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Professor Reuel Schiller鈥檚 teaching and scholarship focuses on American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. He has written extensively about the legal history of the American administrative state, and the historical development of labor law and employment discrimination law. He is the author of Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which won the American Society for Legal History鈥檚 John Phillip Reid Award and was an Honorable Mention for the Law and Society Association鈥檚 J. Willard Hurst Award. Schiller has also received the American Bar Association, Administrative Law Section鈥檚 scholarship award, the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Mary Kay Kane Award for Scholarly Excellence.

In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Professor Schiller is a co-editor of Cambridge University Press鈥檚 Studies in Legal History book series, and was the founding convener of the American Society for Legal History鈥檚 Johnson Fellowship for first book authors. He is also serves on the editorial board of the Law and History Review and is a contributing editor at Jotwell.com.

Professor Schiller studied history as an undergraduate at Yale College. He obtained his law degree and history Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. After college he worked for the City of New York on immigration, criminal justice, education, and civil rights policy. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge J. Frederick Motz of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Following his clerkship, he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law and a Louis Prashker Teaching Fellow at St. John鈥檚 University School of Law.

Education

• University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Ph.D., History 1997

• University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  M.A., History 1990

• University of Virginia School of Law
  J.D., Law 1993

• Yale University
  B.A., History 1988

Selected Scholarship

• The Magnanimity of Disorder: Counterculture Economics and the Rise of Neoliberal Regulation in Shermer, ed.
  Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: The United States Since the New Deal (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2026

• Creating 鈥業nitiatory Democracy鈥�: Ralph Nader and the Shaping of Liberalism in the 1970s,鈥� in Cebul, and Geismer, eds
  co-authored with Sarah Milov, Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s (University of Chicago Press) 2025

• co-authored with Jodi Short, Susan Sibley, Noah Jones, Babak Hammatian, and Lee Anna Bowman-Carpio, 19 Ohio State Technology Law Journal 1 2022

• 97 Chicago-Kent Law Review 53 2022

• The Curious Origins of Airline Deregulation: Economic Deregulation and the American Left
  93 Business History Review 729 2020

• Regulation and the Collapse of the New Deal Order or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
  Gerstle, Lichtenstein, O鈥機onnor, eds., Beyond the New Deal Order 2019

• 27 New Labor Forum 12 2018

• The Historical Origins of American Regulatory Exceptionalism,鈥� in Bignami and Zaring, eds
  Comparative Law and Regulation (Edward Elgar) 2016

• Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson 2013

• The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination 2012

• Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 2009

• Law and History Review 2008

• Michigan Law Review 2007

• New Directions in Policy History 2005

• Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2004

• Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II 2002

• Administrative Law Review 2001

• Vanderbilt Law Review 2000

• Virginia Law Review 2000

• Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 1999

• UC Law SF Journal 1998