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Zachary
Price

Professor of Law

  • Office 374-200
  • Email Address pricez@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4736
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Biography

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.

Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Constitutional Law

Education

  1. Harvard Law School 2003

    J.D. (Magna Cum Laude), Law

  2. Stanford University 1998

    With Honors and Distinction, Humanities

Selected Scholarship

  1. Faithful Execution in the Fifty States 2022

    Georgia Law Review

  2. Congress’s Power Over Military Offices 2021

    Texas Law Review

  3. Reliance on Executive Constitutional Interpretation 2020

    Boston University Law Review

  4. Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court 2019

    UC Law SF Journal

  5. Funding Restrictions and Separation of Powers 2018

    Vanderbilt Law Review

  6. Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment 2018

    University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law

  7. Reliance on Nonenforcement 2017

    William & Mary Law Review

  8. Seeking Baselines for Negative Authority: Constitutional and Rule-of-Law Arguments Over Nonenforcement and Waiver 2016

    Journal of Legal Analysis

  9. Law Enforcement as Political Question 2016

    Notre Dame Law Review

  10. Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty 2014

    Vanderbilt Law Review

  11. Dividing Sovereignty in Tribal and Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction 2013

    Social Sciences Research Network

  12. Namudno's Non-Existent Principle of State Equality 2013

    New York University Law Review

  13. The Rule of Lenity as a Rule of Structure 2004

    Fordham Law Review

Courses

  1. Civil Procedure
  2. Constitutional Law
  3. Constitutional Law II

Links

  1. SSRN Author Page
  2. Take Care Blog Posts
  3. Publications

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