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Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky - Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude; Northwestern University, B.A. cum laude. Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University Law School, whose faculty he joined in 2004. Between 1983 and 2004, he was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, where he was the Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He was a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and an attorney in private practice in that city. Prof. Chemerinsky has argued more 110 appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts, and has argued or represented parties in the U.S. Supreme Court in such cases as Tory v. Cochran, (No. 03‑1488) (pending); Van Orden v. Perry, (No. 03‑1500) (pending); Nike, Inc. v. Kasky, 539 U.S. 564 (2003); Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003); Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003); Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc., 532 U.S. 424 (2001); and Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, 518 U.S. 415 (1996). He is regularly invited to lecture state supreme court justices at the National Judicial College, and both state and federal judges at annual appellate conference programs around the country. He is the author of 125 law review articles (published in such journals as the HARVARD LAW REVIEW, MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW, NORTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW, STANFORD LAW REVIEW, and YALE LAW JOURNAL), 25 book chapters, and five books, including FEDERAL JURISDICTION; ANNUAL SUPREME COURT REVIEW; CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES; and SECTION 1983 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION. He teaches Administrative Law; Civil Procedure; Constitutional Law; Federal Jurisdiction; Law and the Mass Media; Ethics; and Professional Responsibility.