Reuel Schiller, Professor of Law

Reuel Schiller was born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. After college he worked for the City of New York on immigration, criminal justice, 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 is currently working on a book about the interaction between the legal strategies of the labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement in the years after the Second World War. 

He lives in Albany with his wife, Jane Williams, an art conservator, and their children, Naomi and Asa.

Courses Taught: Administrative Law, American Legal History - Colonial American to the Civil War, American Legal History - Civil War to the Present, American Legal History Seminar - The Rise and Fall of Legal Liberalism, and Labor Law