Northwestern faculty are available on upcoming Supreme Court rulings expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
The Court is expected to release opinions on cases alleging unconstitutional racial gerrymandering and reverse discrimination, and cases pertaining to gender affirming care and sex education in schools, among others.
Experts are available to discuss the following cases:
Emergency docket cases:
Connect with faculty directly using the contact information below, or reach out to Shanice Harris or Media Relations for assistance.
Harold Washington Professor of Law
Expertise: Constitutional law, local government and property law
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Clinical assistant professor of law and director of the LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic
Expertise: Civil rights, constitutional law, HIV and the law, sexual orientation and gender identity law
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William W. Gurley Professor of Law
Expertise: Constitutional law, free speech, separation of powers and government secrecy
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Professor of practice
Expertise: Civil rights law, anti-discrimination law and federal Indian law
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Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law
Expertise: Election law, voting rights and redistricting, campaign finance and judicial elections.
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Associate Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics
Director, Center for Epidemiology and Population Health, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM)
Co-Director of the Data Science Hub, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci)
She can be reached by contacting Kristin Samuelson at ksamuelson@northwestern.edu.
Expertise: Cardiovascular epidemiology with a focus on health services research.
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John Paul Stevens Professor of Law
Expertise: Conflicts of law, constitutional law, first amendment, law and religion.
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Professor of law and associate dean of research and intellectual life
Expertise: Universal injunctions, civil procedure, national security and arbitration.
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Check out Northwestern Now’s Q&A with Clopton where he breaks down the nuances of the case and what this could mean for the judicial branch moving forward.
Professor of law
Expertise: Constitutional law, the rule of law, democratic theory and social and racial equality.
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Owen L. Coon Professor of Law
Expertise: Universal injunctions and the role of judicial systems in constitutional democracies
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Professor of History
She can be reached by contacting Stephanie Kulke at stephanie.kulke@northwestern.edu.
Masur is the author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton, 2021) and coauthor with Martha S. Jones of an amicus brief in two cases challenging the executive order that would undermine birthright citizenship, New Jersey v. Trump and Doe v. Trump.
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