Cristina Rodríguez

 Cristina Rodríguez was appointed by President Biden as the co-chair the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which investigated the idea of reforming the Supreme Court. She is also the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Following law school, Rodríguez clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court. Her recent writings include the 2020 Foreword to the Harvard Law Review, “Regime Change,” and the book, “The President and Immigration Law,” co-authored with Adam Cox. In recent years, her work has focused on the relationships between administrative and executive governance and democratic politics and decision-making. Rodríguez joined Yale Law School after serving for two years as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Following law school, She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, a trustee and non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, and a past member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Master of Letters.