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Philip Frickey
Title: Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law
Office: 892 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-643-4180
Fax: 510-642-3728
Email Address: pfrickey@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Chris Swain
After law school, Philip Frickey clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then practiced law for three years in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he taught for 17 years. He joined the Boalt faculty in 2000. He was appointed to the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Chair in 2006. Previously, he held the Richard W. Jennings '39 Chair.
Professor Frickey is a nationally recognized scholar in the fields of statutory interpretation, legislative process, federal Indian law, and constitutional law. He is the co-author of two casebooks: Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy (with Eskridge and Garrett, 3rd ed., 2001); and Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century (with Eskridge and Farber, 3rd ed., 2003). He is also the author of Legislation and Statutory Interpretation (with Eskridge and Garrett, 2000) and Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction (with Farber, 1991), as well as a publication editor of Hart and Sacks' The Legal Process (1994). In addition, he has written numerous journal articles, essays, and book reviews. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the editorial boards of Issues in Legal Scholarship and Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association.
Education:
B.A., University of Kansas (1975)J.D., University of Michigan (1978)
