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Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of English at Stanford University, serving as Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Stanford Law School. She holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in English from UC Irvine, alongside a BA in Literature from Harvard University. Her research bridges constitutional law, legal history, and law-and-literature studies, focusing on the intersection of sovereignty, legal interpretation, and performative acts of governance.
Her major works include Theaters of Pardoning (2019), examining pardons in early modern England, and Common Law Originalism (2025), arguing for a pluralistic approach to constitutional meaning. Meyler has also co-edited influential volumes like The Oxford Handbook of Law and the Humanities (2020). She previously taught at Cornell University and served as a visiting scholar at Princeton’s Mellon/LAPA program.
Her scholarly contributions span articles in Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and interdisciplinary journals, addressing topics from executive power dynamics to legal pedagogy. Meyler’s 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies underscores her impact in legal scholarship.
