FSU College of Law to co-host the Fifteenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium

We are excited that Florida State University College of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law will co-host the Fifteenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium at the FSU College of Law campus on November 16. Our own Professor Alex Tsesis, the D’Alemberte Chair in Constitutional Law, created the colloquium and has hosted it at various law schools across the country since it began.

This invitation only event for academic scholars will provide a forum for constitutional law scholars at all stages of their professional careers to discuss current projects, doctrinal and theoretical developments in constitutional law, and future goals. The conference brings together academics to discuss works-in-progress concerning a broad variety of constitutional issues—including free speech, substantive due process, equal protection, suffrage rights, campaign finance, interpretive methods, process oriented constitutionalism, issues at the interface of national security and constitutional rights, due process underpinnings of criminal procedure, judicial review, executive privilege, suspect classifications, commerce clause, and comparative constitutionalism—to present ideas and benefit from informed critiques. Past participants have included constitutional law scholars from throughout the United States and several foreign countries. Presentations will be assigned to panels based on affinity of subject matter. The conference is also open to scholars who wish to attend sessions without presenting.

This year's keynote speaker is Cristina Rodriguez, the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School. Rodriguez's 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. Rodriguez 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.