Christopher H. Schroeder
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies
Christopher H. Schroeder is Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, and Director of the Program in Public Law. His areas of research and scholarship include environmental and administrative law, democratic theory, legislative institutions and separation of powers. He has written on the philosophical foundations of risk regulation and liability, the regulation of toxic substances, the performance of American environmental policy, and on a variety of topics in public law and theory. His publications include a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (5th Edition, 2006), published by Aspen Publishing, and A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment (2005), a project of the Center for Progressive Reform(CPR), co-edited with Rena Steinzor. He is a member fo the board of directors of CPR. He has served on National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine committees to evaluate the use of human intentional dosing studies by EPA and the adequacy of the U.S. drug safety system.
Schroeder has served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for legal advice to the Attorney General, the Executive Office of the President and other executive branch agencies on a broad range of issues, including separation of powers, other constitutional issues and matters of statutory interpretation and administrative law. He has also served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is of counsel to the firm of O’Melveny and Myers, where he works primarily on appellate matters.
He received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1968, a M. Div. from Yale University in 1971, and his J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1974, where he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. He is married to Katharine T. Bartlett, former dean of Duke Law School. They have three children: Emily,Ted, and Lily.