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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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ 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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ 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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ 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 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law and a Louis Prashker Teaching Fellow at St. John’s ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ School of Law.

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

Education

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Ph.D., History 1997

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  M.A., History 1990

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Virginia School of Law
  J.D., Law 1993

• Yale ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  B.A., History 1988

Selected Scholarship

• Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson 2013

• The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination 2012

• Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 2009

• Law and History Review 2008

• Michigan Law Review 2007

• New Directions in Policy History 2005

• Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2004

• Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II 2002

• Administrative Law Review 2001

• Vanderbilt Law Review 2000

• Virginia Law Review 2000

• Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1999

• UC Law SF Journal 1998