William M. M. Kamin is Assistant Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where he also serves as a Fellow in the Law School’s Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Professor Kamin joined the Catholic Law faculty in 2023 after serving as a law clerk to Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He currently teaches civil procedure and criminal law; in future semesters, he plans to teach federal courts, habeas corpus, and the history of the common law.

Professor Kamin’s scholarship focuses on how the history of the writ of habeas corpus – as developed in early-modern England by the Court of King’s Bench – bears on contemporary American habeas jurisprudence. His first law-review article, “The Great Writ of Popular Sovereignty,” will be published in the Stanford Law Review in 2025. He also writes in the areas of federal jurisdiction, land-use regulation, and law and religion.

Professor Kamin received his J.D. in 2020 from Yale Law School, where he served as an Editor on the Yale Journal on Regulation. He received his B.A. in 2015 from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Densmore Berry Collins Prize in Political Science and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.