Biography
Frank J. Scaturro was born in New York City and currently resides on Long Island. He has fostered an interest in American history since age seven. Scaturro graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science. That same year, he founded the Grant Monument Association and drew public attention to the disrepair of Grant’s Tomb in New York City. In 1997, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and he served as an associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft from 1998 to 2004. Between 2005 and 2009, he served as counsel for the Constitution for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He currently serves as a visiting professor at Hofstra University School of Law, where he teaches courses on the legislative process and constitutional law. In addition to several articles he has written in the areas of American history and law, he is the author of President Grant Reconsidered (Madison Books, 1999); The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction: A Distortion of Constitutional Jurisprudence (Greenwood Press, 2000); and co-author of Public Companies (Law Journal Press, 2002). He also collaborated with Sen. Arlen Specter on Never Give In (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008), a memoir detailing the Senator’s struggle with Hodgkin’s Disease while serving as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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