Ilan Wurman

Ilan Wurman is an associate professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He writes on administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism, and his academic writing has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Texas Law Review among other journals. He is also the author of A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017), and The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020). 

Selected Publications

Casebooks

Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press 2021)

Books

The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment (Cambridge 2020)

A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism (Cambridge 2017)

Law Review Articles

Nondelegation at the Founding, 130 Yale Law Journal 1490 (2021)

In Search of Prerogative, 70 Duke Law Journal 93 (2020)

The Removal Power: A Critical Guide, 2020 Cato Supreme Court Review 157

The Origins of Substantive Due Process, 87 University of Chicago Law Review 815 (2020)

The Specification Power, 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 689 (2020)

As-Applied Nondelegation, 96 Texas Law Review 975 (2018)

Constitutional Administration, 69 Stanford Law Review 359 (2017)

The Original Understanding of Constitutional Legitimacy, 2014 BYU Law Review 819 (2015)

Law Historians’ Fallacies, 91 North Dakota Law Review 161 (2015)

Qualified Immunity and Statutory Interpretation, 37 Seattle University Law Review 939 (2014)

How to Permit Your Mammoth: Some Legal Implications of “De-Extinction,” 33 Stanford Journal of Environmental Law 1 (2014) (with Norman Carlin & Tamara Zakim)

Drug Testing Welfare Recipients as a Constitutional Condition, Note, 65 Stanford Law Review 1153 (2013)

Other

“No Nondelegation at the Founding? Not so fast,” Notice & Comment, Yale J. on Regulation (Jan. 5, 2020)

“The Untold Story of Lucia v. SEC: The Constitutionality of Agency Adjudications,” Notice & Comment, Yale J. on Regulation (Apr. 6, 2018)