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Heather Elliott is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She joined the Law School after serving as Assistant Professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. Previously, Professor Elliott served as a law clerk for Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as well as an appellate litigation associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP.

Her recent scholarship includes "The Functions of Standing," an article that will be published this year in the Stanford Law Review. In addition, her essay titled “The Technological Transformation of the Administrative State" will appear as a chapter in the third volume of Comparative Perspectives in Portuguese and American Law, published by the University of Lisbon. She presented her current work "Are Article III Courts Necessary for Review of Agency Decisions?” to the University of California-Berkeley School of Law Workshop for Junior Administrative Law Scholars in August 2007.

In December 2007, Professor Elliott taught American Public Law at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. She served as a moderator at the symposium “Common Morality for the Global Age" at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in March 2008, and at the “Speech and Silence in American Law” symposium – which is an installment in the “Law, Knowledge & Imagination” series – at the University of Alabama School of Law.

Professor Elliott received her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Duke University; M.A. from Yale University; and J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure as well as Land Use Planning and Water Law.