Garrick B Pursley
Assistant Professor - Emerging Scholars Program
JD University of Texas at Austin
BA University of Texas at Austin
Garrick Pursley is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Emerging Scholars Program. After graduating from The University of Texas School of Law in 2004, he clerked for Chief Judge Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Professor Pursley's current research focuses on federal preemption of state law as a thread that links issues in administrative law, legislation, constitutional law, and federal courts, with the broad goals of clarifying the constitutional basis for the national government's preemptive authority and assessing the legitimacy of current judicial preemption doctrine. His publications include The Structure of Preemption Decisions, 85 Nebraska L. Rev. 912 (2007), Rationalizing Complete Preemption after Beneficial National Bank v. Anderson, 54 Drake L. Rev. 371 (2006) (cited in Wright & Miller's Federal Practice & Procedure), and, most recently, the invited symposium contribution Avoiding Deference Questions, 44 Tulsa L. Rev. 557 (2009). His current project, Preemption in Congress, focuses on congressional efforts to identify and adhere to constitutional requirements.
