Paul Verkuil

About

Paul R. Verkuil served as the tenth Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States from 2010 to 2015. He published Valuing Bureaucracy (Cambridge Press 2017) based on many of the insights gleaned during his years of federal service. Verkuil currently serves as a Senior Fellow of ACUS.

Mr. Verkuil is a well-known administrative law teacher and scholar who has co-authored a leading treatise, Administrative Law and Process, now in its fifth edition, several other books, notably Outsourcing Sovereignty (Cambridge Press 2007), and over 65 articles on the general topic of public law and regulation. A Festschrift held in his honor in October 2010 appears at 32 Cardozo Law Review 2159 (2011).

He is President Emeritus of the College of William & Mary, has been Dean of the Tulane and Cardozo Law Schools, and a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Law School. He is a graduate of William & Mary and the University of Virginia Law School and holds a JSD from New York University Law School. Among his career highlights is serving as Special Master in New Jersey v. New York, an original jurisdiction case in the Supreme Court, which determined sovereignty to Ellis Island. He is a Life Member of the American Law Institute and the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

Last updated on 07/26/2021