Don Herzog

Don Herzog is the Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law. His main teaching interests are political, moral, legal, and social theory; constitutional interpretation; torts; and the First Amendment.

Herzog is the author of numerous books, including Sovereignty, RIP (2020) and A Little Book of Political Mistakes (2020), as well as Defaming the Dead (Yale University Press, 2017). He joined the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan in 1983 and holds a joint appointment with that department and the Law School.

In 2011, the U-M student body selected Herzog to receive its coveted Golden Apple, the only University-wide teaching award given by students. He is the first law professor to receive a Golden Apple in the award’s more than 20-year history.