Sherif Girgis

Sherif Girgis is a professor at Notre Dame Law School. His work in constitutional law and theory has appeared in venues including the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Law, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. He is coauthor of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense (Encounter, 2012) and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also editor of the next edition of a First Amendment casebook formerly edited by Fred Schauer, and coeditor with Mike Dorf of the next edition of a constitutional law casebook formerly coedited by Schauer as well as Dick Fallon. His scholarship has been cited by Justices and judges and featured in venues including the New York Times.

Before joining Notre Dame, he practiced appellate and complex civil litigation at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., having earlier served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Now completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, Girgis earned his J.D. at Yale Law School, a master’s (B.Phil.) in philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Princeton, summa cum laude.