Don Herzog is the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law. His main teaching interests are political, moral, legal, and social theory; constitutional interpretation; torts; and the First Amendment. He is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming
Sovereignty, RIP (2020) and
A Little Book of Political Mistakes (2020), as well as
Defaming the Dead (Yale University Press, 2017), which is available for free
online. Professor Herzog holds an AB from Cornell University and an AM and PhD from Harvard University, where he studied government. He joined the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan in 1983 and holds a joint appointment with that department and the Law School. In 2011, Professor Herzog was selected by the U-M student body to receive its coveted Golden Apple, the only University-wide teaching award given by students themselves. He is the first law professor to receive a Golden Apple in the award's 20-year history.