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'''Thomas W. Merrill''' is an American [[legal scholar]] who is the Charles Evans Hughes professor at [[Columbia Law School]]. He has also taught at [[Yale Law School]] and [[Northwestern University School of Law]].
== Biography ==
Merrill received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Grinnell College]] in 1971 and a B.A. with first-class honors in [[philosophy, politics and economics]] in 1973 from [[Oxford University]], where he was a [[Rhodes Scholar]].  He received his JD from the [[University of Chicago Law School]] in 1977 and went on to clerk for Judge [[David L. Bazelon]] of the [[D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]], and then [[United States Supreme Court]] Justice [[Harry Blackmun]]. Before moving to Yale, he was the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia from 2003 to 2008 and the [[John Paul Stevens]] Professor of Law at [[Northwestern University]] from 1993 to 2003.  He also served as a Deputy [[United States Solicitor General|Solicitor General]] from 1987 to 1990. Merrill returned to Columbia in 2010 and teaches Property, Legislation and Regulation, and Torts, among other courses.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas W. Merrill |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/thomas-w-merrill |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.law.columbia.edu |language=en}}</ref>
Merrill has published in the ''[[Columbia Law Review]]'', ''[[Harvard Law Review]]'', and the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]''. He has co-authored multiple textbooks, generally dealing with the laws of property. In 2013, Merrill was awarded the [[Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize]] by the [[College of William and Mary School of Law]] for his extensive body of work concerning property rights.<ref>{{cite web|title=Recipients of the Brigham-Kanner Prize|url=http://law.wm.edu/academics/intellectuallife/conferencesandlectures/propertyrights/past-prize-recipients/index.php|website=William and Mary Law School|access-date=February 28, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209014735/http://law.wm.edu/academics/intellectuallife/conferencesandlectures/propertyrights/past-prize-recipients/index.php|archive-date=February 9, 2017}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2)]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/thomas-w-merrill Thomas W. Merrill] at Columbia Law School
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