Phone: 217-333-3232
Email: dmeyer@law.uiuc.edu
B.A., J.D. University of Michigan
Courses
Constitutional Law
Family Law
Parent, Child & State
Torts
Vita
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A leading scholar at the intersection of constitutional law and family law, Professor Meyer's articles have appeared in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and other journals. Professor Meyer served as U.S. national reporter on family law at the past two congresses of the International Academy of Comparative Law, in Utrecht (2006) and Brisbane (2002).In 2006, Professor Meyer delivered the Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture at Hofstra University School of Law (“The Constitutional Rights of Non-Custodial Parents”), and the inaugural Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law at the University of Florida (“Palmore Comes of Age: The Place of Race in the Placement of Children”). Professor Meyer (dmeyer@law.uiuc.edu) received his B.A. in History with Highest Honors and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court. He also served as a Legal Advisor to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague and practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Chicago before joining the Illinois faculty in 1996. Professor Meyer was a visiting professor at George Washington University Law School in 2002. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
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