Eirik Cheverud

Eirik Cheverud is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School, joining in August 2025. Previously, he served twelve years as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor, representing the Department in ERISA cases before the Supreme Court and participating in a White House Task Force on reproductive rights under President Biden. He also maintains a movement-oriented pro bono practice supporting activists nationwide.

His educational qualifications are:

• Bachelor of Music, Loyola University New Orleans
• Juris Doctor, New York Law School (magna cum laude, 2011)

Professor Cheverud's research centers on legal linguistics, examining how historical language development impacts U.S. legal practice. His expertise spans statutory interpretation, judicial dictionary use, legal typography, ERISA enforcement, and civil rights litigation. Notably, New York State courts have adopted his characterization of internet speech as having a "freewheeling, anything-goes writing style" in defamation claims, and his scholarship on municipal arrest authority was cited by Professor Wayne R. LaFave in the Fourth Amendment treatise Search and Seizure.