Samuel L. Bray - John N. Matthews Professor of Law

Samuel L. Bray is the John N. Matthews Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship is primarily about the law of remedies and the law of equity, and he also writes about constitutional law and legal interpretation. He is an author of two leading casebooks, one on remedies and one on constitutional law.

Bray has been a faculty member at Notre Dame Law School since 2018, and from 2011 to 2018 was a professor at the UCLA School of Law. He is a faculty fellow at the Notre Dame Program on Private Law and a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and an advisor for the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies.

Bray received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, before clerking for Judge Michael W. McConnell, practicing law at Mayer Brown LLP, teaching as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School, and serving as executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.