Emily Berman
Professor of Law, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
Assistant Dean of Faculty Development
B.A., Duke University
J.D., New York University School of Law
LL.M., New York University School of Law
Professor Emily Berman is a constitutional scholar with expertise in executive power and national security law. Her scholarship identifies areas of law where executive power is subject to inadequate restraints and proposes novel mechanisms for imposing checks and balances and democratic accountability on the executive branch. Berman teaches National Security Law and Constitutional Law.
Professor Berman received her A.B. in political science and her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was the editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review. She also received an LL.M. in International Law from NYU. After graduating from law school, Berman clerked for the Hon. John M. Walker, Jr. of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining the University of Houston Law Center faculty in the fall of 2014, she taught for two years as a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School. She previously was a Furman Fellow and Brennan Center Fellow at New York University School of Law and held positions as counsel and Katz Fellow in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Berman’s work has been published in top journals, such as the Minnesota Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the New York University Law Review; her opinion pieces have appeared in Just Security, Lawfare, The Atlantic Online, the National Law Journal, Legal Times Online, and CNN.com, among others.
