Michael J Gerhardt

Michael J. Gerhardt is the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He specializes in constitutional conflicts and has been active as a scholar, advisor, special counsel, expert witness, and public commentator on all the major conflicts between presidents and Congress over the past quarter century. Professor Gerhardt’s extensive public service has included advising congressional leaders and White House officials on numerous constitutional issues, including judicial nominations, recess appointments, impeachment, health care reform, the filibuster, and the debt ceiling crises. From 1992 to 1993, he served as one of eight members of the Justice Department transition team for President Clinton, and wrote the judicial selection policy for the incoming administration. I Before coming to UNC, Professor Gerhardt served as Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School, and taught at Wake Forest and William & Mary Law Schools. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Duke Law Schools. After graduation from law school and before entering academia, he clerked for two federal judges (Chief Judge Robert McRae of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and Judge Gilbert Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), served as Deputy Media Director of Albert Gore, Jr.’s first Senate campaign, and practiced law for two firms specializing in complex civil and criminal trial and appellate litigation: Trotter, Bondurant, Hishon & Stephenson (Atlanta), and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin (Washington, D.C.). Yale University London School of Economics, MSc University of Chicago Law School