Prof. Charles W. Tyler

Charles (Chas) Tyler's teaching and research focuses on federal courts, constitutional law, and civil procedure. His academic work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Notre Dame Law Review, among others. In 2022, his article, The Adjudicative Model of Precedent, won the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers' Eisenberg Prize for the best publication on appellate law.

Professor Tyler graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and received a BPhil with distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.  He then earned his JD from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Beinecke Scholar. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he was an Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School; a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Peking University School of Transnational Law; a law clerk to Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court; and an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate practice group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.