Bio
Professor Zachary Price teaches and writes about constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal and civil law enforcement. His research focuses on questions of constitutional structure and on developing constitutional understandings appropriate to an era of political polarization. His scholarly work has appeared in the UC Law SF Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review Online, and Notre Dame Law Review, among other journals. He has also contributed to publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Scotusblog, Notice and Comment, Administrative and Regulatory News, Law and Liberty, Balkinization, the Supreme Court of California Blog, the State and Local Government Blog, and Take Care Blog.
Professor Price has taught at UC Law SF since 2013 and currently holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Endowed Chair. He joined UC Law SF following a fellowship at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and before entering academics, he served for three years as an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude and from Stanford University with honors and distinction.
Before entering academics, Professor Price served for three years as an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 2003 and from Stanford University with honors and distinction in 1998.
Education
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Harvard Law School
J.D. (Magna Cum Laude), Law 2003 -
Stanford University
With Honors and Distinction, Humanities 1998
Selected Scholarship
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Faithful Execution in the Fifty States
Georgia Law Review 2022 -
Congress’s Power Over Military Offices
Texas Law Review 2021 -
Reliance on Executive Constitutional Interpretation
Boston University Law Review 2020 -
Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court 2019
UC Law SF Journal -
Funding Restrictions and Separation of Powers
Vanderbilt Law Review 2018 -
Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2018 -
Reliance on Nonenforcement
William & Mary Law Review 2017 -
Seeking Baselines for Negative Authority: Constitutional and Rule-of-Law Arguments Over Nonenforcement and Waiver
Journal of Legal Analysis 2016 -
Law Enforcement as Political Question
Notre Dame Law Review 2016 -
Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty
Vanderbilt Law Review 2014 -
Dividing Sovereignty in Tribal and Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction
Social Sciences Research Network 2013 -
Namudno's Non-Existent Principle of State Equality
New York University Law Review 2013 -
The Rule of Lenity as a Rule of Structure
Fordham Law Review 2004