Professor Ernst joined the Georgetown faculty in the 1988-89 academic year. He is the author of Lawyers Against Labor (1995), for which he received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association, and Tocqueville’s Nightmare (2014). In 1996, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand; in 2003-04, he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow; and in 2015-16, he was a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University. From 2006 to 2010, he was co-editor of “Studies in Legal History,” the book series of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH).  In 2022, he delivered the Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture in Legal History at the University of Chicago Law School. In 2023 he received the Craig Joyce Medal for “extraordinary and sustained volunteer service” to the ASLH. Since 2008, he has been a moderator of Legal History Blog. He teaches courses in American Legal History and Property.

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Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Daniel R. Ernst, Jerome Frank: The Making of a New Dealer, 25 Green Bag 2d 187-203 (2022).
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Daniel R. Ernst, The Reckoning, 25 Green Bag 2d 285-287 (2022). [W] [L]
Daniel R. Ernst, Of Sheepdogs and Ventriloquists: Government Lawyers in Two New Deal Agencies, 69 Buff. L. Rev. 43-54 (2021).
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Daniel R. Ernst, In Memoriam: Professor Anne C. Fleming, 109 Geo. L.J. 1-4 (2020).
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Daniel R. Ernst, Mr. Try-It Goes to Washington: Law and Policy at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1795-1815 (2019).
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In The News
October 3, 2018

Professors Hope Babcock, Gregg Bloche, John Copacino, Deborah Epstein, Daniel Ernst, James Feinerman, Anne Fleming, Sheila Foster, Maria Glover, Vida Johnson, Gregory Klass, David Luban, Allegra McLeod, Naomi Mezey, Sherally Munshi, Alicia Plerhoples, Jarrod Reich, Tanina Rostain, Rima Sirota, Abbe Smith, and Kristen Tiscione are among 1700 signatories on a letter, published by The New York Times, delivered to the United States Senate, October 4, 2018, presenting concerns of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's qualifications to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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