Meyerson, Michael

Michael Meyerson is a Professor of Law and Piper & Marbury Faculty Fellow at the University of Baltimore School of Law, specializing in constitutional law and American legal history.

Meyerson received his B.A. from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1979.  He is the author of two books, Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote The Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World (Basic Books 2008) and Political Numeracy: Mathematical Perspectives on Our Chaotic Constitution (W.W.Norton 2002). He is also co-author, with Dan Brenner and Monroe Price, of a treatise on cable television law, Cable Television and Other Nonbroadcast Media (Thomson West 1990 plus annual updates).

Meyerson has also written many scholarly law review articles and book chapters, including "The Irrational Supreme Court," in the Nebraska Law Review, "Virtual Constitutions: The Creation of Rules for Governing Private Networks," in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and "The Pre-history of the Prior Restraint Doctrine:  Rediscovering the Link between the First Amendment and the Separation of Powers," in the Indiana Law Review.