DLA Piper Professor of Law
Director, Fannie Angelos Program for Academic Excellence
mmeyerson@ubalt.edu
410.837.4550
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1119
Administrative Assistant: Tiffany Ralph
410.837.4561
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1112
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979
B.A., Hampshire College, 1976
Read a Q&A with Meyerson in the Baltimore Sun about his new book Endowed by Our Creator.
Areas of Expertise
American Legal History
Constitutional Law
Contracts
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Speech
Meyerson joined the faculty in 1985 after serving three years as an instructor at Brooklyn Law School. His professional experience includes three years as a consumer affairs attorney for the New York State Consumer Protection Board. Meyerson's most recent book is Endowed By Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Yale University Press 2012). He has written three other books and published numerous articles on constitutional law, contracts law, and the First Amendment, some of which have appeared in the Stanford Journal of International Law, Indiana Law Review, Nebraska Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Miami Law Review, and Harvard Journal of law & Technology. He is a member of the New York Bar.
Selected Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press (2012)
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World , Basic Books (2008)
Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution. W.W. Norton (2002)
Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Media (1990 and annual supplements) (co-author with D. Brenner & M. Price)
Articles and Essays
The Original Meaning of "God": Using the Language of the Framing Generation to Create a Coherent Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, 98 Marq. L. Rev. 1035 (2015).
Law School Culture and the Lost Art of Collaboration: Why Don't Law Professors Play Well With Others?, 93 Neb. L. Rev. 547 (2014)
The Irrational Supreme Court, 84 Neb. L. Rev. 895 (2005)
Mathematics and the Legal Imagination, 19 Const. Commentary 477 (2002)
The Neglected History of the Prior Restraint Doctrine: Rediscovering the Link between the First Amendment and the Separation of Powers, 34 Ind. L. Rev. 295 (2001)
Ideas of the Marketplace: A Guide to The 1996 Telecommunications Act, 49 Fed. Com. L. J. 252 (1997)
Authors, Editors and Uncommon Carriers: Identifying the 'Speaker' Within the New Media, 71 Notre Dame L. Rev. 79 (1995)
Virtual Constitutions: The Creation of Rules for Governing Private Networks, 8 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 129 (1994)
The Reunification of Contract: The Objective Theory of Consumer Form Contracts, 47 U. Miami L. Rev. 1263 (1993)
This Gun for Hire: Dancing in the Dark of the First Amendment, Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 267 (1990)
The Efficient Consumer Form Contract: Law and Economics Meet the Real World, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 1(1990)