Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky
Chemerinsky in 2020
Born	(1953-05-14) May 14, 1953 (age 71) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Academic background
Education	Northwestern University (BS) Harvard University (JD)
Academic work
Discipline	Constitutional law Civil procedure
Institutions	DePaul University (1980–1983) University of Southern California (1983–2004) Duke University (2004–2008) University of California, Irvine (2008–2017) University of California, Berkeley (2017–present)
13th Dean of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2017
Preceded by	Melissa Murray
1st Dean of University of California, Irvine School of Law
In office July 1, 2008 – July 1, 2017
Succeeded by	L. Song Richardson

Erwin Chemerinsky (born May 14, 1953) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of U.S. constitutional law and federal civil procedure. Since 2017, Chemerinsky has been the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Previously, he was the inaugural dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2017.^[1][2]

Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. The National Jurist magazine named him the most influential person in legal education in the United States in 2017.^[3] In 2021 Chemerinsky was named President-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.