Constitutional Law Colloquium

Professor Peter M. Shane
Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Scholar at New York University School of Law

Professor Peter M. Shane is a leading scholar in U.S. constitutional and administrative law, with a special focus on the American presidency and the separation of powers. The University of California Press in May 2022 published Professor Shane’s newest book, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency. He is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Law at the NYU College of Law and the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law Emeritus at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, where he regularly taught courses in constitutional and administrative law, law and the presidency, and subjects at the intersection of law, democracy, and new media. A Contributing Writer to Washington Monthly, Professor Shane is also the author of over seventy law review articles and book chapters, as well as nine books, including leading casebooks in both administrative law and separation of powers law.

Cristina Rodríguez
Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Constitutional Law, Yale Law School

Cristina M. Rodríguez is the Leighton Homer Surbeck professor of law at Yale Law School. Her fields of research and teaching include constitutional law and theory, immigration law and policy, administrative law and process, and citizenship theory. In 2021, she was appointed by President Biden to co-chair the commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Her recent writings include the 2020 foreword to the Harvard Law Review, “Regime Change,” and the book, "The President and Immigration Law", co-authored with Adam Cox and published by Oxford University Press in September 2020. In recent years, her work has focused on the relationships between administrative and executive governance, democratic politics, and decision making. She has turned to immigration law and related areas as vehicles through which to explore how the allocation and exercise of power (through federalism, the separation of powers, and the structure of the bureaucracy) shapes the management and resolution of legal and political conflict. Her work also has examined the effects of immigration on society and culture, as well as the legal and political strategies societies adopt to absorb immigrant populations. Rodríguez joined Yale Law School in 2013 after serving for two years as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was on the faculty at the New York University School of Law from 2004–2012 and has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia Law Schools. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, a trustee and non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., and a past member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Master of Letters in modern history. Following law school, Rodríguez clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.