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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School
Kevin M. Stack is Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. He writes on administrative law, regulation, statutory interpretation, and separation of powers. He was recognized with the ABA's 2013 Annual Scholarship Award for the best published work in administrative law for his Michigan Law Review article, “Interpreting Regulations." He is co-author (with Lisa S. Bressman and Edward L. Rubin) of The Regulatory State (Aspen Publishers, second edition 2013), a casebook on statutes and administrative lawmaking. His work has appeared in numerous law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and George Washington Law Review. He joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 and served as associate dean for research from 2008 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2015. He also been on the faculty at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, which he joined after practicing as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before earning his J.D. at Yale Law School, he earned a master's degree in philosophy at Oxford University, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship, and a B.A. from Brown University.
Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Ilan Wurman is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He previously taught at Arizona State University. 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.
Professor Wurman is the author of a casebook, Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press 2d ed. 2024). 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 next book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction, is also forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Professor Wurman practices law with the firm Tully Bailey. He has litigated a variety of administrative law and constitutional law cases, including cases involving COVID-19 restrictions, transmission lines, and Appointments Clause challenges. He also devised winning public nuisance theories to force city governments to address the increasingly challenging public camping crises throughout the country.