Art "Arthur" Svenson Ph.D.
Professor, David Boies Endowed Chair of Government
Political Science
About Art
Recent scholarship focuses on both statutory and constitutional questions generated by certain end-of-life policies of American national and state governments. Does the Fourteenth Amendment nationalize a right to physician-assisted suicide? How does the exercise of Congress' Commerce Clause power affect state legalization of physician-assisted suicide and medicinal marijuana? What impact might shifting notions of assisted dying for terminally ill, competent adults have on the Supreme Court's Equal Protection jurisprudence?
Education
- Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara- Santa Barbara, CA
- M.A. University of California Santa Barbara- Santa Barbara, CA
- B.A. California State University Fresno- Fresno, CA
Professional Background
Previous Teaching Experience:
- Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2016
Renmin University, Beijing, China, 2011
Florida International University, 1979-1981
Professional Experience:
- Professional violinist: Redlands Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony, Riverside County Philharmonic
Awards and service
- American Political Science Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 2019
- Fulbright Scholar Award (Sichuan University, Chengdu, China), 2016
- Town and Gown Award of Distinction, 2014
- Fulbright Scholar Award (Renmin University, Beijing, China), 2011
- Armacost Award for Faculty Service to Alumni, 2008
- Centennial Award, 2007
- David Boies Endowed Chair, 2004
- Research Award, 2003
- Mortar Board Professor of the Year, 1992, 2013
- Outstanding Teaching Award, 1983, 1986, 1997
Publications
“Can You? Will You?” for Spoken Word and String Trio, Spoken Word Written and
Performed by Arthur Svenson, Music Composed by Anthony Suter, Performed and Recorded on October 3, 2020, view at Anthony Suter, YouTube.
“President Trump’s Impossible Brief,” Daily Journal, April 23, 2020.
“Youngstown and the President’s Emergency Powers,” Daily Journal, January 23, 2019.
“Physician-Assisted Dying and the Law in the United States: A Perspective on Three Prospective Futures,” in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Perspectives on Choosing Death, edited by Michael Cholbi, Praeger Press, 2017.
“Adventures in Normalizing New: Death with Dignity in Montana and Vermont,” in And Death Shall Have Dominion, eBook edited by Katarzyna Malecka and Rossanna Gibbs, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015.
“‘How We Die’ in New Mexico: A Judicial Prescription Without Relief,”
Beijing Law Review, 6 (2015) 117-124.
Areas of Expertise
- Physician-assisted suicide
- Medicinal marijuana
- Federalism
- Politics and the arts