Ronald K. L. Collins

Ronald K. L. Collins
Born	Ronald Kenneth Leo Collins (1949-07-31) July 31, 1949 Santa Monica, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California at Santa Barbara Loyola Law School
Literary movement	History Book Festival / editor, ATTENTION

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. From 2002 to 2009 he was a scholar at the Newseum's First Amendment Center. He is also the editor of Attention (an online journal on the life and legacy of Simone Weil) and the Lewes Public Library's Distinguished Lecturer.

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. Thereafter, 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. In 2014 he helped launch the First Amendment Salons. In 2019 he became the Distinguished Lecture at the Lewes Public Library in Delaware. In 2021 he launched ATTENTION, an online journal on the life and legacy of Simone Weil.

Selected book publications

• Editor, Constitutional Government in America (Carolina Academic Press 1980)
• Editor, Grant Gilmore, The Death of Contract (Ohio State University Press, 1995)
• Co-author (with David Skover), The Death of Discourse (Westview/HarperCollins, 1996; Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2005, 3rd ed. 2022)
• Co-author (with David Skover), The Trials of Lenny Bruce (Sourcebooks, 2002)
• Editor, The Fundamental Holmes (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Co-author (with Sam Chaltain), We Must Not be Afraid to be Free (Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Co-author (with David Skover), Mania: The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives that Launched a Cultural Revolution (Top Five Books, 2013)
• Co-author (with David Skover), On Dissent: Its Meaning in America (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Author, Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment (Carolina Academic Press, 2013)
• Co-author (with David Skover),The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons (Oxford University Press, 2017)
• Co-author (with David Skover), Robotica: Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• Co-author (with David Skover), The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's HOWL (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
• Co-author (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)
• Co-author (with Eric Springsted), A Declaration of Duties Toward Humankind: A Critical Companion to Simone Weil’s The Need for Roots (Carolina Academic Press, 2022, forthcoming)

Selected scholarly publications

• Author, "The Sufficiency of Uncorroborated Hearsay in Administrative Proceedings," 8 Loyola Los Angeles Law Review (1975)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "The Future of Liberal Legal Scholarship," 87 Michigan Law Review 189 (1988)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "The First Amendment in an Age of Paratroopers," 68 Texas Law Review 1087 (1990)(symposium issue on this article)
• Author, "Hans Linde and His 1984 Judicial Election: The Primary," 70 Oregon Law Review 747 (1991)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "Paratexts," 44 Stanford Law Review 509 (1992)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "Commerce and Communication," 71 Texas Law Review 697 (1993)(symposium issue on this article)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "The Pornographic State," 107 Harvard Law Review 1374 (1994)
• Author, "Gilmore's Grant (or the Life and Afterlife of Grant Gilmore and his Death)," 90 Northwestern University Law Review 7 (1995)
• Co-author with David Skover, "New 'Truths' and the Old First Amendment," 64 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1315 (1996)(symposium issue on this article)
• Author, "Outlaw Jurisprudence," 76 Texas Law Review 215 (1997)
• Co-author (with David Skover), "Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis's Vote in Whitney v. California," 2005 Supreme Court Review 333
• Author, "Exceptional Freedom: The Roberts Court, the First Amendment, and the New Absolutism," 76 Albany Law Review 409 (2012/2013)
• Co-author with David Hudson, "The Roberts Court: Its First Amendment Free Expression Jurisprudence: 2005-2021," 86 Brooklyn Law Review ___ (2022) (symposium issue on this article)

Adult-education classes taught

• Simone Weil and psychology of evil, Lewes Public Library (June 2018)
• The life and Legacy of Simone Weil, Lewes Public Library (Feb.-March 2019)
• Simone Weil's "Venice Saved," Lewes Public Library (Nov. 2019)
• Justice Holmes & the Civil War: How Duty Changed his Destiny, Lewes Public Library (April 2020)
• Tragedy on Trial: The Emmett Till Story Told Through the Lens of the Law, Lewes Public Library (Aug. 2020)
• The Shocking Emmett Till Story Told Through the Lens of the Law, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Sept.-Oct. 2020)
• Simone Weil on Tragedy: Lessons from a Poem and a Play, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Feb. 2021)
• The Emmett Till Story: The Murder Trial and Its Aftermath, Oasis (Sept.-Oct. 2021)

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN