Ronald K.L. Collins
Ronald K.L. Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law. He specializes in First Amendment law and constitutional law. He was a Supreme Court Fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger. His books (authored and/or co-authored) include: The Death of Discourse; The Trials of Lenny Bruce; We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free: Stories About Free Speech in America; The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader; On Dissent; Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams & the First Amendment; Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives that Launched a Generation; The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons; and Robotica: The Discourse of Data.
Collins was selected as a Norman Mailer Fellow in fiction writing with a residence in Provincetown (winter 2010). He is the book editor for SCOTUSblog and is one of the co-founders of the History Book Festival @ Lewes (October 2017).
9 entries by Ronald K.L. Collins
A look at several new or forthcoming books on the late French philosopher & mystic.
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On Weil, Orwell, and the perils of political parties.
The Weil Conjectures
By Karen Olsson
This utterly unconventional biography is as thought-provoking as its subjects.
The story of Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace.
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
By Karen Olsson
This utterly unconventional biography is as thought-provoking as its subjects.
Remembering the man who loved books
A renowned book editor discusses his life in publishing
Scalia: A Court of One
By Bruce Allen Murphy
How an idea shaped the career of a Supreme Court justice.
