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Ryan Doerfler is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he focuses on constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and legal theory. His scholarship critically examines the role of courts in democratic governance and challenges conventional approaches to legal interpretation.
Doerfler's research spans constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and legal philosophy, with particular emphasis on judicial review, textualism, and democratic theory. His work often challenges established doctrines, arguing for more transparent and accountable approaches to legal interpretation that better align with democratic values. He has developed influential critiques of textualism and plain meaning approaches to statutory interpretation, demonstrating how these methods often mask value judgments rather than providing neutral decision rules.
His recent publications reveal a sustained engagement with the democratization of legal interpretation, particularly in his co-authored work with Samuel Moyn on disempowering courts in statutory cases. Doerfler's scholarship consistently bridges theoretical legal philosophy with practical concerns about how legal doctrines affect real-world governance and democratic accountability. His work on scrivener's errors, statutory ambiguity, and high-stakes interpretation has reshaped debates about how courts should approach statutory construction.
Doerfler's research has been published in leading law reviews including the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Harvard Law Review. His influential article 'Democratizing the Supreme Court' (co-authored with Samuel Moyn) has sparked significant debate about court reform and the proper role of judicial review in a democracy.
As a faculty member at Harvard Law School, Doerfler contributes to legal education while maintaining an active scholarly agenda that continues to shape contemporary debates about constitutional interpretation, statutory construction, and the proper relationship between law and democracy.
