Sherif Girgis

Sherif Girgis joined the law school in 2021. His work in constitutional law and theory has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Law, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. He is coauthor of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense (Encounter, 2012) and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also editor of the next edition of a First Amendment casebook formerly edited by Fred Schauer, and coeditor with Mike Dorf of the next edition of a constitutional law casebook formerly coedited by Schauer as well as Dick Fallon. His scholarship has been cited by Justices and judges and featured in venues including the New York Times. In 2025, he was elected to the American Academy of Sciences & Letters. In the spring of 2026, he served as the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Before joining Notre Dame, he practiced appellate and complex civil litigation at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., having earlier served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith. Girgis received a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton, a J.D. at Yale, a master’s (B.Phil.) in philosophy at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s in philosophy at Princeton, summa cum laude.