Kimberly Wehle

Kimberly Wehle is a law professor and constitutional scholar. She writes on the separation of powers, outsourcing government, and the federal administrative state. She is a lawyer, author, and legal analyst for CBS, and contributor to the PBS-syndicated BBC World News and BBC World News America. She is an op-Ed contributor for The Atlantic, The Hill and The Bulwark, and a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition.

Wehle grew up in Buffalo, New York and graduated from high school at the Buffalo Seminary, followed by a degree in English magna cum laude from Cornell University and a JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan, she was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. Her married surname was Brown.

Wehle is a Visiting Professor and Fellow in Law and Government at American University’s Washington College of Law and a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, having previously taught at George Washington University Law School and the University of Oklahoma School of Law. Her first book, How to Read the Constitution – and Why, was published by HarperCollins on June 25, 2019. She is also a media legal analyst. She has written articles for the Baltimore Sun Politico, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

Prior to joining CBS, she appeared regularly as a guest legal analyst on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, among other news outlets, regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 US presidential election, constitutional law, impeachment, and other legal issues relating to the Trump Administration.

Wehle clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Richey of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1994–95, was a Federal Trade Commission attorney from 1995–96, and she was an Associate Independent Counsel for Kenneth W. Starr in 1996 and 1997. Following her tenure with Judge Starr, she served as an Assistant US Attorney in Washington, D.C.

Wehle is a practicing lawyer.

• How to Read the Constitution--and Why, New York, NY : Harper, 2019. ISBN 9780062914361, OCLC 1051078589