Gillian E. Metzger (born October 2, 1965) is a

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scholar and a professor of law at

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Early life and education

The daughter of

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history professor Walter P. Metzger, Gillian grew up on campus in faculty housing. She earned a bachelor's degree in

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from

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in 1987, and then worked as a legislative aide for

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, a local union in

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. Metzger then earned a master's degree in philosophy at the

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. After several years as a staff analyst for New York City government, Metzger enrolled in

, earning her J.D. degree in 1995.

Professional career

After law school, Metzger first clerked with U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judge

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and then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice

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. After completing her clerkship with Ginsburg, Metzger became a staff attorney for the

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at the

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for several years. During her time at the Brennan Center, Metzger worked on two notable causes: challenging Florida's permanent disenfranchisement of convicted felons and defending campaign finance reform measures. Her work on felon disenfranchisement earned her an invitation to testify before the

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on October 21, 1999. Metzger joined Columbia Law's faculty in 2001. Her areas of expertise are

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a State (polity), state, namely, the executive (government), executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as th ...

administrative law Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of Forms of government, government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are gener ...

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, and institutional reform. She also has served as the faculty advisor to the school's American Constitution Society for Law and Policy chapter. She has argued for an expanded reading of

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.Gillian E. Metzger, ''Congress, Article IV, and Interstate Relations''
, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1468 (2007).

Personal

Metzger and her husband,

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Director of Tax Policy Research Michael Hyman, live on Manhattan's

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. They have two sons, Oliver and Nathaniel Hyman-Metzger.

References

External links

Columbia University profileArticles by Gillian Metzger
at ''Harvard Law Review''
Profile of Gillian Metzger
at the Federalist Society. {{DEFAULTSORT:Metzger, Gillian E. 1965 births Living people American lawyers Yale University alumni Columbia Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Columbia University faculty Columbia Law School faculty Scholars of constitutional law American women lawyers Alumni of the University of Oxford Women legal scholars American women academics 21st-century American women

Early life and education

Professional career

Personal

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