Professor John C. Harrison is the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law and Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He joined the faculty at University of Virginia in 1993 as an associate professor of law after a distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice. His teaching subjects include constitutional history, federal courts, remedies, corporations, civil procedure, legislation and property. In 2008 he was on leave from the Law School to serve as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.
A 1977 graduate of the University of Virginia, Harrison earned his law degree in 1980 at Yale, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor and articles editor of the Yale Studies in World Public Order. He was an associate at Patton Boggs & Blow in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He worked with the Department of Justice from 1983-93, serving in numerous capacities, including deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel (1990-93).
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Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
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Showcase Panel III: Originalism on the Ground
2023 National Lawyers Convention
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The Role of a State Solicitor General
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The Second Founding: Originalism and the Fourteenth Amendment
Virginia Student Chapter
University of Virginia School of Law580 Massie Road
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Panel: Police Powers and the Pandemic
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
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Showcase Panel III: Originalism on the Ground
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Featuring: Prof. John C. Harrison, James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of...
Showcase Panel III: Originalism on the Ground
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Featuring: Prof. John C. Harrison, James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of...
Does the Administrative Procedure Act Provide for Universal Vacatur?
Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act instructs courts to "set aside" agency action that...
Does the Administrative Procedure Act Provide for Universal Vacatur?
Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act instructs courts to "set aside" agency action that...
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Panel VI: 1995 National Student Symposium, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment [Archive Collection]
1995 National Student Symposium
On April 7-9, 1995, the Federalist Society held its fourteenth annual National Student Symposium at...