Richard M. Re

Richard M. Re’s primary research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, federal courts, and criminal procedure. He joined the University of Virginia’s faculty in 2020 after serving on the faculty of the UCLA School of Law. Re’s work has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Re earned an A.B. in social studies from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Re clerked for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. Re also worked as an Honors Program attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced law at a firm in Washington, D.C.

Re is a member of PrawfsBlawg and maintains his own blog, Re’s Judicata.