Daniel B Rodriguez
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law
JD Harvard
BA California State University-Long Beach
Professor Rodriguez serves as the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law. He came to Texas in the summer of 2007 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he was the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law. He served as Dean of that law school from 1998 until 2005 and, before that, was a tenured professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law).
Professor Rodriguez is a nationally prominent scholar in administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, and state constitutional law. He is a leader in the application of political economy and "positive political theory" to the study of public law and he has authored or co-authored a series of influential articles in this vein. Most recently, his articles and book chapters have appeared in the Northwestern and University of Pennsylvania Law Reviews, the Yale Journal of Regulation, the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, and two interdisciplinary anthologies published by Oxford University Press. And he is the author of a forthcoming book on State Constitutional Law (Aspen Press. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Rodriguez has consulted with federal, state and local agencies, has served as an expert witness, has testified before Congressional committees and legislative working groups, and has served in various professional leadership roles, including as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools and the Council for the ABA Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. He is an elected member of both the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.
In addition to his appointment at UT, Professor Rodriguez is a fellow in law & public policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
