Reuel Schiller, Professor of Law
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Mailing Address: Phone: 415.565.4879 |
Expertise: American Legal History, Administrative Law, Labor Law.
Reuel Schiller was born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his B.A. in history from Yale University in 1988. After college he worked for the City of New York on immigration, criminal justice, and education, and civil rights policy. He then attended law school at the University of Virginia where he served on the Virginia Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. Professor Schiller also received a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia.
After graduating from law school Professor Schiller clerked for Judge J. Frederick Motz of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Following his clerkship he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law and a Louis Prashker Teaching Fellow at St. John's University School of Law.
Professor Schiller's areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. He lives in Albany with his wife, Jane Williams, an art conservator, and their children, Naomi and Asa.
