Timothy Zick
Robert and Elizabeth Scott Research Professor
Email: [[tzick]]
Office phone: (757) 221-2076
Office location: Room 259
Full resume: here (.pdf in new window)
Areas of Specialization
Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law--14th Amendment; Constitutional Law--1st Amendment (Speech); Constitutional Law--Federalism
Teaching in Academic Year 2013-2014
Civil Rights Law; Constitutional Law; First Amendment
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Professor Zick graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1989 and summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1992, where he received the Francis E. Lucey, S.J. Award for graduating first in his class. While at Georgetown, Professor Zick was a Notes and Comments editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Following law school, Professor Zick was an associate with the law firms of Williams and Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he assisted in the defense of congressional term limits in the Supreme Court of the United States, and Foley Hoag in Boston. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Zick also served as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the United States Department of Justice, where he defended the constitutionality and legality of a variety of federal programs and statutes.
Professor Zick has written on a wide variety of constitutional issues, with a special focus on issues of free speech and federalism. His recently published book, Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (Cambridge University Press) examines the dynamic intersection of place and the First Amendment.
Professor Zick has been a frequent commentator in local, national, and international media regarding public protests and other First Amendment concerns. He testified before Congress on the Occupy Wall Street protests and rights of free speech, assembly, and petition.
Scholarly Publications
Books
Articles
- Recovering the Assembly Clause, 91 Tex. L. Rev. 375 (2012) (book review).
- Falsely Shouting Fire in a Global Theater: Emerging Complexities of Trans-Border Expression, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 125 (2012), to be reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook: 2012-2013 Edition (Rodney A. Smolla ed., Thompson/West 2013)). SSRN.
- The First Amendment in Trans-Border Perspective: Toward a More Cosmopolitan Orientation, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 941 (2011), reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook: 2011-2012 Edition (Rodney A. Smolla ed., Thompson/West 2012). SSRN.
- Property As/And Constitutional Settlement, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1361 (2010). SSRN.
- Territoriality and the First Amendment: Free Speech At -- And Beyond -- Our Borders, 85 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1543 (2010). SSRN.
- Symposium, Summum, The Vocality of Public Places, and the Public Forum, 2010 BYU L. Rev. 2203. SSRN.
- "Duty-Defining Power" and the First Amendment's Civil Domain, 109 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 116 (2009). SSRN.
- Constitutional Displacement, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 515 (2009). SSRN.
- Symposium, Active Sovereignty, 20 St. John's J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 541 (2007). SSRN.
- Clouds, Cameras, and Computers: The First Amendment and Networked Public Places, 59 Fla. L. Rev. 1 (2007), reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook: 2007-2008 Edition (Rodney A. Smolla ed., Thompson/West 2007). SSRN.
- Space, Place, and Speech: The Expressive Topography, 74 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 439 (2006). SSRN.
- Speech and Spatial Tactics, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 581 (2006). SSRN.
- Symposium, Property, Place, and Public Discourse, 21 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 173 (2006). SSRN.
- Are the States Sovereign?, 83 Wash. U. L.Q. 229 (2005). SSRN.
- Statehood as the New Personhood: The Discovery of Fundamental "States' Rights, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 213 (2004). SSRN.
- Cross Burning, Cockfighting, and Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, 45 Wm. Mary L. Rev. 2261 (2004). SSRN.
- Constitutional Empiricism: Quasi-Neutral Principles and Constitutional Truths, 82 N.C. L. Rev. 115 (2003). SSRN.
- Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court and the Power to "Say What the Law Is", 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 839 (2002). SSRN.
