Lawrence G. Sager

Dean, University of Texas School of Law

Lawrence G. Sager is the Dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and holds the John Jeffers Research Chair in Law and the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair. Dean Sager is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. He came to Texas from New York University School of Law, where he was the Robert B. McKay Professor and Co-Founder of the Program in Law, Philosophy & Social Theory. He has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, Boston University, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. He is the author or co-author of dozens of articles, many now classics in the canon of legal scholarship, and is the author of two books: Justice in Plainclothes: a Theory of American Constitutional Practice (Yale Univ. Press), and Religious Freedom and the Constitution (co-authored with Christopher Eisgruber) (Harvard Univ. Press). Dean Sager has a B.A. from Pomona College and a LL.B from Columbia University. He is married to Jane Cohen, the Edward Clark Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. They live in Austin with their twin daughters.