Daniel J. Meltzer

Story Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Criminal Procedure
• Federal Courts

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Federal Courts
• Federalism
• Separation of Powers

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Civil Rights and Liberties
• Civil Rights and Litigation
• Criminal Defense
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure (grand jury, indictment process)
• Supreme Court

Education

• Harvard University A.B. 1972, Economics
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1975

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1982
• Professor of Law, 1987
• Associate Dean, 1989-93
• Story Professor of Law, 1998
• Vice Dean for Physical Planning, 2003-2009

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Shapiro, David L., Richard H. Fallon, John F. Manning & Daniel J. Meltzer. Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press 6th ed. 2009).
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• Fallon, Richard H. & Daniel J. Meltzer. "Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction, Substantive Rights, and the War on Terror," 120 Harvard Law Review 2029 (2007).
  
• Meltzer, Daniel J. "The Supreme Court's Judicial Passivity," 2002 Supreme Court Review 343 (2003).
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• Meltzer, Daniel J. & Richard H. Fallon. "New Law, Non-Retroactivity, and Constitutional Remedies," 104 Harvard Law Review 1731 (1991).
  

Bibliography

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