Kurt T. Lash
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law
Director, Program on Constitutional Theory, History and Law
One of the nation’s leading scholars of constitutional law, Professor Kurt T. Lash is honored as the newest recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he directs the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law.
Professor Lash focuses his scholarship on constitutional law, theory, and history, and his work has appeared in some of the top law reviews in the United States, including the Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, and Texas Law Review. His recent book, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. Cambridge University Press will publish his second book, American Privileges and Immunities: Federalism, The Fourteenth Amendment and the Rights of American Citizenship.
Notably, his research was cited by the United States Supreme Court in the recent case of McDonald vs. Chicago (2010), which addressed the conflict between gun restrictions in Chicago and the Second Amendment. In 2011, his work on the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment received the University of Illinois College of Law’s Caroll P. Hurd Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.
During the Fall Semester, 2012, Professor Lash will be visiting professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law.