Michael J. Gerhardt

Michael Gerhardt joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law faculty in 2005 and serves as the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence. His teaching and research focuses on constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress. Gerhardt is the author of six books, including The Forgotten Presidents (named by the FT as one of the best non-fiction books of 2013), and leading treatises on impeachment, appointments, presidential power, Supreme Court precedent, and separation of powers. He has written more than 100 law review articles and dozens of op eds in the nation’s leading news publications, including SCOTUSblog, The New York Times, and Washington Post. Gerhardt’s extensive public service has included his testifying more than a dozen times before Congress, including as the only joint witness in the Clinton impeachment proceedings in the House; speaking behind closed doors to the entire House of Representatives about the history of impeachment in 1998; and serving as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for seven of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices.