Education
Primus graduated from Harvard College with an Bachelor of Arts, 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.
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He currently teaches United States constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation. After studying law at Yale Law School, Primus clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Primus then practiced law at the Washington, District of Columbia 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. He is a son of Doctor
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