Zachary Price

Zachary Price is a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2023. He holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Endowed Chair at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where he teaches constitutional law and civil procedure.

Price’s research focuses on separation of powers and constitutional questions relating to current political polarization. Among other topics, he has written about federal enforcement discretion, Congress’s power of the purse, Congress’s power to structure the military, and depolarizing approaches to constitutional interpretation. His book Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2024. His prior work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Journal of Legal Analysis, and NYU Law Review Online, among other journals, and he has written for publications including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, SCOTUSblog, Lawfare, and Notice & Comment.

A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, Price clerked for Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He also worked in private practice and at the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department. Before beginning teaching at UC Law SF in 2013, he served as a fellow for one year at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.