Contributors

Joseph Blocher is the Lanty L. Smith ’67 Professor of Law at Duke University, where he received the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012. His principal academic interests include federal and state constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, legal history, and property. His published articles can be found in leading law journals including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law. He is co-author of Free Speech Beyond Words (NYU Press, 2017) and The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2018).…

John Blume is the Samuel F. Leibowitz Professor of Trial Techniques at Cornell Law School where he teaches Criminal Procedure, Federal Appellate Practice and directs the Capital Punishment and Juvenile Justice Clinics. In addition to being the author of several books and numerous law review articles, Professor Blume has argued eight cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and has been co-counsel or amicus curiae counsel in numerous other Supreme Court cases. He also has extensive appellate experience in the federal courts of appeal and state supreme courts.

Grace Brosofsky is a third-year student and Charles Evan Hughes scholar at Cornell Law School, where she received the Stanley E. Gould Prize for Public Interest Law. Her research interests include environmental law, energy law, tribal law and criminal procedure, and her Note, Affordable Renewables—Unjust and Unreasonable?, is published in the Cornell Law Review. Prior to law school, she graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech with a degree in environmental engineering and earned the School Chair’s Outstanding Senior Award in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of Berkeley Law School and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He has authored more than 200 law review articles and eleven books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent books are, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (Picador Macmillan) published in November 2018, and two books published by Yale University Press in 2017, Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable and Free Speech on Campus (with Howard Gillman). In 2017, National Jurist magazine…

Rodger D. Citron is the Associate Dean for Academic Development and a Professor of Law at Touro Law Center. From 2014 until mid-2018, he served as the Academic Dean at Touro Law. Professor Citron is a graduate of Yale College, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Professor Citron clerked for the Hon. Thomas N. O'Neill, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a law professor, he worked as a trial attorney at the United…

Sherry F. Colb is the C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell University and a founding editor of Oral Argument 2.0. Colb teaches courses in constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and animal rights. She has published articles in a variety of law reviews, including Stanford, Columbia, N.Y.U., and G.W., on such topics as privacy from police searches, incarceration, reproductive rights, and why courts are more offended by wrongdoing that results in concrete rather than abstract harm. Colb's most recent book, Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights (co-authored with Michael C. Dorf), addresses some of the common puzzles, themes, and challenges that…

Laura Dooley is a Professor of Law at Touro Law School. She has been teaching about the civil justice system for almost thirty years since clerking for Judge Pasco Bowman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and teaching as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. She has published widely in top-tier law reviews, including the flagship journals at NYU, Vanderbilt, Cornell, and Illinois. Her work has been cited by both federal courts and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal and Vice News. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the…

Michael C. Dorf is the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. He has written hundreds of popular essays, dozens of scholarly articles, and six books on constitutional law and related subjects. Professor Dorf blogs at Dorf on Law.

Tony is a nationally recognized attorney who joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund after a 15-year career as a partner with a leading global law firm. Tony was named a national Law360 Rising Star for 2014, an honor bestowed on a select group of lawyers under the age of 40 (Tony was one of eight nationwide in the class action category). Tony was also selected to the Illinois Super Lawyer list each of the last four years he was in private practice. While in private practice, Tony received several awards for his pro bono efforts, and served as the co-chair…

Michael Gerhardt is the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at UNC Law. He has authored six books, including The Forgotten Presidents (Oxford University Press 2013), which The Financial Times named as one of the best non-fiction books of 2013. He has also written more than a hundred law review articles and dozens of op eds in the nation’s leading news publications, including SCOTUSblog, The New York Times, and Washington Post. Professor Gerhardt has testified more than a dozen times before Congress, including as the only joint witness in the Clinton impeachment proceedings in the House; speaking behind closed doors…

Jareb Gleckel is a founding editor of Oral Argument 2.0. He conceived of the project in his third year of law school at Cornell, where he graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. He also graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Amherst College. His research focuses on the legal questions surrounding new food products, namely plant-based and cell-based meat. He will be clerking on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and in the Southern District of New York.

James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Law School. He authored the casebook, Internet Law: Cases and Problems, now in its fifth edition, and over forty scholarly articles and essays. He frequently provides expert commentary for major news media including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and All Things Considered. Prior to law school, Professor Grimmelmann worked as a programmer for Microsoft.

Professor Grossman is the inaugural Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and the Law at the SMU Dedman School of Law. She has authored six books and numerous law review articles covering topics including sex discrimination and workplace equality, with a particular focus on sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination. Prior to teaching at SMU, Professor Grossman served as the Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professor of Family Law at Hofstra University. She graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School and clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge William A. Norris.

John C. Harrison joined the faculty in 1993 as an associate professor of law after a distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice. His teaching subjects include constitutional history, federal courts, remedies, corporations, civil procedure, legislation and property. In 2008 he was on leave from the Law School to serve as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is also Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to…

Elizabeth Joh is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at U.C. Davis. She has written widely about policing, technology, and surveillance. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. She has also provided commentary for the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the New York Times.

Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University. He received the 2015 Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern, the Hart-Dworkin award in legal philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools, and the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association. His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. His seventh book, Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty? The Unnecessary Conflict, will be published by Oxford University Press in May 2020.

Leah Litman is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches and writes on constitutional law, federal post-conviction review, and federal sentencing. Her recent work has appeared in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Northwestern Law Review, as well as in popular news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Slate. She is also a regular contributor to the Take Care blog, and one of the co-hosts and creators of Strict Scrutiny, a podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor…

Tracey Maclin is the Joseph Lipsitt Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he was the 1995 recipient of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching—the school's highest teaching honor. Professor Maclin has served as counsel of record for the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Cato Institute in a number of US Supreme Court cases addressing Fourth Amendment issues. He is the author of The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule (Oxford University Press 2012) and numerous scholarly articles. He is also a member of the…

Katherine Meyer is the Director of the Animal Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. She was a founding partner of the public interest law firm, Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks (formerly Meyer & Glitzenstein), which the Washingtonian Magazine hailed as “the most effective public interest law firm in Washington, D.C.” She has extensive federal and state court litigation experience in environmental, wildlife protection, open-government, and ballot initiative law, as well as food and drug law with an emphasis on children's health and safety, and has litigated dozens of Freedom of Information Act cases. She has also testified before Congress…

Alan B. Morrison is the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service at GW Law. For most of his career, Dean Morrison worked for the Public Citizen Litigation Group, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader in 1972 and directed for over 25 years. He has argued 20 cases in the Supreme Court, including victories in Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar (holding lawyers subject to the antitrust laws for using minimum fee schedules); Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (making commercial speech subject to the First Amendment); and INS v. Chadha (striking down over…

Burt Neuborne is the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties and founding Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He has litigated hundreds of constitutional cases in the state and federal courts and argued numerous cases in the United States Supreme Court. Professor Neuborne has also authored four books and over 20 law review articles including, most recently, Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment (The New Press, 2015). From 1981–86, he served as the National Legal Director of the ACLU and from 1990–96, he served as Special Counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and…

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. His scholarship focuses on property and land use, as well as law and religion, and it appears in numerous leading law journals. He also authored Property Outlaws with Sonia Katyal (Yale University Press, 2010) and An Introduction to Property Theory with Gregory Alexander (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Dean Peñalver received his B.A. from Cornell University and his law degree from Yale Law School. Between college and law school, he studied philosophy and theology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford. Upon…

Caprice L. Roberts is a Visiting Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, where she teaches Remedies, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law, Contracts, and Legislation-Regulation. Her scholarship focuses on judicial power and restraint (ssrn.com/author=355762). She coauthors Dobbs & Roberts’s Law of Remedies, a leading Remedies casebook with Doug Rendleman, and a Federal Courts casebook. Professor Roberts contributes to American Law Institute (ALI) projects on Tort Remedies and Restitution & Unjust Enrichment. She has authored and contributed to numerous amicus briefs, including one for AMG Capital Management v. FTC, and the Supreme Court often cites her work. She is the…

Lawrence Sager is among the most well-known and highly regarded constitutional theorists and scholars in the country. Before starting at the University of Texas, he served on the faculty of the New York University School of Law, where he was the Robert B. McKay Professor and Co-Founder of the Program in Law, Philosophy & Social Theory. In addition, he has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Boston University, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. Professor Sager is the author or co-author of dozens of articles, many of them classics in the canon of legal scholarship. He has also authored two books: Justice…

Catherine J.K. Sandoval is a tenured Law Professor at Santa Clara University who teaches and conducts research on Communications, Energy, Antitrust, and Contract law. She served a six-year term as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, appointed by Governor Brown. THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL ST. JOURNAL, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS and many other publications have cited her regulatory, infrastructure, communications and antitrust law expertise. In addition, the D.C. Circuit, FCC, and CPUC have all cited her comments and filings. She is the Director of Santa Clara University’s…

Joshua Sealy-Harrington is a doctoral candidate at Columbia Law School and lawyer at Power Law. His research interrogates the complex relationships amongst law, identity, and sexuality, while his practice explores the intersection of these relationships with public, constitutional, and criminal law. In practice, Joshua has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Before joining Power Law, Joshua completed three judicial clerkships, two at the Supreme Court of Canada (for Justice Clément Gascon) and one at the Federal Court (for Justice Donald J. Rennie, now of the Federal Court of Appeal). His writing has been published…

Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Her scholarly work has appeared, among other places, in the Northwestern University Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal, and her popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, and the Take Care blog. She recently edited the book Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories, with Reva Siegel and Melissa Murray. She also serves as a contributor with ABC News, co-hosts the Supreme Court podcast Strict…

Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. Professor Siegel’s scholarship appears in numerous law reviews, most recently the California Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, U.C.L.A. Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Harvard Law Review. Her books include Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (edited with Melissa Murray & Kate Shaw, 2019); Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin, and Akhil…

Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University. During the Spring 2020 semester, he is serving as a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, at Georgetown University Law Center. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, 2d ed., 2016), and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the…

Cristina Stella is a senior staff attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is a co-author of the investigative report, America’s Secret Animal Drug Problem: How Lack of Transparency is Endangering Human Health and Animal Welfare, and has appeared on CBS News and in the documentary film What the Health? Her work has been covered in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, and Politico, and she has been quoted in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, VICE News, and Glamour magazine. Cristina…

Nelson Tebbe is a Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. His scholarship focuses on constitutional law and political theory—in particular, the relationship between religious traditions and democratic governments. Professor Tebbe is the author of a new book, Religious Freedom In An Egalitarian Age (Harvard University Press, 2017), and a coauthor of a case book, Religious Liberty and Secular Government: Cases and Materials (West, forthcoming 2018) (with Frederick Gedicks, Micah Schwartzman, and Robert Tuttle). His articles have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Journal of Religion, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review,…

Gerald Torres is a leading figure in critical race theory, environmental law and federal Indian Law. He is a Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and he was formerly the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law at Cornell, Professor of Law and Bryant Smith Chair at the University of Texas, and the Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel to then…

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA, where he teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic. He has written two textbooks and over ninety law review articles, which are cited in eight Supreme Court opinions, several hundred lower court opinions, and several thousand scholarly articles. Before coming to UCLA, Professor Volokh clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He blogs on The Volokh Conspiracy.