{{Short description|American legal scholar}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Mitchell N. Berman | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = Law professor | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = Leon Meltzer Professor of Law; Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = Harvard University (BA)<br>University of Michigan (JD, MA) | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = University of Pennsylvania | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Mitchell N. Berman''' is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and, in addition, is also a professor of philosophy. He is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy at the university.
==Biography==
Berman attended Harvard University (A.B. 1988), the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1993), and the University of Michigan (M.A. 1994).<ref name="upenn.edu">{{cite web|url=https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mitchber/|title=Penn Law Faculty: Mitchell Berman|website=www.law.upenn.edu}}</ref> In 1994 to 1995 he was a law clerk to Judge James Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.<ref name="upenn.edu1">[https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/mitchber/cv.pdf "C.V."]</ref>
Berman is the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Professor of Philosophy.<ref name="upenn.edu"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/03/09/khan-case-highlights-difference-between-uwc-criminal-court/|title=Khan case highlights difference between UWC, criminal court|website=yaledailynews.com|date=9 March 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/02/06/did-the-supreme-court-accidentally-allow-states-to-lower-the-drinking-age-with-impunity/ "Did the Supreme Court Accidentally Allow States to Lower the Drinking Age with Impunity?"], ''The Washington Post''.</ref> He is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy.<ref name="upenn.edu1"/> Earlier in his career he was the University of Texas at Austin School of Law Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law.<ref name="upenn.edu1"/>
Among his many articles are "Our Principled Constitution," 166 ''U. PA. L. REV.'' 1325 (2018), "The Tragedy of Justice Scalia," ''115 MICH. L. REV.'' 783 (2017), and "Judge Posner’s Simple Law," 113 ''MICH. L. REV.'' 777 (2015).<ref name="upenn.edu1"/>
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