Michael C. Dorf

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Michael C. Dorf is a noted Constitutional scholar, and is currently the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University. In addition to constitutional law, Professor Dorf has taught courses in civil procedure and federal courts. He has authored/edited three books, including No Litmus Test: Law Versus Politics in the Twenty-First Century, and Constitutional Law Stories, as well as scores of law review articles about American Constitutional law. He is also a columnist for Findlaw.com and a regular contributor to The American Prospect. Dorf is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1995, he was a professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden for three years. He graduated Harvard Law School and Harvard College. While at Harvard as an undergraduate, he was the American Parliamentary Debate Association national champion. Before attending law school, he co-authored several academic articles in physics.

As of January 1, 2008, Professor Dorf is Special Counsel at Dewey & LeBoeuf, an international law firm. In the past, he has advised organizations involved in constitutional litigation, and he has authored an amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court.

Professor Dorf appears in the news media occasionally as a legal expert, and has been interviewed by and/or quoted in, for example, The New York Times, National Public Radio, and the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

On December 3, 2007, Dorf announced on his blog that he and his wife, Sherry F. Colb, would be switching to Cornell Law School starting in Fall 2008.

He is a practitioner of blogging, veganism and, periodically, juggling.

[edit] Books authored or edited by Michael C. Dorf

[edit] Selected law review articles authored by Michael C. Dorf

Foreword: Problem-Solving Courts: From Innovation to Institutionalization, 40 American Criminal Law Review 1501 (2003) (co-author Jeffrey A. Fagan).
The Supreme Court 1997 Term -- Foreword: The Limits of Socratic Deliberation, 112 Harvard Law Review 4 (1998).
A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism, 98 Columbia Law Review 267 (1998) (co-author Charles F. Sabel).
Incidental Burdens on Fundamental Rights, 109 Harvard Law Review 1175 (1996).
Facial Challenges to State and Federal Statutes, 46 Stanford Law Review 236 (1994).