Professor Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the UW School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment law and in constitutional law. Before coming to UW in 2010, he was a scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. He received his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (law review) and his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara (political philosophy). He clerked for Justice Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and was a Supreme Court Fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger. After working with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and the Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Collins was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. Thereafter, he taught constitutional law and commercial law at several leading schools, including George Washington University Law Center and Temple Law School.
He is the editor of The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the co-author of We Must not be Afraid to be Free: Stories about Free Speech in America (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Dissent (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His other co-authored works include The Death of Discourse (2nd ed. 2005) and The Trials of Lenny Bruce (2002). He is also the editor of The Fundamental Hugo Black: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), The Death of Contract (1995) and Constitutional Government in America (1980). His numerous articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Harvard, Stanford, and Michigan Law Reviews and in the Supreme Court Review. Collins was selected as a Norman Mailer Fellow in fiction writing with a residence in Provincetown (Winter, 2010), this in connection with a forthcoming novel and collection of short stories.
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