Ronald K.L. Collins

Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law

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Ronald K.L. Collins Biography

Professor Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the UW School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment law and in constitutional law. Before coming to UW in 2010, he was a scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. He received his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (law review) and his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara (political philosophy). He clerked for Justice Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and was a Supreme Court Fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger. After working with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Collins was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. Thereafter, he taught constitutional law and commercial law at several leading schools, including George Washington University Law Center and Temple Law School.

He is the editor of "The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader" (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the co-author of "We Must not be Afraid to be Free: Stories about Free Speech in America" (Oxford University Press, 2011) and "Dissent" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His other co-authored works include "The Death of Discourse" (2nd ed. 2005) and "The Trials of Lenny Bruce" (2002). He is also the editor of "The Fundamental Hugo Black: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), "The Death of Contract" (1995) and "Constitutional Government in America" (1980). His numerous articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Harvard, Stanford, and Michigan Law Reviews and in the Supreme Court Review. Collins was selected as a Norman Mailer Fellow in fiction writing with a residence in Provincetown (Winter, 2010), this in connection with a forthcoming novel and collection of short stories.

He is also the book editor for SCOTUSblog.

In 2012, Professor Collins received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the editors of the Washington Law Review.

In 2012 the American Society of Legal Writers conferred an award on him for his book "We Must not be Afraid to be Free" (co-authored with Sam Chaltain).

In 2013, Professor Collins published three books: "Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment," followed by "Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives that Launched a Generation" (with David Skover), followed by "On Dissent: Its Meaning in America" (with Skover).

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/21/2024.

Ronald K.L. Collins Books

  • On Dissent: Its Meaning in America
    On Dissent: Its Meaning in America
  • Mania
    Mania
  • The Death of Discourse
    The Death of Discourse
  • The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of An American Icon
    The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of An American Icon

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