From: September 2006 Harvard Law Today

It was another year of aggressive hiring by the Harvard Law faculty, resulting in seven new tenured and tenure-track professors joining the law school this fall. The new recruits will help to increase the breadth of the curriculum and reinforce areas of current strength.

The new hires are part of an ongoing effort to expand the faculty over the course of the next decade. Including this year’s appointments, over the last three years HLS has welcomed 14 new full-time professors to the faculty, additions that have helped to offset a number of retirements.

Professors who joined the faculty in recent years include: Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95, Jack Goldsmith, Adriaan Lanni, Daryl Levinson, John Manning ’85, Jed Shugerman and Matthew Stephenson ’03.

Rachel Brewster
Assistant Professor of Law

An up-and-coming international law scholar specializing in trade issues, Brewster comes to HLS from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Bigelow Fellow and a lecturer. Brewster’s most recent scholarly articles include "Rule-Based Dispute Resolution in International Trade Law" (2006) and "The Domestic Origins of International Agreements" (2003).

Brewster is teaching International Trade in the fall and International Law in the spring. She holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bruce H. Mann
Professor of Law

A renowned legal historian and author of the book "Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut," Mann served most recently as a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

An accomplished teacher, Mann has received several teaching awards, including the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005, 1996) and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999).

Mann’s most recent book, "Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence," was awarded prizes by the Law and Society Association, the American Historical Association and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Mann is teaching first-year Property in the fall and a legal history workshop seminar in the spring. He holds a J.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Gerald L. Neuman
Professor of Law

An expert on immigration, the rights of foreign nationals and transnational aspects of constitutional law, Neuman is the author of the book "Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders and Fundamental Law," an analysis of the role of location and status in defining constitutional rights. He was recruited from a tenured position at Columbia Law School.

His recent article "John Marshall and the Enemy Alien: A Case Missing from the Canon" unites several of his many research interests and is based on an unpublished decision of Chief Justice John Marshall on the subject of habeas corpus for enemy aliens in the War of 1812.

Neuman is teaching Immigration Law in the fall, and a course on citizenship and a seminar on The Borders of the Constitution in the spring. In addition to a J.D. from HLS, he holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT.

Jeannie Suk ’02
Assistant Professor of Law

A highly regarded young legal scholar of criminal and family law, Suk is working on "At Home in the Law," forthcoming from Yale University Press. A former clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter ’66, she comes to the HLS faculty from New York, where she was recently an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, as well as a visiting scholar at the New York University School of Law. Her article "Criminal Law Comes Home" is scheduled to be published in the Yale Law Journal in October.

Suk will begin teaching at HLS in the fall ’07 semester. She holds a D.Phil. in modern languages from the University of Oxford and a J.D. from HLS, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and the articles, commentaries and book reviews chair of the Harvard Law Review.

George Triantis
Professor of Law

A leading expert on commercial law, corporate finance and contracts, Triantis was most recently a tenured professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at UVA, he was program director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. Triantis has also taught at the University of Chicago, where he was an editor of the Journal of Law & Economics.

Triantis’ recent scholarly articles include "Anticipating Litigation in Contract Design" and "Embedded Options and the Case Against Compensation in Contract Law."

Triantis is teaching Bankruptcy this fall, an advanced contracts class during the winter term and a yearlong seminar, Innovative Contracting. He received a J.D. from the University of Toronto and an S.J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Mark Tushnet
Professor of Law

A prominent constitutional law scholar and the leading American presence in the field of comparative constitutional law, Tushnet joins the HLS faculty from a tenured position at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Tushnet is the author of several books, including, most recently, "The New Constitutional Order." His next book will explore the Second Amendment and gun control policies in contemporary society and is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Tushnet is currently focusing on the constitutional politics of emergency powers. Prior work by Tushnet, who is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, focused on the history of civil rights lawyering.

Tushnet is teaching Comparative Constitutional Law and Constitutional Law: Free Speech in the fall, and in the spring, Regulatory and Administrative State and a seminar, Free Speech Theory. He received an M.A. in history and a J.D. from Yale University.

Adrian Vermeule ’93
Professor of Law

A well-known scholar of constitutional law, administrative law and legislation, and national security law, Vermeule was most recently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He was twice the recipient of the school’s annual Graduating Students’ Award for Teaching Excellence. Prior to his faculty position at Chicago, Vermeule served as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ’60 and Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Vermeule is author of "Judging Under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation," published in May by Harvard University Press. His book "Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts," which he co-wrote with Eric Posner is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December.

Vermeule is teaching a yearlong seminar, Law and the Political Economy, and in the spring, a course on legislation.