Biography
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. earned his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University, where he was an articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and selected for Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After his clerkship, he worked as an associate attorney with Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he currently serves as the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Director of the Program on Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement, Professor Krotoszynski served on the faculty at Washington and Lee University School of Law and, prior to that, on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He has taught as a visiting professor at the William & Mary Law School, Florida State University College of Law, the Texas A & M University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Seattle University School of Law, and Syracuse University College of Law.
Professor Krotoszynski's research and teaching focus on constitutional law, First Amendment law, administrative law, and comparative constitutional law. He frequently writes and lectures on topics related to freedom of expression and how law and culture inform freedom of expression values, practices, and norms. Krotoszynski is the author of several books and dozens of law review articles (which have appeared in leading law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, the Duke Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the UCLA Law Review). His most recent book is Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press 2024). Other book titles include The Disappearing First Amendment (Cambridge University Press 2019), Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone (Oxford University Press 2016 & 2018), and Reclaiming the Petition Clause (Yale University Press 2012). He is also the co-author of First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2022) (with Lyrissa Lidsky, Caroline Mala Corbin, and Timothy Zick) and Administrative Law (Aspen Publishers, 6th ed. 2025) (with John M. Rogers, Michael Healy, and Kent Barnett).
