About
Jack Beermann is a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and a member of the Governance, Federalism, and Public Service (GFPS) program. His expertise lies in civil rights litigation, administrative law, federal courts, and local government law. He has authored influential works on administrative law including a widely-used casebook and the Emanuel Law Outline. His research explores legal values shaped by social movements and historical context, with a focus on agency deference, midnight rulemaking, and public pension crises.
Beermann holds a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago and a B.A. with distinction from the University of Wisconsin. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard Law School (2008, 2011, 2014), DePaul University College of Law (1997), and taught internationally in Israel and China. His teaching portfolio includes administrative law, civil rights litigation, and constitutional law, with recent courses for foreign LLM students.
His scholarship emphasizes critical analysis of judicial doctrines like Chevron deference and the Major Questions Doctrine, alongside historical examinations of legal systems. He has contributed to debates on presidential transitions, electoral count processes, and originalist jurisprudence. His work frequently bridges legal theory and practical governance challenges, particularly regarding federal agency authority and constitutional constraints.
Beermann has served as a clerk for Judge Richard Cudahy on the Seventh Circuit and was appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States in 2017. His global engagements include lectures in Israel, Germany, Australia, Morocco, Portugal, and Canada. Despite no explicitly listed awards, his prolific and impactful publications reflect significant scholarly recognition.
