"Impoundments & Other Fiscal Control Strategies" - Professor Zachary S. Price

University of Miami School of Law: Explainer

Episode 8 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Professor Zachary Price, one the leading U.S. authorities on the subject of impoundments and other fiscal control strategies. Zachary Price holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Endowed Chair at UC Law in San Francisco. His work ranges from constitutional law and administrative law to criminal and civil law enforcement. His recent scholarly work focuses on constitutional questions generated by current political polarization. Professor Price’s book "Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic" was published in 2024. His scholarly articles have been published in the Stanford Law Review Online, the Georgetown Law Journal Online, the Georgia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, twice in the Vanderbilt Law Review, and in the New York University Law Review Online. Professor Price has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Scotusblog, Notice and Comment, Administrative and Regulatory News, Law and Liberty, Balkinization, the Supreme Court of California Blog, the State and Local Government Blog, and the Take Care Blog. In fall 2023, Professor Price was the Bruce Bromley Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has also held a fellowship at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Before entering teaching Prof. Price served for three years as an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Price graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude and from Stanford University with honors and distinction. Between college and law school, he studied philosophy as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen and worked for a Member of Congress.