SCHOOL OF LAW

Mitchell N Berman

Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law

JD University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
MA University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
AB Harvard

Professor Berman teaches and writes in two primary fields: the philosophy of criminal law and constitutional theory. His many articles have appeared in the leading peer-reviewed journals Ethics, Legal Theory, Law & Philosophy, and Constitutional Commentary, as well as in such student-edited publications as the University of Chicago Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Georgetown Law Journal, among other places.

Before joining the Texas faculty in 1998, Berman clerked for the Hon. J. Dickson Phillips, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced law with Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. He has been Visiting Professor at the law schools of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.

Berman teaches first-year courses in criminal law and constitutional law, as well as upper-level seminars on a variety of jurisprudential topics. He is the 2008 recipient of the Texas Exes Teaching Excellence Award, and Co-Director of the Law School's Law and Philosophy Program.