Daniel B. Rodriguez

Daniel B. Rodriguez, the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, served as dean of the Law School from January 2012 through August 2018. His principal academic work is in the areas of administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, federal and state constitutional law, and the law-business-technology interface.

He was the 2014 President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), served as the chair of the council of the American Bar Association Center for innovation, and was elected council member of the American Law Institute in 2012.

Formerly, Professor Rodriguez served as Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas-Austin; as a Research Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy; as Dean and Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law; and, as a Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He has also served as a visiting professor at several top law schools, including Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, University of Southern California, and Virginia.

Rodriguez received his law degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from California State University of Long Beach.