Adrian Vermeule is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1990 and from Harvard Law School in 1993. From 1998 to 2006, he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. His books include Judging Under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation (2006), Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts (with Eric A. Posner) (2007); and, most recently, Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small (2007).