Nicholas R. Parrillo
Associate Professor of Law
Nicholas R. Parrillo is Associate Professor of Law at Yale. He teaches administrative law, legislation, and American legal history, as well as seminars on public management and privatization. He has published articles on the U.S. government’s use of privateers during the 19th century and on its relationship to its contractors during World War II. His book, Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, forthcoming October 2013) shows how American lawmakers remade governance by shifting public officers’ monetary compensation away from profit-seeking arrangements—such as fees-for-service and bounties—and toward fixed salaries. In addition, Professor Parrillo is a co-author of the forthcoming seventh edition of the casebook Administrative Law: The American Public Law System: Cases and Materials (West, forthcoming 2014). A member of the New York bar, he holds a J.D. and Ph.D. from Yale and an A.B. from Harvard, was a recipient of the NYU Golieb Fellowship in Legal History and of Yale's Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, and served as a clerk to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Education
Ph.D. (American Studies), Yale, 2012
J.D., Yale, 2004
M.A., Yale, 2001
A.B., Harvard, 2000
Courses Taught
Administrative Law
American Legal History
Legislation
Privatization
