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Rebecca Zietlow is interim dean, Distinguished University Professor, and the Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values at The University of Toledo College of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, federal courts, and constitutional litigation.

In 2020, Zietlow was elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She received the University's Creative and Scholarly Activity Award in 2018 and the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award in 2012. She formerly served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Constitutional Law and its Section on Women and Legal Education.

Professor Zietlow's scholarly interest is in the study of the Reconstruction Era, including the meaning and history of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Professor Zietlow is also an expert on constitutional theory, examining constitutional interpretation outside of the courts. Her most recent book, The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Her first book, Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights (NYU Press 2006), studies the history of congressional protection of rights, and the implications of that history for constitutional theory. Her work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Florida Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Journal, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, amongst other publications.

Zietlow received her B.A. from Barnard College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.

• Professor Zietlow's CV

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Books

The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Enforcing Equality: Congress, The Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights (New York University Press 2006)

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Book Chapters

"The Other Citizenship Clause," in The Greatest and the Grandest Act: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 from Reconstruction to Today, Christian Samito, Ed. (Southern Illinois University Press 2018)

"," in Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work, Martha Albertson Fineman & Jonathan Fineman, Eds. (Routledge Press 2017)

"Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship Clause" and "Federal Powers, Civil Rights" in Encyclopedia of American Governance (Cengage Learning, Inc.) (Forthcoming)

"," 1 Indiana Journal of Law & Social Equality 64 (2013), reprinted in Tracy A. Thomas, Ed., Women and the Law (West 2014)

"," in The Promises of Liberty: Thirteenth Amendment Abolitionism and Contemporary Context, Alexander Tsesis, Ed. (Columbia University Press 2010)

"" (with James Gray Pope), 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 839 (2007), reprinted in American Labor Struggles and Law Histories, Kenneth M. Casebeer, ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2011)

"State Sovereignty and States' Rights," in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2d Ed., 2005)

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Articles

, 55 Wake Forest Law Review (Forthcoming 2020)

, 14 Harvard Law & Policy Review 48 (2020)

, 41 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 285 (2019)

, 19 Nevada Law Journal 447 (2018)

Teaching Congressional Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment, 62 St. Louis U. L. Rev. 655 (2018)

, 15 Georgetown University Journal of Law and Policy 265 (2016)

, 39 Seattle University Law Review 859 (2016)

, 1 Indiana Journal of Law & Social Equality 64 (2013)

, 112 Columbia Law Review 1697 (2012)

The Ideological Origins of the Thirteenth Amendment, 49 Houston Law Review 393 (2012)

, 63 Florida Law Review 483 (2012)

, 71 Maryland Law Review 283 (2011)

, 72 Ohio State Law Journal1367 (2011)

, 90 Boston University Law Review 255 (2010)

The Rights of Citizenship: Two Framers, Two Amendments, 11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1269 (2009)

, 69 Ohio State Law Journal 255 (2008)

Congressional Enforcement of the Rights of Citizenship, 56 Drake Law Review 1015 (2008)

, 73 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1347 (2005) (with Denise C. Morgan)

, 57 Rutgers Law Review 945 (2005)

, 13 Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review 485 (2004)

Congressional Enforcement of Civil Rights and Bingham’s Theory of Citizenship, 36 Akron Law Review 717 (2003)

, 37 Wake Forest Law Review 141 (2002)

Belonging, Protection and Equality: The Neglected Citizenship Clause and the Limits of Federalism, 62 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 281 (2000)

Beyond the Pronoun: Toward an Anti-Subordinating Method Of Process, 10 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (2000)

Exploring a Substantive Approach to Equal Justice Under Law, 28 New Mexico Law Review 411 (1998)

Writing Scholarship While You Practice Law, 3 Michigan Journal of Race and the Law 589 (1998); reprinted in 5 Michigan Journal of Race and the Law 767 (2000) and 7 Michigan Journal of Race and the Law 511 (2002)

Giving Substance to Process: Countering the Due Process Counterrevolution, 75 Denver University Law Review 9 (1997)

Two Wrongs Don't Add Up To Rights: The Importance of Preserving Due Process In Light Of Recent Welfare Reform Measures 45 American University Law Review 1111 (1996)

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Book Reviews

Review of  Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech, America’s Civil Liberties Compromise, The American Historical Review 123: 604 (2018)

Review of  Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Ideas with Consequences: the Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution, Law & Society Review 524 (May 2016)

Review of  Justin Buckley Dyer, Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Journal of American History (2014)

Review of  Gerard Magliocca, American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment, Law and History Review (2014)

Review of  Justin Wert, Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights, American Historical Review (2011)

Patterns of Inequality – Paradigms for Equality (Review of  Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship, Edited by Linda McClain and Joanna Grossman; Ayelet Schachar, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality and Deborah Hellman, When is Discrimination Wrong?), 45 Tulsa Law Review 863 (2010)

(Review of  The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa Goluboff ), 25 Constitutional Commentary 353 (2009)