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Thomas Merrill
| Thomas Merrill | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Columbia Law School |
| Location: | New York, N.Y. |
| Education: | •Grinnell College •University of Oxford •University of Chicago Law School |
Thomas Merrill is an American legal scholar and professor. He became the Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 2010. He clerked for David Bazelon on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court of the United States. He writes about property rights and administrative law.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Merrill's education and career:[1][2]
Academic degrees:
- B.A. (1971), Grinnell College
- B.A. (1973), Oxford University
- J.D. (1977), University of Chicago Law School
Professional positions and honors:
- Investment analyst, National Bank of Detroit, 1973-1974
- Law clerk, David Bazelon, D.C. Circuit, 1977-1978
- Law clerk, Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court of the United States 1978-1979
- Counsel, Sidley & Austin, 1981-1987, 1990-2005
- Faculty, Northwestern University School of Law, 1981-2003
- Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1987-1990
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004-Present
- Member, Board of editors, Foundation Press, 2005-Present
- Faculty, Yale Law School, 2008-2009
- Faculty, Columbia Law School, 2003-2008, 2010-Present
- Visiting professor, University of Tel Aviv Law School, Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011
- Fellow, American Law Institute, 2015-Present
Academic scholarship
The following table contains works by Merrill about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.
| Works related to the administrative state | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "The Essential Meaning of the Rule of Law" | Journal of Law, Economics and Policy (2022) | ||
| "Re-reading Chevron" | Duke Law Journal (2021) | ||
| "Classical Liberal Property and the Question of Institutional Choice" | Journal of Legal Studies (2021) | ||
| "The Story of Chevron USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984): Sometimes Great Cases are Made Not Born" in Statutory Interpretation Stories | Administrative Law Review (2014) | ||
| "Step Zero After City of Arlington" | Fordham Law Review (2014) | ||
| "Article III, Agency Adjudication, and the Origins of the Appellate Review Model of Administrative Law" | Columbia Law Review (2011) | ||
| "Agency Rules With the Force of Law: The Original Convention" | Harvard Law Review (2002) | ||
| "Marbury v. Madison as the First Great Administrative Law Decision" | John Marshall Law Review (2004) | ||
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes
