MEDIA ADVISORY
Vice Presidency Expert Available for Comment on Bush Vice President Choice
St. Louis, MO, July 25, 2000 -- One of the nation's foremost experts on the vice presidency, Joel K. Goldstein of Saint Louis University, is available to comment on George W. Bush's running mate choice -- to be announced today.
Author of The Modern American Vice Presidency, The Transformation of a Political Institution (Princeton University Press) and a Rhodes Scholar, Goldstein received a doctorate at Oxford University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was note editor of the Harvard Law Review, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
Contact Kelli Hauser of Saint Louis University at 314-977-2540 to arrange an interview.
(Note: For broadcast media, satellite uplink facilities are located immediately adjacent to the Saint Louis University campus at PBS station KETC-TV/Channel 9, 3655 Olive Street, St. Louis, MO, 63108, 314-512-9000.)
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More on Joel K. Goldstein, J.D.
Joel K. Goldstein, J.D. is a professor of law and an expert in constitutional law, the vice presidency and the U.S. Supreme Court. After graduating from law school, Goldstein was a law clerk for Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts and practiced admiralty law for 11 years at Goldstein and Price in St. Louis.
He is the author of The Modern American Vice Presidency (Princeton University Press) and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution and the Encyclopedia of the American Presidency and other works dealing with Constitutional Law, American Government and Admiralty Law. He received the Thompson Coburn Faculty Scholarship Award in 1995 and received the Faculty Member of the Year Award in 1997. Goldstein teaches Admiralty, Contracts, Constitutional Law I and Federal Jurisdiction. He also teaches a seminar on "The Constitution and the President."
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