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Tel: 215.746.7824
Office Room: Silverman 132
Email: ryanwilliams123@gmail.com
Expertise
- Civil Procedure
- Class Actions
- Complex Litigation
- Constitutional Law
- Legal History
Bio
Ryan Williams’ research focuses primarily on constitutional interpretation, constitutional history and civil procedure. After earning a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2002, he worked for eight years as a litigation associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, where he worked on a broad range of complex commercial litigation, including class action, antitrust, securities, intellectual property and bankruptcy cases. His prior scholarship has addressed the origins of substantive due process and the original meaning of the Ninth Amendment. His current research focuses on the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and the relationship between that provision and the “reverse incorporation” doctrine associated with the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Bolling v. Sharpe.
Representative Professional Positions
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP (2002-2011)
Representative Publications
The Ninth Amendment as a Rule of Construction, 111 Colum. L. Rev. 498 (2011)
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The One and Only Substantive Due Process Clause, 120 Yale L.J. 408 (2010)
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- J.D. - Columbia Law School - '02
- B.S. & B.A. - University of Kansas - '98
Research Areas
- Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Interpretation
- Civil Procedure
- Legal History
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