Northern Illinois University
College of Law

Gregory Elinson is a public law scholar with wide-ranging interests in constitutional and administrative law and legislative and judicial procedure. Much of his research concerns how partisan politics and political polarization have shaped the separation of powers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Vanderbilt Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Arizona Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, as well as several leading peer-reviewed social science journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and Studies in American Political Development. He has presented his work at, among others, the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the University of Michigan Junior Scholars Conference, the National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, the Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium, the American Bar Foundation, and the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Conference.

Before coming to NIU in 2022, Professor Elinson was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate in Kirkland & Ellis’s Chicago office, where his practice focused on commercial and appellate litigation. Greg clerked for Judge David Barron on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Gary Feinerman on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Harvard College.

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Publications & Book Chapters

• Unraveling the Ties That Bind: How Dobbs and Loper Bright Might Reconfigure American Party Politics, 57 L. Univ. Chi. L. J. (forthcoming 2025).
• A Progressive Supreme Court? The Supreme Court and Electoral Politics from Reconstruction to the Present (with Joshua Braver), 66 Ariz. L. Rev. 841 (2024).
• Norm-Breakers, Rights-Makers: Legislative Norms, Democratization, and the Fight For Civil Rights, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 65 (2024).
• Intraparty Conflict and the Separation of Powers, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1307 (2023).
• Macro-Level Pluralism: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in the Study of Political History (with Ruth Bloch Rubin and Calvin TerBeek), in Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Christenson & Valeria Sinclair-Chapman eds., 2023).
• The Politics of Deference (with Jonathan Gould), 75 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2022).
• When a Statute Comes With a User Manual: Reconciling Textualism and Uniform Acts (with Robert H. Sitkoff), 71 Emory L.J. 1073 (2021-2022).
• Anatomy of Judicial Backlash: Southern Leaders, Massive Resistance and the Supreme Court, 1954-1958 (with Ruth Bloch Rubin), 43 Law & Soc. Inquiry 944 (2018).
• Investigating the Relationship Between Courts and Parties: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 31 Stud. Am. Pol. Dev. 24 (2017).
• Constitutional Litigation in the United States (with Robert A. Kagan), in Constitutional Courts in Comparison: The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court (Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron, eds., 2016).