Samuel L. Bray is a Professor of Law and the Walter Mander Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. He writes about and teaches remedies, equity, civil procedure, and constitutional law. In addition, Bray is a McDonald Senior Distinguished Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. Before joining the University of Chicago faculty, Bray was a member of the Notre Dame Law School faculty (2018-2025) and the UCLA Law School faculty (2011-2018).

Bray specializes in the law of remedies and the law of equity, and he has published numerous articles, chapters in edited volumes, and books. His recent articles and essays include How Equity Changes, Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming 2026); Preliminary Injunctions on a Blank Slate, 101 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026); Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis, 139 Harv. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (symposium piece) (with William Baude & Marin K. Levy); When the Executive Has Unclean Hands, 135 Yale L. J. Forum 567-596 (2026) (with William Baude); Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases, 17 J. Leg. Analysis 236-258 (2025); Preliminary Injunction Realism, 44 Rev. Litig. 203-237 (2025) (festschrift for Doug Laycock); and The Purpose of the Preliminary Injunction, 78 Vand. L. Rev. 809-874 (2025). His other work includes Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 417-482 (2017); and “Necessary AND Proper” and “Cruel AND Unusual”: Hendiadys in the Constitution, 102 Va. L. Rev. 687-764 (2016). He is the author (with coauthors) of casebooks on constitutional law and remedies.

Bray has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the District of Columbia Bar. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated with honors and was book review editor for the University of Chicago Law Review.

Bray’s scholarly papers are available at Google Scholar, and works in progress are available at SSRN.