Eric L. Muller

After earning his Phi Beta Kappa key from Brown and serving as current topics editor for the Yale Law and Policy Review while at Yale, Muller clerked for United States District Judge H. Lee Sarokin in Newark, New Jersey from 1987 to 1988. He then practiced in the litigation department of a private law firm in Manhattan from 1988 to 1990, before joining the United States Attorney's Office in Newark, where he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Appeals Division from 1990 to 1994.

After several years of adjunct teaching at Seton Hall Law School while still in government practice, Muller moved to the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1994 to begin full-time teaching, specializing in criminal justice and constitutional issues. In 1997, he was named the outstanding teacher at Wyoming College of Law.

Muller joined the UNC faculty in the fall of 1998. Eric L. Muller is George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.