Thomas Merrill

Thomas W. Merrill is the Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches property, torts, and administrative law. He previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law and Yale Law School. He has undergraduate degrees from Grinnell College and Oxford University and a law degree from the University of Chicago. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit (for Chief Judge David Bazelon) and the U.S. Supreme Court (for Justice Harry Blackmun) and served as Deputy Solicitor General (from 1987 to 1990). Professor Merrill is the author of Property: Principles and Policies (Foundation Press, 2nd ed. 2012) (with Henry E. Smith); The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property (2010) (also with Smith); and Property:Takings (Foundation Press 2002)(with David Dana); as well as numerous articles. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.