Nicholas Handler

Nicholas Handler is an Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law. His research focuses on administrative law, civil procedure, and the law of the civil service. His scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Law & History Review, among other journals. He has also written and been quoted widely in popular media, including on NPR Radio and in Bloomberg, Barron's, the Boston Globe, and Lawfare. He is the recipient of the American Constitution Society's 2024 Cudahy Prize in Administrative and Regulatory Law, and the co-recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s 2019 Sutherland Prize for best article in the field of English legal history. He received his Bachelor's degree in History from Yale College and his J.D. From Yale Law School. He also holds an M. Phil. In History from Cambridge University, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School. Before entering academia, Professor Handler clerked on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced litigation for 5 years at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.