B.A., Columbia, 1974; J.D., Harvard, 1977. Developments editor, Harvard Law Review. Law clerk to Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1977-78. Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1978-80. Assistant counsel to the Governor of the State of New York, 1980-82.
Joined the Columbia faculty in 1983. Member, Mayor Koch's Early Childhood Education Commission, 1985-86; counsel, Governor Cuomo's Advisory Commission on Liability Insurance, 1986; consultant, New York City Charter Revision Commission, 1987-89; member, New York City Real Property Tax Reform Commission, 1993; consultant, New York State Commission on Constitutional Revision, 1993-94. Visiting scholar, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996-97. Executive director, Special Commission on Campaign Finance Reform of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1998-2000.
Publications include "Our Localism," Columbia Law Review (1990); "Who Rules at Home? One Person, One Vote and Local Governments," University of Chicago Law Review (1993); "Balancing Acts: The Reality Behind State Balanced Budget Requirements," (1996); "The Local Government Boundary Problem in Metropolitan Areas," Stanford Law Review (1996); "A Government for Our Time? Business Improvement Districts and Urban Governance," Columbia Law Review (1999). Judicial Campaign Codes After Republican Party of Minnesota v White 153 U. Penn. L. Rev. 181 (2004); Home Rule for the Twenty-first Century, 36 Urban Lawyer 253 (2004); McConnell v FEC and the Transformation of Campaign Finance Law; 3 Election L. J. 147 (2004); The Disfavored Constitution: State Fiscal Limits and State Constitutional Law, 34 Rutgers L. J. 907 (2003); The Future of Reform: Campaign Finance Reform After the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, 34 Ariz. St. L. J. 1179 (2002); Facing the Urban Future After September 11, 2001 34 Urban Lawyer 563 (2002); Bush v Gore as an Equal Protection Case, 29 Florida State U. L. Rev. 325 (2002); Nixon v Shrink Missouri Government PAC: The Beginning of the End of the Buckley Era?, 85 Minn. L. Rev. 1729 (2001); The Political Parties and Campaign Finance Reform, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 620 (2000); Localism and Regionalism, 48 U. Buffalo L. Rev. 1 (2000); Issue Advocacy: Redrawing the Elections/Politics Line, 77 Tex. L. Rev. 1751 (1999).
Professor Gillian Metzger writes and teaches in the areas of administrative and constitutional law, with a specialization in federalism. Her publications include: with Peter L. Strauss, Todd D. Rakoff, and Cynthia R. Farina, Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments (Foundation Press; joined as editor 2007); Ordinary Administrative Law as Constitutional Common Law, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 479 (2010); Administrative Law as the New Federalism, 57 Duke L. J. 2023 (2008); Congress, Article IV, and Interstate Relations, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1468 (2007),; Abortion, Equality, and Administrative Regulation, 56 Emory L.J. 865 (2007); Facial Challenges and Federalism, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 873 (2005), and Privatization As Delegation, 103 Colum. L. Rev. 1367 (2003). Professor Metzger joined the Columbia faculty in 2001. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Metzger served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
