Thursday, May 30, 2013
Erman to USC Law
Congratulations to Sam Erman and USC Law for the latter’s recent hiring of the former. Erman holds the J.D. and the Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. He clerked for Judge Merrick P. Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court. He was the Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow at the Harvard Law School in 2011-12 and the Latino Studies Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in 2012-13. He is at work on a dissertation-based book, “Puerto Rico and the Constitution: Struggles around Status and Governance in a New Empire, 1898-1925.” SSRN papers are here and here.