Erwin Chemerinsky (born May 14, 1953) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of U.S. constitutional law and federal civil procedure. Since 2017, Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Previously, he was the inaugural dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017.
Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. The National Jurist magazine named him the most influential person in legal education in the United States in 2017. In 2021 Chemerinsky was named President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.
Books in order of publication:
Interpreting the Constitution. New York: Praeger Publishers – 1987
Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies. New York: Aspen Law and Business. – 1997
Constitutional Law (2nd edition). New York: Aspen Publishers – 2005
The conservative assault on the constitution – 2011
The Case Against the Supreme Court. New York: Viking; (2015)
We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Picador. – 2018
Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism – 2022
No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States – 2024
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