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About Michael Eric Herz

Professor Herz came to Cardozo from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he was a staff attorney for three years. Previously, he clerked for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
 
Professor Herz was Cardozo's Vice Dean from 2006 to 2009 and served as Senior Associate Dean from 1996 to 2000. For many years he directed Cardozo's Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy and he has also been co-director of the Israeli Supreme Court Project. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, has taught at Columbia and Princeton, and spent a year as a Fellow in Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. Professor Herz is a former Chair of the ABA's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Positions

2010 - Present Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2018 Scholar in Residence, Columbia Law School
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2014 - 2018 Co-Director Israeli Supreme Court Project, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2004 - 2015 Director or Co-Director, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2013 Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law
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2011 - 2012 Visiting Research Scholar and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School Program in Law & Public Affairs
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1993 - 2010 Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2009 Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
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2006 - 2009 Vice Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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2005 - 2006 Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law
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2005 Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
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2004 Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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2003 Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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2002 Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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2000 - 2001 Visiting Professor, NYU School of Law
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1996 - 2000 Senior Associate Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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1001 - 1993 Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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1988 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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1985 - 1988 Staff Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund
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1983 - 1985 Law Clerk, Hon. Byron R. White, United States Supreme Court
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1982 - 1983 Law Clerk, Hon. Levin H. Campbell, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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Disciplines

Law

Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

2017 - Present Senior Fellow, Administrative Conference of the United States
2015 - Present Chair, Section Fellows, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
2009 - Present Contributing Editor, Administrative Law, JOTWELL
2010 - 2017 Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States
2012 - 2013 Immediate Past Chair, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
2012 - 2013 Consultant, The Use of Social Media in Rulemaking, Administrative Conference of the United States
2011 - 2012 Chair, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
2010 - 2011 Chair Elect, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
2009 - 2010 Vice Chair, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
1996 - 2010 Vice Chair, Committee on Judicial Review, American Bar Association
2005 - 2008 Member, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, American Bar Association
2007 Co-Chair, Annual Administrative Law Conference, American Bar Association
2006 Co-Chair, Annual Administrative Law Conference, American Bar Association
2002 - 2006 Chair, Committee on Rulemaking, American Bar Association
1998 - 2003 Assistant Chief Reporter, Administrative Procedure Act Project, American Bar Association
1993 - 1996 Member, Committee on Federal Legislation, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1990 - 1993 Chair, Committee on Administrative Law, Environmental Subcommittee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1987 - 1990 Member, Committee on Environmental Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
1988 - 1989 Member, Advisory Panel of Municipal Solid Waste Assessment, U.S Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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Education

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1982 JD, University of Chicago Law School
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1979 BA, Swarthmore College
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Quoted by the Media (21)

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