Faculty

Daniel Sharfstein
Assistant Professor of Law
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History

J.D., Yale Law School, 2000

American legal history, with an emphasis on the legal history of race in the United States; property law. 

Telephone:  (615) 322-1890
Email:  daniel.sharfstein@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: W 2:00-3:30 pm
Office: Room 252, Vanderbilt University Law School

Personal website: < http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=218> 
Curriculum vitae

Daniel Sharfstein joined the faculty as an assistant professor of law in 2007 after a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History at New York University School of Law. Professor Sharfstein's scholarship focuses on the legal history of race in the United States. His most recent article, "Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600-1860," appeared in the February 2007 issue of the Minnesota Law Review. His current book project, Sun and Shade: Three American Families Journey from Black to White, is under contract with the Penguin Press. His writing has also appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Law and History Review,  New York Times, Washington Post Book World, Economist, American Prospect, Legal Affairs and Africa Report. For his research on the color line in the American South, Professor Sharfstein was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and was the inaugural recipient of the Raoul Berger Visiting Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Rya W. Zobel, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was also an associate at Strumwasser & Woocher, a public interest law firm in Santa Monica, California. Prior to law school, he spent three years working as a journalist in West Africa and Southern California.

Courses taught: Legal History of Race in the U.S.; Property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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