Seattle University School of Law welcomes the university community, alumni, and friends to a Luminaries in Law conversation featuring esteemed legal professional Ronald Krotoszynski, the John S. Stone Chair, Director of the Program on Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement, and professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law. The event will include a lecture highlighting Krotoszynski's recent publication, “Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech” (Oxford University Press 2024), and a conversation between Krotoszynski and Dean Anthony E. Varona.

Location: Sullivan Hall 
Date: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025
Lecture: (Courtroom) 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

About Ronald Krotoszynski

Professor Krotoszynski earned his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University, where he was an articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and selected for Order of the Coif. He clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After his clerkship, he worked as an associate attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he currently serves as the John S. Stone Chair and director of the Program on Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement, Krotoszynski served on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University and, prior to that, on the law faculty of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.  

Krotoszynski's research and teaching focus on constitutional law, First Amendment law, administrative law, and comparative constitutional law. He frequently writes and lectures on topics related to freedom of expression and how law and culture inform freedom of expression values, practices, and norms. Krotoszynski is the author of several books and dozens of law review articles (which have appeared in leading law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, the Duke Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review). His most recent book is titled, “Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech” (Oxford University Press 2024). He is also the co-author of “First Amendment: Cases and Theory” (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2022) (with Lyrissa Lidsky, Caroline Mala Corbin, and Timothy Zick).