Professor Ilan Wurman to Join Minnesota Law Faculty

The University of Minnesota Law School is thrilled to welcome Ilan Wurman to our faculty as an associate professor of law, with tenure, beginning in the 2024-25 academic year.

Wurman is currently an associate professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He writes primarily on the Fourteenth Amendment, administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism. His academic writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Minnesota Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Texas Law Review among other journals. He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020). His third book, The Constitution of 1789: An Introduction, is also forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

He has a B.A. in Government and Physics from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.