Reuel Schiller

Bio

Professor Reuel Schiller’s teaching and scholarship focuses on American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. He has written extensively about the legal history of the American administrative state, and the historical development of labor law and employment discrimination law. His most recent book, Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Award and was an Honorable Mention for the Law and Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Award. Schiller has also received the American Bar Association, Administrative Law Section’s scholarship award and the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence.

In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Professor Schiller is a co-editor of Cambridge University Press’s Studies in Legal History book series, and the convener of the American Society for Legal History’s Johnson Fellowship for first book authors. He is also serves on the editorial board of the Law and History Review.

Professor Schiller studied history as an undergraduate at Yale College. He obtained his law degree and history Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. After college he worked for the City of New York on immigration, criminal justice, education, and civil rights policy. After graduating from law school, he 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.

A native New Yorker, Professor Schiller lives in Albany, CA, with his wife, Jane Williams, and their children.

Education

• University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Ph.D., History 1997

• University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  M.A., History 1990

• University of Virginia School of Law
  J.D., Law 1993

• Yale University
  B.A., History 1988

Selected Scholarship

• An Unexpected Antagonist: Courts, Deregulation, and Conservative Judicial Ideology
  Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson 2013

• Singing the 'Right-to-Work Blues': The Politics of Race in the Campaign for 'Voluntary Unionism' in Post-War California
  The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination 2012

• 'It is Not Wisdom, but Authority that Makes a Law:' A Historical Perspective on the Problem of Creating a Restatement of Employment Law
  Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 2009

• The Administrative State, Front and Center: Studying Law and Administration in Postwar America
  Law and History Review 2008

• The Era of Deference: Courts, Expertise, and the Emergence of New Deal Administrative Law
  Michigan Law Review 2007

• 'Saint George and the Dragon': Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America
  New Directions in Policy History 2005

• The Emporium Capwell Case: Race, Labor Law, and the Crisis of Post-War Liberalism
  Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2004

• Reining in the Administrative State: World War II and the Decline of Expert Administration
  Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II 2002

• Rulemaking's Promise: Administrative Law and Legal Culture in the 1960s and 1970s
  Administrative Law Review 2001

• Enlarging the Administrative Polity: Administrative Law and the Changing Definition of Pluralism, 1945-1970
  Vanderbilt Law Review 2000

• Free Speech and Expertise: Administrative Censorship and the Birth of the Modern First Amendment
  Virginia Law Review 2000

• From Group Rights to Individual Liberties: Post-War Labor Law, Liberalism, and the Waning of Union Strength
  Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1999

• The Strawhorsemen of the Apocalypse: Relativism and the Historian as Expert Witness
  UC Law SF Journal 1998