Amanda Tyler

Amanda Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches and writes about the Supreme Court, federal courts, constitutional law, and legal history.  After graduating with her Public Policy degree from Stanford in 1995, she earned her J.D. at Harvard Law School.  From there, she went on to two federal court clerkships, including a very special year as law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. After practicing law for several years she entered academia in 2004, eventually joining the Berkeley Law faculty in 2012. Her publications include "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay" with Oxford University Press in 2017, and serving as an editor of Hart & Wechsler's Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press) since 2016. 

This March, UC Press will publish a book that she compiled with Justice Ginsburg about her life and legacy, "Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union." 

Professor Tyler looks back fondly at her time in the Public Policy Program at Stanford, where she was inspired equally by her brilliant professors and fellow students. The Public Policy graduate students are fortunate to be able to hear her during the graduation colloquium in March 2021. 

For more information on her new book, see:  https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520381926/justice-justice-thou-shalt-pursue