Daniel Rodriguez

Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Law School

Professor Daniel Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern Law School and served as dean of the law school from 2012 to 2018. His principal academic work focuses on administrative law, local government law, statutory interpretation, federal and state constitutional law, and the law-business technology interface. Rodriguez has served as Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at 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 at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at law schools including Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, University of Southern California, and University of Virginia. 
 

Rodriguez was the 2014 president of the Association of American Law Schools and served as chair of the council of the American Bar Association Center for Innovation. He is currently a council member of the American Law Institute and a member of the board of the American Bar Foundation.