Ronald Rotunda
Ronald D. Rotunda was a U.S. legal scholar and professor of law at Chapman University School of Law. Rotunda's first area of primary expertise is United States Constitutional law, and is the author of an influential 6-volume legal treatise on Constitutional Law. His other area of primary expertise is Legal Ethics, often called Professional Responsibility. He has also published an influential treatise on , co-published by West-Thomson Reuters, ABA. He also a senior fellow, in 2000, at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
In 1963, when Rotunda was 18 years old, he received a scholarship to attend Harvard University.
Professor Rotunda later received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Rotunda married Marcia Mainland in February 1969.
She was formerly an attorney in the office of University Counsel during his time at Illinois.
In 1966, shortly after his conviction, Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler, was one of Rotunda's students in a law course for prisoners. In an article about this experience Rotunda described DeSalvo as charming, helpful and well-groomed, in contrast to every other student at the prison.
Rotunda was Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He was employed there for twenty-five years. He served as an advisor to Ken Starr during Starr's tenure as special prosecutor during the Clinton Administration. Previously, he had served on the investigative team during the Watergate scandal.
As an advisor to the Independent Counsel in 1998, Rotunda was asked for an opinion on "whether a sitting President is subject to indictment."
In a 56-page response released by the National Archives following a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times, Rotunda concluded, "It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting President for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the President's official duties. In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law."
He was married to Kyndra Rotunda. The Rotundas were on faculty at George Mason University School of Law until departing in 2008 for Chapman University.
Professor Rotunda died on March 14, 2018. Chapman University Law School will name a chair in his honor.
Publications
- The Politics of Language: Liberalism as Word and Symbol Intro. by Daniel Schorr.
- California Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1978 Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1979 Problems, Cases and Readings Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1979 California Rules Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1979 Standards Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1980 California Rules Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1980 Standards Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- Constitutional Law .
- 1978 Supplement to Constitutional Law .
- 1979-1980 Supplement to Constitutional Law .
- 1982 Supplement to Constitutional Law .
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases & Notes.
- 1981 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1982 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1983 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1984 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1981 Standards Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1983 Standards Supplement to Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- The United States Federal System: Legal Integration in the American Experience .
- Six Justices on Civil Rights .
- Constitutional Law .
- Professional Responsibility.
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1984 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1985 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1986 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1987 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases & Notes.
- 1985 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1986 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1987 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1988 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- The Politics of Language: Liberalism as Word and Symbol .
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 1987 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law .
- 1988 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law .
- 1989 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law .
- 1990 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law .
- 1991 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law .
- Constitutional Law .
- 1988 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution .
- Constitutional Law: Principles and Cases.
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1988 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1989 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1990 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- Professional Responsibility.
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes.
- 1989 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1990 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1991 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1992 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1991 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1992 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1993 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1994 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1995 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- Constitutional Law .
- Professional Responsibility.
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 1993 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1994 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1995 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1996 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1997 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1998 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- 1999 Pocket Part to Constitutional Law .
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes.
- 1993 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1994 SUPPLEMENT to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1995 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1996 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- Constitutional Law .
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 1996 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1997 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1998 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 1999 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 2000 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- Professional Responsibility .
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure — Expanded CD Rom Edition .
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes.
- 1997 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1998 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- 1999 Supplement to Modern Constitutional Law.
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2000 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2001 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2002 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2003 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2004 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2005 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2006 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 헌법: 개인의 자유와 절차를 .
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .
- Professional Responsibility: A Student's Guide .
- Legal Ethics in a Nutshell.
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2013 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2014 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2015 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2016 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- 2017 Pocket Part to Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure .
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .
- Professional Responsibility: A Student's Guide .
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility .
- 2015 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 2016 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- 2017 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility .
- Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility: Concise Edition .
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes.
- Modern Constitutional Law: Cases and Notes.
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .
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- Principles of Constitutional Law .
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .
- American Constitutional Law: The Supreme Court in American History Volume 1 – Institutional Powers
- American Constitutional Law: The Supreme Court in American History Volume 2 – Liberties.
- Рональд Д. Ротунда, Либерализм как слово и символ : борьба за либеральный бренд в США.
- Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility .