John D. Ohlendorf

Ohlendorf, John D.

Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow

Phone: 312-503-0711
E-mail: john.ohlendorf@law.northwestern.edu

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John Ohlendorf is an Olin-Searle-Smith Fellow in Law at Northwestern University School of Law.   He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2010 and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit the following year.  His areas of interest include statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and federal jurisdiction, and his current research, building on insights from the philosophy of language, focuses on the role of context and implication in statutory interpretation.

Areas of Expertise

  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Statutory Interpretation

Selected Publications

  • Textualism and the Problem of Scrivener’s Error in 64 maine law review (January 2012).
  • Note, Politics, Constitutional Interpretation, and Media Ecology: An Argument Against Judicial Minimalism in 31 harvard journal of law and public policy 1139 (2008).

Education

  • JD magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • BA summa cum laude, Bethany Lutheran College

Prior Appointments

  • Law Clerk, 2010-2011, Hon. Raymond W. Gruender, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit