Timothy Zick
Professor of Law
Email: [[tzick]]
Office phone: (757) 221-2076
Office location: Room 259
Full resume: here (.pdf)
Areas of Specialization
Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law--14th Amendment; Constitutional Law--1st Amendment; Constitutional Law--Federalism
Currently Teaching
Selected Problems in Constitutional Law Seminar
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 & Comments editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Following law school, Professor Zick was an associate with the law firms of Williams & 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 articles have been published in the Texas Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the William & Mary Law Review, and the George Washington Law Review. 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.
Scholarly Publications
Books
- Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Available for purchase here.
Articles
- Property As/And Constitutional Settlement, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2010). SSRN.
- Territoriality and the First Amendment: Free Speech At -- And Beyond -- Our Borders, 85 ___ Notre Dame L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2010).
- "Duty-Defining Power" and the First Amendment's Civil Domain, ___ Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar ___ (forthcoming 2009).
- Constitutional Displacement, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 515 (2009). 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.
- Symposium, Active Sovereignty, 20 St. John's J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 541 (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 Soveriegn?, 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.
