Adrian Vermeule
Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law
Adrian Vermeule is the Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law. Before coming to the Law School, he was the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. The author or co-author of nine books, most recently Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State (2016), The Constitution of Risk (2014) and The System of the Constitution (2012). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. His research focuses on administrative law, the administrative state, the design of institutions, and constitutional theory. Having grown up in Cambridge and attended Harvard College ’90 and Harvard Law School ’93, Vermeule lives in Cambridge still.
Representative Publications
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Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk (Cambridge Univ. Press 2014). -
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Adrian Vermeule, The System of the Constitution (Oxford Univ. Press 2011). - Adrian Vermeule & Conor Casey, The Owl of Minerva and “Our Law”, Ius & Iustitium (Mar. 16, 2023).
- Adrian Vermeule, Liberalism's Good and Faithful Servants, Compact (Feb. 28, 2023).
- Adrian Vermeule, The Many and the Few: On the American Lex Regia, Rev. Int'l Des Droits de L’Antiquité (forthcoming 2023).