Justin Weinstein-Tull

Professor Weinstein-Tull studies structural constitutional law, state and local courts, and state and local governments. His scholarship seeks to reconstruct public law theory to better account for the on-the-ground complexities of governmental institutions and day-to-day human experiences of the law. In the context of structural constitutional law, Weinstein-Tull has written about the ways that state and local governments can both frustrate and strengthen federal power, including federal civil rights laws and the right to vote. He has similarly studied some of our smallest local courts to better understand how we actually experience the administration of justice in our daily lives. Weinstein-Tull has published articles in the Columbia Law Review, the Chicago Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, and others. In 2019, he was appointed to the board of the Judicial College of Arizona by the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and in 2024, he was appointed to the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Board by Governor Katie Hobbs.

Before joining ASU, Weinstein-Tull was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. He previously worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, where he litigated voting rights cases against states and local governments and was part of the team that defended the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder. He was a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sidney Thomas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated from Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School and earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

At ASU, Weinstein-Tull teaches Constitutional Law, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Federalism.