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He has published numerous articles on constitutional law and legal theory including: Making the Familiar Conventional Again, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 1607 (2001), The “Power” Thing, 82 Va. L. Rev. 721 (1996), The Constitution of Conscience, 72 Texas L. Rev.1805 (1994), Human Values in a Postmodern World, 6 Yale J. L. & Humanities 233 (1994), Death Is the Mother of Metaphor, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 745 (1992), Indeterminacy and Incommensurability in Constitutional Law, 78 Calif. L. Rev.1441 (1990), Bull Durham and the Uses of Theory, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 635 (1990), and The Metaphor of Standing and the Problem of Self-Governance, 40 Stan. L. Rev.1371 (1988). He has served as a consultant to the Helsinki Watch Committee (1985), the Central Intelligence Agency, Strategic Assessments Group (1999), and Intellectual Property Creators and the Society of Amateur Scientists (2001). Before joining the academy, Professor Winter spent eight years as an Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where he litigated a variety of civil rights cases in the state and federal courts, including brief and oral argument before the United States Supreme Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985) (holding the common law fleeing felon rule unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment). Professor Winter has taught at the University of Miami, American University’s Washington College of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and the Yale Law School.
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Steven L. Winter is the Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at Wayne State University Law School. He is the author of A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind (University of Chicago Press 2001), the first systematic attempt to assess cognitive science’s implications for law and legal theory.