Zachary
Price
Professor of Law
- Office 374-200
- Email Address pricez@uchastings.edu
- Telephone (415) 565-4736
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
Education
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Harvard Law School 2003
J.D. (Magna Cum Laude), Law
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Stanford University 1998
With Honors and Distinction, Humanities
Selected Scholarship
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Faithful Execution in the Fifty States 2022
Georgia Law Review
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Congress’s Power Over Military Offices 2021
Texas Law Review
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Reliance on Executive Constitutional Interpretation 2020
Boston University Law Review
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Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court 2019
UC Law SF Journal
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Funding Restrictions and Separation of Powers 2018
Vanderbilt Law Review
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Our Imperiled Absolutist First Amendment 2018
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
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Reliance on Nonenforcement 2017
William & Mary Law Review
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Seeking Baselines for Negative Authority: Constitutional and Rule-of-Law Arguments Over Nonenforcement and Waiver 2016
Journal of Legal Analysis
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Law Enforcement as Political Question 2016
Notre Dame Law Review
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Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty 2014
Vanderbilt Law Review
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Dividing Sovereignty in Tribal and Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction 2013
Social Sciences Research Network
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Namudno's Non-Existent Principle of State Equality 2013
New York University Law Review
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The Rule of Lenity as a Rule of Structure 2004
Fordham Law Review