Oct 22, 2017
Ep. 140: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is an associate professor,
teaching courses in Election Law, Corporate Governance, Business
Entities, and Constitutional Law. Prior to joining Stetson's
faculty, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was counsel in the Democracy
Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
where she provided guidance on the issues of money in politics and
the judiciary to state and federal lawmakers. She was an associate
at Arnold & Porter LLP and a staffer for Senator Richard
Durbin.
Professor Torres-Spelliscy has testified before Congress, and state
and local legislative bodies as an expert on campaign finance
reform. She has also helped draft legislation and Supreme Court briefs. She is the
editor of the 2010 edition of the Brennan Center's campaign finance
treatise, "Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State and Local
Campaign Finance Laws."
She researches and speaks publicly on campaign finance law as well
as judicial selection. She has spoken at symposia at 26
universities around the nation. She presented at the 2013 and the
2015 Annual Conventions of the Association of American Law Schools
(AALS) and at the 2014 Annual Convention of the American
Constitution Society, and the 2011, the 2014, and the 2016 Annual
Conventions of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL). In
2016 she spoke at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) at a forum
on dark money and foreign money in U.S. elections.
She is the author of the book Corporate Citizen? An Argument for
the Separation of Corporation and State (Carolina Academic
Press, 2016).
As well as publishing in law reviews, such as the NYU Law Review, the
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke
Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, and the
Montana Law Review, Professor Torres-Spelliscy has
been published in the New York Times, New York Law
Journal, Slate, L.A. Times, U.S. News and World
Report, Boston Review, Roll Call,
Business Week, Forbes, The Atlantic, USA
Today, Business Ethics Magazine, San Francisco
Chronicle, The Hill, Huffington Post,
The Root.com, Judicature, The Nation, Salon.com,
Tampa Bay Times, The Progressive, CNN.com,
Medium, and the ABA Judges Journal. She has also
been quoted by the media in The Wall Street Journal,
The Economist, The New York Times, Time,
Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Newsweek on Air, SCOTUS
Blog, Politico, Slate, The National Journal,
USA Today, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NBC.com,
WMNF, Sirius Radio, National Public Radio,
Fox, Voice America, CSPAN, DNA TV, and
NY1.
In 2014, Stetson University College of Law awarded Professor
Torres-Spelliscy the Dickerson-Brown award for Excellence in
Faculty Scholarship. In 2013, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was named
as a member of the Lawyers of Color's "50 Under 50" list of
minority law professors making an impact in legal education. In
2012, Professor Torres-Spelliscy was named as a Top Wonk by the
website TopWonks.org. She was awarded tenure in 2016. In 2017, she
was elected to be Chair of the AALS Section on Election Law for a
term that starts in 2018.
Professor Torres-Spelliscy is a Brennan Center Fellow, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, a member of the Board of Directors of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which was awarded the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
Listen as Professor Torres-Spelliscy tells Alex about her life's journey, her Multiracial experience, and her journey.
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Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
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