left the Obama administration in 2011 for a fellowship at Columbia University,{{cite news |title=Kate Andrias: Organizing Access to Political Power |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/kate-andrias-organizing-access-political-power |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=Columbia Law School |date=14 July 2021}} and taught at the University of Michigan School of Law from 2013 to 2021.{{cite news |title=University of Michigan Law School Faculty Bibliography: Andrias, Kate (2013-2021) |url=https://libguides.law.umich.edu/facultybibliography/andrias |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=University of Michigan School of Law}} During her tenure at Michigan, Andrias was promoted to a full professorship in 2018.{{cite news |title=Promotion recommendation |url=https://regents.umich.edu/files/meetings/05-18/assets/reports/Andrias,%20Kate%20E..pdf |access-date=19 May 2024 |publisher=University of Michigan School of Law}}

She left Michigan for Columbia Law School in July 2021. In April of that same year, Andrias was named to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States,{{cite news |title=Yale Law Faculty, Alumni Named to Presidential Commission on Supreme Court Reform |url=https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/yale-law-faculty-alumni-named-presidential-commission-supreme-court-reform |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=Yale Law School |date=14 April 2021}} serving until the commission published its final report in December.{{cite news |title=Faculty Offer Insiders' Account of Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/faculty-offer-insiders-account-presidential-commission-supreme-court |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=Columba Law School |date=7 February 2022}} At Columbia, Andrias holds the Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professorship of Law.

Andrias is an elected member of the American Law Institute.{{cite news |title=Professor Kate Andrias |url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/474999/ |access-date=18 May 2024 |publisher=American Law Institute}}

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