Highlights
- At the present time, Professor Buss is devoting all of his scholarly work to researching and writing about the American influence on the Australian Constitution. He thinks it is important for Americans and Australians to know how deep and wide that influence was on the Australians who wrote their Constitution and how much similarity there is now between the two constitutions.
William G. Buss
O.K. Patton Professor
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BA, Yale University, magna cum laude, 1955
LLB, Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, 1960 - Email william-buss@uiowa.edu
- Phone 319-335-9025
- Office 434 Boyd Law Building
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Prior to joining the law faculty in 1967, Professor Buss clerked for Judge Bailey Aldrich on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, practiced law with Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston, and served as Lecturer on Education and Assistant to the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Since coming to Iowa, Professor Buss has specialized in the field of constitutional law, especially including comparative constitutional law and constitutional law related to public education. His scholarly writing has included articles on the constitutional rights of students, special education in the United States and in England and Wales, freedom of speech in the United States and Australia. He has taught comparative public and constitutional law at Durham University, in England, and Victoria University, in New Zealand. Professor Buss’s current scholarship concerns the American influence on the making and interpretation of the Australian Constitution.