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.
LAKEFRONT: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
Chicago Lawyers Chapter
The Ivy Room At Tree Studios12 East Ohio Street #100
Chicago, IL 60611
An Originalist Defense of Chevron Deference
Columbia Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- Columbia Law SchoolZoom
New York, NY 10027
Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
2019 National Lawyers Convention
Originalism
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Stare Decisis: When Should Judges Overrule Established Precedents
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New York, NY 10019
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Panel II: How Effective Are Bills of Rights in Protecting Freedom and Civil Liberties? [Archive Collection]
1991 National Student Symposium
On March 1-2, 1991, the Federalist Society's Yale Law School student chapter hosted the annual...
Panel II: How Effective Are Bills of Rights in Protecting Freedom and Civil Liberties? [Archive Collection]
1991 National Student Symposium
On March 1-2, 1991, the Federalist Society's Yale Law School student chapter hosted the annual...
Chevron: Scalia's Evolution
Short video featuring Thomas Merrill, Chris Walker, and Kristin Hickman
Toward the beginning of his tenure on the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia was one...
Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society's Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group hosted...
Originalism and Constitutional Property Rights Jurisprudence
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society's Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group hosted...