Professor Samuel L. Bray, ’05, has been named the Walter Mander Research Scholar, effective immediately.

A legal scholar who teaches remedies, civil procedure, and constitutional law, Bray joined the Law School faculty in July 2025 after holding faculty positions at UCLA and Notre Dame. He has written widely on injunctions, declaratory judgments, and the equitable powers of courts, and is the coauthor of two legal textbooks: Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies (with Emily Sherwin); and The Constitution of the United States (with Michael Paulsen, Michael McConnell, and Will Baude). 

Bray is an elected member of the American Law Institute, an adviser on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Remedies, and a McDonald Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. 

The Walter Mander Research Scholar designation was made possible through a generous gift from the Walter Mander Founation in 2005. Chuck Wolf, ’75, the nephew of Walter Mander and a longtime supporter of the Law School, is the president of the foundation. Wolf is also a lifetime member of the Law School Council and has taught Employee Benefits Law at the Law School since 2012.

“The Mander Foundation Board is thrilled that Sam Bray has become the latest Walter Mander Research Scholar,” said Wolf. “He is a brilliant scholar whose career is still at an early stage. We feel that the program has been an excellent investment in the scholarship of outstanding professors, including three law school deans.” 

Past Walter Mander Research Scholars include Dean Adam Chilton, former Dean Thomas J. Miles, and Columbia Law School Dean Daniel Abebe.