Professors available to comment on former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s commuted sentence

Northwestern University professors from the areas of law and politics are available to comment on President Trump’s commutation of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence.

Ronald J. Allen, the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a constitutional and criminal law expert, may be reached at rjallen@law.northwestern.edu. 

Juliet Sorensen is a clinical professor of law and executive director of Injustice Watch. From 2003-2010, Sorensen was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, focusing on fraud and public corruption. She can be reached at j-sorensen@law.northwestern.edu.

Jaime Dominguez is an assistant professor of instruction in the department of political science in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern. His teaching and research focus on Chicago politics, in addition to race and ethnicity, immigration, urban politics and Latino politics. He can be reached at j-dominguez@northwestern.edu.