daniel.rodriguez

Daniel B. Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches courses in state constitutional law, property, local government law, and marijuana law and policy. From 2012 to 2018, he served as dean of Northwestern's Law School. He has previously taught at the University of Texas-Austin, the University of San Diego (where he also served as dean), and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a semester-long visiting professor at Harvard (where he held the Louis Brandeis visiting professorsip), Stanford, Columbia, USC, and Virginia. Professor Rodriguez has served as president of the Association of American Law Schools, a council member of the American Law Institute, the chair of the ABA Center for Innovation, and a board member of the American Bar Foundation, the Institute for the Future of Legal Practice, and Responsive Law.

His scholarly work has included dozens of articles and book chapters on topics relevant to the subject matter of this blog. He is at work on a book to be published next year by Cambridge University Press on the police power in the American states.