William Marshall is the Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina. He teaches courses on civil procedure, constitutional law, election law, First Amendment, federal courts, freedom of religion, the law of the presidency and media law. In 2012, Marshall was appointed to the ACS board of directors.
Marshall was Deputy White House Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. He has also served as the Solicitor General of the State of Ohio, and as Special Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota. He has been a guest professor at Boston University, George Washington University, Case Western University, Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Connecticut and the College of William and Mary.
Marshall is the author of “Cases And Materials On Federal Courts.” His published articles include: Actually We Should Wait: Evaluating the Obama Administration's Commitment to Unilateral Executive-Branch Action; Bad Statutes Make Bad Law: Hobby Lobby v. Burwell; Abstention, Separation of Powers, and Recasting the Meaning of Judicial Restraint; The Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Regulation: Should Differences in a State's Political History and Culture Matter?; and National Healthcare and American Constitutional Culture.
Marshall received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in history and religious thought from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ruben J. Garcia is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. His areas of expertise include labor law, employment discrimination law, employment, constitutional law, law and society, law and social change, First Amendment, immigration policy, international human rights law, professional ethics, and critical race theory/LatCrit theory. In 2016, Garcia was appointed to the ACS board of directors.
Prior to joining the University of Nevada, Garcia was professor and Director of the Labor and Employment Law Program at California Western School of Law. He also has held academic appointments at the University of California, Davis School of Law, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and at the University of California, San Diego. Before his career as a professor, Garcia worked as an attorney for public and private sector labor unions and employees in greater Los Angeles.
Garcia is the author of the book “Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them Without Protection,” published by New York University Press.
In the Fall of 2015, Garcia was selected as a University of Las Vegas Leadership Development Academy fellow. He has also served as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), and on the boards of the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and the ACLU of Nevada.
Garcia received his J.D. from UCLA, his L.L.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and his A.B. with honors in political science from Stanford.
Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. Over his academic career, his courses have focused on constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal Courts, criminal procedure and appellate litigation. He also has frequently argued appellate cases, including several in the U. S. Supreme Court. Chemerinsky sits on the ACS Board of Academic Advisors.
Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Chemerinsky was the founding dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science. Prior to that, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. Earlier in his career, he was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School, working as the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. He has previously taught at the DePaul College of Law and UCLA Law School.
Chemerinsky has authored 10 books, including “The Case Against the Supreme Court,” and “Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable.” He co-authored “Free Speech on Campus.” He has also published more than 200 law review articles. He has a weekly column in the Sacramento Bee, and regular columns in the ABA Journal and the Daily Journal. He frequently authors op-eds in national newspapers.
Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. The National Jurist magazine named him the most influential person in legal education in the United States in 2017.
Chemerinsky received his J.D. from Harvard cum laude and his B.S. from Northwestern University with highest distinction.
