Ronald K. L. Collins

Ronald Kenneth Leo Collins (born July 31, 1949) is the co-founder and co-director of the History Book Festival and co-founder and co-chair of the First Amendment Salons. He was the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law.[3] From 2002 to 2009 he was a scholar at the Newseum's First Amendment Center.[4]

Ronald K. L. Collins
BornRonald Kenneth Leo Collins[1]
(1949-07-31) July 31, 1949[2]
Santa Monica, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California at Santa Barbara
Loyola Law School
Literary movementHistory Book Festival

Biography

Born in Santa Monica, California, Collins grew up in Southern California. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.A. degree in political philosophy and received a J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Law Review. Afterwards, Collins served as a law clerk to Justice Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and was a Supreme Court Fellow under United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger.

In 2011, Collins became the book editor for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to news and analysis concerning the U.S. Supreme Court.

Selected publications
  • Co-authored with Will Creeley & David Hudson, First Things First – A Modern Coursebook on Free Speech Fundamentals (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, e-book, September 2019)
  • Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment (Carolina Academic Press, 2013)

References
  1. Loyola of Los Angeles law review, Volume 25 (1991), page 1134
  2. California Birth Index
  3. "The price of free speech". OUPblog. 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  4. Collins, Glenn; John Kifner; Michelle O'Donnell (24 December 2003). "No Joke! 37 Years After Death Lenny Bruce Receives Pardon". The New York Times.
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