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Thomas W. Merrill

Prof. Thomas W. Merrill

Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Topics: Environmental Law & Property Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers

THOMAS W. MERRILL is the Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.  He previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law and Yale Law School.  He has undergraduate degrees from Grinnell College and Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from the University of Chicago. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit (for Chief Judge David Bazelon) and the U.S. Supreme Court (for Justice Harry Blackmun).  From 1987-1990 he served as Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice.  Professor Merrill’s writings related to property include Property: Principles and Policies (Foundation Press Second Edition, 2012) (with Henry E. Smith); Property: The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law (Oxford U. Press, 2010); Property: Takings (Foundation Press, 2002)(with David Dana); and numerous articles, including “The Economics of Public Use” (Cornell Law Review 1986); “The Landscape of Constitutional Property” (Virginia Law Review 2000); and “The Character of the Governmental Action” (Vermont Law Review 2012). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence

Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence

2019 National Lawyers Convention

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Speakers:
Lisa Branch • Eric R. Claeys • Richard J. Lazarus • Thomas W. Merrill • Ilya Somin
Topics:
Environmental & Energy Law • Property Law • Environmental Law & Property Rights • Due Process • Fourteenth Amendment • Law & Economics
2019 National Lawyers Convention

2019 National Lawyers Convention

Originalism

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Speakers:
G. Barry Anderson • John S. Baker • Jack M. Balkin • Stephanie H. Barclay • Randy E. Barnett • William P. Barr • Evan D. Bernick • Josh Blackman • Adam Candeub • Michael A. Carvin • Ronald A. Cass • Eric R. Claeys • Paul D. Clement • Alexander J.S. Colvin • William S. Consovoy • Harmeet K. Dhillon • Michael C. Dorf • John C. Eastman • Jennifer Walker Elrod • Kurt Damian Engelhardt • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Mark C. Fleming • Deborah A. Garza • Eric Goldman • Luke Goodrich • Neil M. Gorsuch • Jamal Greene • Tara Leigh Grove • Deepak Gupta • Christopher Hajec • Philip A. Hamburger • Mauricio R. Hernandez • Kristin E. Hickman • Ryan T. Holte • Brett M. Kavanaugh • F. Scott Kieff • Gene Kimmelman • Neil J. Kinkopf • Donald Kohn • Richard J. Lazarus • Renée Lettow Lerner • Jonathan Lowy • Nelson Lund • William P. Marshall • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Thomas W. Merrill • Bernadette Meyler • Thomas D. Morgan • Alan B. Morrison • Christina M. Mulligan • Ryan D. Nelson • Norman J. Ornstein • Michael Stokes Paulsen • James E. Pfander • Richard H. Pildes • Andrew J. Pincus • Alex J. Pollock • Saikrishna B. Prakash • William H. Pryor • David B. Rivkin • Edward L. Rubin • Stephen E. Sachs • David S. Schoenbrod • Jefferson B. Sessions • Ilya Shapiro • Paul Sheard • Kristen Silverberg • Mark W. Smith • Lawrence Solum • Ilya Somin • David R. Stras • Richard E. Sylla • Jonathan E. Taylor • Eugene Volokh • Elizabeth B. Wydra • John C. Yoo • Juan C. Zarate
Topics:
Constitution
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