Christopher May is a 1968 graduate of the Yale Law School where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he served as director of research for the National Institution for Education in Law and Poverty in Chicago. He then worked for three years as a staff attorney with the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, where he engaged in both service work and law reform litigation. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1973 where he taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, a Supreme Court Seminar, and various poverty law courses, while also and serving as associate dean from 1975-1979. His scholarship includes In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers Since 1918 (Harvard University Press, 1989), winner if the 1989 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award, and Presidential Defiance of “Unconstitutional” Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative (Greenwood Press, 1998). He served for many years on the board of directors of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, was an advisory committee member for the California Small Claims Court Experimental Project, and has engaged in a wide range of pro bono work over the years.