piece from Laurence Tribe published in the Yale Law Journal. However, in a 1991 appraisal of the work by Michael J. Klarman, he concludes that "political process theory emerges relatively unscathed from attacks leveled by Ely's critics against its more global aspects." In a New York Times piece after Ely's death, Mark Tushnet called it ''the most important work of constitutional scholarship in the two generations from the time it was published to now.'' Personal life and death In 1971, Ely married Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel, who would later become the United States Ambassador to Slovenia, with whom he had two sons: John and Robert. However, the two divorced and Ely married Gisela Cardonne Ely, a Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge. On October 25, 2003, Ely died in his Miami home at Coconut Grove after a long battle with cancer. His funeral was held at Coral Gables Congregational Church and was attended by Dennis O. Lynch, then the dean of the University of Miami School of Law. Awards and honors In 1981, Ely was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The next year, he received the 1982 Triennial Award of the Order of the Coif for Democracy and Distrust. As the primary subject of the Virginia Law Review, the journal dedicated its May 1991 issue to examining Ely's book in the decade since it had been published. Ely was the recipient of multiple honorary degrees including those from the University of San Diego and the Chicago-Kent College of Law. In 2003, Ely was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale Law School; the award's citation read: "Your work set the standard for constitutional scholarship for our generation." Following his death in October of that same year, the school held a November symposium in his honor titled "On Democratic Ground: New Perspectives on John Hart Ely." In her 2011 book on Hans Kelsen, Sandrine Baume identified Ely as a significant defender of the "compatibility of judicial review with the very principles of democracy". Ely was listed alongside Dworkin as one of the foremost defenders of this principle in recent years. See also Doctrine of Absurdity List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) Footnotes Selected publications Books Articles ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— References Sources Books Journals Newspapers Cases Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. __ (2022) External links