Gail Heriot

Gail Heriot is a professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Prior to entering academia, she practiced law 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 clerked for the Honorable Seymour F. Simon of the Illinois Supreme Court. A former editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, Herriot has been published in the Michigan Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The National Review, The Los Angeles Times, and The San Diego Union Tribune. She is the editor and author of a forthcoming anthology of essays entitled “California Dreaming: Race, Gender, Proposition 209”, and the “Principle of Non-Discrimination.”