Curriculum Vitae

Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215  
nicholas.parrillo@yale.edu  •  203-436-2560

CURRENT POSITION

Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn.
Associate Professor of Law, July 2008 to present

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn.
   J.D., June 2004
Yale Law Journal, Articles Editor
Scharps Prize, 2003-04: best paper by a 3L (sole winner)
Parker Prize, 2003-04: best paper on legal history (one of two winners)
Townsend Prize, 2002-03: best paper by a 2L (one of two winners)
Parker Prize, 2002-03: best paper on legal history (sole winner)

Yale University Graduate School, New Haven, Conn.
   Ph.D., American Studies, expected December 2009
   M.A., American Studies, December 2001 
Dissertation in Progress: “The Rise of Non-Profit Government in America: From Fees to Salaries in the Pay of Public Officers”
Yale Fellowships:
o Whiting Fellowship, 2007-08: awarded competitively each year to 18 advanced Ph.D. candidates in the humanities of exceptional merit
o Franke Fellowship, 2000-02: awarded to selected entry-level Ph.D. candidates in the humanities of exceptional academic promise
External Fellowships:
o Golieb Fellowship, New York University Law School, 2006-07: awarded competitively each year to 2-3 young legal historians
o Cromwell Research Fellowship, Cromwell Foundation, 2006-07: awarded competitively each year to 3-5 scholars to support research in American legal history

Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
   A.B., summa cum laude, History and Literature, June 2000
Cumming Prize: best senior thesis by a History and Literature major (sole winner)
Hoopes Prize: outstanding senior thesis
Phi Beta Kappa

PUBLICATIONS

The De-Privatization of American Warfare: How the U.S. Government Used, Regulated, and Ultimately
Abandoned Privateering in the Nineteenth Century, 19 YALE J.L. & HUMANITIES 1 (2007)

Impartial Decisionmaker, in 2 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES 798 (Paul Finkelman ed., 2006)

“The Government at the Mercy of Its Contractors”: How the New Deal Lawyers Reshaped the Common Law to Challenge the Defense Industry in World War II, 57 HASTINGS L.J. 93 (2005)

Lincoln’s Calvinist Transformation: Emancipation and War, 46 CIVIL WAR HIST. 227 (2000) (peer-reviewed)

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

“Ways of Setting the Price of Government in the Anglo-American World, to c. 1835”