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Zachary Price

Associate Professor

University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Professor Zachary Price began teaching at UC Hastings as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2013, following a one-year fellowship at the Stanford Law School Constitutional Law Center. He has been an Associate Professor at UC Hastings since 2015.

Before entering academics, Professor Price served for three years as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel, a component of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. that provides authoritative legal advice to the President, Attorney General, and executive branch agencies. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked at all three levels of the federal judiciary, for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 2003 and from Stanford University with honors and distinction in 1998.

Professor Price’s research focuses on questions of constitutional structure. His interests include constitutional law, civil procedure, statutory interpretation, and federal Indian law. His work has appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review Online, and Fordham Law Review

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The Real Problem with Seila

8/24/20  //  In-Depth Analysis

Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that tenure protection for the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional. The decision’s reasoning may be more important—and worrisome—than the holding itself.

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law

Taking Pandemic and Military Powers Away from the President

3/9/20  //  Commentary

The current coronavirus epidemic shows why it's often a good idea to vest specific executive authority in officers other than the President.

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law

The DACA Trap

11/6/19  //  Commentary

The Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in a case about whether the Trump Administration can revoke DACA. But progressives ought to be wary of the long-term effects of prevailing. A win here could very well make it very hard to undo the lax enforcement policies of the current Administration.

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law

Impeachment and Congress's Power of the Purse

10/29/19  //  Commentary

The President does not have constitutional authority to withhold foreign aid that Congress has mandated by statute.

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law

Overriding Trump on Troop Withdrawals

10/10/19  //  Commentary

Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress can require the President to keep troops in particular locations

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law

Special Prosecutors and the Structure of Office-Holding

1/18/19  //  In-Depth Analysis

Trump can't control Mueller directly. He must instead act through the Attorney General. That's a very important restriction.

Zachary Price

U.C. Hastings College of the Law