Gail Heriot

Professor of Law

University of San Diego School of Law

Professor Heriot teaches at the University of San Diego School of Law and writes in the areas of civil rights, employment discrimination, product liability remedies, and torts.

Prof. Heriot clerked for the Honorable Seymour F. Simon on the Illinois Supreme Court. Prior to entering academia, she practiced with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago and Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C. She also served as civil rights counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and as associate dean and professor of law at the George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. She joined the USD School of Law faculty in 1989.

Heriot is currently a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. She sits on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars and the California Association of Scholars.