University of Redlands
Physician-assisted suicide
Medicinal marijuana
Federalism
Politics and the arts
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
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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?
B.A., California State University, Fresno, 1973
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1975
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979
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
Constitutional Law: National and State Powers
Constitutional Law: Liberty and Authority
Criminal Procedure
War, Terrorism, and the Constitution
The Equal Protection Clause
The Burger Court
The Rehnquist Court
Judicial Process
Comparative Judicial Systems
Public Policy and Administration
Congress and the Bureaucracy
American Political Thought
American National Government and Politics
“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.
“Montana’s Courting of Physician Aid in Dying: Could Des Moines Follow Suit?”
Politics and the Life Sciences, 29 (2010) 2-16.
"Death with Dignity's Emerging Conceit: Could Vacco v. Quill be Losing its Appeal?," La Verne Law Review, 2009.
"Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Supreme Court: A Decade in the Life of a Constitutional Issue That's ‘Not Dead Yet,'" with Susan Behuniak, in Making Sense of Death and Dying, edited eBook, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, 2009.
"The Democratizing Effect of Oral Argument," with Susan Behuniak, The World and I Online, 2006.
Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue, with Susan Behuniak, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
"The Last Rites for States' Rights? The Graveside Struggles Between the States and Congress over Physician-Assisted Suicide," Social Science Journal, 2003.
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
American Federation of Musicians, Local 47
Art Svenson is the Faculty Sponsor of the University of Redlands Mock Trial Team and a University of Redlands Prelaw Advisor.
