Vanderbilt University Law School
Suzanna Sherry
Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-0993
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: suzanna.sherry@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 238
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Links
- SSRN Page
- Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
- Program in Constitutional Law & Theory
Research Interest(s)
Constitutional law, including constitutional history and constitutional theory; federal courts; civil procedure; judicial behavior
Education
J.D. University of Chicago
A.B. Middlebury College
Biography
Suzanna Sherry's work in the area of constitutional law has earned her national recognition as one of the most well-known scholars in the field. The author of more than 70 books and articles, she also writes extensively on federal courts and federal court procedures. After graduating from law school, Professor Sherry was a clerk for the Honorable John C. Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, and then served as an associate with the law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000 as the inaugural holder of the Cal Turner Chair, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School faculty since 1982. She was named to the Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law in 2006. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Society for Legal History and Phi Beta Kappa.
Representative Publications
Books
Civil Procedure Essentials (2007) (with J. Tidmarsh)
Federal Courts: Cases, Comments, and Questions (6th ed. 2006 plus annual supplements) (with M. Redish)
A History of the American Constitution (2d ed. 2005) (with Daniel A. Farber)
- Civil Procedure (2004 plus annual supplements) (with T.D. Rowe, Jr. & J. Tidmarsh)
Desperately Seeking Certainty: The Misguided Quest for Constitutional Foundations (2002) (with Daniel A. Farber)
Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law (1997) (with Daniel A. Farber)
Articles
"Logic Without Experience: The Problem of Federal Appellate Courts," 82 Notre Dame Law Review 97 (2006)
"Hard Cases Make Good Judges," 99 Northwestern University Law Review 3 (2004)
Presentations
“Democracy and the Death of Knowledge,” 2006 William Howard Taft Lecture in Constitutional Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law, November 2006 (published in 75 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1053, 2007)
- “Executive Power and the War on Terror,” at the Supreme Court Preview, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, William & Mary School of Law, September 2007
“Overruling Erie: Nationwide Class Actions and National Common Law,” at "Fairness to Whom? Perspectives on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005," University of Pennsylvania, December 2007 (article forthcoming in 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2008)
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