Join us on Thursday, April 7, from 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., for an evening with Professor Evan Bernick from Northern Illinois University College of Law.
Evan Bernickjoined the NIU Law faculty in 2021. He teaches courses in constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative law, and legislation.
From 2020 – 2021, Professor Bernick was a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Before that, he served as a clerk to Judge Diane S. Sykes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From April 2017 – April 2019, he was a visiting lecturer at Georgetown and a resident fellow of the Center for the Constitution.
His scholarship covers a range of topics, from constitutional law to philosophy of law, social movements, and law enforcement. He has published with the Georgetown Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review and the George Mason Law Review, among other journals. His book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit (2021), with Randy E. Barnett, was published by Harvard University Press under its Belknap imprint “for books of long-lasting importance, superior in scholarship and physical production, chosen whether or not they might be profitable.”
Professor Bernick received his bachelor’s degree in 2008 from the University of Chicago, where he studied philosophy and graduated with honors. He received his juris doctorate in 2011 from the University of Chicago Law School.
This event is sponsored by UP’s Constitutional Studies Minor Program and enabled by a generous grant from the Jack Miller Center. Queries about the event can be directed to Bill Curtis, Director of the Constitutional Studies Minor, curtisw@up.edu.