Gregory Elinson
Associate Professor of Law
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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 Review (x2), 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 (x2) and Studies in American Political Development.
He has presented his work at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the University of Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, the National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, the Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium, the American Bar Foundation and the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Annual Spring Conference. In 2026, Professor Elinson was awarded the Lenny and Stacey Mandell Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Service.
Before coming to 麻豆精品 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.
Education
- B.A., Harvard College
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- J.D., Stanford Law School
Articles and Book Chapters
- , 51 Law and Soc. Inquiry (forthcoming 2026).
- , 68 Ariz. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
- , 57 Loy. Univ. Chi. L.J. (forthcoming 2026).
- (with Joshua Braver), 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 841 (2024).
- , 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. and Pub. Pol'y 65 (2024).
- , 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1307 (2023).
- (with Ruth Bloch Rubin and Calvin TerBeek), in Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Christenson and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman eds., 2023).
- (with Jonathan Gould), 75 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2022).
- (with Robert H. Sitkoff), 71 Emory L. J. 1073 (2021-2022).
- Anatomy of Judicial Backlash: Southern Leaders, Massive Resistance and the Supreme Court, 1954-1958 (with Ruth Bloch Rubin), 43 Law and Soc. Inquiry 944 (2018).
- Investigating the Relationship Between Courts and Parties: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 31 Stud. Am. Pol. Dev. 24 (2017).
- Constitutional Litigation in the United States (with Robert A. Kagan), in Constitutional Courts in Comparison: The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court (Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron eds., 2016).
Shorter Pieces
- , Yale J. on Reg. Notice and Comment (Apr. 24, 2026).
- , Bloomberg Law Insights (Apr. 14, 2026) (with Daniel McConkie).
- , Yale J. on Reg. Notice and Comment (Mar. 12, 2026).
- , Democracy Journal (Fall 2023) (with Ruth Bloch Rubin).
- , Balkinization (Sept. 22, 2020).