Haas, Michael J.

After nearly a decade as a law professor, Gary Rowe joined GMSR in 2011. He brings a deep knowledge of the law, the ability to find the big picture amid a wealth of detail, and a flair for writing to bear on difficult appellate issues.

Gary received an A.B. in history, summa cum laude, from Harvard College. There he won a Henry Fellowship, and so he went abroad, to Oxford University, where he earned an M.Stud. in Modern History and the Sara Norton prize for an outstanding historical essay. His next stop was law school, where he was the Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal, an extern and research assistant for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham on the Third Circuit, and the winner of the Edgar Cullen Prize for the best paper by a first year student.

Gary then went to work, first as a lawyer at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, next as a federal law clerk for the Hon. William A. Norris on the Ninth Circuit, and then as a regulatory policy maker in the Clinton White House, serving as Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory. After training as a legal historian at Princeton, Gary settled into the academic life, teaching primarily at the UCLA School of Law, as well as at the University of Texas and Southwestern law schools. As a law professor from 2001 to 2010, he taught courses in federal courts, civil procedure, constitutional law, and legal history. In the classroom, Gary sought to situate the material of his courses in its historical context, to emphasize how law invariably requires one to choose between competing theories and normative values, and to illustrate the extent to which mesmerizing, value-laden issues are frequently embedded in seemingly dry, technical matters.

Gary lives in South Pasadena with his wife and son, where he is active as PTA Parliamentarian and with Friends of the Rialto Theatre, a historical preservation organization.