Biography of Michael E. Parrish, author of Citizen Rauh:
Michael E. Parrish is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, San
Diego, where he has taught for forty years. A specialist in the legal and constitutional history of
the United States, he has also taught at the University of Nanjing in the People’s Republic of
China, Edinburgh University, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Helsinki, where
he was the Fulbright Bicentennial Professor of American Studies in 2007-08.
A native of California, he graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.A. in
history and as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow received his Ph.D. from Yale University where he
studied with John Morton Blum, C. Vann Woodward, and Alexander Bickel. He completed post
doctoral studies at the Harvard Law School as a Liberal Arts Fellow in 1973-74.
He is the author of five books, including Securities Regulation and the New Deal; Felix
Frankfurter and His Times; Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression; The
Hughes Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy; and Judging Death: The Supreme Court and
Capital Punishment. His articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the
Historian, Diplomatic History, the Journal of the Supreme Court Historical Society, and the Yale
Law Journal.
He lives in San Diego with his wife, Marguerite Schnell Strand, an attorney, who practices water
and environmental law.