Henry “Hank” Chambers, Jr.

Professor
University of Richmond School of Law

Professor Henry L. Chambers, Jr., is Professor of Law and Austin E. Owen Research Scholar at the University of Richmond.  He teaches and writes in the areas of voting rights, constitutional law, criminal law, law and religion, and employment discrimination.  Two of his recent pieces, The Fight over the Virginia Redistricting Commission (2021) and Readying Virginia for Redistricting After a Decade of Election Law Upheaval (2020), focus on Virginia’s redistricting process in the post-2020 Census redistricting cycle. Chambers served as Special Assistant Attorney General for redistricting matters for the Commonwealth of Virginia during the post-2010 Census redistricting cycle. He serves as the vice-chair of the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission and as an advisor to the Virginia Model Jury Instruction Committee, and served as a member of the Virginia Governor’s Commission to Examine Racial and Economic Inequity in the Law. Chambers has lectured on constitutional law in various venues, including through the We The People program, which provides civic education instruction to school teachers and the public; at James Madison’s Montpelier; and at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville.  He has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2002.