Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
304 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-3890
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: md494@cornell.edu
Michael C. Dorf has written numerous law review articles on constitutional law and related subjects. He is the co-author (with Laurence Tribe) of On Reading the Constitution (Harvard University Press, 1991), the editor of Constitutional Law Stories (Foundation Press 2004, second edition 2009), and the author of No Litmus Test: Law Versus Politics in the 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). His next book, Principles and Theory of American Constitutional Law (with Trevor Morrison), will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Professor Dorf also writes a bi-weekly column for FindLaw's Writ and posts several times per week on his blog, Dorf on Law. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he spent the year between college and law school as a Rotary Scholar at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, playing rugby and co-authoring three articles for refereed physics journals. After law school, Professor Dorf served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Dorf taught at Rutgers-Camden Law School for three years and at Columbia Law School for thirteen years. At Columbia, he was Vice Dean from 1998-2002 and when he left, was the Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law. Professor Dorf has represented clients on a paid and pro bono basis, including a constitutional challenge to NAFTA in the D.C. Circuit and a defense of affirmative action on behalf of the Association of American Law School as amicus curiae in Grutter v. Bollinger in the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently serves as special counsel to the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf on a non-exclusive basis.
