Lawrence Sager

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Lawrence Sager is dean of the The University of Texas School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin, holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, and is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. Sager, who joined the Law School faculty in 2002, is the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history.

A graduate of Columbia Law School and Pomona College, Sager taught for more than 25 years at New York University School of Law, where he was instrumental in transforming the NYU faculty into one of the very best in the nation. At Texas, he has also been deeply involved with the Law School's successful faculty recruitment efforts, which include luring corporate law expert Bernard Black from Stanford Law School in 2004 and health law scholar William Sage from Columbia Law School this year. He served as chair of the Law School's Appointments Committee during the 2005–06 academic year.

Sager has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Princeton University, Boston University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and University of Michigan Law School.

Sager is the author or co-author of dozens of articles, many now classics in the canon of legal scholarship, as well as two books: Justice in Plainclothes: A Theory of American Constitutional Practice (Yale University Press, 2004) and, with Christopher Eisgruber, Religious Freedom and the Constitution, forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Sager is married to University of Texas at Austin Law Professor Jane M. Cohen, who holds the Edward Clark Centennial Professorship and has written extensively in the areas of family law, feminist legal theory, cultural accommodation and genetic discrimination. They have nine children. Seven are now adults. The couple's twin daughters live in Austin and attend the Girls School of Austin, where Sager is vice chair of the Board of Trustees and Cohen is an active participant in the affairs of the school.