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E-Mail:
dro@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3127

Office: WB171C

Secretary/Assistant:
Crystal Smith

Subjects:
Constitutional law, administrative law, interstate commerce, electoral law, civil procedure, legal theory, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, Internet law

Daniel R. Ortiz

John Allan Love Professor of Law
J.D., Yale Law School, 1983
M.Phil., Oxford University, 1980
B.A., Yale University, 1978

Daniel Ortiz, who came to Virginia in 1985, has a wide variety of interests. A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude Yale graduate, he earned a triple major in mathematics; English; and History, the Arts, and Letters. Now as a member of the Virginia law faculty, he teaches constitutional law, administrative law, electoral law, civil procedure, and legal theory. In 1992 he received the Z Society Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Virginia. He served as the Harrison Foundation Research Professor in 1992-95, the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Research Professor in 1996-99, and the Joseph C. Carter, Jr. Research Professor in 2000-03.

After graduation from Yale, Ortiz spent two years on a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford University, where he completed a Master of Philosophy degree in English studies. Then he returned to Yale for law school and received his J.D. in 1983. He clerked for Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. He was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California in 1991 and 1994-96 and at the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1999.

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In the Media

"11th-hour Applications Flood Registrars' Offices" (The Roanoke Times, 10/22/2008)
"Supreme Court Argument Report: Pre-emption, Arbitration and Litigation" (Law.com, 10/07/2008)
"Law Firms Help Clinics Get Students to Supreme Court" (Law.com, 04/11/2008)
"Suit Could Unleash Surge of Money in 2008 Presidential Race" (New York Sun, 02/15/2008)
"Law Students Help Clarify the Meaning of 'Use'" (C-ville Weekly, 12/18/2007)
"Law Students Get Supreme Experience" (C-ville Weekly, 10/19/2007)
"UVA Law Students' Case Picked by Supreme Court" (Charlottesville Daily Progress , 04/30/2007)
"Control for Senate up in Virginia Air" (Newsday AM New York, 11/08/2006)
"Republicans Got a Thumpin' / Rumsfeld, Hastert Step Aside" (MarketWatch, 11/08/2006)
"Virginia Court of Appeals Rules ABC Stores Can Exclude Out-of-State Wine Producers" (Roanoke Times, 10/10/2006)
"Virginia Court of Appeals Rules ABC Stores Can Exclude Out-of-State Wine Producers" (Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 09/18/2006)
"Small Wineries Are Feeling Boxed In" (The Roanoke Times, 05/29/2005)
"Senate Panel Advances Constitutional Gay Marriage Ban" (Associated Press, 01/25/2005)
"Couple Feels Forced to Leave" (The Free Lance-Star, 01/09/2005)
Discussion of legislation making it illegal for gays to marry or enter into civil unions in Virginia (NBC 29 News, 07/02/2004)
"Gay Rights Backers Rally in City" (The Daily Progress, 07/01/2004)
"New Ban on Gay Unions to Begin/Homosexuals Set to Protest" (The Washington Times, 06/30/2004)
"Gays Fear New State Law Banning Civil Unions Could Go Much Further/Some People Say the Law Could Be Used to Invalidate Wills, Joint Bank Accounts, Insurance Benefits, Business Agreements and Even Medical Directives" (The Roanoke Times , 06/27/2004)
"Campaign Finance Ruling Gives Deference To Congress" (Fulton County Daily Report, 12/16/2003)
"Shifting Ground: A Campaign Ruling Gives Congress Great Deference" (National Law Journal, 12/15/2003)
"Campaign Finance Law Called 'Case Study In How To Legislate'" (Star Tribune, 12/12/2003)
"Dan Ortiz Discusses the Need to Reform Political Gerrymandering" (Weekend All Things Considered, 12/07/2003)
"Democrats Pin Hopes on High Court in Redistricting" (The Hill, 09/24/2003)

"The Hill: House Dems Pin Redistricting Hopes on Supreme Court" (U.S. Newswire, 09/23/2003)

"Fretting Over U.S. Data Collection" (National Law Journal, 06/02/2003)

"Bolick, et al. V. Danielson, et al." (Legal Times, 06/02/2003)