Samuel Bray is a legal scholar who teaches remedies, civil procedure, and constitutional law. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2025 after serving on the law faculty at UCLA and at Notre Dame.
Bray has written widely on injunctions, declaratory judgments, and the equitable powers of courts. He 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. He has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Bray graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005 and clerked for then-Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.