William Araiza is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School whose teaching and scholarly interests center on administrative and constitutional law. He is widely published in these areas, having written casebooks on the First Amendment and Constitutional Law. His most recent articles have or will appear in the NYU Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, U.C. Davis Law Review and Georgia Law Review.
Professor Araiza serves on the LexisNexis Law School Publishing Advisory Board and is the 2013 Chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, holds several leadership positions in the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, and is affiliated with the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law.
After law school, Professor Araiza clerked for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then practiced as an associate with two large law firms in Los Angeles. He practiced as an associate with two large law firms in Los Angeles and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Law School and as a visiting professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.
He also taught at Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, and the University of Western Ontario. Prior to joining the faculty at Brooklyn Law School, Professor Araiza served as the Associate Dean for Faculty and the Rev. Richard A. Vachon, S.J. Fellow and Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles.
EDUCATION: Columbia University, B.A.; Georgetown University, M.S.; Yale Law School, J.D.