DANIEL R. ERNST Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001-2075 (202) 662-9475 ernst@law.georgetown.edu EMPLOYMENT 1988- Georgetown University Law Center Washington, DC 1994-. Professor of Law. Courses: American Legal History, New Deal Legal History Seminar, Property. Co-recipient, Frank F. Flegal Teaching Award, 1996. Acting Associate Dean for Research, Fall 1994. 1988-94. Associate Professor of Law. 1996- Georgetown University Washington, DC Associated Faculty, Department of History. University Rank and Tenure Committee. Steering Committee, Faculty Senate. 2011-12 New York University School of Law New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law. Courses: Property for 2Ls, American Legal History, History of the American Legal Profession Seminar. Fall 1998 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI EDUCATION Jack and Margaret Sweet Visiting Professor of History. Honors Seminar: Law and Statecraft in the United States. Co-organizer, Total War and the Law: The Second Annual Sweet Symposium. 1983-89 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Ph.D. in History. Advisor: Stanley N. Katz. Recipient, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award. 1986-88 University of Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI LL.M. in Legal History. Advisor: Hendrik Hartog.
1980-83 University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL J.D. Recipient, Casper Platt Prize for The Moribund Appeal of Death. 1976-80 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH GRANTS AND AWARDS BOOKS A.B. magna cum laude in History. Phi Beta Kappa. Surrency Prize of the American Society for Legal History, 2009, for The Politics of Administrative Law: New York s Anti-Bureaucracy Clause and the O Brian Wagner Campaign of 1938 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2003-04. Littleton-Griswold Prize of the American Historical Association (1996) for Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism. Fulbright Scholar, 1995-96. Research Award: Comparative New Zealand-United States History. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Compulsory Arbitration in Comparative Perspective. Tocqueville s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940. Oxford University Press, 2014. Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II. Edited by Daniel R. Ernst and Victor Jew. Praeger, 2002. Lawyers against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism. University of Illinois Press, 1995. The Working Class in American History Series. The First 125 Years: An Illustrated History of Georgetown University Law Center Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Law Center, 1995. Parts 1 and 2. WORK IN PROGRESS FDR s Lawyers. Harvard University Press. ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (SELECTED) Ernst Freund, Felix Frankfurter and the American Rechtsstaat: A Transatlantic Shipwreck, 1894-1932. Studies in American Political Development 23 (2009): 171-88. 2
The Politics of Administrative Law: New York s Anti-Bureaucracy Clause and the Wagner-O Brian Campaign of 1938. Law and History Review 27 (2009): 331-71 Morgan and the New Dealers. Journal of Policy History 20 (2008): 447-81. Law and State, 1920 2000: Institutional Growth and Structural Change. Cambridge History of Law in America, 3: 1-33. Cambridge University Press, 2008. The Ideal and the Actual in the State: Willard Hurst and the Board of Economic Warfare. In Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II, 149-83. Praeger, 2002. Dicey s Disciple on the D.C. Circuit: Judge Harold Stephens and Administrative Law Reform, 1933-1940. Georgetown Law Journal 90 (2002): 787-812. Willard Hurst and the Administrative State: From Williams to Wisconsin, Law and History Review 18 (2000): 1-36. In Short He Is a Stupid Man : The Judges and the [New Zealand] Arbitration Court, 1891-1928. Turnbull Library Record 29 (1996): 59-78. Common Laborers? Industrial Pluralists, Legal Realists, and the Law of Industrial Disputes, 1915-1943. Law and History Review 11 (1993): 59-100. The Critical Tradition in the Writing of American Legal History. Yale Law Journal 102 (1993): 1019-76. Anthologized in The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory: Law in History Volume I. Edited by David Sugarman. Aldershot, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1996. Legal Positivism, Abolitionist Litigation, and the New Jersey Slave Case of 1845. Law and History Review 4 (Fall 1986): 335-63. Anthologized in Abolitionism and American Law, ed. John R. McKivigan, 103-31. Garland Publishing, 1999. The Moribund Appeal of Death: Compensating Survivors and Controlling Jurors in Early Modern England. American Journal of Legal History 28 (April 1984): 164-88. REVIEW ESSAYS, BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER WORKS (SELECTED) The Hughes-Roberts Visit Revisited, Green Bag 2d (forthcoming) Bureaucracy for Law Students. In Robert Jarvis, ed., Teaching Legal History. London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, 2014. Pierson v. Post: The New Learning. Green Bag 2D 13 (2009): 31-42 3
Lloyd Cutler. Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law. Yale University Press, 2009. Review of Johnson, Governing the American State, American Historical Review 112 (December 2007): 1548-49 EDITORIAL SERVICE Studies in Legal History. Co-Editor, American Society for Legal History and University of North Carolina Press, 2002-10 (With Thomas A. Green) Labor. Contributing Editor, 2003-2004 Labor History: Editorial Board, 1999-2001; Contributing Editor, 2002-03 Law and History Review, Editorial Board, 2000-12 Legal History Blog, 2008- Reviews in American History, Editorial Board, 2008-09 PEER REVIEW University Presses: Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press. Journals: American Political Science Review, Australia & New Zealand Law & History E-Journal, Journal of Legal Education, Journal of Policy History, Labor, Labor History, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & History Review, Pacific Historical Review, Studies in American Political Development. Other: American Bar Foundation, Fulbright Review Committee for Australasia; National Science Foundation. PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) Rolling Back the Rights Revolution: The Conservative Ascendency and the Shifting Legal Terrain. American Society for Legal History, Denver, CO, November 2014. Comment. Expertise and the Single New Dealer. Opportunities for Law s Intellectual History, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Buffalo, NY, October 10-11, 2014 (invited paper) FDR s Lawyers. United States Legal History Roundtable, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 9, 2014 (one of four invited papers) 4
A Civil Liberties Law and the Administrative State, 1930-1950. American Society for Legal History, Miami, FL, November 8, 2013. Comment Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy at the National Recovery Administration Faculty Workshop, Duke University Law School, November 10, 2014 Faculty Workshop, George Mason University Law School, September 16, 2014 American Society for Legal History, Miami, FL, November 8, 2013. Law and Society Association, Boston, MA, May 31, 2013 Faculty Workshop, University of Connecticut School of Law, February 29, 2012 Faculty Workshop, NYU School of Law. New York, NY, February 27, 2012 A Review of Louis Galambos, The Creative Society and the Price Americans Paid for It, Policy History Conference, Richmond, VA, June 8, 2012 Lawyers, Bureaucratic Autonomy, and Securities Regulation during the New Deal. Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 15, 2011. Symposium: The State in U.S. History. Remarque Institute, New York University. October 21-23, 2010. Tobin Project Conference on Economic Regulation. White Oak, FL. April 26, 2009. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association. Member, Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize, 2002. American Society for Legal History. Member, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, 1999-2002. Chair, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, October 1998. Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting, October 1994. Chair, Book Prize Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Cromwell Foundation, 2011-13. Member, Nominating Committee, 2013- Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. Member, Board of Directors, 2010-5