Sherif Girgis joined Notre Dame Law School in 2021. Prior to joining Notre Dame Law, Sherif practiced law at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where he focused on appellate and complex civil litigation. Before that, Girgis served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Now completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, Girgis earned his J.D. at Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and won the Felix S. Cohen Prize for best paper in legal philosophy. Before law school, he earned a master's degree (B.Phil.) in philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Princeton, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. Girgis is coauthor of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, cited in a dissent in United States v. Windsor, and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, released by Oxford University Press in 2017. His work at the intersection of philosophy and law--including criminal law, constitutional liberties, and jurisprudence--has appeared in academic and popular venues including the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Law, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Luncheon and Discussion with Prof. Sherif Girgis: Living Traditionalism
Grand Rapids Lawyers Chapter
Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge100 Monroe Center NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
2nd Amendment Rights in Front of the Court
Illinois Student Chapter
University of Illinois college of Law504 E Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign, IL 61820
Champaign, IL 61820
Panel IV: Constitutions, Elections, and Procedure – (How) Can We Change How We Separate Powers?
2024 National Student Symposium
Harvard Law School1585 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Living Traditionalism
Chicago Student Chapter
The University of Chicago Law School1111 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637
History & Tradition at the Court
Michigan Student Chapter
The University of Michigan Law School625 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Panel IV: Constitutions, Elections, and Procedure – (How) Can We Change How We Separate Powers?
2024 National Student Symposium
Suppose we don’t like how our governmental powers are separated. Perhaps we think the executive...
Panel: Dobbs & the Rule of Law
24th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
This past June, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
Special Session I: Dobbs, Roe, Casey, and the Rule of Law
2022 National Lawyers Convention
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in Dobbs v....
Special Session I: Dobbs, Roe, Casey, and the Rule of Law
2022 National Lawyers Convention
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in Dobbs v....
Courthouse Steps Pre-Argument Webinar: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
A Federalist Society Webinar
On December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,...