Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 2004
B.A. (Philosophy), The University of Texas at Austin, 2001

Professor Pursley’s research is on issues in constitutional and legal theory and their application to open questions in constitutional law, federal courts, administrative law, energy law and other contexts. His most recent work draws on jurisprudence and the philosophy of science to examine new ways of understanding the constitutional structure, the nature of constitutional norms and the properties of the system in which structural norms function. After law school, Professor Pursley served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for Judge Timothy B. Dyk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and was a fellow on the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law. He joined the law school in the fall of 2012 and teaches Federal Jurisdiction, Legislation/Regulation, and Constitutional Law II.