Heidi Kitrosser
William W. Gurley Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-8449
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Yarixa Calvillo
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-2088
Assistant Email
yarixa.calvillo@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Heidi Kitrosser is the William W. Gurley Professor of Law. Before joining Northwestern in 2022, she was the Robbins Kaplan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she had joined the law faculty in 2006. From 2003-2006, she was an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.
Kitrosser is an expert on the constitutional law of federal government secrecy and on separation of powers and free speech law more broadly. She has written, spoken, and consulted widely on these topics. Her book, Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution, was published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. It was awarded the 2014 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. Kitrosser’s articles have appeared in many venues, including the Supreme Court Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Constitutional Commentary. She is a 2017 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Areas of Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- Free Speech
- Separation of Powers
- Government Secrecy
Courses
Selected Publications
- Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution (
2015 ). - Protecting Public Knowledge Producers, 4 Journal of Free Speech Law 473 (2024).
- A House Built on Sand: The Constitutional Infirmity of Espionage Act Prosecutions for Leaking to the Press, 19 First Amendment Law Review 153 (2021) (Co-authored by: David Schulz).
- Interpretive Modesty, 104 Georgetown Law Journal 459 (2016).
- The Special Value of Public Employee Speech, 2015 Supreme Court Review 301.
Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Prior Appointments
- Professor of Law, August 2022, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Professor of Law, October 2021, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Newton N. Minow Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
- Assistant Professor, Brooklyn Law School