Adrian Vermeule

Adrian Vermeule, who is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, has been Professor of Law at Harvard Law School since 2006 and was named John H. Watson Professor of Law in 2008. He was a Visiting Professor of Law in 2005. His writings focus on institutional theory, and he teaches Administrative Law, Legislation, Constitutional Law, and National Security Law.

Vermeule was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School from 1998 to 2005. There, he was twice awarded the Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence, in 2002 and 2004. Before entering teaching, he served as a clerk to Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Family

Parents: Emily Vermeule, Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Sister: Blakey Vermeule

Works

*"Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small" (Oxford University Press 2007)
*"Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts" (with Eric Posner) (Oxford University Press 2007).
*"Judging Under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation" (Harvard University Press 2006)
*"Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Cases and Materials" (with Stephen Breyer, Richard Stewart & Cass Sunstein) (6 ed. 2006).

External links

* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=536 Harvard Law School bio]
* [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/10/07/supreme_downsizing/ Boston Globe profile]
* [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040610/gt-vermeule.shtml Vermeule awarded 2004 Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence at University of Chicago Law School]
* [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020606/gta-vermeule.shtml Vermeule awarded 2002 Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence at University of Chicago Law School]