Summary
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of Berkeley Law and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He is one of the nation’s foremost constitutional scholars and a prolific author, with 19 books and over 200 law review articles to his name. His recent works include Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.
Before joining Berkeley Law in 2017, Dean Chemerinsky served as the founding dean of UC Irvine School of Law and held faculty positions at Duke, USC, and DePaul. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a frequent commentator in national media, and regularly argues appellate cases, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2024, National Jurist named him the most influential person in legal education in the U.S.
He earned his B.S. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.