Join us on Tuesday, September 17 from 12-1 pm (CST) to recognize Constitution Day with NIU Law Professor Gregory Elinson as he presents, “Why Talk Less About Constitutional Reform.” 1-hour general MCLE has been approved.
Attend in person in Swen Parson Hall Room 188 or register via Zoom.
Over the past several decades, calls for constitutional reform—and even a new constitutional convention—have grown only louder. But perhaps all of this focus on constitutional reform is a distraction. Professor Elinson will argue that there are meaningful costs to spending our time on institutional change rather than the actual conduct of politics under the institutions we have.
Registration
Attend in person – Swen Parson 188 or register via Zoom.
Professor Gregory Elinson is a public law scholar with wide-ranging interests in constitutional and administrative law and legislative and judicial procedure. Much of his research concerns how partisan politics and political polarization have shaped the separation of powers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Arizona Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, as well as several leading peer-reviewed social science journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development.
Before coming to NIU in 2022, Professor Elinson was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office, where his practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Greg clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Harvard College.
