Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Associate Professor of Law
Office: 272Phone: 812-855-5003
E-mail: lfr@indiana.edu
B.A., 1989, J.D., 1997, Ph.D., 2001, University of Michigan; LL.M., 2002, Georgetown University Law Center. Teaching Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center, 2000-01. Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2001-02.
Professor Fuentes-Rohwer's research and teaching interests include voting rights, judicial independence and accountability, legal ethics, and democratic theory. Before coming to Indiana, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he taught Voting Rights, Race and the Law, and American Legal History. Prior to this time at Chicago-Kent, he was a fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.
His courses at Indiana include Civil Procedure, Election Law, The Legal Profession, and The Legal Process.
Selected publications
- Reconsidering the Law of Democracy: Political Questions, Prudence and the Judicial Role, 47 WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming 2006).
- Preclearance, Discrimination, and the Department of Justice: The Case of South Carolina, 57 South Carolina Law Review __ (with Guy Charles) (forthcoming 2006)
- Domesticating the Gerrymander: An Essay on Standards, Fair Representation, and the Necessary Question of Judicial Will, 15 CORNELL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY 423 (2005).
- In Defense of Deference (with Guy Charles), 21 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 133 (2004).
- Of Platonic Guardians, Trust, and Equality: A Comment on Hasen's Minimalist Approach to the Law of Elections, 31 JOURNAL OF LEGISLATION 25 (2004).
- A Principled Approach to the Quest for Racial Diversity on the Judiciary (with Kevin Johnson), 10 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE & LAW 5 (2004).
- Doing Our Politics in Court: Gerrymandering, "Fair Representation" an Exegesis into the Judicial Role, 78 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 527 (2003).
- Baker's Promise, Equal Protection and the Modern Redistricting Revolution: A Plea for Rationality, 80 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 1353 (2002).
You can view Professor Fuentes-Rohwer's research at the Social Science Research Network.
Courses
- The Legal Profession (B614)
- Seminar in Voting Rights (L694)
- Legal Process (B591)
- Civil Procedure (B533)
- The Legal Profession (B614)