Peter Strauss

Who is Peter Strauss?

Professor Peter L. Strauss is the Betts Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He joined the faculty in 1971. He teaches courses in Administrative Law, Legal Methods, and Legislation, and the Regulatory State.

After graduating Harvard College and Yale Law School, he had spent two years clerking for federal judges in Washington, D.C., two years lecturing on criminal law in the national university of Ethiopia, and three years as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, briefing and arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court. During 1975-77, Professor Strauss was on leave from Columbia as the first General Counsel of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His published works include Administrative Justice in the United States; Gellhorn's & Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments; Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes; Legislation, Understanding and Using Statutes, Administrative Law Stories and numerous law review articles, generally focusing on issues of rulemaking, separation of powers, and statutory interpretation.