Suzanna Sherry
Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law
Suzanna Sherry's work in the area of constitutional law has earned her national recognition as one of the most well-known scholars in the field. The author of more than 100 books and articles, she also writes extensively on federal courts and federal court procedures. After graduating from law school, Professor Sherry was a clerk for the Honorable John C. Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, and then served as an associate with the law firm of Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000 as the inaugural holder of the Cal Turner Chair, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School since 1982. She was named the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law in 2006.
Research Interests
Constitutional law & theory, federal courts & the federal judicial system, federalism, litigation & dispute resolution and the U.S. Supreme Court
Representative Publications
- "The Risks of Supreme Court Term Limits," SCOTUSblog, April 5, 2019 (with Christopher Sundby)
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- "Normalizing Erie," 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1161 (2016)
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- "Selective Judicial Activism: Defending Carolene Products," 14 Georgetown Journal of Law and Policy 559 (2016)
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- “Property is the New Privacy: The Coming Constitutional Revolution,” 128 Harvard Law Review 1452 (2015).
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- "Hogs Get Slaughtered at the Supreme Court," 2011 Supreme Court Review 1
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- Constitutionalism, Executive Power, and the Spirit of Moderation (2016) (with Giorgi Areshidze & Paul Carrese)
- Federal Courts: Cases, Comments, and Questions (8th edition 2018 plus annual supplements) (with M. Redish and J. Pfander)
- What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law (2nd edition 2016) (3rd edition forthcoming 2020) (with Tracey E. George)
- Civil Procedure (4th edition 2016 plus annual supplements) (with Thomas D. Rowe Jr. & Jay Tidmarsh)
- A History of the American Constitution (3rd edition 2013) (with Daniel A. Farber)