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11. There really is no official designation of "constitutional scholar".

It's sort of a self-proclaimed title. So you can argue one case in front of a State court on a constitutional basis and then call yourself a constitutional scholar.

I worked at law school. It was a 5th tier law school. All students took constitutional law first year. There are a lot of private law schools that are established strictly to push their own agendas such as Ave Maria Law School in Florida which is Catholic. Their only goal is to teach students how to overturn Roe v. Wade. It's hardly unbiased. So Johnson argued his conservative interpretation of Louisiana's state law in a state that is clearly mostly conservative.

One of the things I learned from working at a law school was that my naive notion of how anyone with a law degree is intelligent. The particular law school where I worked was dedicated to serve a population that was diverse and not able to afford the more prestigious law schools. We had one professor that had taught constitutional law for decades. I would call him a constitutional scholar a hundred times over compared to Johnson.

From wiki it's also interesting that he tried to start his own private law school and it never got off the ground.